[supersync]

You landed on the surprising root cause:

“Doesn’t add business value”

But do you know how the business makes money (the actual processes)? Can anyone tell you how to add value in concrete terms?

Because in over a decade of consulting on technical leadership, Agile, lean and DevOps, the most consistent issue I’ve seen is that those questions are unanswerable for almost anyone in almost any company.

In the absence of a clear path to value creation, everyone optimizes locally for “best practices” because…

the root problem is almost all decisions have to be explained to people who know next to nothing about your area & you need to still sound rational.

The local maximum for that usually is “this is how _____ does it & it’s the new trend now.”