During your elephant exposure, you will have surfaced some problems with how you are currently delivering software. You will also start to consider the problems within your culture, environment, and the behaviors being exhibited.
The presumption here is that the problems identified are the commonplace issues related to most software delivery processes within most businesses around the globe. These will include some of the following:
- Waste from having too many handover and decision points in the process
- Waste due to unnecessary wait time between steps
- Many software changes are packaged up into large, complex big bang releases
- Large and infrequent releases breed an environment for escaped defects and bugs and mistrust between those delivering change and those supporting it
- Releases are seen as something to dread rather than a positive opportunity for change...