the 3 p's for a fresh start in 2014
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The 3 P's for a fresh start in 2014" 1. Perspective 2. Prune 3. PrimeTRANSCRIPT
The Three P's Of Your New Year
January 16th, 2014
Start Fresh
• Perspective — it's a great time to step back and re-gain perspective on what matters to you.
• Pruning — is it time to "prune" your products, processes, and portfolios?
• Priming — a new year is a great time to "prime the pump" and refresh your personal brand.
Here’s What We’ll Cover
Perspective Pruning Priming
PersonalCore Values
ExerciseTime Management
Relationship Management
Professional STAR StoriesReputation
ManagementNetworking
Product SWOT AnalysisLifecycle
ManagementWeighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process Use Case DiagramsValue Stream
AnalysisOpportunity
Mapping
Personal Perspective
Perspective Pruning Priming
PersonalCore Values
ExerciseTime Management
Relationship Management
Professional STAR StoriesReputation
ManagementNetworking
Product SWOT AnalysisLifecycle
ManagementWeighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process Use Case DiagramsValue Stream
AnalysisOpportunity
Mapping
Core Values Exercise
• Your core values are simply what matter most to you.
• When your work is aligned with your core values, you find natural creativity, energy, and passion.
• When your work is aligned with what you don’t value, everyday is a demoralizing slog to work that bores or frustrates you.
What matters to you?
Balance Vitality Strength Leisure
Cooperation Wisdom Challenge Humor
Teamwork Spirituality Diversity Service
Excitement Integrity Autonomy Health
Competition Self-Realization Solitude Clarity
Communication Innovation Quality Accuracy
Wealth Power Honesty Justice
Respect Independence Freedom Commitment
Uniqueness Advancement Adventure Creativity
Excellence Equity Relationship Fun
Equality Tranquility Security Risk
Religion Critical Helping Others Prestige
Mastery Belonging Effectiveness Humility
Winning Structure Time Love
Productivity Knowledge Curiosity Duty
Achievement Growth Family Beauty
What are your top values?
Balance Vitality Strength Leisure
Cooperation Wisdom Challenge Humor
Teamwork Spirituality Diversity Service
Excitement Integrity Autonomy Health
Competition Self-Realization Solitude ClarityCommunication Innovation Quality Accuracy
Wealth Power Honesty Justice
Respect Independence Freedom Commitment
Uniqueness Advancement Adventure Creativity
Excellence Equity Relationship Fun
Equality Tranquility Security Risk
Religion Critical Helping Others Prestige
Mastery Belonging Effectiveness Humility
Winning Structure Time LoveProductivity Knowledge Curiosity Duty
Achievement Growth Family Beauty
What are your bottom values?
Balance Vitality Strength Leisure
Cooperation Wisdom Challenge Humor
Teamwork Spirituality Diversity Service
Excitement Integrity Autonomy Health
Competition Self-Realization Solitude Clarity
Communication Innovation Quality Accuracy
Wealth Power Honesty Justice
Respect Independence Freedom Commitment
Uniqueness Advancement Adventure Creativity
Excellence Equity Relationship Fun
Equality Tranquility Security Risk
Religion Critical Helping Others Prestige
Mastery Belonging Effectiveness Humility
Winning Structure Time Love
Productivity Knowledge Curiosity Duty
Achievement Growth Family Beauty
Core Values Tool
Iterative pairwise comparison Ranked list of values
Personal Pruning
Perspective Pruning Priming
PersonalCore Values
ExerciseTime Management
Relationship Management
Professional STAR StoriesReputation
ManagementNetworking
Product SWOT AnalysisLifecycle
ManagementWeighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process Use Case DiagramsValue Stream
AnalysisOpportunity
Mapping
Time Management: Focus-
I Car
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+
Evangelize! Do!
Stop! Delegate!
- They Care +
Time Management: Tasks
• Always know the 1 thing that must get done today
• Stop multitasking
• Group similar tasks into manageable chunks
• Save brainless tasks for when you have less brain
• Set deadlines
• Constrain the amount of time you may spend on tasks
• Respect deadlines, constraints, and limits
• Record how you spend each day in small increments throughout the day
• Review how you’re spending time weekly
Time Management: Artifact
Time Management: Meetings
• Don’t go to meetings if you don’t know why you should be there
• Tell participants what their meeting roles are, and don’t invite people without roles
• Schedule an important meeting early in the day so time leading up to it isn’t wasted
• Group meetings into blocks to give chunks of time back to the team
Time Management: Attitude
• Respect your time and make it respected
• Respect Flow
• Be present
• Minimize context switching
• Good enough means not perfect
• Ship Minimum Viable Products (MVP)
• Iterate
• Reward yourself for intense sprints with ‘procrastination’ activities like Facebook and Twitter
• Failure is a critical part of the learning process
Personal Priming
Perspective Pruning Priming
PersonalCore Values
ExerciseTime Management
Relationship Management
Professional STAR StoriesReputation
ManagementNetworking
Product SWOT AnalysisLifecycle
ManagementWeighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process Use Case DiagramsValue Stream
AnalysisOpportunity
Mapping
Relationship Management: #kbmf
Have coffee with the person with whom you least want to have coffee.
Corporate version ProductCamp version Translation
Care Get naked Be presentBe vulnerableBe open to being wrongSet aside your ego
Connect Fall in love Be genuinely and authentically invested in the other person’s positive outcomesEmpathize with themShow them you have their back
Collaborate Get dirty Work with them Compromise Focus on the things that matterAllow for imperfection
Consistently Rinse and repeat Don’t ever stop
Professional Perspective
Perspective Pruning Priming
PersonalCore Values
ExerciseTime Management
Relationship Management
Professional STAR StoriesReputation
ManagementNetworking
Product SWOT AnalysisLifecycle
ManagementWeighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process Use Case DiagramsValue Stream
AnalysisOpportunity
Mapping
STAR Stories
• Free-write everything you can remember about last year (3 pages)• Go back and organize into categories
• Buff out the holes row by row• Prioritize and rank the stories even failures can be great stories• These stories become the bullets of your resume, LinkedIn profile
and your interview prep• Update your resume and LinkedIn!
