Delivery Mindset: From Startups to Enterprise & Back Again

Talk to the GDS Delivery Management community (invited in by Nick Tait, Alex Malloy & Richard Vale)

Transcript

1. Rory MacDonald Founder & Director @rorymacdonald Luke Morton Director @lukemorton Delivery Mindset: From Startups to Enterprise & Back Again
2. We're from Made Tech.
3. We wrote a book on building high performance agile teams
4. 1. Our delivery journey from working with startups to large organisations 2. The different mindsets and approaches we’ve seen 3. Bringing our startup learnings to large organisations
5. 1. Our delivery journey from working with startups to enterprises
6. Scrum taught us discipline
9. Faster feedback helped avoid waste (YAGNI)
10. Goal based delivery made facing uncertainty easier
11. Delivery approach isn’t one size fits all
12. Enterprises see failure all the time
13. 2. The different mindsets and approaches we’ve seen
14. Enterprise mindset: Failed projects are normal
15. Startup mindset: Roles are hats
16. Enterprise mindset: Permission over forgiveness
17. Startup mindset: A problem shared is a problem halved
18. Enterprise mindset: That’s just the way it is
19. Startup mindset: Learn fast
20. 3. Bringing our startup learnings to large organisations
21. Compose roadmaps of goals rather than features
22. Always have your next showcase booked in
23. Never skip or change a showcase date
24. Keep iterations shorter than a week
25. Address slow / no replies
26. Bypass proxy people
27. Private messages and back channels are toxic
28. Quiet teams are an indicator of dysfunction
29. Avoid odd number team sizes
30. Close pull requests within 20 minutes
31. Allow teams to deploy without asking for permission
32. Let your teams QA themselves
33. Ensure your last production deploy isn’t more than a day old
34. Provide feedback to your colleagues every week
35. Rory MacDonald Founder & Director @rorymacdonald Luke Morton Director @lukemorton Questions?