Sometimes outsourced development projects fail. Study post mortems documenting such failures or talk to people who were involved in failed projects, and you will discover that failure was often rooted in mediocre team organisation and meager management practices.
Let’s assume you are outsourcing your software development and wondering if things could go any faster. Development teams quite obviously vary in their inherent ability to deliver fast. On the whole, you determine the potential when you select a specific vendor / team to deliver the service.
On the 30th of January we took part in Sektor 3.0 – a conference organized by the Polish-American Freedom Foundation and the Information Society Development Foundation at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice.
There is no one universal way which will work for all the Product Owners and their teams. An effective way to communicate needs to be collaboratively discovered by the specific people to work on the project.
One of the key findings of the research project is that founders that have supportive mentors, track metrics, and learn from startup thought leaders raise 7x more capital and have 3.5x better user growth. In short, startups that learn are more successful.
Assuming you want to make profits rather than products, scope is the main driver of your economic results. It ultimately determines the value you will deliver to your customers and, consequently, the revenue you will be able to generate from your product or software-enabled business venture.
