{"id":1151,"date":"2020-04-07T01:03:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T23:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neovita.com\/thoughts\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2020-04-07T01:50:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T23:50:09","slug":"the-joy-of-delivery-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/the-joy-of-delivery-management\/","title":{"rendered":"The joy of delivery management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At EIDU I spent the first half of 2019 being the Berlin based glue between the product managers (based in Nairobi) and some of the developers, designers and content creators (based in Berlin). I did what Marty Cagan calls <a href=\"https:\/\/svpg.com\/the-delivery-manager-role\/\">delivery management<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A unique thing about EIDU is that all work is voluntary for all employees. No-one tells the developers or designers what to do. They all choose to take on work \u2013 or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, on top of what Marty describes as delivery management, my work also included convincing my colleagues to participate in the work that I and the product managers wanted to get done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I quite liked helping the product managers by breaking down the epic into stories, figuring out which roles were needed, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what really got my heart pumping was to work with my fantastic colleagues to help them do their work. I rewrote stories. I organized standups. I baked cookies. And my colleagues chose to participate in the work with great energy, knowledge and passion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a true joy to work with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back on the first half of 2019 at EIDU I feel happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,38,3],"tags":[],"series":[40],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-process","category-product-delivery","category-relation","series-skills"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Sumikkogurashi.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}