Tag: agile
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Link: Why Starting With End-to-End Customer Journeys Isn’t Good For The Customer
‘Here’s how to make the argument to a stakeholder on your team that really wants to see that end-to-end vision: If the idea is to get value out to customers as fast as possible, does it make sense to explore every customer touch point? The time spent doing that intensive research could’ve been spent building…
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Link: Taking Agile Transformations Beyond the Tipping Point
Creating the process itself is agile. Also, a chart with activities and a suggested timeline. Original source: Taking Agile Transformations Beyond the Tipping Point
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Link: Transforming the Air Force into a software company with more airpower
“We have a small team that was tired of working this way and tired of not being able to provide this capability to our warfighters,” said Adam Furtado (pictured), chief product officer at the U.S. Air Force. “Basically, Congress told us to figure something new out.” And: “We’ve been designing a brand new system to…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #40
I was down in France, just around Paris this week to speak at an event. The audience gave me the chance to work on a military-centric version of my standard talk which was fun, and was well received. I dove even deeper into the ongoing US Air Force story of modernizing their software. It’s chock…
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Link: Project management vs. product management
‘That discussion starts with a very concise and useful distinction between project management (the world the government knows) and product management (the world it doesn’t). Project management, they write, is “focused on managing to a plan” – such as managing schedule, budget, risk, policy compliance and then reporting status to stakeholders. “Success for a project…
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Link: Think in Products, Not Projects
“In a high level, projects are local optimization efforts. We get a group of people who create new (or improve existing) functionality for our customers and then we pass that onto a team that has no idea why the change was made and how this change was solutioned/implemented. Very often, the quality is low and…
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Link: Q&A on the Book Enterprise Agility
“Getting feedback on the effectiveness of the initiatives, and acting on it quickly to refine the strategies and initiatives to ensure their alignment with the purpose is critical for sustaining the effectiveness of the organization towards fulfilling the purpose.” Original source: Q&A on the Book Enterprise Agility
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Link: Agile Strategy: Short-Cycle Strategy Development and Execution
Kind of a good list of how to align short, agile cycles to longer, strategic planning. Key, I think, is understanding the stability and predictably needs of strategic planning and explaining how short agile loops increase the confidence the corporate can have in both it’s plans and better intelligence about the market and what works.…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #35
20 July 2018 We move to Amsterdam in 11 days. Cloud Native Journey, 3rd edition In my capacity as an enterprise thought lord, I write up how large organizations are managing to improve their software every few years. It’s the main thing I talk with people about and “work on.” I’ve been working on a…
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Link: How to make innovation programs deliver more than coffee cups
‘“a lack of connection between innovation teams and their parent organization. Teams form/and are taught outside of their parent organization because innovation is disconnected from other activities. This meant that when teams went back to their home organization, they found that execution of existing priorities took precedence. They returned speaking a foreign language (What’s a…
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Link: Revenge of the PMO
‘But it’s just a marketing strategy. Mostly they just redefine the meaning of these terms to obscure their purposes. An Epic becomes a “mini business case;” the concept of governance sounds less onerous when called “lean governance;” and program management might cause less angst when positioned as “agile program management.” The constant talk of iterations…
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Link: Agile at DOD — going beyond sticky notes and standing meetings
A summary of the US Air Force’s recent Pivot to agile. Original source: Agile at DOD – going beyond sticky notes and standing meetings
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Link: Management Support in Agile Adoption
“In the global survey 82% of respondents reported that getting more support and commitment from all levels of management is a high or medium-term priority. In addition to this research, conversations we have with senior IT professionals all report that as IT has become ingrained in most, if not quite all, business processes it is…
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Link: Air Force looks to rapidly develop software with Project Kessel Run
More coverage of the USAF modernizing their approach to software. Here, what some of the apps are: “Kessel Run has been able to push five applications to the classified network, Kroger said…. The project is currently working on a number of things, including how the Air Force plans air tasking orders, a document which tasks…
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Link: CA Technologies Begins Site, Workforce Consolidation
‘Part of this shift is driven by a site consolidation strategy “to move more of our people into our centers of excellence,” said Gregoire. “This migration of our teams into fewer, larger locations supports our agile methodology.” According the Gregoire, the company has embraced an “agile” model, where employees need to be present in the…
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Link: Volkswagen CIO Martin Hofmann: IT experts in our labs work the Silicon Valley way – Automotive World
‘Hofmann commented that at the same time Volkswagen was establishing new workstyles which are being further developed. “Our IT experts in our labs in Berlin and Munich work the Silicon Valley way, we have brought the Valley to Volkswagen. Pivotal is supporting our experts with over 20 experts from San Francisco and Boulder, Colorado, and…
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Link: The End of Enterprise IT, ING org. structure
“They chose to adopt an organizational structure in which small teams – ING calls them squads – accept end-to-end responsibility for a consumer-focused mission. Squads are expected to make their own decisions based on a shared purpose, the insight of their members, and rapid feedback from their work. Squads are grouped into tribes of perhaps…
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Link: A New Study on Design Thinking is Great News for Designers
“Forrester has determined that teams that are applying IBM’s design thinking practice and are adequately staffed with design talent are getting to market twice as fast as without. These teams are also seeing up to a 75% reduction in design and development time.” Original source: A New Study on Design Thinking is Great News for…
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Link: Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt.
Nice chart, template for plan to modernize code. Original source: Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt.
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Link: Q&A on the Book Agile Management
“Most of the available maturity models measure the degree to which the agile techniques and tools are deployed. I prefer to look at it from a different angle. First, define what your most important performance indicators are with respect to agility. For instance, time-to-market, employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction, and so on. Then benchmark these, if…
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