Implementing CLM Incremental approach

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CLM Project Starts with:

Great IdeaHigh HopesNo Consideration that any of ideas might be wrong

The Charter is Drawn UpTeam is assembled People Start Working Energetically

At the early start they need to know:

1.How to work together, and indeed, whether these people can get this job done at all.

2. Where their technical ideas are flawed.3. How much it will cost to develop.

And finally:4. Whether they are even building the right thing. 

Late Learning

When do they learn these four things?

#1 they learn along the way. At some point they learn whether the people they assembled have the skills needed to get the job done or they got the staffing wrong. They also learn how to work together, becoming a “jelled” or high-performing team, if they are lucky.

#2 they all-too-often learn toward the end, when they integrate the pieces designed by the different teams, and learn what mistaken assumptions they made about each others’ work (hence the famous quip: “the first 90% of the project takes the first 90% of the time, the last 10% of the project takes the next 90% of the time”).

#3 they learn at the end, when all the work is done. There are typically so many surprises at the end that no cost estimate is meaningful until the final bill is turned in.

#4 they learn when it is all over late and unfortunately, this, the most important to learn, is learned last.

Trim the Tail

“How can we get the best possible results from our efforts?”

Breaking Questions:

Q1. How can we learn what should get built?

Q2. How can we learn how much it will cost (time, money, people)?

Q3. How can we accelerate the team learning how to work together?

Q4. How soon can we correct the mistaken assumptions in the design?

Q4. Correct mistaken design decisionschoosing technology that doesn’t work as advertised,andmistakes due to people not talking to each other, causing out of date and mistaken assumptions about each others’ work.Q3. Correct staffing and learn to work together Q2. Learn how much it will costQ1. Learn what should get built- Pilot prototyping- Ambassador user- Early delivery

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