In praise of SWARMing
&gt; The most successful transformations I have experienced—the ones where you walk into the office and there is a tangible difference in the energy and interactions between people, where the commercial and management stakeholders are as excited and invested as the technology stakeholders, where everyone agrees on the metrics that matter and those metrics are trending in the right direction(...). And they do all this without recourse to canned methods or certification Ponzi schemes. (...) My argument isn’t that packaged scaling methods are unhelpful per se, rather that they are neither necessary nor sufficient for successful transformation. They can be anything from a useful starting point to an expensive distraction, but one thing they are not is a solution.<p>I am seeing more and more people involved in making organizations and teams more efficient come back to how the canned &#x2F; certifications methods are not sufficient by themselves. I am on the same page, noticing how on the project level the actual project management method (like Scrum, Kanban etc) are no the main predictor of success. The main predictors are getting similar basics right, like Dan North summarized in his post. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17710248" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17710248</a>