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James study [1] shows the relation between the exploration of new possibilities and the exploitation of old certainties in organisational learning. His main point is that an organisation should do both consecutively: explore new possibilities while exploiting the existing ones.   From the perspective of lean start-up, an organisation should keep learning and experimenting via […]

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1. From the Preface: Enterprise IT has mostly underperformed. It’s been a struggle to deliver IT-as-enabler, to say nothing of IT-as-differentiator. Partly as a result, it is common to hear of strained relationships between business and IT. This doesn’t augur well for digital transformation initiatives. I submit that a prime reason for the…

When customer companies buy software products, they usually need skilled staff to install them. This staff is usually provided by a service provider company, since software product vendors don't find it makes business sense to build their own services arm. Customers need to be aware of the relationship between product vendors and service providers, and should require transparency on the relationship from those they work with. A transparency that is increasingly important as these partnerships grow in prominence with the rise of cloud vendors.

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A while ago I wrote a blog post about my first impressions of Rust. This has grown into a full talk introducing Rust to experienced developers, and the recording of that talk at YOW! Melbourne has just been released.

If you've read the post or watched the video you know that the code examples are taken from one of my hobby projects, an artificial life / genetic programming simulation. Because people have asked I've now made the code available in this Github repo. Please beware, though, there is no thorough documentation on what the simulator actually does and…

Imagine a team writing software for a shopping website. If we look at the team's output, we might consider how many new features they produced in the last quarter, or a cross-functional measure such as a reduction in page load time. An outcome measure, however, would consider measure increased sales revenue, or reduced number of support calls for the product. Focusing on outcomes, rather than output, favors building features that do more to improve the effectiveness of the software's users and customers.

As with any professional activity, those of us involved in software development want to learn what makes us…

The collaborative prioritisation table is a tool used in the Lean Strategy Cycle to help stakeholders prioritise a list of initiatives. The participants fill up each initiative’s business value score (B), User eXperience score (U) and the relative effort score (E). Then the group calculates each initiative score by applying the formula B + U / […]

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Dentro-Fora é um jogo para crianças pequenas, bem simples, que consiste em primeiro desenhar um círculo grande no chão (tipicamente com um giz no pátio das escolas), depois posicionar as crianças em volta dele, e então, dar o comando “DENTRO” ou “FORA”, para que as crianças pulem (e aprendam o que é dentro e fora). […]

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Labor productivity creates economic prosperity. Increasingly productive labor results in lower cost products (greater output from the same number of employees == lower labor input costs), higher salaries (productive workers are valuable workers), greater purchasing power (labor productivity allows households to keep monetary inflation in check), increasing sophistication (skill maturity to take on greater challenges), and higher returns on capital. The more productive a nation's workforce, the higher the average standard of living of its population.

In recent years, economists have drawn attention to low productivity growth in western economies as a key factor restraining economic growth and perpetuating low…

Luiza and James finish their article on running programs in product mode organizations by discussing two useful practices. Investing in visual artifacts to help convey information to those involved, and the necessity of having defined roles for managing the overall program.

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