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Apply Structure
Prepare for Growth
- Starting small and flexible is usually a huge advantage to a startup
- Supporting growth and a larger organization require more structure
- Preparing for growth is about securing necessary structure without sacrificing agility and responsiveness
- Moving towards self organizing teams
- Fitting documentation, tools and agile methods to optimize
- Preparing for growth is about securing necessary structure without sacrificing agility and responsiveness
Roadmap
Set direction – Look into the future
- Small setups will have a clear common understanding of ‘current’ and ‘next’, and the priority of the features
- Very often guided by dominant customers or sales
- A roadmap is a high level, low detail description that indicates product strategy
- Doing a feature roadmap will
- Set direction - vision
- Communicate expectations to/from stakeholders. E.g. Enabling marketing to plan campaigns
- A tool for the business allowing them to stay open while consider opportunities and understanding consequences
- Enable critical prioritization based on need, business, ROI ...
Breakdown
Feature Breakdown and Sizing
- Don’t waste time detailing sandcastles
- Low priority features will have a T-Shirt size estimate/cost
- Be thorough understanding upcoming deliveries
- Break down priority features into detailed sub-deliveries
- Estimate/Size sub-deliveries
- Track time spend
Cadence
Establish pulse
- Deliver vertically full functional features to make releases meaningful to everyone
- Deliver often to minimize risk and achieve confidence in always releasing workable quality solutions
- Automize test and release to be able to release often (or on demand) with low risk and little effort
- Define sprints that delivers value to achieve clear pulse and expectations in the organization
- Involve customers and stakeholders in sprint releases to get fast customer feedback
- Harvest intelligence and insights and ensure communication and dialog (team velocity, cost, team health, delivery accuracy, ...) e.g. through sprint reviews, sprint demos and retrospectives.
Good Practices
Develop your way of Working
- There are as many ways to achieve good results from your agile setup as there are organizations. It’s hard to say what’s the most efficient next step towards a growth-ready setup. It will depend on the current setup, organization, tools, practices etc.
- Still a couple of paths are worth considering. If you want sparring in implementation strategy and next steps, we’ll be happy to take a first dialog free of charge. A realistic expectation to gain from a dialog will be an indication of path and first steps, and hopefully an understanding of how we can support and help each other going forward.
Setting up for growth
Need guidance on getting the necessary practices under the skin, setting up support tools or coaching leadership teams to support agile transformation?
We will be able to help you setting up for growth. If you need coaching for your leadership team on how to embrace agile or practical advise and instruction on what to do first, contact us.