On our road to Delivery Efficiency, we’ve covered knowing and understanding your thing and we’ve also talked about making our thing better over time and where that fits in the delivery continuum. As we continue our journey, the next key element is in relationships. What relationships? Sometimes our thing relies on other things and other things sometimes rely on our thing. Some people call these inter-dependencies. Simply put, they are relationships. Relationships come in many shapes and sizes: the relationship...
Last time we started on our Journey to Delivery Efficiency with a conversation on The Thing, The Life, and The Who (see the post here). In other words, we need to know what the thing is, that it has a lifecycle during which different people care (the who). These basic elements set us up for being able to care for these things throughout their lifecycle and ultimately be Faster, Better, Stronger, and Wiser in their delivery. I recently heard a...
The Journey to Delivery Efficiency For as long as I can remember in my career in the Information Technology industry, there’s been talk about faster time-to-market, reduced waste, ideas on how to exceed (or simply meet) customer expectations. You get the picture. This notion of how to do things faster, maintain quality and give the customer what they want is proclaimed in the practices of Lean, Lean Six Sigma, Agile Development (including Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban), Incremental Development, XP (Extreme...
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