- Item type
- Periodical
- Language
- English
- Source
- Harvard Business Review Digital Articles. 4/9/2021, p1-5. 5p.
- Publication date
- 09/04/2021
CEO Jeff Bezos often called himself the "chief slowdown officer", and he got involved when he thought teams were moving quickly into coding without clearly defining the customer problem and an elegant product solution. Agile is a powerful process for product development, but many organizations are taking it too far and using it to avoid careful planning and preparation. Through a series of sprints, typically lasting two weeks, a product team puts together something that's good enough to show customers and get their reaction. [Extracted from the article]