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Bad strategy flourishes because it floats above analysis, logic, and choice, held aloft by the hot hope that one can avoid dealing with these tricky fundamentals and the difficulties of mastering them.
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
The technical term for this property is “scale free,” meaning that the thing is basically the same no matter what size it is. This gives you the magic of what I call “scale-free scalability,” meaning you can scale up or down following the same principles independently of where you are scalewise, which is exactly what you want in order to build something huge with ease.
How Big Things Get Done
Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
In two-track agile, two tracks of work act in coordination. The first track is the experiment track. This team uses all the sense and respond techniques described in this book to take on the high-uncertainty portions of the work and figure out what solution works best. From there, the solution can be passed off to a second track—the production track—and this team implements the solution in a robust way. This arrangement works best when the hand-off between the teams is not a document, specification, or contract, but rather a working prototype that has been produced in the final delivery technology.
Sense and Respond
Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
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