The slides of my talk at Ploneconf2019 about #noprojects

1. #noprojects:
live happily ever after
without projects
A #noprojects journey in 4 stages and 10 principles
Ferrara, 23rd of October, 2019
#ploneconf2019

2. Are you going to talk
about yet another
#nosomething hashtag?

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

4. Every company is a
software company

5. «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

6. We are (still) uncovering
better ways of developing
software by doing it and
helping others to do it
Agile Manifesto, 2001

7. Agile organizations
survive (and thrive)
because they adapt
faster to a VUCA world

8. 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

9. What is a project?

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

11. What is #noprojects?

12. #noprojects
is a deliberate act of
continuous product
management

13. Switch from a project to a
product mindset

14. Quit making
projects in
4 stages

16. Experiments
over
Projects
Stable teams
over
Temporary Endeavor
Outcomes
over
Execution
Products
over
Software

17. #1
Experiments
over
Projects

18. 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

19. The biggest assumption
is that requirements fill the
customer/user needs

21. #2
Stable teams
Over
Temporary Endeavor

22. Bruce Tuckman
Katzenbach & Smith

23. #3
Products
Over
Software

26. #4
Outcomes
Over
Execution

27. Execution is focused on
project outputs

28. Outcomes are the measure
that a change (an impact)
occurred

29. Guiding
principles

30. #1
Fund capacity not the scope

31. #2
There’s no better place to
evolve a software product
than in the team that
created it

32. #3
Bring the work to the team

33. #4
Apply a (lean) portfolio
management strategy

34. #5
Be lean with budget

35. #6
Organize products constructions
around stable, motivated and
accountable teams

36. #7
Scale if and when needed

37. #8
Ask what is worth,
not how much it cost

38. #9
Keep the feedback loop short

39. #10
Roadmap driven by needs,
not by features

40. What is #noprojects?

41. #noprojects
is a deliberate act of
continuous product
management

42. We don’t need projects to
build digital services and
software products

43. Perfection is achieved, not
when there is nothing more
to add, but when there is
nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

44. Stop making software
projects and …

45. … live happily ever after

46. References

50. Special price for PloneConf 2019 attendees
https://leanpub.com/livehappilyeverafterwithoutprojects/c/N0pGHy1iWzg9
Live Happily Ever After Without Projects
A #noprojects book
Dimitri Favre – 2019

51. Questions?

52. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitri-favre-088675/
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Dimitri Favre
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