Tag: product-stream
Monday, 6 February 2012
Organization complexity is a waste farm
Posted by Simon Baker
When people are pooled in specialized silos more process is required to get things done. Responsibility gets diffused and transaction and coordination costs go up because there are more handovers and sign-offs as work is passed around; more meetings are needed to keep people involved and informed, and it's more difficult to gather people together; it's more time consuming to chase people for responses. Work is stop-start. There's little flow and lots of waste.
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Thursday, 14 July 2011
Product-oriented development
Posted by Simon Baker
Presented at the Agile Evangelists Meetup:
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Monday, 7 February 2011
More meaningful accounting to visualize software economics for more informed decision-making
Posted by Simon Baker
In this article Ross Maynard says it’s unhelpful, even dangerous, to use the same methods to compile management and financial accounts. Regarding financial accounts he talks about matching accruals:
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Sunday, 7 March 2010
Effectiveness of a real product stream
Posted by Simon Baker
I've pulled together some data for the first year of a product stream we created and plotted it as charts for throughput, rework and effectiveness.
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Product stream
Posted by Simon Baker
Think of a product stream as a small company working exclusively on a product and delivering features that excite users to maximize profit and growth. The stream invests in its relationship with users and is set up to compete on the basis of speed. It has everything it needs to conduct business, from concept to production to operational support, and unlike a project it persists as long as the product is in service. It includes a dedicated and diverse technical team that is actually part of the business and helps them use software more effectively. It self-organizes for optimum delivery and minimum risk, and produces flexible software that responds as the business learns from user and market feedback.
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Friday, 28 August 2009
We won the Gordon Pask Award
Posted by Simon Baker
We're very pleased to receive this year's Gordon Pask Award. We'd like to thank the people who are part of our adventure: The crew at Energized Work who continue to inspire and challenge us; our clients, who have been courageous enough to try something different; and our friends in the agile community who have supported our endeavors. This award is for them all.
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Sunday, 9 November 2008
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
David Anderson pays us a visit
Posted by Simon Baker
Steve Freeman brought David Anderson along to see us at a client a few weeks ago. It was great to have the likes of Steve and David come see what we're getting up to, listen to some of the ideas we're pursuing and give us some feedback. David has said some nice things to say about his visit.
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Collaborating with the customer
Posted by Simon Baker
We are creating a family of portals and a publishing system to manage their content. We have two sets of users. There are end users - the people in the public who read the content of these portals, and there are editors - employees in the organization (and its partners) who publish content to the portals. The Editorial Director is our Product Sponsor and the Senior Editor is our Onsite Customer. We're part of a product stream so we're colocated with the editors, our Customer and our Product Sponsor. Consequently collaboration is predominantly conversational, by that I mean it's relaxed and happening all the time. We also have some set pieces that occur throughout the iteration, which also help us collaborate with our Customer, the editorial team and the Product Sponsor.
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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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