Delivering unicorns

Delivering Unicorns

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Internal IT Department

Software house

Consulting...

Disclaimer: all opinions are my own

Journey for today: 1. Are we in troubles...? 2. Sins 3. There is a hope!

Context is a king!

Internal IT Department

Software house

Troubles...

Source: Chaos raport by Standish Group, 2012

changes

failure

success

Big project Small project

Watermelon reporting

Watermelon reporting

When to stop investing?

'Agile'

Time to market

Time to market

Sin 1: no product vision

'If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster

horses'

~Tom Ford

Sin 2: too big backlog

Road map

Road map

commitment

Sin 3: gold plating

After doing feature once, you can do it better next

time, surely?!

</sarcasm>

Building

Building Building

There is a hope!

Vision

Heuristics

Product tree

categories (modules)

features

Method source: Innovation games

no product vision

Do minimum

Understand what you are building

Key business process

'Game changers' vs. show stoppers

Get rid of 'shiny' unfinished features

Accept: app won't be perfect

Reduce backlog size

Lean backlog

Love vs ROI

Love vs ROI

Love vs ROI

Metrics

∞ ÷ 2 ≈ ∞

too big backlog

∞ ÷ 2 ≈ ∞

Too many features...?

No one use the product

3 2

1

Build the missing features

Ask what is missing

Number of features

Happ

iness

of th

e us

er

Happy user

Number of features

Happ

iness

of th

e us

er

Now I can’t find anything!

Validate!

Design feedback loop

Measure

What to measure?

gold plating

Wrap up

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