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Products Over Projects
Product vs. Project Teams - Silicon Valley Product Group
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Projects typically consist of a collection of features implemented within a timeframe. A project team is temporarily assembled to complete the set of features within that time frame. When the defined work is complete, the team is disbanded. This process creates several constraints on maximizing value for the customer. First, the temporary nature of
... See moreJim Highsmith • EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation
This entire process is very project‐centric. The company usually funds projects, staffs projects, pushes projects through the organization, and finally launches projects. Unfortunately, projects are output and product is all about outcome.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
clearly identifiable, discrete chunks of work. This project-centric approach is increasingly finding its way into all knowledge work, a trend named the “Hollywood model” after the way films are made.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
if the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) gains traction, then the company will likely receive funding and a growth period will occur. Invariably, that means more people will join the team and the vision from the initial engineer needs to be shared.
Early on, when the team is small (2–15 people), typically processes are loose as the overhead in aligning o... See more
Early on, when the team is small (2–15 people), typically processes are loose as the overhead in aligning o... See more
Evolution of Monolithic Systems
Britt Gage added
Traditional organizations form a project group with exactly the right set of skills and people for each new feature request. But organizations with long-lived teams don’t re-organize but instead split the work and give it to an existing team that can learn and adapt.
Bas Vodde • Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn))
But for many efforts, this is decidedly not the case, and some framing and true problem solving becomes critically important. Big projects—and, especially, initiatives (projects spanning multiple teams)—are common examples.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
But for many efforts, this is decidedly not the case, and some framing and true problem solving becomes critically important. Big projects—and, especially, initiatives (projects spanning multiple teams)—are common examples.