Every Project has a Biology to It

Move from an Abstract View of Project Management to Concrete Implementation of Proven Methods

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A Company’s ecosystem must model outcome-orientation which is essential for choreographing profitable projects

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Fashioning an expert Project Team requires precise skills, commanding purpose, ardent velocity, collaborative mindset, and a tremendous commitment to every stage and sprint.

Project framework

Take an agile approach to each project starting with a clear objective that builds value and creates in impact. Have a collective mindset to be progressive and adaptive. Aim to perform priority mapping, streamline processes, reduce workflow inefficiencies, utilize data insights and continually iterate and test. These practices will increase the velocity of production, lower costs and drive measurable results.

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Scope

Strategy Requirements

  • Align business objectives and expectations
  • Gauge capacity for deliverables
  • Settle on systems, platforms and technology tools
  • Engage stakeholders on criteria and estimations
  • Reach agreement on allocation of resources
  • Perform customer / user journey mapping
  • Undertake data prep for volume, veracity, variety & velocity
  • Archetype technical design for functional coding and integrations
  • Decide on testing method – hypothesis, p-value, significance, regression
  • Carry out confidence intervals and identify interdependencies
  • Prioritize efficiency, workflow, responses & continuous improvement
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Plan Requirements

  • Define the project’s purpose, goal, budget, timetable and stakeholders
  • Apply value-based and scalable solutions with no long-term lock
  • Build user stories and epics to craft the project scope
  • Outline sprints, iterations, versioning and releases
  • Evaluate machine and labor workloads and non-productive ‘wait’ times
  • Create processes that shorten the timeframe to delivery
  • Design sequential production within framed and filtered activities
  • Theorize to create sample experiments, then push to larger scale trials
  • Actively look for cues and signals that authenticate your assumptions
  • Automate touch points and reduce resource intensities through cloud options
  • Set capacity and load thresholds – be firm on not exceeding them
  • Measure all outcomes, then benchmark, test and analyze results
  • Cost out activities in advance and eliminate non-value add work
  • Allow teams to work smart and autonomously
  • Dedicate time and talent to ongoing testing, proofing and validation
  • What ifs – plan and prepare for expedient pivots and directional change
  • Build in disciplines while still embracing flexibility in practices and performance
More Plan Requirements
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Establish a success pattern

Re-design thinking for agility and shape the culture to be transformative. Overcome the tendency to perform projects in a customary fashion.

  • Requisites
  • Feasibility
  • Methods
  • Parameters
  • Experiences
  • Iterations
  • Outcome
Focus on Value, Business Objectives and Key Results

Focus on Value, Business Objectives and Key Results

Define Specifications and Outcome Requirements

Define Specifications and Outcome Requirements

MoSCoW: Must, Should, Could and Won’t Haves

MoSCoW: Must, Should, Could and Won’t Haves

Build Actionable Tasks Into Incremental Delivery Stages

Build Actionable Tasks Into Incremental Delivery Stages

Weigh Quality Against Time and Cost

Weigh Quality Against Time and Cost

Identify Risk Factors and Potential Obstacles / Blockers

Identify Risk Factors and Potential Obstacles / Blockers

Right Size Your Project

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Projects, business requirements and solutions to a problem must be first analyzed for levels of impact, ease, confidence in outcome, cost factors, delivery timeframe, scalability and long-term viability.

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Data is often the most influential part of a project – serving as a vital driver of decision-making. Managers go into projects unprepared for data use, failing to account for cleansing, standardizing, organizing and applying needed taxonomy and categorization.

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An ambitious project team has several critical characteristics: deadline-driven, collaborative, transparent, supportive, consistent in sprint production, entrenched in testing, open to pivoting and reprioritizing, and hyper committed to achieving the goal.

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Project Mastery and Stamina

Define the path, set expectations and short-term quests, create a flow, adopt ideas, embrace the need for tests, reiterations and directional changes, incent, encourage and align the team, measure performance, and always be ready to serve and support.

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Reinforce the project vision and goal

Empower teams to execute priorities based on value to the business and customer, and on contribution to growth and sustainability

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Planning the Strategy, Scope, Sprints, and Testing will Set the Stage for Project Success

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Preparation of Requirements, Data, Processes, Use Cases, and Systems Criteria is Essential

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Consensus on ROI-Driven Deliverables, Timetable, Capacity and Methodology is Formidable

DIGITAL STRATEGY, GROWTH & TRANSFORMATION

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Break Out of the Status Quo
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Crusade for Change

Essential to business success today is embracing change. A team needs to be open to pivoting, experimenting, and testing new pathways. Leaders must set an agile and innovative course, and encourage teams to ideate and leverage data to hypothesize and test concepts and campaigns. Adoption to change can be challenging and must be looked upon as an iterative process, not an single event.

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