Rowing team dev fail

Rowing team dev fail

Once upon a sprint planning session, a product owner told me a tale that should be carved into the memory of every developer forced to sit through a meeting titled "Cross-Functional Synergy Alignment": A Japanese and an American company decided to have a canoe race. The Japanese team had 8 people rowing and 1 steering. The American team had 1 guy rowing and 8 people steering, documenting, power-pointing, and holding retrospectives about which wa…