Co-making Great Products by Jeff Patton
Channel: ConfEngine
Date: 12/04/2013

"Mediocrity guaranteed." This sad tagline describes most of the processes we use today including typical agile process. It's easy to see why. Software development's an expensive risky business. To deal with the risk, the players involved adopt a client-vendor model where those in the client role give requirements and those in the vendor role estimate time and effort and agree to build what's asked for. In this model we clearly separate responsibilities so that we know who's accountable when things go wrong. Although we know things rarely go as planned, and innovative ideas rarely spring from such a relationship, we continue to work in processes where treating our coworkers as outsourced vendors is considered "best practice" and risking everything on the ideas of a select few isn't regarded as risky.

Speaker: Jeff Patton (@jeffpatton)
Co-Founder, CoMakers

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