3. WHY TRADITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
TECHNIQUES ARE BROKEN
KEY ELEMENTS TO
ENSURE YOUR
PROJECT DELIVERS
THE RIGHT THINGS
INSIGHTS INTO THE TECHNIQUES
YOU CAN USE TOMORROW TO
FACILITATE AWESOME BUSINESS
OUTCOMES
WELCOME
39. Spreadsheet / Survey?
Lame questions to ask to improve a platform
Do you like using it?
Yes No
How often do you use it?
Daily Weekly Monthly
Does it do what you want it to do?
Yes No
If no then why?
What other features should it offer?
Free text type here
What don’t you like about it?
Free text type here
How can we improve it?
Free text type here
Is this how we appear to our customers and stakeholders when we ask them for requirements??
Assumptions or Excel based one-way “workshops”
Is this how we appear to our customers and stakeholders when we ask them for requirements??
Assumptions or Excel based one-way “workshops”
Play allows us to gain a Shared Understanding and a Shared Commitment - Gain more insights, people learn faster, you remember more and have considerably more enjoyment from “play”
What makes us feel young again?
Play and fun
Lets incorporate more play into business
emergent
Value is emergent
Behaviours are emergent
Requirements are emergent
Why Do They Work?
Structured
Rules, but often no winners
Purposeful
Definite outcome
Time-bound
By definition, a time boxed exercise
Participatory
Success depends on everyone participating
Egalitarian
Everyone has an equal opportunity to participate
Write these on the WHITEBOARD
Four steps to achieving AWESOME business requirements:
Context (Where are we? And where are we going?)
Requirements Facilitation (How do we get there?)
Prioritisation (How do we get their effectively)
Working Out Loud (How can we make sure this is right)
Whatever steps we take they need to allow us to do ‘goal alignment’ every step of the way….
** Demonstrate / Sketch and use post-it notes
Context – Spider Web
Innovation Games®
** Demonstrate / Sketch and use post-it notes
Context – SailBoat
Innovation Games®
** Demonstrate / Sketch and use post-it notes
Context – Cover Story
Gamestorming
** Demonstrate / Sketch and use post-it notes
Context – Project Business Model Canvas
Business Model Generation – Alexander Ostwerwalder & Yves Pigneur
Stand up and shout “I will not deliver Technology celery!”
This is what we want!
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Soulsailor Consulting is a small micro-consultancy focussed on:
"Enabling organisational value by positively disrupting technology projects"