Lack of curiosity: The silent killer of agile
summary
Claim: curiosity decline is the "silent killer" of agility because teams stop questioning and become feature factories — boards stay unchanged after six months to a year, retrospectives vanish, and playbooks enforce useless rituals like a scrum of scrums that excludes scrum Masters. Causes include double-booked calendars, stress, overburdened backlogs and top-down "op models" that mandate identical roles and tools. Remedies shown: a Nordstrom Innovation lab that allows ~80–95% failure, card-deck retrospectives, the empathy box, paired cross‑department coffees and land exercises to rebuild questioning habits.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 1:33Curiosity as agile’s silent killer
- 6:30Causes of workplace complacency
- 13:10Bringing curiosity back to teams
- 21:00Q&A on bad agile practices
- 24:45Early signs of lost curiosity
- 27:16Empathy and curiosity link
- 28:08Coaching techniques for curiosity
- 32:08Closing and thanks
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