This is self-reinforcing in practice: as quality impacts predictability and therefore increases risk of change, so teams become more cautious and it becomes harder to make improvements. – Evan Bottcher
It’s a cycle that can be incredibly hard for institutions to break. I don’t think there’s a way of internalising the cost of entering this cycle. But having observed it first hand I will take incredible care to prevent it early in future endeavours.
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