The “MVP Build or Buy” article helps with the crucial decision of whether to develop or purchase software for new ventures, emphasizing rapid validation of business ideas. It outlines key considerations including learning potential, time to market, cost, effort, scalability, and ease of discontinuation. The article introduces a decision matrix and an Excel tool to help stakeholders score and compare options, ensuring that the decision to build or buy aligns with strategic and operational goals. This approach promotes a collaborative and data-driven decision-making process.
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Strategy and Planning
Triple Track Development: Business Innovation Through Continuous Discovery and Continuous Delivery
Continuous Triple Track Development, comprising Business Strategy, Discovery, and Delivery, revolutionizes product development. Quarterly goals replace yearly plans, ensuring adaptability. Continuous Discovery delves deep into user needs, while Continuous Delivery swiftly transforms validated ideas into products. This synchronized approach fosters unprecedented collaboration, propelling teams towards collective success. It’s not just a methodology; it’s a strategic advantage, enabling businesses to innovate rapidly in today’s dynamic market.
[Sequencer] How to Order and Prioritize
Do you have a list of things to do, but don't know where to start? How about colouring and marking each item to help you order and prioritise what is most impactful? The sequencer is a visual tool, easy to understand and very effective for people to better understand,...
Path to Production
A path to production maps the steps, people, tools, tasks and output for software request/change to reach production. It is a great technical inception activity for fostering conversations about cross functional requirements, build pipeline, continuous delivery and...
[News] Remote Lean Inception Training
Caroli.org opened a new training: the Remote Lean Inception training. If you are interested in the Lean Inception method, you have two training options: the Remote Lean Inception training or the Face-to-face Lean Inception training (although there is no open class due...
C4 model
C4 is a model created by Simon Brown for depicting a software architecture by the 4 Cs -- Context, Container, Component and Code--, as per the following definitions: Context - the highest level of abstraction and describes something that delivers value to its users....
Mapping Features to Sprint planning with good User Stories (essential for team commitment and alignment)
Team A has identified a few features and now wants to build the backlog of User Stories for the upcoming few Sprints. How to do it? Step 1 - Features and Milestones First, make sure everyone understands how the features belong together. For example, below is a sample...
Inception and team happiness
Some time ago, I did facilitate a final retrospective for a team that has worked together for more than a year. Two of my passions are inceptions and retrospectives. So, during the retrospective, I was very interested on hearing more insights about that team view on...


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