Planning
Ref:
- command center a.k.a war room
- Project management office (PMO): group/department that defines and maintains standards for project management within the organization
Goal Setting
People behave differently if have a goal
Bad Goal: Using Company Value/Job Description/To Do list/Long Narrative like novel
Good Goal: What, When, How, Why + Measurement + right wording (Using Active Verb)
Is it hard to implement Goal? Align between business vs individual.
- The why <> What matters to the individual
- The what <> What are their aspirations and motivations?
- The how <> What are their key strengths
How to get good performance? Challenge by stretching and affirming the goal
- Vertical stretch goal: existing activities to new heights
- Horizontal stretch goal: inspire people to take different/broader responsible
Best practice to challenge people:
- Celebrate past success
- Have the right mindset
- Use helpful languages
Goal is dynamic; be flexing.
Backlog/Story/Task
Ref:
Specific
– target a specific area for improvement.Measurable
– quantify or at least suggest an indicator of progress.Assignable
– specify who will do it.Realistic
– state the results that can be achieved realistically, given available resources.Time-related
– specify when the result(s) can be achieved.
INVEST mnemonic: Characteristic of good PBI (Product Backlog Item)
Independent
– The PBI should be self-contained, in a way that there is no inherent dependency on another PBI.Negotiable
– PBIs are not explicit contracts and should leave space for discussion.Valuable
– A PBI must deliver value to the stakeholders.Estimable
– You must always be able to estimate the size of a PBI.Small
- PBIs should not be so big as to become impossible to plan/task/prioritize with a certain level of accuracy.Testable
- The PBI or its related description must provide the necessary information to make test development possible.
Prioritization
ICE Method: Features prioritization model (Impact x Confidence x Ease)
Impact
demonstrates how much your idea will positively affect the key metric you’re trying to improve.Confidence
shows how sure you are about Impact. It is also about ease of implementation in some way.Ease
is about the easiness of implementation. It is an estimation of how much effort and resources are required to implement this idea.
- Must have
- Should have
- Could have
- Won’t have (this time)
Make it Happen
RACI –> Tool for assigning responsibility
- R = Responsible = The doer
- A = Accountable = The buck stops here
- C = Consulted = The contributor
- I = Informed = The recipient
Method delivery using SCRUM