What is it like to work with Made Tech? It’s a good question – and an understandable one, if you’re a potential client thinking of working with us.
Scaling scrum and overcoming challenges
on Delivery
If you’ve ever been involved in building a single product with multiple teams you know how tricky it can be.
What went down at Deliver Con 2022
A couple of weeks ago we opened the Made Tech doors for the UK’s delivery manager community in and around the public sector. We shared our space to help host Deliver Con for 2 days, welcoming a range of wonderful speakers sharing their stories of agile delivery.
Putting methodology in the blender: How should “I” manage a project?
“I use PRINCE2”. “I apply Waterfall”. “I like Lean”. “I prefer Scrum”. “I <3 Agile!”Every project manager has their favourite approach, and some swear by “the one”. But why choose one when you can have them all?
Accelerating delivery: 10 questions to ask your team
If you work in digital in the public sector, you’re probably aware of accelerated delivery. It helps to build projects faster, more efficiently, and with reduced risk.
Documentation should meet outcomes too
How do we go beyond seeing documentation as a burden and ensure that it is maintainable, reliable and valuable? Documentation is necessary to explain how something complicated works and defines a critical process to ensure a successful software release.
A day in the remote life of a software engineer
on Delivery
More people are now being forced into a remote working lifestyle that they may be unprepared for. I’ve been a mostly remote worker for around two years and wanted to share some of my routine in the hope that some may find it helpful.
Importance of information management in agile
on Delivery
Do you keep an up-to-date record of the current context of your product? And the needs being met by your product?
When to fold ’em – how to avoid the sunk cost fallacy
on Delivery
Some years ago, I worked as part of a development team on a project to upgrade a tangled legacy system managing a company’s payment systems. Two months in, and we had very little to show for it – pages of diagrams that looked like spiderwebs, a few outages caused by failed attempts to untangle the pile, and a rising level of frustration.
Dismantling Silos
A silo exists in an organisation when one group within the organisation has differing goals to another. In most organisations there are groups of people that, usually, have an objective to fulfil by an agreed upon date. For example, the Sales team is set a mandate to increase the number of customers of the company by 10% every month, whereas the Support team has internal performance goals, and one of them is to deliver support within a fixed budget.
