Ich habe herausgefunden, dass dasselbe f\u00fcr Organisationen gilt. Wenn die Dinge einmal ins Rollen kommen, ereignen sich weitere positive Dinge, da die Teams und die Projekte in Bewegung sind und sich den ver\u00e4nderlichen Umst\u00e4nden anpassen k\u00f6nnen. Umso schneller man sich bewegt, umso einfacher ist es tats\u00e4chlich die Richtung zu ver\u00e4ndern. Im Gegensatz dazu, haben Projekte oder Teams, die sich scheinbar nur langsam bewegen, Schwierigkeiten sich Situationen anzupassen, wenn sich diese ver\u00e4ndern.<\/strong><\/p>\nThis is nothing more than Newton’s fist law of motion – objects at rest tend to stay at rest, and\u00a0objects in motion tend to stay in motion.\u00a0 I’ve found the same thing to be true of organizations.Once things get moving, other good things happen because teams and projects have\u00a0momentum and can adjust to changing circumstances.\u00a0 In fact, the faster you move, the easier\u00a0it is to change direction.\u00a0 By contrast, projects or teams that seem to be moving slowly have a\u00a0hard time adapting to situations as they change.<\/p>\n
One of the perceived downsides to\u00a0outsourcing is a loss of speed, since work that used to be\u00a0done in house now has to be accomplished with a second party, often through formal channels\u00a0of work orders and change requests.\u00a0 Decision making in particular is often perceived to suffer\u00a0from bureaucratic delays associated with outsourcing.\u00a0 However, there is a benefit as well in\u00a0this injection of process discipline.\u00a0 Having to think ahead about what you need so that you can\u00a0request it with sufficient lead time forces the business to consider its needs more carefully and\u00a0encourages IT (for example) to forecast the need for capacity, projects, resources, etc.<\/p>\n
That said, what else can be done to increase speed in the context of a strategic outsourcing\u00a0relationship?\u00a0 It’s not just a matter of getting the outsource provider to work faster or be more\u00a0productive.\u00a0 In my experience, it’s usually more a matter of addressing three things:<\/p>\n
1. Decisions<\/strong> – Show me a slow moving organization and I’ll show you decisions that\u00a0are taking too long to make, usually due to analysis paralysis.\u00a0 To gain speed, make\u00a0decisions faster, even if it’s with imperfect information, and involve your outsource\u00a0partner in the decision process whenever possible.\u00a0 If you’re moving fast, you can\u00a0change direction faster.<\/p>\n2. Delays<\/strong> – Waiting for other people to do things, especially to provide information, is a\u00a0speed killing constraint.\u00a0 Like any constraint, it needs to either be eliminated or worked\u00a0around.\u00a0 If your project team is waiting on key information, work on other parts of the\u00a0project that don’t need that information.\u00a0 If you need someone to make a decision or\u00a0provide something to you, stand on their desk until you get it (even if it\u2019s the boss\u2019s or\u00a0the customer\u2019s desk).\u00a0 Most of all, and this is contrary to what many of us have learned\u00a0in our careers, DON’T wait on customer requirements…<\/p>\n3. Staged Releases<\/strong> – The biggest delay in most projects is waiting on customers to “simply”tell us what they want us to do.\u00a0 After working on and studying this problem for over 25\u00a0years, I’ve come to the conclusion that this is never going to happen.\u00a0 It’s really hard\u00a0to say exactly what you want or need because business processes have become very\u00a0complex and most people aren’t trained to do that kind of analysis.\u00a0 So don’t wait -produce quickly what your best guess tells you the customer wants and show it to them.If they like it, you’re done, and fast!\u00a0 If they don’t, then you just learned something you\u00a0needed to know – requirements.\u00a0 If you iterate enough, and fast enough, you’ll gain the\u00a0information you need to complete the task, and the customer will feel engaged and\u00a0satisfied that they have what they need, even if they couldn’t have told you what it was.<\/p>\nThis last point especially is the essence of the whole agile methodology.\u00a0 The bottom line on\u00a0agile development is to produce quickly what you think is needed, show it to the customer,\u00a0and then just as quickly adapt it with their feedback.\u00a0 This process is not incompatible with\u00a0outsourcing.\u00a0 In fact, many outsource development organizations have built very strong agile\u00a0capabilities and can increase the pace of development beyond what was previously possible\u00a0with an in-house team.<\/p>\n
If we can learn to do all of these things – make decisions, eliminate delays, and release in\u00a0stages – we will move faster, be more adaptable to changing conditions, and probably enjoy\u00a0greater success on both sides of the outsource equation.<\/p>\n
What other speed and agility killers do you see?\u00a0 What else can we do to move faster?<\/p>\n
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Have you ever tried to move a car or some other heavy object from a dead standstill?\u00a0 It’s much\u00a0harder to steer a car that’s barely moving than one that is already moving at a good rate of\u00a0speed.\u00a0 Likewise, it’s hard …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":44082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-offshoring","category-outsourcing"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/speed.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"David S. Clarke","author_link":"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/author\/david-clarke\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28781,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/28781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Heeft u wel eens geprobeerd een auto of ander zwaar object weg te duwen vanuit stilstand? Het is veel moeilijker een auto te sturen die bijna niet beweegt dan \u00e9\u00e9n die al redelijk hard rijdt. Zo is het ook moeilijk om een zwaar meubelstuk uit een volle winkel te krijgen. Maar als dit soort dingen eenmaal snelheid maken is het lastig ze weer te stoppen!<\/strong><\/p>\n