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Sample V2MOM for a software project

Vision

Rapidly deploy our platform with some key custom extensions to a small pilot group within {key customer's} {department} staff to modernize their {department} efforts.

Values

  • Human-centered: We’re providing tools to skilled workers, not building rigid machines that do people’s jobs for them.
  • Flexible: We will strive to use lightweight solutions wherever possible to allow for configurable workflows. Today, the users can adjust their own technology at any time.
  • Speed: Delivering quickly allows us to fold in feedback and course-correct instead of emphasizing a waterfall-style requirements document.

Methods

  • Work iteratively: The first pancake is always lumpy. Build time into the schedule to gather feedback and make revisions instead of shipping the first thing off the line.
  • Build incrementally: Eat the elephant one bite at a time to keep people in sync and reduce errors due to misunderstanding.
  • Target outcomes, not output: code itself is a maintenance liability; the asset is the functionality that creates a positive outcome.
  • Engage with implementation partners and customer technical teams on a regular cadence to keep people on the same page and unblocked.

Obstacles

  • Other teams are in the middle of deploying their apps to the same infrastructure.
  • The users have built habits around the home-made solutions in use today, creating inertia to overcome.
  • Some parties have anxiety around this unknown and unfamiliar platform.

Measures

  • Our key customer approves the next phase of work deploy additional modules.
  • Our key customer happily provides references in future sales efforts.
  • {Implementation partner} has a good experience with {key customer} and acts as a channel for sales.
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