I frequently encounter leaders who believe their team(s) aren’t “ready” for taking a more outcome focused approach. They talk of “baby steps” and “learning how to crawl before...”.

Here’s what they are missing
... to learn something, it is important to practice the thing (1/n)

You don’t learn this by running a (or working in a) feature factory, cranking out the stuff sprint by sprint.

You learn by doing a version — albeit probably more controlled/structured — of the thing ... (2/n)

What might that involve?
- direct contact w/customers
- some ability to “sense” outcomes qualitatively/quantitatively
- a feedback loop

Instead of
(Someone else learns) - build - build - build - build - build

More
Learn - build - build - measure - learn - build - measure (3/n)

...and most importantly, a real team. With all the people needed, working together regularly.

Why? This is something you need to practice.

The rationale of hiding people from each other because collaboration is hard is detrimental (4/n)

Of course, it would be evil to throw a team early in their learning journey to the wolves. A super chaotic problem space. Lots of dependencies. No role models.

This is finally a chance for experienced people to actually be 10x :) Work alongside/instead these learning teams (5/n)

...and not as distant managers helicopter parenting the team ...

No...in the trenches, doing the thing.

Anyway, the point here is to learn something DO THE THING, not part of the thing.

Which brings us to final issue...(6/n)

The fear mentioned in the original tweet (of a team not being ready, of needing to crawl) is often really about the leader being afraid. Fearing their own abilities. Not able to let go.

And that’s where you should always start (7/end)