Value Articles
The Most Expensive Software Decision Happens Before You Write a Line of Code
A Story We’ve Lived More Than Once Early in our relationship with one client, we were building two products simultaneously while they had a third underway with another vendor. Same goals, same timeline, but each product came to us, or them, with a different level of definition. What unfolded was something we’ve seen many times […]
Value Driven Development
When it comes to developing software, you can play buzzword bingo with the processes and methodologies thrown around: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Acceptance Test Driven Development, Feature Driven Development, etc. Some seem more vetted than others. But at the end of the day, you are the person who needs to know what’s right for you and […]
Making and Changing Plans
We all make plans everyday. Small plans, big plans, short term plans and long term plans. We plan for retirement; we plan for the weekend and we plan for our next meal. We make plans for everything and hope nothing changes. But inevitably our best laid schemes gang aft agley. Gang’ing Aft Agley So what […]
Extending Discovery into Business Value
Our industry often sets its context too small to address the question of why software is so expensive. While addressing costs, we missed optimizing the other side of the equation – VALUE. To move to a new level of optimization, we need to expand the context of our development process to engage more of the […]
Is Developing Software REALLY expensive? Another thought…
The Lean Software and Systems Consortium conference in Atlanta left me with a lot to think about. My main reason to go was to learn more about becoming a more agile enterprise but that is a topic for another day. To summarize my previous post, software projects are often categorized as “too expensive”. However, it […]