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Following some notes about my the last php usergroup meetup.

By Judith Andresen

• what is the leadtime?
  • time between adding the ticket and releasing it as a feature
• what is a cycletime?
  • time between someone has an idea and releaseing it as a feature
• we are currently in a time of digital transformation to the "first mover"
  • first idea try/test is the one who owns the bigges marked share
  • try to not be perfect
  • remove bottlenecks
  • try to scale vertical (microservice, duplicated data)
    • one team and service per business value/topic
      • search (including frontend, backend, customer data etc.)
      • product page
    • "community of practice" is a team (per vertical cut/team) that try
      • to keep the big architecture picture in mind
      • to share knowledge, approach and libraries
  • try to add a decision-maker into the team (extend the team in the value chain)
  • try to bring people together, also on an emotional level (increase the "we" feeling)
  • you can argue always with a decreased leadtime / small time to market
• typical "facts" against
  • we have never done that this way
  • my discipline is better, information silos, no talk between departments (typically between 20 and 80 peoples)
  • there is no "we"
• how?
  • talk to each other
  • major goal: deliver fast
  • create room for improvment or options
    • time
    • people
    • space/room