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One of the most common challenges encountered in software development is the focus of teams, product managers, and organizations on managing cost rather than value. This typically manifests itself in undue effort spent on zero-value-add activities such as detailed upfront analysis, estimation, scope management, and backlog grooming. These symptoms
... See moreJoanne Molesky • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
14 Points for Management as presented on the Deming Institute website:7 1. Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of product and service, with the aim to become competitive and to stay in business, and to provide jobs. 2. Adopt the new philosophy. We are in a new economic age. Western management must awaken to the challenge, must learn
... See moreJohn Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
Despite the name, continuous delivery is not about deploying to production multiple times a day. The goal of continuous delivery is to make it safe and economic to work in small batches. This in turn leads to shorter lead times, higher quality, and lower costs. It’s for these reasons that the HP FutureSmart team rearchitected their firmware from
... See moreJoanne Molesky • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
Following standard agile practice, Grockit’s work proceeded in a series of sprints, or one-month iteration cycles. For each sprint, Farb would prioritize the work to be done that month by writing a series of user stories, a technique taken from agile development. Instead of writing a specification for a new feature that described it in technical
... See moreEric Ries • The Lean Startup: The Million Copy Bestseller Driving Entrepreneurs to Success
Gerald Weinberg defined quality as 'value delivered to some person'.
Gojko Adzic • Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects
To recap, in order to optimize for the fast flow of safe value end-to-end, have multidisciplinary long-lived teams on long-lived products on long-lived value streams.
Jonathan Smart • Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
OKRs are inherently works in progress, not commandments chiseled in stone.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
time is saved by not having to retrofit poor attempts at initial design.
Christopher Bugaj • The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome for All!
Since UIs can be tricky, we’ll limit our first release to adding employees. This first small release will give us some valuable feedback. First, we’ll find out how complicated the UI is to build. Second, Joe will use the new UI and will tell us how much easier life is—we hope. Armed with this information, we will know better how to proceed to build
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