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[iainr @ireddick]

I'm giving Mastodon a try:

https://t.co/AjZV2cKE4D

[iainr @ireddick]

this might seem like semantic pedantry to folk more familiar with delivery contexts, yet for product oriented people it's a completely different way of thinking and working - a different frame of reference

[iainr @ireddick]

once again: the things that digital product teams output aren't 'value' and a stream of such things isn't 'flow of value'

they're certainly working on value creation, but the actual things aren't the value - the value comes from user interaction

#Product #ProductManagement

[iainr @ireddick]

viewing the outputs as 'the value' is imo rooted in the (stuff) 'delivery' mindset that still pervades software development, which regularly results in wrongly incentivised people focusing on the wrong thing

[iainr @ireddick]

(I'd add that this is actually a workgroup, not a team in any meaningful sense)

[iainr @ireddick]

the work level incentive of someone at the boundary of a team constrains the work level of that team

eg. if the boundary individual is operating at an output level, then the team is constrained to output or below (ie. activity)

[iainr @ireddick]

this is a kind of 'undifferentiated work' context where the only 'safe' thing to do is to be constantly busy doing the approved activities

[iainr @ireddick]

the work level incentive of someone at the boundary of a team constrains the work level of that team

eg. if the boundary individual is operating at an output level, then the team is constrained to output or below (ie. activity)

[iainr @ireddick]

"...product managers, product designers and engineers..."

I think at this point it's OK to slip 'product' in front of 'engineers' too - the idea of a homogeneous blob of 'engineers' is getting pretty stale (and it's not about FE vs BE vs FS)

#Product #ProductManagement

[Abeba Birhane @Abebab]

how long before disastrous stories emerge as a direct result of this

[iainr @ireddick]

@johncutlefish have they eliminated their traditional engineering organisation function though?

[Jeff Gothelf @jboogie]

In the past, we've never doubted that we were going to ship the product. In a continuous world the product is now the variable. https://t.co/ORc8da1J5e

[Heidi Helfand @heidihelfand]

It’s more like a capability comb in contrast to T-Shaped. @ewebber #craftconf

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[iainr @ireddick]

you then introduce Dish C, which also uses carrots, and these are prepared differently from both A and B - instead of 'refactoring' the carrot prep, you add a third carrot station to the kitchen to get the dish live

🥕🥕🥕

[iainr @ireddick]

a better restaurant metaphor for software development:

what you're doing is creating new dishes to evolve the existing menu - and you might trial a bunch of dishes first, before refining and going live with the one that got the best feedback

#SoftwareDevelopment

[iainr @ireddick]

the tech debt metaphor maybe goes like this:

you have an established Dish A which uses carrots

you introduce Dish B, which also uses carrots, however the carrots are prepared slightly differently, so you just add a new carrot chopping station to the kitchen for now

[iainr @ireddick]

related:

https://t.co/gggn0qgCCs

[iainr @ireddick]

sketching: value (co-)creation through interaction with the product, not through delivery of features

#product

[iainr @ireddick]

saying software changes are your value stream is like saying rearranging things in your shop is your value stream

#Product #ProductManagement #SoftwareDevelopment

[Josh Seiden @jseiden]

What’s the most effective way to write OKRs?

Make sure the “KR” part is an outcome. To do that, you have to understand what an outcome actually is, how to work with that understanding, and how to deliver it.