Troubleshooting Agile
Building a Platform Under Pressure
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Quick takeaways
- Treating the project as a platform play, with a common core and separate add-ons, can help address the complexity of building a product for multiple stakeholders.
- Having difficult conversations and providing a reality check to stakeholders can help manage their demands and advocate for sequential development.
Deep dives
Challenges of Stakeholder Management in a Government Agency
Andreas, a product owner in a Swedish government agency, faces difficulties with stakeholder management. The agency is building a software product for different agencies that have varying compliance requirements due to different laws. Consequently, Andreas needs to customize the product for each stakeholder, leading to complexity and management challenges. While a more ideal scenario might involve building custom products for each agency, Andreas lacks the resources and setup for such an approach. The problem resonates with larger organizations and highlights the need for prioritizing and serializing stakeholder demands. Andreas should consider treating the project as a platform play, with a common core and separate add-ons. He may need to have difficult conversations with stakeholders to manage their expectations and explain the benefits of serialization.
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