Value creators are the backbone of any platform business, and they are responsible for bringing ideas to life, creating value, and maintaining quality on platforms. Many value creators are hindered in their ability to create value by ineffective operational complexity, resulting in slowing down processes and affecting company earnings. As a business owner, it is important to ensure that your value creators can easily commit their value to a platform to maximize productivity.
If a platform has inefficiencies that hinder a value creator’s ability to commit standalone or integrate with other components, you are losing the opportunities to create value. These inefficiencies on your platform can result from factors such as poor performance, lack of scalability, outdated technology, security vulnerabilities, and compatibility issues. They can affect your productivity by causing problems such as inconsistent results, customer dissatisfaction, confusion, chaos, wasted time, bugs, and maintenance issues. These problems can lower the quality of value on your platform, increase the cost of value creation and delivery, and damage your reputation and customer loyalty. Therefore, it is essential to identify and eliminate the inefficiencies on your platform that prevent you from committing value creation.
One of the world’s largest legal and business news providers hired Praecipio Consulting to standardize SDLC processes and implement Jira, Jira Agile, Jira Service Desk, Confluence, and Stash. In order to ensure their high standard of accuracy, their client required a toolset that allowed for traceability of processes.A multi-million dollar acquisition of their client by an industry leader with multiple successful verticals led to a deterioration of old software that hampered efficiency and prevented normalization among teams. Having used their existing issue-tracking and documentation tool for over twenty years, their client wanted a product that would standardize processes and terms across organizational development while giving executives access to transparency and a large-scale view of their projects. In order to maximize business practices, Praecipio Consulting provided their client with the tools and support necessary to implement the full Atlassian stack successfully. Through their solution, they were able to optimize their client’s development processes, increase oversight and traceability, foster cross-team collaboration, and accelerate development. A full Atlassian stack enabled robust functionality, which provided future scalability and tool expansion across other verticals within their parent company.[2]
The build pipeline is the sequence of steps that transform the created value into platform-ready content. In software development delivery, this typically includes activities such as automated compilation, building, testing, packaging, and deployments. The build pipeline is a critical part of your platform, as it enables you to deliver value to your customers by providing them with functional and reliable value. However, if your build pipeline is inefficient, it can hamper your productivity and value creation. Inefficiencies in the build pipeline can arise from factors such as slow performance, frequent errors, manual interventions, and a lack of automation. These can affect your productivity by causing delays, rework, frustration, and waste. These can also affect value creation by reducing the quality, security, and usability of content on a platform. Therefore, it is important to optimize your build pipeline on your platform to make it efficient for value creators to be productive on them.
Market leaders understand the importance of having an efficient and effective build pipeline on their platforms, as it enables them to deliver value faster and better than their competitors. They are constantly improving their build pipeline by using tools and techniques such as AI, automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous feedback. They are also providing value creators with prebuilt and proven value creation patterns to optimize the delivery of value on their platforms. Value creation patterns are reusable solutions that address common problems or needs in a specific domain or context. They help value creators accelerate their development process by providing them with best practices, guidelines, templates, and examples. By using these patterns, value creators can focus on the core functionality and value proposition of their products, rather than spending time on the technical details and complexities of the build pipeline. By having intelligent analytics and notifications systems in place, they can respond to threats and risks to their platform in real time. Ultimately, it’s about getting a value creator to create value and committing it to a platform.
