Commitment To Value
Commitment To Value
How to make technical projects worthwhile.
About the Book
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Preface
- About the Author
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1. The Path
- 1.1 Path takers
- 1.2 Purpose?
- 1.3 Avoiding failure
- 1.4 Finding purpose
- 1.5 Lost in indirection
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2. Commitment
- 2.1 What we can do with purpose?
- 2.2 How to commit
- 3. Interlude
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4. Hang up the Phone
- 4.1 Mediation
- 4.2 Clean your house first
- 4.3 Further cleaning
- 4.4 Stakeholders
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5. Let the Path Vary
- 5.1 Setting the target
- 5.2 The path is irrelevant
- 5.3 Tips
- 5.4 Measure success
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6. Customer Cohesion
- 6.1 Sustainability
- 6.2 Steps
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7. Create Value Frequently
- 7.1 Keep the focus on value
- 7.2 Don’t leave the customer hanging
- 7.3 Incremental and iterative value
- 7.4 Released value
- 7.5 Feedback
- 7.6 Trust and status
- 7.7 Avoid mediation in creating value
- 7.8 Efficiency
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8. Balance Risks
- 8.1 Engineering effort
- 8.2 Avoiding marginal
- 8.3 Leverage intuition
- 8.4 Validation
- 8.5 Waste
- 8.6 Long term
- 8.7 Stolen focus
- 8.8 Trade-offs
- 8.9 Timeliness
- 8.10 Run-on work
- 8.11 Further benefits
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9. Reconsider Pricing
- 9.1 Effort-based compensation
- 9.2 Aligned interests
- 9.3 Value pricing
- 9.4 How to get started?
- Acknowledgements
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