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how_does_the_agile_approach_allow_us_to_deliver_early [2016/06/08 12:45] – hpsamioshow_does_the_agile_approach_allow_us_to_deliver_early [2016/06/21 12:50] – [Trimming the Tail] hpsamios
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-When you move to an agile approach, a lot of people worry about how we delivery to scope. We are very used to planning all our work upfront and then working to meet that plan. An agile approach seems very strange (and concerning) because we change the plan based on feedback.+When you move to an agile approach, a lot of people worry about how we deliver to scope. We are very used to planning all our work upfront and then working to meet that plan. An agile approach seems very strange (and concerning) because we change the plan based on feedback.
  
 The fallacy with the traditional approach is that we expect able to get the plan correct in the first instance. As most work we do is "new" (in others words we are doing it the first time) and we are not making 1000 copies of the same thing, then we also know that this planned approach may not make the most sense - we are only pretending that we can know everything at the beginning of the work.  The fallacy with the traditional approach is that we expect able to get the plan correct in the first instance. As most work we do is "new" (in others words we are doing it the first time) and we are not making 1000 copies of the same thing, then we also know that this planned approach may not make the most sense - we are only pretending that we can know everything at the beginning of the work. 
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 This priority order is important. If we are able to do this, then as we deliver work, it will become less and less valuable but per a particular time period of work, and each unit of work will cost the same. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_analysis|Pareto analysis]] would indicate that 80% of the value would delivered with 20% of the effort. This priority order is important. If we are able to do this, then as we deliver work, it will become less and less valuable but per a particular time period of work, and each unit of work will cost the same. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_analysis|Pareto analysis]] would indicate that 80% of the value would delivered with 20% of the effort.
  
-If this is true, then there is probably going to be a point where you have delivered the majority of the value the customer wants and the amount of additional you are delivering is so small that you should probably deliver  rest of the value now and stop further investment in this work.+If this is true, then there is probably going to be a point where you have delivered the majority of the value the customer wants and the amount of additional you are delivering is so small that you should probably deliver that value right now and stop further investment in this work.
  
 Now in reality, the first part of any work we do is not delivering value, but rather often more about risk reduction or learning or analysis and so on. It's important, but is not directly related the delivery of value. Now in reality, the first part of any work we do is not delivering value, but rather often more about risk reduction or learning or analysis and so on. It's important, but is not directly related the delivery of value.
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