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An Architect's Meditation for Today: Sharpening The Saw
Continual improvement is about moving the needle, incrementally.
Organizations are organisms (or systems of organisms) - and, in my experience, will usually resist any attempts at sudden/dramatic changes - just as biological organisms will strive to fight off an infection by attacking the invading agent.
For many architecture teams - the one simple practice that I see missing most often - but, yet - I think might provide the most benefit - for the least effort: Retrospectives.
Five Retrospective Questions:
1) What went right? - celebrate the successes.
2) What went wrong? - perform root-cause analysis (seek insight, not blame).
3) What should we add? - what's missing from the process?
4) What should we subtract? - what's superfluous?
5) How can we do it better/faster/cheaper next time?
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