Why Is the Funding Model Important? In traditional project-based technology organizations, funding for the technology group is derived by executive leadership based on a prioritization schedule of big-ticket items stacked up against historical overhead expenditures. This budgeting exercise is a painful process and is nothing more than a wild guess at how much funding will be necessary to meet the needs of their business counterparts. This common practice results in management struggling to … [Read more...]
Workforce and Talent: The Seven Domains of Transformation
Why Is Workforce and Culture Important? Traditionally, organizations have been based on hierarchies with decisions made at the top, with detailed direction flowing downward through multiple management layers to the teams. Traditional enterprise structures organized employees by functional specialty departments, each with their own work intake mechanisms, procedures, and goals. Work was heavily governed by a traditional Project Management Office (PMO) focused on prioritizing the work for … [Read more...]
Product Taxonomy: The Seven Domains of Transformation
Why Is Product Taxonomy Important? Shifting to a product operating model starts with defining the products, which includes both internally facing and externally facing products. Defining the products is essential to identifying clear lines of ownership and accountability, and redesigning the organizational structure to align with customer needs instead of settling for traditional organizations that align around IT functions. When looking across the fourteen companies interviewed, it became clear … [Read more...]
Business and Technology Synchronicity: The Seven Domains of Transformation
This is part of our Seven Domains of Transformation series, which has been adapted from the Project to Product Transformation white paper by Ross Clanton, Amy Walters, Jason Zubrick, Pat Birkeland, Mik Kersten, Alan Nance, and Anders Wallgren. You can download and read the white paper in its entirety here. Why Is Business and Technology Synchronicity Important? So, how can enterprises establish a product management capability with product managers who understand … [Read more...]
Transformation Implementation: Seven Domains of Transformation
This is part of our Seven Domains of Transformation series, which has been adapted from the Project to Product Transformation white paper by Ross Clanton, Amy Walters, Jason Zubrick, Pat Birkeland, Mik Kersten, Alan Nance, and Anders Wallgren. You can download and read the white paper in its entirety here. Why Is Transformation Implementation Important? Large-scale transformations in enterprises often fail because it can be difficult to successfully change the structure, ways of working, and … [Read more...]
The Seven Domains of Transformation
This post is an excerpt from The Project to Product Transformation white paper, written by Ross Clanton, Amy Walters, Jason Zubrick, Pat Birkeland, Mik Kersten, Alan Nance, and Anders Wallgren. You can download and read the white paper in its entirety here. When thinking about transformations of any kind, it can be difficult to visualize all the factors involved. By definition, transformation is “a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance.” This is especially challenging when it … [Read more...]
State of DevOps: 2020 and Beyond
What Happened in 2020 Most organizations entered 2020 with a plan, and all those plans were completely upended by a global pandemic and the economic downturn that happened afterward. And yet I think 2020 has been illuminating in showing what technology can do in a time of incredible crisis. I experienced this myself with DevOps Enterprise Summit. In a normal year, we host two in-person conferences in the US and UK. Of course in 2020, an in-person conference where thousands of people fly into a … [Read more...]
Measure Software Delivery Performance with Four Key Metrics
This post has been adapted from Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps by Nicole Forsgren, PhD, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim. There are many frameworks and methodologies that aim to improve the way we build software products and services. We wanted to discover what works and what doesn’t in a scientific way, starting with a definition of what “good” means in this context. This post presents the four key metrics to measure software delivery performance. MEASURING SOFTWARE DELIVERY … [Read more...]
Measuring Software Quality
This post was adapted from the Measuring Software Quality white paper, written by Cornelia Davis, Stephen Magill, Rosalind Radcliffe and James Wickett. In today’s digital economy, where software is central to the business, the overall quality of that software is more important than ever before. Together with a solid market need and business plan, top quality software leads to customer satisfaction, revenue, and profitability, and the best designs can even allow an organization to more … [Read more...]
Five Common Problems Organizations Face Today
This post is an excerpt from the Moving from Project to Product white paper by Ross Clanton, Carmen DeArdo, Mik Kersten, Alan Nance, Karen Person, and Jason Zubric. You can read the full white paper here. Business and IT leaders must take a proactive approach to understanding the negative internal forces that are interfering with their ability to react to disruptions. To help leaders understand the negative internal forces, this post outlines the five most common problems that … [Read more...]
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