¿Cómo miden y mejoran el impacto de sus esfuerzos de desarrollo tecnológico?

Here's a two-pronged approach to measuring and improving the impact of technology development: Define Goals: Align metrics with project goals. (e.g., user adoption, efficiency gains, cost reduction) Track Key Metrics: Use quantitative data (usage statistics, error rates) and qualitative feedback (surveys, user interviews) Analyze Results: Identify areas where technology falls short of goals. Iterate and Refine: Based on analysis, refine features, adjust algorithms, or improve user experience. By continuously measuring and iterating, you ensure your technology delivers the desired impact.

From my perspective, the key to impactful technology development lies in continuously aligning your project goals with user feedback. It’s crucial to adapt and refine your objectives as you learn more about the needs and experiences of your users. This approach not only keeps your project relevant but also maximizes its impact, ensuring that the technology you develop truly benefits those it's intended to serve.

In my experience, before receiving or sharing any information with stakeholders, it's important to establish a relationship with them. Then they will be more open to contact and provide valuable information. We are humans first, then we are business people.

Keeping your stakeholders involved through the process of technology development is crucial. What makes me say so is the fact that gathering opinions and insights of people invested in your business might help highlight areas, which you at an individual level could have completely missed. At the end of the day what really counts is the joint effort.

In my opinion, Stakeholder engagement is important for successful technology development. It ensures diverse perspectives and helps to tackle challenges. Regular communication with stakeholders fosters collaboration and builds trust, leading to better outcomes.

Each project should have its own personal approach, which depends on the goals and budgets of the stakeholder, as well as the type of project. For example, Lean methodology justifies itself well in production, Waterfall in large government projects, and Agile, Scrum, Kanban in IT.

As of my experience, Implementing agile and lean practices helps teams stay responsive to change and focused on delivering customer value efficiently. These approaches encourage progress, continuous learning, and waste reduction, leading to more effective technology development.

In my practice, retrospective sessions and feedback from clients work best. No one can tell you better what went wrong and what you need to work better than your employees and clients. Such feedback sessions should be done after every major release.

When you start learning new technologies or new concepts in the existing technology, it's OK to fail when you are trying to implement something on your own for the first time. But next time when you are trying to make an attempt, this time you are not trying from scratch instead you are trying from your past experience and eventually you will succeed. When you succeed, appreciate yourself no matter whatever simpler it is and when you achieve something, share your experience with your peers and the community so that they also get motivated and learn from you. As the saying goes "Knowledge shared is knowledge squared."

Your technology development efforts may not always bear fruits as desired. This is where one must show courage and refrain from getting bogged down. Just like you are open to the idea of learning from your successes. You must be equally open to seeing failures as learning lessons and draw inspiration from them.

I have experienced that learning from both failures and successes is important to refining your technology development process and enhancing future outcomes. Accepting a culture of continuous improvement not only benefits your team but also contributes to broader industry knowledge.

Metrics established at the initial stage of project planning best show progress toward achieving a goal. But it’s not always possible to measure everything in numbers, so it’s worth considering providing questionnaires to end users of the product. Based on the feedback and metrics received, we can clearly understand whether we are moving in the right direction.

TLDR: Don't overlook metrics and reviews that identify opportunities to improve how effective your ongoing end-to-end development effort is. Technology development might not be an end in itself, but it is a craft you can hone. I'm absolutely here for checking in against customer value and scope but there are 'internal' costs to the development effort you can optimize or engineer out. YMMV but some top-of-mind examples in case they prompt others to contribute; minimum bar for requirement maturity, minimize time to feedback, automation of repetitive tasks, choices that simplify ongoing development, well understood quality standards and constraints, protected development time etc.

I suggest evaluation ensures that your technology development efforts are genuinely creating positive change and delivering value. By regularly assessing outcomes, you can make informed decisions and address any unintended consequences effectively.