Where did the idea that we can’t find an actionable root cause to a problem or have a well-defined workflow to discover and build what’s needed or that there aren’t first principles on which product development is based that we can use to guide us?

#AgileDoesNotHaveToBeThisHard insight #2.
Probably from those who gave up trying. And those whose business models depend upon these limits being true.

22 years ago maybe this made sense.

Not today.

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