Eric Ries’ new book ‘Incorruptible’ solves a problem most readers will not face for years: protecting a valuable organization from capture once it succeeds. The builders that AI is creating hit an earlier issue: Building software used to force the question of whether it was worth building. That gate has largely collapsed. Eric Ries asks how mission survives success; we, the normals, how judgment survives abundance.
Thesis: Ries’s Incorruptible solves a later problem, protecting a valuable organization from capture; cheap building created an earlier one, where judgment about what is worth building is the only gate left. That is the problem this article addresses.
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I need your support, dear community. For months, I have been working on turning the popular Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide PDF into a new book from Scrum-org’s Professional Scrum Series, published by Pearson. We will soon start the editing process, and I am hopeful we may see a release date in Q2/2023.
Creating the graphics has been challenging at times; there will be more than 50 cartoons and sketches in the book. However, it has also been gratifying to rethink some of the old cartoons and, generally, improve their quality.
There is one challenge, though, I like to ask for your support: which cover shall it be — red or blue?
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TL;DR: Scrum Master Career: How to Get Hired as a Scrum Master
