Creating and maintaining, for all key stakeholders, high-level visual representations of what is to be developed and how, that is, of a) what “done looks like” and b) of project phases by which the team expects to get done.
The Cynefin Framework is a sense-making device for understanding the sort(s) of environment you and your team/organization may need to make decisions and take action in. Here is a great 8′ video on it by its creator, Dave Snowden.
Nice 27′ video on conceptualizing and managing product backlog. Uses JIRA as an example software platform for managing it “right” and, for conceptualizing it “rIght”, the acronym DEEP – Detailed appropriately, Estimated, Emergent, Prioritized.
Examples are the context diagram and use case diagrams. Such models are very useful strategically. They complement product visions, stories, or value propositions, customer segmentations, customer personae, etc. Also, they can be progressively elaborated into more detailed structural and/or dynamic models. Here is a fine video – 8 minutes or so – on four such […]
Context diagrams represent a project’s product boundaries or “scope”. They model the product at a high level, in its “done” context. They do this by representing only the entities that interact with the product in that context. Thus, they do not represent the parts of the product or its behavior over time. As high level […]
Here is a 4′ introduction to two key constructs in quantitative risk analysis, namely sensitivity analysis and the tornado diagram. Useful slides, basic definitions.
The theme of this useful, results-oriented advice on resolving conflict in projects is “It’s your fault!” Worth a listen (although the format is talking heads and it includes a brief cm).
On this topic, here is a very nice 2′ video. Though done as a CM, it is quite useful.
Check out this nice 3′ video on user story mapping. “User Story Mapping” is a technique agile project teams use to organize product backlogs comprised of user stories. It was developed and popularized by Jeff Patton. This technique is very similar to that of customer journey mapping, which is popular and important for marketing purposes. […]
5′ minute tutorial on a powerful notation for collaborative problem-situation analysis and representation. Originated in Peter Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology (SSM).
Here is an excellent 5/2020, 4 minute post on how to link Product Team and the Product Discovery cycle to Development Team and the Product Delivery cycle! And, for background and more detail, here is a longer 1/2021 article, “Mapping User Stories in Agile”, by the prestigious UX firm NN/g. It compares and contrasts User […]