This presentation covers the tools that can help projects get started more quickly and an easy way to apply the Cyenfin framework to projects. There is also a blog post based on this presentation at this link https://www.lean.org/LeanPost/Posting.cfm?LeanPostId=444

1. Navigating Project Uncertainty
An Explorers Toolkit
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2. Context – Project-Based Work

3. Idea Collaboration Sessions

4. List the capabilities – Broad and Shallow

5. Narrow the Scope

6. Argue Scope In - Easier
Argue Scope Out - Harder

7. Classify the Capabilities

8. Easy
Can ask for an Estimate

9. Analysis
Can be Solved by Subject Matter Experts

10. Workshops Derailed

11. Causes of Derailment
Can of Worms
Difficult to contained once opened
Rabbit Hole
A deep dark place that leads nowhere
Wild Goose Chase
A pointless waste of time and energy

12. Can of Worms
Tricky to Tackle or No Obvious Answers

13. Name the People and Groups
for Easy and Analysis Items

14. Cans of Worms – Experiments
turn Assumptions into Facts

15. Expertise
'Expertise can also get us in trouble. It can lead us to view
problems in stereotyped ways. The sense of typicality can
be so strong that we miss subtle signs of trouble...these
shortcomings seem a small price to pay; however, there
may be times when a fresh set of eyes proves helpful‘
Klein, G. 1998. Sources of Power:
How People Make Decisions. MIT Press.
Experts Non-Experts

16. Some of the Theory Behind the Context
and Experience

17. Idea Collaboration Sessions
Stop Unfeasible Ideas Early

18. Using Cynefin in Context
The Cynefin Framework
by Dave Snowden 2014

19. Using Cynefin in Context
Obvious
Easy

20. Using Cynefin in Context
Obvious
Easy
Complicated
Analysis

21. Using Cynefin in Context
Obvious
Easy
Complicated
Analysis
Complex
'Can of Worms'

22. Using Cynefin in Context
Obvious
Easy
Complicated
Analysis
Complex
'Can of Worms'

23. Principles
•Cover scope broadly and shallowly
•Narrow the scope as early as possible
•Argue scope in rather than argue scope out

24. •Classify the work – Easy,Analysis,Cans of Worms
•Plan workshops around the different classifications
Principles

25. .....And Quarantine Those Cans of Worms

26. Thank you
Kim Ballestrin
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