Today success comes from building products people love, creating loyal customers and serving the broader stakeholder community. In this thoughtful exploration on the future of work, the authors explore the past, present and future of the “project”. And why, in today’s fast changing & hyper-competitive world, running a temporary endeavour is the wrong approach to building sustainable products and how #noprojects is fundamentally changing the way companies work. The metrics by which we have historically defined success are no longer applicable and we need to re-examine the way value is delivered in the new economy. This book starts from the premise that our goal is to create value, for the customer, for the organisation and for society as a whole and shows how to empower and optimise our teams to achieve this. The authors draw on modern management approaches to provide proven techniques and tools for producing, and sustaining, creative products that go beyond “meeting requirements”. By creating teams who are accountable for business outcomes, engineering for customer delight, and creating value for all stakeholders - profitability, customer satisfaction and employee engagement are all increased. This book is far more than just a catalogue of practices and tools which you can apply in your product development. It contains inspirational stories from individuals, teams and organisations who have switched to this new way of thinking and working. It exposes the risks on the pathway and how others have overcome these obstacles More details: https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8313/noprojects-why-what-how Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org

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FIND SOMEONE YOU DON’T ALREADY KNOW AND DISCUSS
THE CHALLENGES YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED MAKING
PROJECTS WORK IN YOUR ORGANISATION
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WHY, WHAT HOW?
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WHAT EXACTLY IS A PROJECT?
A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or
result.
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BUT WE HAVE A PROBLEM…
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PROJECTS FOCUS ON THE WRONG THING
What is measurable not what is valuable
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PROJECTS ARE TEMPORARY
(PRODUCTS AREN’T)
Products don’t end when the project does –
don’t artificially constrain them & lose key skills
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PROJECTS FAIL
The definition of insanity is to “do the same thing
and expect a different result”
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PROJECTS ARE EXPENSIVE
The three O’s of project cost;
Overheads, Overruns and Opportunity costs
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INTRODUCING #NOPROJECTS
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THE ALIGNMENT OF ACTIVITIES TO OUTCOMES
MEASURED BY VALUE,
CONSTRAINED BY GUIDING PRINCIPLES AND
SUPPORTED BY CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
TECHNOLOGIES
What is #noprojects?
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THE CONTINUOUS CULTURE
Continuous delivery, deployment, monitoring, strategy, planning, design,
marketing, feedback, business, finance, …
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KNOWING WHEN TO STOP
Itn 1 Itn 2 Itn 3 Itn 4 Itn 5 Itn 6 Itn 7 Itn 8 Itn 9 Itn 10 Int 11
Value vs Points Delivered
Value Story Points
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WORKING PRINCIPLES
Common, agreed, and prioritised constraints that shape all activities
(e.g. quality, communication, staff engagement, security, or branding)
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VALUE DELIVERY TEAMS
Dedicated, stable cross-functional teams that contain the
required skills to deliver an outcome
(e.g. developers, testers, HR, accountants, sales/marketing)
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WHERE TO BEGIN?
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OUTCOMES OVER OUTPUTS
Outcomes are valuable, planned, slowly changing and define a common
direction for all work
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VALUE OVER BUSY
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DEFINING VALUE
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DELIVERING WORK
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STORY MAPPING
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THE ACTIVITY CANVAS
An activity is any discrete piece of work that is undertaken as part
of a change
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THE TECHNOLOGY OF #NOPROJECTS
CONTINUOUS EVERYTHING
Automated testing, continuous integration, continuous
delivery, and DevOps
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IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT THE WORK IS. NOTHING THAT
WE’VE DISCUSSED HERE IS SPECIFIC TO SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT (OR ACCOUNTING OR MANUFACTURING
FOR THAT MATTER).
As long as there is a level of unpredictability in the outcome, the teams are
trusted to make operational decisions, and value can be continuously
created, a #noprojects approach works
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IN THE LONG RUN, THE ONLY SUSTAINABLE SOURCE
OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IS YOUR
ORGANISATION’S ABILITY TO LEARN FASTER THAN
YOUR COMPETITION.
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JOIN THE CONVERSATION
https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/noprojects-value-culture
http://noprojects.org/
Join #NoProjects on Slack
@shanehastie - shane@icagile.com
@eleybourn - eleybourn@businessagility.institute
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