Weaponizing Efficiency: Is it really helping your software development, product, and teams?

Efficiency is crucial, but at what cost? This episode digs deep into the dark side of "weaponized efficiency" in software development, product management, and team & business agility. We discuss how seemingly well-intentioned practices can stifle creativity, breed fear, and ultimately hurt value creation.

Join us for a thought-provoking discussion that will challenge assumptions about efficiency and equip you with strategies to push back against pedantic optimization efforts.

0:00 Topic Intro: Weaponizing Efficiency
0:41 Standardizing Creativity out of the Org
4:37 Fear-Based Management
7:33 Garbage Metrics, Discouraging Peering
11:31 Where Ideas Come From
14:43 Financing Siloes
17:29 Learning is Wasted Time
19:49 Driving Costs (and Value) Down
24:07 Working ON (versus IN) the Business
25:53 Real Efficiency Gains are Outside Development Teams
29:13 Making/Saving Money
33:33 Wrap-Up

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