Dean Leffingwell - One on One Meeting Through Icon

One on one with meeting Dean Leffingwell. Through icon.

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Velocity impacted by project based cost accounting

Product companies not issue

Lose knowledge as temporary structure - persistent knowledge

Project - Temporary work for temporary resources

Allocate the money, but haven't spent it yet, decision about what get built is still with business

“Want to do this feature now”

Flow also impacted

Ability to control spend without timesheet

ROI is a trailing indicator. Need an implicit ROI

Real way to do capex policy in blog post

Greenfield waterfall to safe, easier than if started with existing agile team

Need the uniform paradigm - safe

Start with easy value stream

Remind people. Resource pool (lean idea, not agile)

Leadership get used to it. But problem when a group is not included

Break down silos - Start with “permission to plan” together - based on value flow - then couple with t-shirts

Mission is then clear produces different behaviors

Create the environment that is different

Something magic about putting people in a room

Don't think about levels. Think about how the value flows

Need to tease out operational vs value streams for large it shops

More than 100 people cannot work together

Look like Parthenon

Thinking tools to tease the complexity apart

C level - talk about lean