using flow based road mapping and options
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How it’s all connected
Team Workflow & Measurement
Collaborative Specification & Decomposition
TDD ATDD
Test Design Cont. Integration Cont. Deployment
Improving Intentionally
Visual Program
Coordination
Flow-based Portfolios & Road Mapping
Strategy Design
Strategy Deployment
People-focused Talent Development
Service-oriented Products & Projects
Service-driven Sales & Marketing
Collaborative Decision Making & Prioritization
Value-based Organization Design
Pragmatic Product Design
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What we’ll cover today
Flow-based road mapping
Portfolio of options
Key process metrics
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How itusuallystarts
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How itusuallyends
“Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.”
- George Box
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Planning formass construction
How much will it cost?When will it be done?
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Planning forresearch & development
Should we start?Should we keep going?
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Spectrum of knowable stuff
Routine manufacturing
Complex manufacturing
Physical product dev.
Scientific research
Mass construction
Software product dev.
Enterprise ERP impl.
Knowable upfront details
Knowable responses to risks
Knowable links between cause & effect
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Shift the focus
Primarily focus on understanding benefit.
Evaluate risk and opportunity costs.
Learn just enough aboutcosts to choose to start.
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A starting structure
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Team B
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Readiness & Support
Readiness
Support
Team A
Team B
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Time-based flow
Readiness
On Horizon
Coming Soon
Up Next
Current Goal
In Use
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Team B
Support
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Here be dragons!
Readiness
On Horizon
Coming Soon
Up Next
Current Goal
In UseHBD
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Support
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Define explicit policies
Readiness
On Horizon
Coming Soon
Up Next
Current Goal
In UseHBD
things we do now and again for reasons
things we do now and again for reasons
things we do now and again for reasons
things we do now and again for reasons
things we do now and again for reasons
things we do now and again for reasons
Team A
Team B
Support
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Limit work in progress
Readiness
On Horizon
Coming Soon
Up Next
Current Goal
In UseHBD
things we do now and again for reasons
things we do now and again for reasons
things we do now and again for reasons
things we do now and again for reasons
things we do now and again for reasons
things we do now and again for reasons
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Team B
Support
Activity:What are your dragons?
Everything else the organization needs to deploy customer-ready software.
Activity:What are your
explicit policies?
What makes work ready?What needs validating?
What surprises are there?
Activity:Turning dragons
into readiness & support
Who can you talk to?When can they be engaged?
How to refine iteratively?
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Cadence forRoadmap structure
Your business
Your industry
Your market
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But what goes IN a flow-based roadmap?
ProjectsFeatures
OPTIONS!
MVPs Epics
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Something you *could* do
Things you have a choice *between*
Something you choose with *intention*
What is an option?
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- duration - seasonality - stakeholder feedback - govt. policy - major biz activity - competition shift - media/PR event - market shift - technology shift - employee shift - major social incident - better options
Triggering options
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Progressive elaboration
Initial loose frame
Flesh out via explicit policies
Invest more as you go
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Information valueof options
Many small asynchronous bets
Few large stable growth bets
Mix your options like a portfolio
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An optionframing canvas
Option Name & Date:
Testable Improvement & Customer Hypothesis:
Measurable Organizational Benefit:
Expected Results & Metrics: Starting/Stopping Triggers:
Assumptions & Dependencies:
Activity:Roll your own option
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Team A
Team B
Readiness
Infras
On Horizon
Coming Soon
Up Next
Current Goal
In Use
Metrics: Roadmap Churn
20% 50% 80% 95%
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Metrics: Lead/Cycle Time
Lead TimeCycle Time
Team ATeam BReadinessInfras
On Horizon
Coming Soon
Up Next
Current Goal
In UseHBD
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Metrics: Forecasting
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Transitioning to flow-based roadmaps
What we covered
Starting a flow-based roadmap
Framing options
Metrics and measures for roadmaps
Information value of options
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