It's been a few years since I wrote the material for the presentation below, but I find it timeless.
It's all about an analogy
It's all about how a self-directed team working on a mission of top-down importance and specification -- these imperatives coming from executive leaders -- get the job down sufficiently well (in Agile speak: well enough) to succeed
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