The 3 P's for a fresh start in 2014

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


PersonalCore Values







Job First (WSJF)


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?





Competition Self-Realization Solitude ClarityCommunication Innovation Quality Accuracy








Winning Structure Time LoveProductivity Knowledge Curiosity Duty


What are your bottom values?





Competition Self-Realization Solitude Clarity

Communication Innovation Quality Accuracy








Winning Structure Time Love

Productivity Knowledge Curiosity Duty


Core Values Tool

Iterative pairwise comparison Ranked list of values

Personal Pruning


PersonalCore Values







Job First (WSJF)


AnalysisOpportunity

Mapping

Time Management: Focus-

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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


PersonalCore Values







Job First (WSJF)


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


PersonalCore Values







Job First (WSJF)


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


PersonalCore Values







Job First (WSJF)


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


PersonalCore Values







Job First (WSJF)


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


PersonalCore Values







Job First (WSJF)


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


PersonalCore Values







Job First (WSJF)


AnalysisOpportunity

Mapping

Lifecycle Management

Where is your product?

© Pivotal Product Management, LLC

Lifecycle Management

Boston Consulting GroupGrowth-Share Matrix Technology Adoption Life Cycle


Product Priming


PersonalCore Values







Job First (WSJF)


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


PersonalCore Values







Job First (WSJF)


AnalysisOpportunity

Mapping

Use Case Diagrams

Process Pruning


PersonalCore Values







Job First (WSJF)


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)


Process Priming


PersonalCore Values







Job First (WSJF)


AnalysisOpportunity

Mapping

Opportunity Mapping

THANK YOU!

Q & A

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The 3 P's for a fresh start in 2014