“In two back to back sentences you have a) defended the practice of agile point estimations, and then b) said that you no longer believe the future can be predicted, and that we should run organisations for fast adaptation instead.”
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Of course this begs the question: “what is an agile product development process that is ACTUALLY built for fast adaptation under uncertainty?”
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Have you read THE TOYOTA PRODUCTION SYSTEM by Taiichi Ohno? It doesn’t fully answer this question, if indeed anything can, but it talks pretty specifically about some of the requirements in ways that I suspect got worn down by later adapters
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Yes! That was one of the most profound things I've read last year.
I also believe it's totally mistaken when applied to product development. As far as I can tell, the cross-over point is with Mary and Tom Poppendieck, and I need to investigate that next.