**DISCLAIMER** This is my MOST POLITICAL PODCAST to date and goes deep on a HUGE failure of a HUGE project. It is an emotive topic for many so I want to make it clear that there were great people working long hours and nothing we say is aimed at any one person. It was, in my (Bens') opinion, a systemic failure with nothing to do with individual people.
Pardeep "Paddy" Dhanda - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paddy-dhanda/, Creative Industry Awards Best Content Creator nominee, Agile Practices Director for the UKs largest technical training company QA picks up from where we left off in episode 1 to try and understand what could have been done to have made the £2 billion project less of a sh*t show. Having been on benefits for half of his life, this was a topic close to Ben's heart.
So what did we talk about?
✨ When people parent the truth away from the people doing the work.
✨ How the LeSS Huge Product Owner structure creates alignment
✨ With a project with such a strong purpose, why didn't people speak up?
✨Did the fact that consultancy firms had incumbent software give them too much power?
✨Would it have been possible for Universal Credit to have been a single Product with a single Product Backlog?
✨How competition between consultancy firms leads to feature/requirement land grabs, (much like corporate Cobra Paw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45oTvnqTmrc) where the desire was to be the richest, not do the right thing for the people of the UK.
✨Was there any approach that could have saved the project from disaster?
✨ The Sponsor employed Go See, so what on earth went wrong?
Some awesome links
🔗 Universal Credit, the UKs largest agile failure - https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=universal+credit+agile+failure
Pardeep's AWESOME podcast superpowers.school - https://superpowers.school
🔗 Seacom Enterprise Agility Conference - https://www.seacom.online/
🔗 Check out this Visua
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