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Ecosystems and Value Streams
Identifying Commonality
What are the other products or services that may be doing what I’m doing? Who can I collaborate with?
Your product or service may operate within many categories of software capabilities. Start with looking at just one of those categories that you think might benefit most from using common components.
Find out what ecosystems you may be contributing to or consuming from.
When you think about the service that your product delivers also consider what the larger value stream your service is a part of. Once you identify your value stream, take steps to connect with others who are there as well, and start examining the various points along the way where there are hand offs, and make plans to address them.
Agile Approaches
Where does the need for your Digital Service exist? Understand who the user is not well understood, but I want to point out two distinct groups that occur commonly with Common Components. These two groups are not easy to focus on at the same time.
The Have’s and the Have Not’s:
Staff who are non-technical and have no funding to acquire them
Product/Project Teams with technical resources who need to integrate their system with common components
How do we build Solutions to help both groups? (more to come in this section)
Start with the simplest user journey
Add new capabilities that have only a minimal increase in complexity
Hide the complexity from those who don’t need it or want to see it
Market Awareness
Are customers satisfied that their problems are solved by the product you offer? What threats and opportunities are presenting themselves from the industry?
Analytical Iterative Feedback, measuring the pulse on the three pillars and adjusting as necessary
internal adjustment based on user centric feedback
external adjustment based on industry factors
