Manchester Digital Digital Project Management workshop

1. Project Management
Workshop
Agile thinking &
Building the right thing
@Kev_C_Murray

2. Understand agile thinking
Learn techniques you can use tomorrow
Create teams with empathy for user needs
Have fun
Objectives for today

3. - Accepting there’s important stuff we don’t know yet
- Responding to new information when it arrives
- Focusing on delivering outcomes (not outputs)
- Working as a team
What is agile thinking?

4. New domains
New problems
New methodologies
New technologies
New people
Digital projects are complex

5. A shared
vision for
success
Managing
uncertainty
Fail fast
Fail early
User needs
User needs
User needs
1 2 3 4
What are we doing today?
Product box Assumption
Mapping
Hypotheses Impact
Mapping

6. The challenge

7. New Mcr Digital space
Meeting rooms
Co-working space
Restaurant & bar
The Ask
• Advertise event
information $ menus
• Book tables, workspace
& meeting rooms

8. Shared vision
for success

9. Logo
Main
user needs
Slogan
More
user
needs
Features
Product name
What is it?
Other
Services

10. Managing
uncertainty

11. Uncertainty
Urgency

12. We think this is
important & we
need to validate
Uncertainty
Urgency

13. Uncertainty
Urgency
We have the
evidence that we
should build this

14. Uncertainty
Urgency
We have the
evidence but we
don’t need to
build this just yet

15. Uncertainty
Urgency
Uncertain, but we
don’t need to
validate just yet

19. Validate it
Uncertainty
Urgency
Build it
Forget it (for now)
Defer it

20. Select a facilitator
3 - 5 mins quiet time
“We assume that…….”
0 - 5 assumptions each
1 assumption per post-it
Describe & agree quadrant
Compare and adjust
Cluster similar ideas
Be excellent to each other
No such thing as a wrong assumption

21. Fail fast
Fail early

22. Learn fast
Learn early

23. We believe that {………doing this}
For {…………these users}
Will achieve {…………..this outcome}
We will know this is true when we see
{………….these results}

24. We believe that ………
For ………
Will achieve. ……….
We will know when …….
Hypotheses
A structured placeholder for a conversation

25. We believe that ………
For ………
Will achieve. ……….
We will know when …….
As a ………..
I want …….
So I can …..
Given ………
When …….
Then …..
Hypotheses User Story BDD a/c
A structured placeholder for a conversation
Validate it Build it Test it

26. User needs
User needs
User needs

27. Business Goal User User Need Feature

28. Why Who How What

29. Feature
User User Need Feature
Business Goal User User Need Feature
Feature
User Need Feature
Business Goal

30. The Ask
•Advertise event information $ menus
•Book tables, work space & meeting rooms
Business Goals
•Increase membership
•Improve retention
•£1M Operating profit for further investment

31. Business Goal User User Need Feature
As a …….
I want….
So I can…..
User
Feature
User Need

32. Inspiration

33. Understand agile thinking
Learn techniques you can use tomorrow
Create teams with empathy for user needs
Have fun
Did we meet our objectives?

34. Retrospective

35. 0 11

36. Thank you
(p.s. we’re hiring)
@Kev_C_Murray