Tag: organization
Friday, 18 November 2011
Beware the Coefficient of Fiction
Posted by Simon Baker
There's a saying: "If it isn't official, it hasn't happened".
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Thursday, 1 April 2010
Dealing with organizational complexity goes in the 'too hard' box
Posted by Simon Baker
Our purpose is to improve the quality of service for customers. Quite simply, our goal is to delight customers. But Goldratt said: The goal of every company is to make money. Making money is mandatory but fixation on profit and obsession with costs is a sure way to become detached from customers. Our goal is not do delight shareholders. Delighted customers become loyal customers and loyal customers provide repeat business. They even do marketing for us. They tell their friends and family who then give us their business and they’re delighted so they tell their friends and family.
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Saturday, 23 January 2010
Sunday, 13 April 2008
Challenges for the Product Stream concept
Posted by Simon Baker
The product stream concept is a simple one. A product stream contains a self-organizing team and a product owner, yet it engages with the Business more deeply than just having business representation in the Product Owner. Engagement is the wrong word, I suppose, because it's more than that. Software development is absorbed back into the Business. It's no longer just aligned, it's integrated; it's part of the business.
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Sunday, 6 April 2008
Product streams are skills-based and product-oriented businesses
Posted by Simon Baker
There's lots of talk about aligning Information Technology with the Business. Apparently, it's the number one goal for CIOs. Information Technology is a big field so I'm going to focus on software product development.
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Monday, 23 October 2006
When adaptation goes too far
Posted by Simon Baker
There's a lot of discussion going on about dogmatic people missing the point about being agile. The point being to adapt and be agile rather than enforcing the practices. It's certainly a fair point. But I see a lot of things being done by people and organizations in the name of adaptation that, quite frankly, I consider compromising. Specifically, their adaptations compromise the value system and the principles behind the Agile Manifesto.
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