Chapter 28. Affecting the pace of change
by Tom Howlett
I’m in a lucky and rare position to have been with the same team for more than 10 years (more than half of the original team remains, although we are all greatly changed). In that time, we’ve come from chaos to self-organizing—the team is happy and effective and constantly challenges the status quo. We’re proud of what we’ve achieved. I think our only regret is we didn’t get there faster. Luckily, you’ve got the wisdom in this book to help you achieve that.
Why so long?
Ten years is a long time, more time than most teams get to become effective before they are outsourced. Why did it take so long? Agile development is all about shortening feedback loops. Perhaps, if we’d done feedback ...
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