#NoFrameworks: Build Your Own Agile, Burn the Playbook
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Argues against plugging in Scrum/SAFe as a product and shows concrete alternatives: diagnose where work waits, where decisions actually happen, and what behaviors are rewarded. Uses DDD to remap teams to software domains, an 8‑month split of a 300‑person monolith that speeds delivery, and a corridor‑sized paper Kanban that kicks off experiments with popcorn flow. Proposes small builder teams (3 humans + agents), dynamic re-teaming, no estimates or appetite planning, and explicit interface contracts between ways of working.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:34Agile compliance trap
- 8:10Spotify’s Agile
- 11:25No Frameworks explained
- 13:34Questions beyond Scrum
- 17:47Custom Agile toolbox
- 21:02Team redesign case study
- 23:31Rethinking stand-ups and planning
- 27:06Ditching retrospectives and demos
- 33:11Scaling Agile with intent
- 37:25Experimentation over scale
- 38:27Agile with AI experiment
- 42:01Agile essence
- 42:43Q&A
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