Look beyond the programme you are engineering. Take a company-wide view.
Here are six concrete suggestions:
- Use existing content as the foundations and build on those foundations.
- Limit the number of models. Avoid the temptation to add a new one each time you launch a new programme.
- Organise a clean up. Do an inventory. Categorise your models according to these three categories: ‘essentials’, ‘nice to haves’, ‘not to haves’ and take action accordingly.
- Steal with pride. If you don’t have it, look elsewhere. Don’t re-invent the wheel just for the sake of it.
- Use the same models and techniques on all hierarchical levels.
- Use the same vocabulary. Make a list, validate it and most importantly, stick to it.
