Remember Herbie and his overweight backpack?
No doubt Herbie had good intentions when he packed lots of canned food & iron skillet.
He must have thought that the canned food and skillet would help him on his hike. But that turned out to be the problem for him, and he turned out to be the bottleneck for his team.
Are you in the business of building software?
Are you shipping something valuable fast enough?
If yes, then congratulations. You have achieved something that thousands of teams strive for.
But if you are not, or if you strive for more, then maybe there is a Herbie in your team.
In your case, your Herbie will not be a person, but the canned food and the skillet will be taxing your team for sure.
In your case, the iron skillet will be in the form of pompous, nebulous, impressive, and weighty terminology.
In your case, the canned food will be in the form of canned processes & ceremonies, in the form of meetings with rigid structure, in the form of a warning that your processes are immutable, in the form of a waiting period for the next version of THE GUIDE, which allows you to change your thinking.
Maybe your Herbie is carrying tins of canned food, whereas a few energy bars would have worked better.
In The Goal, Alex Rogo took all the canned food and the skillet from Herbie and distributed them among all the boys.
In your case, you should simply discard it.
In your case, your Herbie will not be a person, but the canned food and the skillet will be taxing your team for sure.
In your case, the iron skillet will be in the form of pompous, nebulous, impressive, and weighty terminology.
In your case, the canned food will be in the form of canned processes & ceremonies, in the form of meetings with rigid structure, in the form of a warning that your processes are immutable, in the form of a waiting period for the next version of THE GUIDE, which allows you to change your thinking.
Maybe your Herbie is carrying tins of canned food, whereas a few energy bars would have worked better.
In The Goal, Alex Rogo took all the canned food and the skillet from Herbie and distributed them among all the boys.
In your case, you should simply discard it.
Of course, one should not go on a hike using just floaters.
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If you want ultralight gear to help your endeavor of shipping something valuable fast enough, talk to me.
I have ultralight gear for you.
The same gear with which we built something, which is being used by dozens of Fortune500 Orgs.
