Week Ending 17th March 2023

This Week’s Article

This week’s article has Damian reflecting on the idea of “bring your whole self to work”. Has the pendulum swung too far so that now this is dogma rather than a healthy respect for the individual?

New and Revised Content

Continuing our efforts to finish populating our Values and Behaviours pages… We'll get there one day…

Focus On Realised Value

We prioritise the expenditure of our budget on delivering features and service by considering the value we believe we can deliver to our customers. We need to ensure that the value we thought would be created by a feature or service is being delivered. This knowledge is used to decide to confirm or to change priorities for future work and service delivery.

Evaluate Realised Value

When we deliver features into a product and when we provide the services offered by that product we are making an explicit investment from our available budgets. We need to evaluate the value realised by the product, its features and services so that we can assess the return from our investments. We use the information provided by our evaluation to help guide large scale decisions on where future investments should be directed.

Sustain Metric Definitions

We measure stuff because we want to base our decisions on information. Consistent information can only be created from data that is itself coherent and consistent and that is analysed consistently too. To keep our data gathering, processing and analysis consistent, we ensure we have clear definitions of the data we want to use and how we will use it.