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- 1. Using Flow-based Roadmaps &Options Cat Swetel & Matt Barcomb @catswetel @mattbarcomb
- 2. How we’ll spendour time Flow-based roadmapping Options thinking Example metrics
- 3. How it usuallystarts
- 4. How it usuallyends
- 5. Planning for mass construction Howmuch will it cost? When will it be done?
- 6. Planning for research &development Should we start? Should we keep going?
- 7. Routine manufacturing Complex manufacturing Physical product dev. Spectrum of knowablestuff Scientific research Mass construction Software product dev. Enterprise ERP impl. How knowable is the domain Known responses to unknowns Relationship between cause & effect
- 8. Shift the focus Primarilyfocus on understanding benefit. Evaluate risk and opportunity costs. Learn just enough about costs to choose to start.
- 9. Team A Team B Astarting structure
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- 11. Team A Team B Readiness Infras On Horizon Coming Soon Up Next Current Goal In Use Time-based flow
- 12. Team A Team B Readiness Infras On Horizon Coming Soon Up Next Current Goal In Use HBD Here be dragons!
- 13. Team A Team B Readiness Infras On Horizon Coming Soon Up Next Current Goal In Use HBD 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 Define explicit policies
- 14. Team A Team B Readiness Infras On Horizon Coming Soon Up Next Current Goal In Use HBD 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 12 22 Limit work in progress
- 15. Cadence and Roadmap structure Yourbusiness Your industry Your market
- 16. But what goesIN a flow-based roadmap? Projects Features OPTIONS! MVPs Epics
- 17. Framing an option Option Name: Testable Customer & Problem Hypothesis: Measurable Organizational Benefit: Results & Measures: Starting/Stopping Triggers: Assumptions & Dependencies:
- 18. Your roadmap as options Likea sales funnel Farther down in the funnel, greater investment
- 19. Your roadmap as options IDEATION PROTOTYPE PILOT PRODUCTION -‐Not yet validated -‐Future -‐Validated -‐Now
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- 21. Tomorrow’s Core Business Today’s Core Business Keepthe lights on Focus Low risk Big investment Lots of small, high risk/high reward bets Pay less to obtain information early
- 22. 70 / 20/ 10 Time: 70% core business 20% related projects 10% unrelated to core business
- 23. Options MVPs/Projects are options triggers:starting/stopping heuristics (context, events, rules of thumb) information value of options Options: start/stop heuristics
- 24. Starting or StoppingTriggers - 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
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- 26. Roadmap metrics: cost ofdelay How much would you pay for more time? How long will the option have value, and at what rate does the value decay?
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- 28. Roadmap metrics Cycle Timeand/or Lead Time Lead Time Cycle Time Team A Team B Readiness Infras On Horizon Coming Soon Up Next Current Goal In Use HBD DISCLAIMER: This is just an example.
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- 30. Roadmap metrics: risk andexperimentation
- 31. Transitioning to flow-basedroadmaps Starting a flow-based roadmap Framing options Information value of options Metrics and measures for roadmaps What we covered
- 32. Questions? Cat Swetel MattBarcomb @catswetel @mattbarcomb