Squirrel describes how he tells clients to handle overly specific, too-coherent directions: consider what an adversary would do to comply with the direction and still get bad results. He and Jeffrey discuss illustrative examples and applications from military history, economics, and pizza delivery.

SHOW LINKS:

- Little Bobby Drop Tables: https://xkcd.com/327/
- Goodhart’s Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
- Pizza Arbitrage: https://www.readmargins.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage
- Art of Action, Briefing and Back-briefing: https://www.stephenbungay.com/Books.ink
- Podcast episode, Briefing and Back-Briefing: https://soundcloud.com/troubleshootingagile/briefing-and-back-briefing
- Podcast episode, Scoring Your Briefing and Back-Briefing: https://soundcloud.com/troubleshootingagile/scoring-briefing-and-back-briefing

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Adversarial Analysis

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.