Recently,
Mike Roberts said
If it really was all about business
value my life would be so much easier . I've consulted in
organisations that had no idea what business value was, let alone
care about it. So I can empathise with the situations
Mike Roberts describes having failed, in early
consulting engagements, to introduce the concept of business value
to project stakeholders in order to facilitate the adoption of
agile methods.
It struck me at that time, that it doesn't have to be about
business value. I realised that just because an organisation isn't
yet practicing agile methods doesn't mean that they won't already
know what is valuable to their business. What's important is to
understand exactly what the organisation does value and use that
(rather than business value) to drive agile projects.
Update:
William Caputo responds to
Mike Roberts post and talks about
Aligning values . He says that
it's important to understand what a customer values and to align
the development effort with the customer's desires, and not the
other way round.
Tuesday, 17 January 2006
It doesn't have to be about business value
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