Aleš Roubíček

“what people most want from work: to be able to come in and work with the right team of people— colleagues they trust and admire—and to focus like crazy on doing a great job together.”
― Patty McCord, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

“There’s a dangerous fallacy that data constitutes the facts you need to know to run your business.”
― Patty McCord, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

“We found that approval only for high-risk changes was not correlated with software delivery performance. Teams that reported no approval process or used peer review achieved higher software delivery performance. Finally, teams that required approval by an external body achieved lower performance.”
― Nicole Forsgren, Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

“understood that part of the reason large teams are crippled in their ability to innovate and move fast is that because it’s hard work to manage them, companies build infrastructure to make sure people are doing the right things. But the teams I saw that accomplished great stuff just knew what they most needed to accomplish; they didn’t need elaborate procedures, and certainly not incentives.”
― Patty McCord, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility