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Describing the Business Today

dromologue edited this page Jul 7, 2016 · 11 revisions

Every Business is a Software Business

Customers have chosen to mediate their consumption of goods and services through software. Every business therefore needs a component of software in their strategy.

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Conway's Law - Silo's lead to Supervision

Current organisational design is a product of industrial principles of task specialisation and the command and control methods of the second world war. Organisations create systems that reflect these organisation structures and are therefore unable to move fast.

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Anticipating the Future with large projects

Large, long projects anticipate outcomes and risks and plan for their mitigation, this tends to blind them to feedback or changes in the market and new unexpected risks.

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CAB's and Emergencies

Change Approval Boards create an illusion of risk management. Nobody there has the data or detail with which to evaluate risk. Leave that to the project people themselves. When we make emergency changes, chaos seldom erupts. So why don't we do it all the time?

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Shipping your Org Chart

When we allow our silos to determine how we implement a product (see Conway's Law) we end up shipping something that makes the internal collaboration issues we grapple with, their problem. This is, reasonably, interpreted as bad software implementation. So don't do it.

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How value is created

Value is a function of the availability of choices over time. To respond to this, we need to produce options frequently.

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The Continuous Economy

Every business is a NEW business... continually transforming skills, technologies and products.

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