• Management
• GrowthAndValueAdd

Management Growth and ValueAdd

• How to add real value to org ?

Ask the right questions

1. What's the most frustrating part of your week?
2. What's the biggest thing slowing our team down right now?
3. If you could wave a magic wand and solve one problem, what would it be?

Examples

1. Team know for buggy code and moving slow ?
   • Skills gap and training ?
     • No real gap, software release process took days, dozens of approval steps, batch changes, terrible system
     • Broken system costing the team 2weeks of developer productivity every single month.
     • Expensive problem
   • Dont' ask: How do i solve this once?
   • Ask: What skill, if i mastered it would solve this class of problem forever ?
   • Value is not in just fixing the pipeline.
     • VALUE: Frame the technical pain as business impact,
       • Not our deployment pipeline is complex, but as we are loosing developer 2weeks of productivity per month to this process delaying our future launch by a quarter
       • Deliver the message in terms business leaders care about

Find core skill

• Solving a problem you care about VS solveing a problem they care about
• Loop
  1. Solve one problem for one person, make it measurably better - don't boil the ocean
  2. Generalize the solution - package it, set up website, document it
  3. Announce the product - post it - wiki page
     • Frame it - Here's a common pain, here the tool that solves it, here's how to use it.
• Find product market fit
  • Connect what you can uniquely do, with problems people needs desperately fixed.
  • Stop perfecting your product in a vacuum
  • Ask about pain
  • Deliver quality solutions, turn them into systems