von godehardg | Aug 19, 2023 | Blog, Weekend Reading
“The issue is that anytime you put a list of ideas on a document entitled ‘roadmap,’ no matter how many disclaimers you put on it, people across the company will interpret the items as a commitment.” — Marty Cagan Dear all In the few decades that I have worked...
von godehardg | Aug 11, 2023 | Blog, Weekend Reading
“Good companies manage Engineering. Great companies manage Product.” – Thomas Schranz, Co-Founder & CEO at Blossom Dear all, Last week I wrote about fighting application bloat and scope creep in (especially) IT applications. In doing so, I suggested it to...
von godehardg | Aug 5, 2023 | Blog, Weekend Reading
“There is no such thing as scope creep, only scope gallop.” – Cornelius Fichtner, Project Management Trainer & Author Dear all Last week we kicked off yet another project to re-base an IT application where maintenance and development costs keep increasing,...
von godehardg | Feb 5, 2023 | Blog, Weekend Reading
“Organizations that manage IT delivery as projects instead of products are using managerial principles from two ages ago and cannot expect those approaches to be adequate for succeeding in this one. Visionary organizations are creating and managing their Value Stream...
von godehardg | Nov 20, 2020 | Blog, Weekend Reading
Dear all, As mentioned recently, we are seeing our clients increasingly move to a “product-oriented” IT model, often in conjunction with the introduction of some form of Agile working models. The recent 2020 update of the Scrum Guide states it clearly:...
