Scapegoating-as-a-Service

Here's a pernicious loop:

• A Hot New Thing™ comes along

• Experts™ tout it as the silver bullet

• Teams ask too much of it

• Hot New Thing™ crumples under the weight of unwarranted expectations

• Think pieces abound, announcing the death of Hot New Thing™

• Hot New Thing™ becomes a Cold Dead Failure™

Design systems. Agile. Design thinking. Design Sprints. MVPs. And so on.

We tend to blame a methodology, externality, or technology rather than examine our own contribution to dysfunction.

[The topic deserves a much larger post, but this will have to suffice for now.]

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