A reader asks whether following the "bad idea" advice from last episode can lead to an unrecoverable local maximum, sentencing the team to endless patches and obscure bugs. Squirrel and Jeffrey have different takes on this based on their ancient greybeard stories.

SHOW LINKS:

- The Power of a Bad Idea episode: https://soundcloud.com/troubleshootingagile/the-power-of-a-bad-idea
- Local maximum: https://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/functions-maxima-minima.html
- The Strangler Fig Application: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerFigApplication.html

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A Series of Unfortunate Ideas?

Troubleshooting Agile is a problem-solving session for agile teams. Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel look at common problems agile teams face and provide practical, immediately useful advice for getting back on track.

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