thriving in a competitive marketplace
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Thriving in a Competitive Marketplace
Johanna RothmanNew: Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects
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What Does it Mean to Thrive?
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Flourish
Grow vigorously
Realize a goal despite
circumstance
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What Does it Take to Thrive?
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People
Quality
Product
Purpose or Vision
Money
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In the Past
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Shareholders
EmployeesCustomers© 2011 Johanna Rothman
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If You Want to Thrive
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Shareholders
EmployeesCustomers
Community
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A Spiky World
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Ideas & Values Shape Our Products
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Ideas and Values...
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Do you believe the world is flat or spiky?
Do you believe the organization stands alone or is a
corporate citizen?
Do you believe the organization works for its
shareholders or its employees or its community?
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There is No One Right Answer
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Some Local Stories...
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Herman Miller
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A better world
This is at the heart of Herman Miller and the real reason why many of us come to work every day.
We contribute to a better world by pursuing sustainability and environmental wisdom. ...
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Steelcase
We design for social, economic and environmental
sustainability.
Sustainability is our lens for innovation.
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Bissell
BISSELL's commitment to sustainability is an extension of
our rich history of innovation and continuous
improvement.
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One of Our Sponsors
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Other Sponsors Share Community Values
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Sometimes, It’s Government Intervention
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Changed the want ads in 1971
Changed employment applications in 1975
Fascinating consequences for the world of work
Look around you...
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Every Single Time We Work for the Good of the Greater Community, We
All Benefit
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What Can You Do?
“But, JR, I’m just a ___ . What can I do?”
Personal courage
Work as if the world is spiky and flat
Organization is a corporate citizen
Organization shares responsibility with the community
Unless you are a senior manager, take small steps and be
happy with them. I want you to keep your job.
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Some Constraints Assist Innovation; Over-Constraining the Problem Does
Not
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False Constraints that Damage the Ability to Thrive
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Multitasking
“Do More with Less”
All symptoms of
management debt, of not
managing the project
portfolio
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Which Constraints Assist Innovation?
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Those that assist the flow of ideas
Those that create more quality in the product
Technical and management leadership
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Because Those Constraints Appeal to Our Mastery, Purpose & Autonomy
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A Competitive Marketplace
Demands new ideas
Demands quality
Allows for serendipity
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Remember Moore’s Chasm
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Some Ideas
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Manage Your Project Portfolio
Eliminate multitasking
Decide which project is #1, #2, #3 for now
Iterate on that decision periodically
Don’t be afraid to change your mind as projects deliver
Because it doesn’t matter how many projects you start. It
matters how many projects you finish
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Create a Diverse Team
Cross-functional diverse
team of diverse background
Diversity in
Domain expertise
Personality
If no one knows they can’t
do it, they will
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Use Agile or Lean Where You Can
Ideas are key to thriving
Fail fast
Use timeboxes to experiment
Consider kanban to move features through
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Bring in New Ideas
Talk to people outside your small group
Cross-pollinate
Get your creative juices flowing and see where the
serendipity leads you...
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Consider Your Community
Who is your customer?
Consider your community as part of your customer
base
Consider shared value as one of your corporate values
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Don’t Allow Time for Technical Debt
With real competition, you need to test products or
prototypes not junk
Do you know what done means?
Acceptance criteria on features
Release criteria for releases
Developers and testers work together
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Collaborate as Teams
Market competition means no time for silos or zero-sum
games at any level. Internal collaboration is key.
Work on the highest ranked project first
Work on the highest ranked feature first
Swarm around features
Developers and testers and writers and BAs and
whomever are partners
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Build in Frequent Feedback
Feedback for your work
Retrospectives for the team
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Thriving Amid Competition is Tough
You will have to think...
People are key
Lots of ideas and serendipity help
Use every single person you have
Build on your successes
Learn from your mistakes
Involve a larger community
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Read More...
Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat
Dan Pink’s Drive
Richard Florida’s Rise of the Creative Class, Flight of the
Creative Class
Porter and Kramer, Creating Shared Value in HBR, January
2011.
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