The inverted pyramid for getting to 1.0

Pitch, people, process, product.

“A sure sign of a healthy pyramid is that one layer invades another. Think of each change to people, process, and pitch as a shove in one direction. This movement requires compensation in the other layers otherwise the whole thing falls over. If, in your organization, your pyramid is not constantly adjusting to keep itself upright, Something’s wrong. If the new folks aren’t testing the pitch, they either don’t buy it or they don’t get it. If your engineers aren’t arguing about the way they develop software ALL THE TIME, they’re becoming stagnant and that trickles down to your pitch and trickles up to your product.”