Sublime

Following standard agile practice, Grockit’s work proceeded in a series of sprints, or one-month iteration cycles. For each sprint, Farb would prioritize the work to be done that month by writing a series of user stories, a technique taken from agile development. Instead of writing a specification for a new feature that described it in technical te

Its focus on team work increased productivity and effectiveness brilliantly. But we were overlooking a vital element—the individual team member.

interactive digital products are uniquely imbued with complex behavior.

Goldman Sachs: “You learn from day one around here that we gang-tackle problems. If your ego won’t permit that, you won’t be effective here.”2

Organizations are caught in a dilemma years in the making: Redeveloping the systems is too time consuming and risky, but building new digital assets depends on upgrades to these systems. Finding solutions to this dilemma—finding creative ways to revitalize these legacy systems by wrapping, selective revisions, and automated testing—becomes a critic

Three key roles

Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill Aulet. I won’t repeat or even summarize what he wrote. If you haven’t yet launched or achieved more than $1 million of revenue, go read Bill’s book first.

many practice groups continue to maintain expertise-based approaches to running their affairs when their marketplace is probably closer to the efficiency stage.