The Cornerstone for Winning

How to Get Strategic Alignment

Most organizations have challenges with optimizing for the delivery of business outcomes. Technology delivery takes too long, costs too much, and often ends up missing the mark when it finally makes it to production. Often it can be unclear why this is happening and blame is cast in all directions. This paper is intended to provide guidance and a framework for organizations to use to determine the highest business priority and maximum allowable WIP (work in process) to improve speed to market, optimizing delivery of business outcomes, and to create strategic alignment between business and technology.

Click here to download.

Additional Information

  • Most organizations have challenges with optimizing for the delivery of business outcomes. Technology delivery takes too long, costs too much, and often ends up missing the mark when it finally makes it to production. Often it can be unclear why this is happening and blame is cast in all directions. This paper is intended to provide guidance and a framework for organizations to use to determine the highest business priority and maximum allowable WIP (work in process) to improve speed to market, optimizing delivery of business outcomes, and to create strategic alignment between business and technology.

  • Alanna Brown, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Puppet, [email protected]

    Courtney Kissler, vp Retail Technology, Starbucks

    Dominica DeGrandis, Executive Consultant, LeanKit

    Lisa Scheinkopf, Global Director, The Goldratt School, [email protected]

  • Pages: 17

    Format: PDF

    Publication: June 27, 2017

Additional Books By The Authors

The Cornerstone for Winning

Most organizations have challenges with optimizing for the delivery of business outcomes. Technology delivery takes too long, costs too much, and often ends up missing the mark when it finally makes it to production. Often it can be unclear why this is happening and blame is cast in all directions. This paper is intended to provide guidance and a framework for organizations to use to determine the highest business priority and maximum allowable WIP (work in process) to improve speed to market, optimizing delivery of business outcomes, and to create strategic alignment between business and technology.

Click here to download.

Measure Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Culture to Optimize DevOps Transformation

Advancing the state of measurement practice is an important foundation for improving software delivery economics. This paper summarizes a position on DevOps measurement that we intend to be a catalyst for accelerating more mature guidance on measuring and steering software delivery.

Click here to download.

Making Work Visible

Making Work Visible

In this timely book, IT time management expert Dominica DeGrandis reveals the real crime of the century—time theft—and offers simple solutions to help make work visible.