Rick Kierner

“The famous computer scientist Melvin Conway coined an adage that is often referred to as Conway's Law. It states that any organization that designs a system will produce a design whose structure mirrors the organization's structure. Another way to say this is to beware of shipping your org chart.”
― Marty Cagan, Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

“A's hire A's, but B's hire C's.”
― Marty Cagan, Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

“if you temporarily move someone to another team to deal with an urgent priority. These moves are hard on the person moving as they must adjust to a new team and new work. It's also hard on the team that was left behind as they are often forced to find a way to fill the void.”
― Marty Cagan, Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

“high‐integrity commitments and deliverables should be the exception and not the rule. Otherwise, it is a slippery slope and pretty soon your objectives become nothing more than a list of deliverables and dates, which is little more than a reformatted roadmap.”
― Marty Cagan, Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products