once again: the things that digital product teams output aren't 'value' and a stream of such things isn't 'flow of value'
they're certainly working on value creation, but the actual things aren't the value - the value comes from user interaction
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viewing the outputs as 'the value' is imo rooted in the (stuff) 'delivery' mindset that still pervades software development, which regularly results in wrongly incentivised people focusing on the wrong thing
this is a kind of 'undifferentiated work' context where the only 'safe' thing to do is to be constantly busy doing the approved activities
"...product managers, product designers and engineers..."
I think at this point it's OK to slip 'product' in front of 'engineers' too - the idea of a homogeneous blob of 'engineers' is getting pretty stale (and it's not about FE vs BE vs FS)
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a better restaurant metaphor for software development:
what you're doing is creating new dishes to evolve the existing menu - and you might trial a bunch of dishes first, before refining and going live with the one that got the best feedback
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the tech debt metaphor maybe goes like this:
you have an established Dish A which uses carrots
you introduce Dish B, which also uses carrots, however the carrots are prepared slightly differently, so you just add a new carrot chopping station to the kitchen for now
saying software changes are your value stream is like saying rearranging things in your shop is your value stream
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related:
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sketching: value (co-)creation through interaction with the product, not through delivery of features
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What’s the most effective way to write OKRs?
Make sure the “KR” part is an outcome. To do that, you have to understand what an outcome actually is, how to work with that understanding, and how to deliver it.
