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Programmes are above Projects on the Value Ladder | It's a Delivery Thing
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It's a Delivery Thing. Steven Thomas on the art of leading software development teams, projects and programmes. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Programmes are above Projects on the Value Ladder. The Value Ladder highlights how a supplier contributes to the success of the customer. The way I see it programmes and projects can be mapped onto the Value Ladder. Jan Dyer Torsilieri and Chuck Lucier suggested that suppliers need to Climb Up the Value Ladder. Torsilieri and Lucier believe co...
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roles and responsibilities | It's a Delivery Thing
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It's a Delivery Thing. Steven Thomas on the art of leading software development teams, projects and programmes. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Tag Archives: roles and responsibilities. Project roles and responsibilities. Software Management Triumvirate: Delivery, Product and Technical. I view Delivery, Product and Technical as the three legs of software management stool. I have people responsible for these elements at both programme and project/team level. Continue reading →. I have ...
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Musing | It's a Delivery Thing
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It's a Delivery Thing. Steven Thomas on the art of leading software development teams, projects and programmes. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Reflections, observations or just musing on something that sparked my interest. Continue reading →. Software Management Triumvirate: Delivery, Product and Technical. I view Delivery, Product and Technical as the three legs of software management stool. I have people responsible for these elements at both programme and project/team level. A Spr...
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Disruptive Innovation is an Illusion Hiding Efficiency | It's a Delivery Thing
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It's a Delivery Thing. Steven Thomas on the art of leading software development teams, projects and programmes. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Disruptive Innovation is an Illusion Hiding Efficiency. How do you target your innovation practices to achieve what appears to be at times at least, disruptive? Is disruptive innovation actually real? Innovation and the eye of the Beholder. YouTube as an example – To the public at large, YouTube appeared very much come from nowhere. ...Develop...
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Deming wasn’t a fan of Management by Walking Around | It's a Delivery Thing
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It's a Delivery Thing. Steven Thomas on the art of leading software development teams, projects and programmes. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Deming wasn’t a fan of Management by Walking Around. W Edwards Deming, credited with launching the Total Quality Management movement, wasn’t a fan of Management by Walking Around. This is what Deming (2013) had to say about Management by Walking Around:. Personally I favour Manage on the Ground. Management on the Ground. View all posts by Stev...
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What is Balagan? « Steven's Balagan
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Spanish and Portuguese Military History, Wargaming, and other stuff. Well, “balagan” is the first Hebrew word I learnt from my wife. It means basically chaotic or messy, and I use it to describe anything from my wife’s hair in the morning to the current state of the Middle Eastern peace process. The term appeals to me partly because I seem to set my life up to fight chaos (i.e. software development manager / programme manager. Maximillian Hannan (USA) put forward the view that …. But even there it is a l...
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Do, Reflect, Improve, Repeat.: Sprint Burn-up
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Do, Reflect, Improve, Repeat. Wednesday, 12 December 2012. I recently switched to using burn-up charts for the release plan on a project, it has the advantage of showing changes in scope as well as progress. It takes a short while to get used to seeing the graph 'up-side-down' and adds a little complexity but soon becomes as natural as the burn-down chart and everyone on the team customer 'got it'. Here it isn't obvious what happened, did the team make really good progress on day 7 and 8 or remove scope?
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Mike Brown | It's a Delivery Thing
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It's a Delivery Thing. Steven Thomas on the art of leading software development teams, projects and programmes. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Author Archives: Mike Brown. Make BlackOps development the Corporate Standard – Embrace Microservices. Continue reading →. Disruptive Innovation is an Illusion Hiding Efficiency. The way I see it disruptive innovation is an illusion to observers who have not had the same focus. From my experience that apparent disruptive innovation actuall...
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