Engineering Culture By Infoq

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jeff DeLuca, founder of Feature Driven Development and an early agile development pioneer, on the background to FDD, Java modelling with colour and transforming large organisations to product thinking. Why listen to this podcast: • The first value statement of the Agile Manifesto (Individuals and interactions over processes and tools) is the key to agility, and yet agile is often equated with processes and tools today • In the traditional, siloed environment, the structure that delivers value (the project) is transient and moving to a NoProjects/product structure results in better outcomes and higher value for the whole organisation • Aligning KPIs and metrics with business outcomes across the whole cross functional team results in faster problem resolution and better products • Changing just one part of the organisation can have very detrimental impacts on other parts and can be detrimental overall and needs to be approached with