Cliff Berg
1 min readMay 23, 2020

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"The engine of scaling up dilutes our engagement."

But scale is how to create great things. The story shared here is inspiring, but it focuses on the team, and how they were able to create a feature for a customer. One team? Must have been a simple feature.

Digital platforms have become more complicated today: it is not the old days. In a mature digital platform, many teams are usually needed to complete features.

The world is not a collection of startups. Granted a startup is an energizing experience (I know firsthand), but mature digital platforms cannot be managed by a collection of independent teams - if you do that, you will break products.

Scrum is not the answer. Scrum is a single team process. Its model is too simple for today's digital platforms.

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Cliff Berg
Cliff Berg

Written by Cliff Berg

Author and leadership consultant, IT entrepreneur, physicist — LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliffberg/

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