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Who Should Read This
Anyone who:
- Treats Scrum like a checklist of meetings
- Thinks “finishing all tickets” is the same as delivering value
- Is stuck in a feature factory churning out stuff nobody uses
- Still believes better Gantt charts will save their projects
- Secretly suspect “more planning” and “more features” aren’t the answer—but keep doing it anyway.
Influenced Mental Models
- Sprint Goal
- Planning Cycle of Madness
- Humble Planning
- Overconfident Planning
- Fog of Beforehand
- Fog of Speculation
- Feature Factory
- Plan-Driven Planning
- Goal-Driven Planning
- Scope Flexibility
- FOCUS Sprint Goal Heuristic
- Outputs
- Outcomes
- Incremental Adoption of Scrum
- Mechanistic Scrum vs Purpose-Driven Scrum
- Agile as “More Items / Changing Requirements”
- Exposes a popular but shallow definition of agility that equates it with throughput and churn rather than adaptive value creation.
To Do
- Influenced Mental Models
- Resonating Quotes
- Book in Miranda-ese
- What problem this book helped me see — explained the way I’d tell a coworker over coffee.