Defining 10x

• 10x differences in productivity and quality
• 10x principles

10X PRINCIPLE: AVOID MINUS-X ENGINEERING

• Classic mistakes
• Brute force quality
• Multi-Tasking
• Typical Minus-x Project
• Your Minus-x Project

Basic Engineering

• Mastery of fundamentals and excellent execution
• Technical fundamentals
• Technical management fundamentals
• Quality fundamentals
• Your organization's bare essentials

10x Principle: SEEK GROUND TRUTH

• Daily build & smoke test
• Project tracking
• Communicating status
• Root cause analysis
• Change control–agile and plan driven
• Gates and checkpoints
• Evidence-based case study

10X PRINCIPLE: BASE DECISIONS ON DATA

• Plan-Do-Check-Act
• Measurement
• Iteration and incrementalism
• How much agility is enough?
• Customer involvement
• Power of interactive workshops

10x Principle: Tailor the Solution to the Problem

• Streamlining work with intellectual phase profiles
• Phase and activity variations
• Life cycle models
• Efficient information capture
• Documents and digital cameras
• Toolboxes

10x Principle:SET DIRECTION

Project Direction

• Project charter
• Vision statements

10x Principle: SET DIRECTION (cont.)

Feature Selection

• Pareto analysis
• T-Shirt sizing
• Rolling wave planning
• Product backlog

10x Principle: Attack Uncertainty

• Responses to uncertainty
• Risk management
• Accurate estimates
• Uncertainty and iteration

10X PRINCIPLE: Minimize UNINTENTIONAL REWORK

• Why would any rework be intentional?
• Early defect detection
• Defect removal rates for specific techniques
• Comparison of iterative and sequential defect removal effectiveness
• Formal inspections
• Test first coding
• Quality planning

10x Principle: GROW Capability

Enhance Individual Capability

• Senior staff
• Professional development
• Recruiting and retention

Leverage High Performance Teams

• Effect of team size
• Team structures
• Intact and ad hoc teams
• Collaborative construction
• Design standards, coding standards, and other standards

Productive Environment

• Thinking space
• Information sharing
• Work environment (work hours, signing up, voluntary overtime)

Summary and Conclusions

• 10x case studies