What is Value? • Jez Humble • GOTO 2012

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2012
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Jez Humble - Author of "Continuous Delivery", Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks
ABSTRACT
The concept of "value" is central to agile and lean software development - but how do we decide what is valuable, and on what basis? I will argue that determining value is the responsibility of everyone - not just the "product owner" - and that in order to deliver value, the most important thing is to be able to measure it transparently, and to establish a fast feedback loop so we can quickly determine if what we're doing is in fact valuable. In this talk I will discuss several approaches to measuring value, how to maximize creating it, and how doing so affects the way teams work.
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[@SG2_channel]

watching this video the first time. Video was from 2012. And 8 years later, who would not have heard of Elon Musk, SpaceX and Tesla. Clearly, who got it right for "what value is". Bravo!

[@andishawjfac]

He did say that Elon started Tesla, which is completely false, Elon bought it, he even bought "founder" status so he can pretend he created it.

[@JezHumble]

I'd say: start out _every_ new project with a team of 6-10 people, and set them a time limit of 2-3 months to build a POC, release it to production, and incorporate feedback from real customers. If you decide to continue, you can start up more teams. Make sure your architecture supports teams working on vertical slices as described in "Steve Yegge's Platforms Rant" (Google it).
I'm writing a book on this for publication later this year. Sign up for my newsletter at continuousdelivery . com

[@mramondou]

Great prez.
It really resonate with what I have experienced, but I'm working in a French Telco and I try to pass the message to 55+ mangers. I'm not young anymore but there is a gap.
My mother is called Rita and I recently learned that St Rita is the Patron of hopeless causes.
Maybe I should consider quitting.....

[@jefesoltani]

Jez, you mention there's no value in doing estimation, one argument against your idea that I've heard is managers use this to work out how many people should be in a team to work on all those features, or should they hire new people, what do you say to them?

[@JezHumble]

Slides are here: slidesha.re / VASRXk
The Sun marketing video is also on TH-cam: watch?v=czYDshjmys4#t=6m20s to get to the pricing section, but it's worth watching all of it.
And of course I meant to say Jack Welch was Chairman and CEO of GE.

[@BryonLape]

Scrum doesn't work. The agile Manifesto doesn't exist.