Software is like surgery. Nobody wants surgery.

If the goal is to uncover better ways of developing software then, well, yeah.

Incremental/iterative software development challenges many of our deeply-ingrained assumptions about efficiency and control.

I'd rather see a conversation about planning, rather than ending debate with a cheap quip.

With respect to Goodhart's law, the DORA metrics are a place to start.

My opinion is that days are usually better than story points, for the simple reason that they're less confusing.

What creative ways can you find to destroy bottlenecks?

Theory of Constraints is powerful, but like all models, sometimes wrong.

Even the manifesto talks about projects. So where did this idea come from?

Cross-functional teams or highly specialized teams? Both can work, but the latter requires low-context dependencies.

How does your team respond to unplanned work? Does it lead to crunch time?