Tasktop

MAY 2, 2019

Add the additional difficulties of having to orient delivery teams around products and bridging entrenched organizational silos – well that is quite a challenge that requires uplift across multiple dimensions. In the past, technical debt and continuous improvement (CI) work were frequently the first items to be deprioritized in time crunches.

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Tasktop

MAY 17, 2021

Regardless of market or industry, the popular management system for setting organizational goals—harnessed so successfully by the major digital innovators —is helping enterprises adapt to all the disruption that 2020 and 2021 have served up. . Organizational OKRs. Create conditions and organizational structures to enable flow (e.g.,

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The no-code / low-code tech notwithstanding (these tend to yield more organizational sclerosis and less sustainable innovation, but that’s a post for another day), this is a destination state many of us in the tech industry have advocated for years. So why not model legacy enterprise IT this way?

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2015

Portrait of a growing company: a corporate parent with two-thirds of its enterprise value in debt, running two separate but interdependent divisions: a capital intensive asset heavy business, and a cash generative consumer-focused operating firm. If you're the CFO, your primary concern is the debt capital that's financing your growth.

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Tasktop

MAY 28, 2020

Cross-Organizational Visibility . The Flow Metrics provide a unifying view that transcends any particular skill — you don’t need to be a computer scientist to understand features, defects, debt, risk. Tech Debt: A Business Priority . You can’t let tech debt become an avalanche,” emphasizes Jim.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This increases the level of technical debt and makes it more fragile. The architecture becomes easier and cheaper to change, enabling faster flow, and reducing technical debt, fragility and security concerns. What was a competitive disadvantage becomes a competitive advantage. We recommend teams primarily focus on “Enabling” aspects.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

retail square footage doesn't look like a good investment) to organizational dynamics (office square footage doesn't look like a good investment). Capital mix: the higher a company's debt (assuming it isn't convertible), the greater the extent to which its cash is pledged to debt service.

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Tasktop

JUNE 17, 2021

This review surfaced multiple handoffs across various organizational siloes, which once removed, reduced time-to-value from the customer’s perspective. Debt : Removal of impediments to future delivery. They are calculated on four Flow Items, which are units of work that matter to a business: . Features: New business value.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 30, 2014

Technical debt is a useful metaphor for explaining why some code is faster to complete but more expensive to maintain. Tech debt can be a real burden on development, particularly as it takes away time that would otherwise be directed toward productive investment in new feature development. Debt is a wager on future interest rates.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In this episode, Mik and Sam Guckenheimer discussed the importance of flexibility and business agility, in order to reduce technical debt and optimize the end-to-end idea and the importance of looking at investments in terms of core versus context, to better understand where the business needs to focus. Listen now. Mik + Sam Guckenheimer.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 19, 2020

“ They can also lead to deeper insights into the technical, organizational, economic, and even political factors that promote those conditions.” Dark debt is not recognisable at the time of creation, and generates complex system failures. It’s impact is not to slow development, but to generate anomalies.

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Tasktop

MAY 20, 2020

Technical debt (improve the ability to accelerate future delivery). While measuring flow is vital to prioritize improvements towards value delivery, don’t let metrics dictate organizational processes and the way teams collaborate to create value. Defect (quality). Risk (security, governance, compliance).

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 18, 2019

For today’s business leaders, learning from books like The Unicorn Project and the new way of thinking it portrays is critical to navigating this organizational change. . Technical Debt is not tracked consistently across teams and value streams. As such, the next generation is likely to be much better equipped for this shift.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Business as a machine" - a set of moving parts working in coordination to consistently produce output - remains the dominant organizational metaphor. In the last 12 years, debt has been cheap - cheaper than equity. As more corporate funding comes from debt instead of equity, it puts the squeeze on operations to be predictable.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 13, 2016

So such notions as “hardening iterations” and “technical debt” get introduced. The details of organizational structure may vary, but a center of performance expertise (formal or informal) should exist. From the agile development side the problem is that, unfortunately, it doesn’t always work this way in practice.

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Flow Distribution : Which value creation work, and investment in debt to accelerate future delivery is being prioritized? . What’s slowing your value delivery down? Flow Time : Is time-to-value getting shorter? Flow Efficiency : Is work downstream (ideate stage) in a wait state holding up delivery? .

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Organizational politics - and power plays - will alter tactical integration plans. The reality is, we're not going to get money later to pay down technical or operational debt we take on. Established workflows, systems and tools are vigorously defended yet poorly understood.

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 24, 2009

We do a lot of things, such as introduce situational complexity and technical debt, that pile on the work we have to do. This allows us to assess the extent to which we are restructuring the fundamental organizational behaviours to focus on results as opposed to effort. This is an apt metaphor for IT. However, we must be careful.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

How often have we seen an important business initiative beholden to a technology component that is laden with technical debt, the delivery of which is in the hands of mercenaries who are motivated neither by the business impact of the solution nor its reliability and affordability of maintenance? And this is common in the IT industry.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

What’s ironic, and we talk about this in the book too, is it doesn’t take as many people as you think to change the organizational culture. Jeff: So being able to sort of spend your way out of certain problems, I think it’s hugely beneficial because tech debt gets a bad rap, but tech debt is no different than any debt.

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