Product Management
The Product Delivery Triangle
Re-imagining popular delivery methodologies in terms of edges on a triangle
Let’s cut to the chase — there are too many frameworks out there for delivering products. If you’re lucky, you get to participate in a couple. If you’re unlucky, you get to work with SAFe (yuck!)
Regardless, it helps to understand the trade-offs each method is proposing.
The Delivery Triangle
I’ve chosen three tradeable areas:
1. Agility
The teams’ ability to react to changes in requirements, development time issues and organizational pivots. You can also consider this as reactiveness to change.
2. Predictability
This accounts for commitments made v/s what is actually delivered at a fixed point in time. If the team commits to delivery N number of items in the to-do list in X days, predictability is how close to N the team reaches on an average.
It is of course impossible in real world scenarios to delivery N items as was committed since engineering complexities, process dependancies and people factors come into play. There is also the matter of our inability to estimate the size…