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📈 Do schedule estimates get more or less confident over time?
There are two trajectories for schedule confidence. A schedule feels safest when it is nailed down up front, often built around what management wants to hear. Detailed Gantt charts add to that feeling. The modeling has value, but it rarely …
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🟢 What is in the Big Green Button?
As previously stated, the Big Green Button enables teams to quickly and confidently release. But what is the Big Green Button? Several things come to mind: Automation that translates code/design/docs/models into assets others can use. Auto…
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🚢 What is the #1 problem in product development?
I’ll go first … a very common challenge is shipping on time and the resulting uncertainty to the business. We often add a 2-3x factor on any estimates, but sometimes even that is not enough. Shipping (delivering value) is the bottom line — …
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🤝 A release is what unifies Engineering and Business
Some feedback on yesterday’s post (What is a release): What specifically flows into the two points? Value? Effort? Perhaps a better way to phrase this is these are the two points of focus that unify the development team with the rest of t…
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📦 What is a release?
There are two aspects of a product release: Something useful that others can experience. Produced with a high level of confidence. Everything flows into these two points.
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🥣 The two ingredients for agility
✔️ Low friction: tooling and workflows that allow anyone to make changes easily. (good build systems, clean libraries, release automation, etc.) ✔️ Confidence: what we are doing is not going to break things. (CI, end-to-end testing, review, e…