Constructs are knowledge assets – pieces of project know-how. They are ideas that have been built over time and found to be useful in project work. A given construct may be a general mindset, a specific concept, a method, a techniques, and/or an artifact.
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 […]
Good 5′ explanation and slidedeck relating to the job of understanding stakeholders for project purposes. Very important at the front end of most any project, but particularly those developing their products via a plan-driven approach.
Lots of good content and links in this short video on a key topic for agile PM and product management. (Though some of the production decisions can be a bit distracting).
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. […]
Here’s a nice 3 minute explanation of “payback period”. It includes some context and a useful worked example. Organizations typically have more ideas about projects they might like to do than resources to do them all. So, to decide which one(s) to actually initiate, they typically compare candidate projects in terms of business case and […]
Nice post listing 27 of them.