Reducing the pressure on IT
Many “agilists” talk about fail-fast, though it’s just not tolerated in some businesses, especially in financial services. Over time companies have pushed too many projects into their “funnel” and are littered with failed products because they have not instigated a rigorous enough analysis before green-lighting projects for development.
IT can then be a bottleneck because of the sheer volume of work coming its way. Value Management ensures that the portfolio of work is focused on the goals of the organisation, using value as a key decision criterion. That forces the business to create more thought-through products or propositions to prevent risky products from getting into IT.
With a cleaner IT slate, Flow makes the choice of IT agile methodology for Value Delivery less of an issue or indeed a risk.
Which Value Delivery Method should I use?
The preferred approach includes kanban, micro-services, DevOps/Holistic teams, automated pipelines, continuous delivery and cloud. With some tweaking, Flow can be adapted to work with most approaches including Scrum or any of the large-scaled agile frameworks.
Fin is always open and available for a debate on which method is best and how to adapt Flow!