Situation Task Action Result
Background or context for why this story is special
What was the jobthat needed doing?The obstacle that needed overcoming?
What did you do about it?
What can you claim as a result?
Professional Pruning
Perspective Pruning Priming
PersonalCore Values
ExerciseTime Management
Relationship Management
Professional STAR StoriesReputation
ManagementNetworking
Product SWOT AnalysisLifecycle
ManagementWeighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process Use Case DiagramsValue Stream
AnalysisOpportunity
Mapping
Reputation Management
• Google yourself
• Look at the first 10 pages
• If there’s any content you don’t want there, remove it or ask to have it removed
• If you can’t remove it, publish and promote positive things to push the bad stuff down in the search results
Professional Priming
Perspective Pruning Priming
PersonalCore Values
ExerciseTime Management
Relationship Management
Professional STAR StoriesReputation
ManagementNetworking
Product SWOT AnalysisLifecycle
ManagementWeighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process Use Case DiagramsValue Stream
AnalysisOpportunity
Mapping
Networking
• Networking is NOT schmoozing
• Networking is building relationships
• Be persistent and present in your network, both offline and online
• Who are your pillars?
• Who is ‘at risk’?
• Who are you avoiding?
Product Perspective
Perspective Pruning Priming
PersonalCore Values
ExerciseTime Management
Relationship Management
Professional STAR StoriesReputation
ManagementNetworking
Product SWOT AnalysisLifecycle
ManagementWeighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process Use Case DiagramsValue Stream
AnalysisOpportunity
Mapping
SWOT Analysis
Analyze ProductSTRENGTHS
Internally focusedAnything that the product does wellAny internal factors that lead to its success
WEAKNESSES
Internally focusedAnything that the product does poorly or not at all that it should doAny internal factors that lead to its failure
OPPORTUNITIES
Externally focusedNew markets, technologies, trends, etc.
THREATS
Externally focusedNew competitors, bad economies, political strife, etc.
Propose StrategiesOPPORTUNITIES THREATS
STR
ENG
THS
SO:How can strengths
help us realize opportunities?
ST:How can strengths be
used to combatthreats?
WEA
KN
ESSE
S WO:How can we use opportunities to
mitigate our weaknesses?
WT:How can we prepare
for worst-case scenarios?
Product Pruning
Perspective Pruning Priming
PersonalCore Values
ExerciseTime Management
Relationship Management
Professional STAR StoriesReputation
ManagementNetworking
Product SWOT AnalysisLifecycle
ManagementWeighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process Use Case DiagramsValue Stream
AnalysisOpportunity
Mapping
Lifecycle Management
Where is your product?
© Pivotal Product Management, LLC
Lifecycle Management
Boston Consulting GroupGrowth-Share Matrix Technology Adoption Life Cycle
© Pivotal Product Management, LLC
Product Priming
Perspective Pruning Priming
PersonalCore Values
ExerciseTime Management
Relationship Management
Professional STAR StoriesReputation
ManagementNetworking
Product SWOT AnalysisLifecycle
ManagementWeighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process Use Case DiagramsValue Stream
AnalysisOpportunity
Mapping
Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)
• Lean way to prioritize the next couple sprints of your backlog in other words, this is a new continuous process, not an annual one-off task
User Value + Time Value + RR&OE ValueWSJF = ----------------------------------------------------
Job Size (duration)
*RR&OE = Risk Reduction & Opportunity Enablement
• Use Fibonacci Sequence to rank features across values: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34…
• Most people start having difficulty comparing more than 20 items, so keep the list short
FeaturesUserValue
TimeValue
RR&OEValue
JobSize
WSJF
Feature D 5 3 2 1 10.0
Feature B 2 1 5 2 4.0
Feature A 1 2 8 3 3.7
Feature E 8 8 1 5 3.4
Feature C 3 5 3 8 1.4
Process Perspective
Perspective Pruning Priming
PersonalCore Values
ExerciseTime Management
Relationship Management
Professional STAR StoriesReputation
ManagementNetworking
Product SWOT AnalysisLifecycle
ManagementWeighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process Use Case DiagramsValue Stream
AnalysisOpportunity
Mapping
Use Case Diagrams
Process Pruning
Perspective Pruning Priming
PersonalCore Values
ExerciseTime Management
Relationship Management
Professional STAR StoriesReputation
ManagementNetworking
Product SWOT AnalysisLifecycle
ManagementWeighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process Use Case DiagramsValue Stream
AnalysisOpportunity
Mapping
Value Stream Analysis
Submit to product council
IdeaAssign
PMApprove
Submit business
case
OpptyAnalysis
Assign dev
teamApprove
To verification
Design, Build Test
To Operations
Validation Gain valueLaunch
Value
Waste
Value
Waste
Efficiency = Total Value/
(Total Value+TotalWaste)
© Pivotal Product Management, LLC
Process Priming
Perspective Pruning Priming
PersonalCore Values
ExerciseTime Management
Relationship Management
Professional STAR StoriesReputation
ManagementNetworking
Product SWOT AnalysisLifecycle
ManagementWeighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process Use Case DiagramsValue Stream
AnalysisOpportunity
Mapping
Opportunity Mapping
THANK YOU!
Q & A