Saw this on twitter on predictability, thought it was worth considering…
So you want predictability…
- Let us focus 100% on the effort
- Colocate everyone (the capital “T” Team). Remove all dependencies
- Give us the tools we need, and provision consistent environments
- Establish a psychologically safe environment for the team
- Provide instant and direct access to customers for research/validation
- Provide access to meaningful data and insights
- Let us work down on relevant technical debt (that will impact predictability)
- Let us hire people who have solved this exact problem in a perfectly similar context
- Let us use the software development methodology that suits us
- Make meeting rooms and soudproof rooms available at all times
- Make anyone who is supposed to review/sign-off instantly available to team
- Give the team time to get to know each other, and establish trust
- Remove all extraneous non-value-add processes
- Eliminate any managerial sub-optimization, politics, and buereaucracy
- In lieu of all this, we’ll do what we can on our end. We’ll do our best
