Weekly wrap-up #8

A weekly summary of posts I've published on Focus on outcomes, the newsletter for Software Product Leaders seeking to be outcome-oriented.

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This week’s posts

• Outcome thinking applied to estimation (TLDR; its mostly waste) Most effort estimating software development is waste. Here's why and where our effort is better spent.

• The Principle of Least Astonishment and how it relates to outcomes-thinking Just because it can be done should always be balanced with should it be done. Thinking about what you are trying to achieve holistically can help detect when these are in conflict.

• Adaptively plan to conquer dauntingly ambitious goals. When replacing legacy apps actively used by millions of job seekers, where do you begin? Here's how we used adaptive planning to move even when the path was uncertain.

• How we arrived at focusing on outcomes At SEEK Asia, with the situation we faced, it was obvious we must focus on the outcome to succeed. Here's what happened.

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