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<p>You can&#8217;t move for people talking about the project to product journey lately. Getting organisations to start mapping out what their products are so they can build cross-functional teams around them. Projects are transitory and lose us all of the learning, we want long-lived squads! While these sentiments are all rock-solid, unfortunately, they&#8217;re missing the &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/a-product-team-is-not-the-answer/" class="more-link">Cont

<p>One of the largest challenges preventing organisations from competing effectively in the market is their structure. When you are optimised for technology or role, then you are not optimised for customer value. But how do you actually get there? What does good look like for your organisation if you went back to the drawing board? &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/business-outcome-alignment/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> &#8

<p>Where We Stand The role of the project manager in Agile is often a complicated one. While there is little concrete direction by many of the frameworks, it is often understood that a traditional project manager may often find themselves moving into a Scrum Master or Product Owner role. The intent behind this guidance is &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/lean-pmo/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> &#8220;Lean PMO&#8221;</span></

<p>A dependency chain is where you have a number of functions that all need to do some part of a piece of work in order to fully deliver it. These functions complete their part and then pass it along to another. In my last article I showed why your IT requests were likely taking so &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/dependency-chain-modelling/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> &#8220;Dependency Chain modelling&#8221;</span></a></p

<p>You&#8217;ve got a quick job to do so fire it off to an IT team. It should only take around half a day of effort so you expect to hear back by the end of the week. Three weeks later and you&#8217;re still waiting. So why is this happening? What is the deal with IT &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/why-do-we-have-it-delays/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> &#8220;Why do we have IT delays?&#8221;</span></a></p>

<p>Over this series, I&#8217;ve spoken in detail about the organisational impact of IT dependencies in your system. I&#8217;d like to take a diversion and discuss how it can impact the individual. I posit that even without the work benefits you could derive from eliminating dependencies, the quality of life changes you could bring about would &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/the-psychological-impact-of-it-dependencies/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span cla

<p>After some of my recent articles on building a dependency map, a few people got in touch asking for tips on actually creating them. Here&#8217;s a quick way to get started. You might have noticed the following example in my previous posts. I created the graphic above with an amazing bit of kit called Neo4j. &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/quick-dependency-map-automation/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> &#8220;Quick and dir

<p>If you&#8217;re not up to speed on the concept of dependency mapping, then I&#8217;d suggest taking a look at my previous post where I talked through how to go about building a dependency map. So what happens now? You&#8217;ve gone through the workshop and now have a bunch of data that&#8217;s telling you what? Something &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/dependency-map-analysis/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> &#8220;Depende

<p>Recently, I published an article where I discussed the concept of dependency as a proxy for complexity. I also tried to show that complexity is the biggest aspect to consider when attempting to improve the flow of value. This is all part of a concept I call Dependency Mapping. Following publication of the article, I &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/dependency-mapping/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> &#8220;Dependency Mappin

<p>dependent&nbsp;adjective de· pen· dent&nbsp;|&nbsp;\&nbsp;di-ˈpen-dənt&nbsp;&nbsp;\ determined or conditioned by another If you ask 10 people why Digital Transformations fail, you&#8217;ll get 10 different answers, often with phrases like &#8220;buy-in&#8221; and &#8220;culture&#8221; thrown around. Although there isn&#8217;t a simple answer to this question, I&#8217;d like to talk about one that often gets ignored.&nbsp;Dependencies. You have a dependency &hellip; <a href