This document discusses moving away from a project-based approach and toward product-based teams without projects. It presents four values ("Experiments over Projects", "Stable teams Over Temporary Endeavor", "Products Over Software", "Outcomes Over Execution") and ten principles for a world without projects, such as funding capacity rather than scope and bringing work to stable, motivated teams. The goal is to stop making projects and instead focus on long-lasting products developed by accountable teams.

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8. Live happily ever after
without projects
4 values and 10 principles for a #noprojects world
Napoli, 21st of June, 2019
#agileoday2019

9. The world we know

10. A Project is a
temporary endeavor
undertaken to create a
unique product, service or result
Source: What is Project Management, PMI - https://www.pmi.org/about/learn-about-pmi/what-is-project-management

12. «Software is eating the world»
Marc Andreessen, 2011
Why Software is eating the world
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903480904576512250915629460

13. «Agile is eating the world»
Steve Denning, 2018
Why Agile is eating the world
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2018/01/02/why-agile-is-eating-the-world%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B/#77e8c4c84a5b

14. I want to stress is the importance of getting rid of software
projects as a notion. Instead we want to switch to
a product-oriented view of the world where instead of
projects that you spin up, run for a while and then stop;
you instead say,
"Let's focus on things that are much more long-lasting
and organize a product team around that.“
Martin Fowler, «The State of Agile», August 2018

15. A new world
(without projects)

17. remember

18. PROJECT
IS
DEAD

19. The Fab Four
(aka the #noprojects values)

20. #1
Experiments
over
Projects

21. It doesn't matter how beautiful
your theory is, it doesn't matter
how smart you are. If it doesn't
agree with experiment, it's
wrong.
Richard Feynman

22. #2
Stable teams
Over
Temporary Endeavor

24. Bruce Tuckman, 1965

25. Katzenbach & Smith,

26. #3
Products
Over
Software

29. #4
Outcomes
Over
Execution

33. The principles

34. #1
Fund capacity not the scope

36. #2
There’s no better place to
evolve a software product
than in the team that
created it

38. #3
Bring the work to the team

40. #4
Apply a portfolio
management strategy

42. #5
Be lean with budget

44. #6
Organize products constructions
around stable, motivated and
accountable teams

46. #7
Scale if and when needed

48. #8
Ask what is worth,
not how much it cost

50. #9
Keep the feedback loop short

52. #10
Roadmap driven by needs,
not by features

54. Stop making projects and
live happily ever after

55. Applying the values
and the principles

56. For what is worth

57. Paul is still alive

58. References

62. Special price for Agile O’ Day attendees
https://leanpub.com/livehappilyeverafterwithoutprojects/c/N0pGHy1iWzg9
Live Happily Ever After Without Projects
A #noprojects book
Dimitri Favre – 2019

63. Questions?
Special price for Agile O’ Day attendees
https://leanpub.com/livehappilyeverafterwithoutprojects/c/N0pGHy1iWzg9

64. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitri-favre-088675/
@DimitriFavre
Dimitri Favre
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