To be truly agile, you need a governance model based on trust. For example, the cost of 6 weeks of delay in getting the permissions necessary to provide training to 10 people +/- easily exceeds $1M on a small product. 1/x
Put another way, it's way cheaper to just let those people take the class than it is to exercise "controls." That analysis leads to relaxing most of those "controls." At Spotify, for example, if a team needs something, they just buy it. Nobody asks permission. 2/x
Of course, it makes sense to audit those expenses, but you can't move quickly if you constantly introduce unnecessary delays. The people most able to decide whether something's necessary are the people who are asking for that something. Trust them. 3/3
