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The Progressive Delivery Manifesto
One of the interesting problems of being immersed in something for years is that it feels really obvious to you. The curse of knowledge is real. So we were really excited to give a talk at IT Revolution’s conference, the Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit. It gave us a chance to lay out our vision of…
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Launch Day!
Progressive Delivery is a book that released today, but it’s us catching the wild yeasts of the last few years and cultivating them into wine and sourdough. We don’t know exactly how it will turn out, but we truly believe that our principles are correct, and that this is the way that software is moving,…
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Autonomy requires trust and delegation
This is the second of two articles that explores a key requirement for Progressive Delivery, autonomy. You can find the first article here. What is the work, really? The downside of autonomy is management. It seems like the downside might be chaos, but that is easier to solve than the reality of having to make…
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Autonomy, not anarchy
Autonomy works best when there’s a mechanism to stop failed ideas. We all have a passion project that we want to be working on, but not all things we are passionate about are going to serve the shared goal.
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Delegation vs. Abdication
In Progressive Delivery we use the term “Radical Delegation” to describe one of its core tenets. In the spirit of enabling folks to successfully engage in this practice, we need to provide a clear definition and a process, or framework, for implementation, assessment, and improvement. Origin In the early iterations of Progressive Delivery we just…
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