The last 4 posts have been trying to convince you that iterative, baby step, delivery, is better for your clients than moonshot, giant step delivery:
- The Opposite Of Iterative Delivery
- Moonshots vs Baby Steps at a Scaleup
- When Your Customers Struggle
- The Only Client Experience
But how do you get started? How do you shorten your stride from shooting the moon, to one small step?
The next series of posts is going to lay out my scaling iterative delivery framework. This site is about scaling SaaS software, and this framework works best if you want an order of magnitude more of what you already offer your clients. This isn’t a general framework, and it certainly isn’t the only way to get started with iterative delivery.
Work your way through these steps:
- Pick a goal – 1 sentence, highly aspirational and self explanatory.
- Define the characteristics of your goal – What measurable characteristics does your system need in order to achieve your goal?
- What are the implications? – What technical things would have to be true in order for your system to have all the characteristics you need?
- What are the blockers? – What is stopping you from making the implications true?
- What can you do to weaken the blockers? – Set aside the goal, characteristics and implications; what can you do to weaken the blockers?
Weakening the blockers is where you start delivering iteratively. As the blockers disappear, your system becomes better for your clients and easier for you to implement your technical needs.
We will explore each step in depth in the following posts.
