Velocity impacted by project based cost accounting
Product companies not issue
Lose knowledge as temporary structure - persistent knowledge
Project - Temporary work for temporary resources
Allocate the money, but haven't spent it yet, decision about what get built is still with business
“Want to do this feature now”
Flow also impacted
Ability to control spend without timesheet
ROI is a trailing indicator. Need an implicit ROI
Real way to do capex policy in blog post
Greenfield waterfall to safe, easier than if started with existing agile team
Need the uniform paradigm - safe
Start with easy value stream
Remind people. Resource pool (lean idea, not agile)
Leadership get used to it. But problem when a group is not included
Break down silos - Start with “permission to plan” together - based on value flow - then couple with t-shirts
Mission is then clear produces different behaviors
Create the environment that is different
Something magic about putting people in a room
Don't think about levels. Think about how the value flows
Need to tease out operational vs value streams for large it shops
More than 100 people cannot work together
Look like Parthenon
Thinking tools to tease the complexity apart
C level - talk about lean