There is no Secret Sauce

http://www.agiletestingdays.com/session/there-is-no-secret-sauce/

Ben Williams ben.williams@neuri.co.uk

Tom Roden

There is no Secret Sauce

  • "impact-driven development"
  • fast feedback on impact (e.g. customer behaviour, production results, error rates ...)
  • Decide to invest
    • how to come from wrtiting software to earning money?
    • explicitly acknowledge hypotheses
    • verify ROI-Flow (all seperate steps)
      • spend - people - delivery - impact - income
    • Consider the impact on the rest of the portfolio
  • Establish performance boundaries
    • Express uncertainty in range
      • -> ranged planning
    • Forecast cost and return
    • Proactively Manage risk
      • look how the market might change
      • competition
      • opportunity
      • Google alerts!
  • execute and monitor
    • measure income
  • Measure impacts
    • look at fundamentals
    • working software is not enough
    • impact analysis
    • defined boundaries required (see above)
  • Decentralized decisions
    • steer by exception
    • cost -> impact -> return
  • inspect & adept
    • Continuous improvement blah
    • on regular basis, small cycles
  • Conclusion:
    • Test linked hypotheses
    • show uncertainty in ranges
    • measure impact
    • allow decentralized decision making
    • learn

Ideas:

  • look at lean startup