Foreword by Ron Jeffries

Quite often I have the chance to visit a team to help management figure out why they’re not making much progress. When I get there, I find a small team working on more projects than they have people. The good news is that now I know what the problem is. The bad news is that I have to explain to management that what they’re doing is causing the problem they’re complaining about.

Johanna’s book is about this issue, including how to identify and resolve it.

I believe that inside every complex solution is a simple solution trying to get out, and I’m very pleased to find that Johanna begins with simple ways to understand our collection of work. Better yet, she returns to those simple approaches again and again. Yes, we ...

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