Don’t you hate a 3000 page method description with in the footnote:

“Oh yeah, by the way, you need to tailor this to the situation. You don’t need everything. Sort of. Kinda. We guess.”

Hate it. Hate it.

People put labels on methods. They give it a name. We need to categorize everything just to make sense of the world.

If you call things Agile, Lean, Traditional, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 54.8, ISO77658, your audience already has a lot of assumptions. Even without knowing the background, the problems addressed and the circumstances for its use.

That’s cool. That’s natural.

Descriptions and labels make it difficult to know what a method or technique is about. Let alone being able to use it with the right intent.

This becomes obviously hard when you try to mix and match approaches. You need to find essences and compare stuff.

It sounds like fun.

At least, that is what Dave Prior and I thought.

So, we started a new podcast, called Project Potion. Meshing Up Projects.

We talk about different approaches, topics and techniques, put them in a blender and see what comes out.

We never know.

But we learn. A lot.

We hope you do to.