Effort that is performed on demand in response to a request by a customer, colleague or event.
This type of effort requires an on-call cognitive context, where the person(s) fulfilling the request are available for interruption and immediate queuing of the demand.
The 4P’s refers to projects, products, programs and portfolios in IT
What we mean with we refer to “working ON the business…”
The concise description of a human endeavor, which captures user story(s), workflow(s), feature(s) or capability(s) required to satisfy said endeavor. The “what” is most often articulated by functional practitioners.
What we mean with we refer to “working IN the business…”
The justification for embarking upon an organizational development effort (i.e. to work on the business), which determines the resources and priority allocated to the breadth (the “what“), depth (the “how“) and the urgency (the “when“) of delivering a solution. The “why” is often driven by a combination of stakeholders, including functional practitioners, visionary practitioners and…
The fashioning of technology using machine language, programming languages or infrastructural configurations to serve the utility of a human endeavor. The “how” is most often executed by technical practitioners.
