Serverless Craic Ep56 The Value Flywheel Effect Introduction - Chapter 1

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The Value Flywheel Effect is a pattern seen in organisations where business strategy and technology strategy align, leading to more sales and growth.
The hosts discuss the concept of the value flywheel effect, its origins, and how it applies to creating software for customers.
Dave Anderson and Mark McCann discuss the four phases of the value flywheel process, with three principles for each phase, aimed at building momentum and sustainability in organizations and teams.
Clarity of purpose is the first principle, visualised as a data-informed Northstar, helping teams understand their core user needs and improve situational awareness.
Software development principles, including focus, clarity, and understanding the market.
Michael O'Reilly and Dave Anderson discuss the importance of aligning individual and team goals with the overall organisational Northstar.
They emphasise the need for a clear problem statement and direction to focus attention and achieve success.
Michael O'Reilly and Dave Anderson discuss the importance of focusing on time to value in product discovery, rather than just time to market.
They emphasise the need to map the market and clarify the business's purpose, rather than just focusing on individual silos or software pieces.
Dave Anderson looks at the importance of understanding a company's strategy and market position, even for software engineering teams.
Mark McCann suggests that junior engineers can gain valuable insights by analysing a company's website, LinkedIn, job postings, and press releases to understand their competitors and industry landscape.
Engineering team structure, process, and enablement.
Michael O'Reilly: Embrace diverse teams for success, learn from failures.
Mark McCann: Socio-technical systems crucial for successful teams.
Michael O'Reilly and Dave Anderson discuss the importance of enabling and empowering engineers in High Performance Engineering, including creating a generative environment and mapping the organisation for enablement.
Mark McCann adds that removing friction points and impediments is crucial, including developer enablement, handoffs, and carving off certain things to encourage smaller approaches.
Prioritising tech stack, offloading non-differentiating tasks, and mapping solutions to customer needs.
Focus on delivering value, not just building code.
Dave Anderson emphasises the importance of prioritizing tech stack and deciding what to move to the right, while Michael O'Reilly and Mark McCann discuss the benefits of mapping out the tech stack and identifying key differentiators for the business.
Modernising software development and delivery using AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Dave Anderson looks at the importance of preventing problems before they occur in software development.
Mark McCann highlights the need to understand the ecosystem and constraints when implementing continuous delivery.
Mark McCann: Celebrate successes in fraud prevention, reward employees for going above and beyond.
Dave Anderson: Keep a low carbon footprint, measure efficiency and sustainability in cloud workloads.
Mark McCann and Dave Anderson discuss the importance of well-architected frameworks for cloud migration and sustainability.
They highlight the 12 pillars of well-architected, including map emerging value and spot inertia, to help organizations identify areas for

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