Lastly, community is super hard. This might be more focused around B2C services, think Reddit. Of course, B2B services are also wanting to build a community of, basically, volounteer community memebers, that run discussions and knowledge management around their products. Online forums, Facebook groups, Discord servers are all tools for community.
Finding a good community is gold for any line of business. Running a great community is wicked hard.
Yeah. I could talk about this for a long time. One thing for kids to understand is that many places claim to be agile when being anything but.
Always fall back on the manifesto and its principles. You will find it is pro labour, pro team and expects servant leadership. Less common than you’d think 😃
Hohl highlights the difference between “doing agile” and “being agile” and explains that “being agile means that the individual, the team, and the organization have changed”.
Hohl, P., Klünder, J., van Bennekum, A.et al. (2018) Back to the future: origins and directions of the “Agile Manifesto” – views of the originators Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development 6, 15. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40411-018-0059-z (Accessed: 15 Mar 2022)
We are now having similar issues with software products as in the physical world. What makes a Ford Mustang recognisable as an identifiable product over all these years? The new ones may ship with an electric drive, yet it's still a Mustang.
Successful software has similar traits that keep customers paying for the experience. Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, ServiceNow all keep rolling forward. There is no end to the project, stuff you write today may live for 20 years
Product (in IT terms) can refer to any piece of software really, that has clearly defined boundries, features and services. GMail for instance is a product that has lived for 20+ years now and has changed and adapted with the times, new computing platforms and user needs.
Products can be components of a larger solution too, like an identity service for login or a payment processor for example. Main reason for product focus is long-term vs project thinking.
Agile is a horribly misused term and concept, but it boils down to creating cross-functional teams that have enough autonomy to deliver and maintain over time a software product of high quality. To ensure you're building the right thing, fast feedback from your users is key. So much so that business users are key memebers of the agile team.
Agile done well produces quality software, at a sustainable pace for the team. Any increase in speed to market is a side-effect of quality.
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