Lean Teams - Doing More with Less

Lean Teams Doing more with less Marty Haught @mghaught http://martyhaught.com

Got Sugar Daddy?

Got Ramen?

Rockin with Ramen (pictured with Dokken)

Boulder Ruby Longmont, Colorado

Entrepreneurship

...but • need to pay the bills (still consulting) • want to make progress with little effort • so I started to learn about the strange, new world

Guiding Principles 1. Focus on Value 2. Minimize Effort 3. Deliver Fast

1. Focus on Value “First, learn what is core to what you are building then provide just that”

Add Nothing but Value what is value? understand it should be owned by everyone

Feedback Driven Development • creating useful software that people value • learning what reaches users • process for validating change • doing so with as little effort

Customer Development

Customer Development • reducing market risk • what problem are you solving? • who are your customers? • will they pay for it?

Ice Cream Glove

Don’t drink your Kool- Aid

Feedback Loop via Eric Ries

Pivot • tweak features to get better results • if pivoting doesn’t work, remove

2. Minimize Effort

Simplicity • strip features to the essence that achieves value • spiking large features • “Do the simplest thing that could possibly work”

Simplify Game

Delay Commitment • pushing off decisions, commitment until the last possible moment • yagni - you ain’t going to need it

Minimum Viable Product • Rails Rumble/Startup Weekend • starting place for validated learning with the least effort • should be embarrassing • early adopters see the potential

3. Deliver Fast

Kanban • a pull-based system for continuous ﬂow of work • project management tool • expression of just in time • emphasis on ﬂow

Kanban Beneﬁts • simple, less process • limit work in progress, maximize throughput • easy to change direction • less inventory of requirements/stories • less time in meetings • more easily spot bottlenecks

Continuous Deployment • automated deployment of completed code to production • ship features when ready

Commit Monitor Test Deploy

Details • automated testing with continuous integration • simple deployment/rollback script • ‘stop the line’ on failures • real time alerts in production • ﬁve whys - root cause analysis

Benefits • deliver features/bugs fixes faster • reduce shelf time for finished work • eliminate waste in deployment process • find integration issues quicker and in isolation

Takeaway • don’t waste resources on stuff that doesn’t matter • pivot as you learn from your users • focus on ﬂow • ship when features are ready

Go Forth and Rock!

Learn More • Eric Ries - www.startuplessonslearned.com • Steve Blank - The Four Steps to the Epiphany • Mary Poppendieck - Lean Software Development • Kanban - www.limitedwipsociety.org

Questions? Mahalo Marty Haught @mghaught mghaught@gmail.com http://martyhaught.com http://haughtcodeworks.com Image credits Pile of Money - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ironrodart/3841677517/ Bowl of Ramen - http://www.flickr.com/photos/billselak/2388252659/ George Lynch - http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/dokken/photos/collection/photo/1 Long's Peak - http://www.flickr.com/photos/17972620@N00/2956076614/ Red Pill - http://www.flickr.com/photos/14322461@N04/1952594994/ Gold Heart - http://www.flickr.com/photos/cryodigital/3060730616/ Kool-Aid - http://www.flickr.com/photos/dyannafstop/2025899850/ Hammock - http://www.flickr.com/photos/wisdoc/3212710310/ Running Dog - http://www.flickr.com/photos/wisdoc/123640339/ Randy Rhoads - www.rudysarzo.com/images/bio/Randy-Rhoads.jpg

Lean Teams - Doing More with Less

by Marty Haught on Oct 12, 2009

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