Sharing some advice I wrote to a product leader. John, my company seems to be in a terrible cycle. We are so reactive. Nothing is stable. Nothing lasts. There’s so much churn and pivoting. I want a sense of stability. In my experience, this signals a shaky foundation. Without a strong foundation, humans create *certainty* by either:
The last company I worked for definitely had the "big projects will save the day" mentality... and also believed that those big projects were magically not subject to Conway's Law (oops!)
TBM 51/52: Shaky Foundations (and Planning Escalation)
The last company I worked for definitely had the "big projects will save the day" mentality... and also believed that those big projects were magically not subject to Conway's Law (oops!)
I think that is called waterfall methods :-)