Outcome Driven Development
Focus on outcomes, not outputs
Benefits of Outcome Driven Development
Customer Satisfaction
Because outcome driven development is informed directly by customer input prior to development, new features and functionality that are rolled out are more likely to deliver tangible value to customers.
More efficient development cycles
With customer feedback as an input in the product development lifecycle - rather than an output - the development process is optimized to reduce the number of iterations required to achieve a product market fit.
Align with teams outside of software
When software teams build features based off customer value, surrounding teams benefit too. Customer inputs inform marketing messaging and positioning, sales will be better equipped to beat the competition, and customer service complaints will decrease.
Challenges of Outcome Driven Development
Redefining team goals
Software teams measured on volume have to redefine what "success" means and shift to a customer-centric approach to development. This means tapping into their user base before building anything to determine which outcome they want to achieve next.
Retaining visibility of the goal
Shifting from volume to value outcomes requires a totally different set of metrics to track. Ensuring the right analytics and dashboards are in place is another consideration for organizations moving to outcome driven development.
Investing in the continuous delivery loop
Outcome driven development means embracing an agile approach to software development, where deployments happen daily, rollout of new features to customers happens gradually, and customer input is an integral part of the overall decision-making process.
Focus on value, not outputs,
with Jira Software
Outcome driven development is all about the value of outcomes over outputs and Jira Software allows teams to take control over exactly what is put in customers' hands.
Feature Flagging
Feature flagging allows teams to roll out new features and functionality gradually to customers, allowing them to move faster and with better control over the value delivered to customers.
Jira Software and Bitbucket
Integrate Jira Software and Bitbucket together and gain insight into real-time build and deployment information in the context of all your other issue data.
Measure what matters
Jira integrates with an assortment of apps and extensions that enable teams to measure the customer impact of the new features they roll out.
Ready to shift from outputs to outcomes?
Raising the flag: The rise of Feature Flagging
We partnered with Rollout.io to dive deep into the world of feature flagging.
5 tips for getting started with Feature Flags
This blog shares everything you need to utilize feature flags in your outcome-driven organization.
Create continuous visibility with Bitbucket Pipelines
Check out how Bitbucket Pipelines and Jira Software gives you continuous visibility from backlog to release.
