When leaders demand speed, teams often cut corners—creating brittleness that slows everything down. @docondev.bsky.social has advice: Real speed emerges from flow, small batches, and systems designed for adaptation, not pushing harder on execution.
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You get what you celebrate.
You also get what you let slide.
#Leadership #Excellence
Not every story needs to be delivered.
Not every feature needs to be built.
Solving the right problem matters more than completing the backlog.
#KnowTheProblemYouAreSolving #SoftwareDevelopment
No trust, no candor.
No candor, no clarity.
No clarity, no progress.
Start with psychological safety.
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#WorkTogether #Trust
Doc Norton, author of ESCAPE VELOCITY, covers several ways that organizations are not using the metric Velocity in a useful way.
Doc can be contacted on LinkedIN or @DocOnDev.bsky.social.
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Progress compounds when steps stay small.
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Your architecture is what you’ve implemented - not what you label it, not what the autocrat of architecture put on paper, not what the magistrate of methods mandated, but whatever was actually done in the code.
The behaviors you promote set expectations.
The behaviors you ignore set the culture.
#Leadership #Excellence
Empowerment isn’t about gathering opinions before deciding.
It’s about giving the team the authority to decide for themselves.
#Leadership #Autonomy
Waiting to deliver means waiting to learn.
And the longer you wait, the bigger the risk.
#SoftwareDevelopment #CreateSimpleThingsInSmallSteps #ReleaseRidiculouslyOften
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Put work on the wall and bottlenecks surface fast. #MakeWorkVisible
Real leadership gives people the freedom to contribute with meaning.
Obsess less over points per sprint. Look at flow instead.
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Clarity first, solutions second.
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#KnowTheProblemYouAreSolving
Incredibly, @TrigentSoftware keeps calling - no matter how often I tell them to stop calling. I have repeatedly insisted, quite vehemently in some cases, that they cease and desist. I am curious if their data shows that harassment eventually turns into business.
If the problem is fuzzy, the solution will be too.
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#KnowTheProblemYouAreSolving
Sprint commitments too often shift focus from solving problems to meeting promises.
Before building solutions, build shared understanding of the problem.
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#KnowTheProblemYouAreSolving
Most teams focus on “how much work is left.” But the real insight is in how work moves through the system. That’s where Cumulative Flow Diagrams shine. buff.ly/3XlK7HQ
#MakeTheWorkVisible
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If your strategy is just copying others,
you’re not leading—you’re following.
Differentiation requires courage, creativity, and experimentation.
#Leadership #ExperimentationMindset
Shipping every story isn’t the goal.
Solving the right problem is.
If half the backlog becomes irrelevant, that means you’re learning.
#KnowTheProblemYouAreSolving #SoftwareDevelopment
In complex domains, optimizing steps often accelerates waste, not progress.
Understanding the problem is the first step toward crafting effective solutions.
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#KnowTheProblemYouAreSolving
VP of Delivery @docondev.bsky.social shares reflections on what bug bashes reveal about the underlying system. https://docondev.com/blog/2025/9/25/bug-bashes-are-a-smell
