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Product planning w/ gridding - Effort vs. Impac...

Product planning w/ gridding - Effort vs. Impact rule of thirds

Craig Kerstiens

March 02, 2020
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  1. What is it? • Effort vs. impact matrix • 3

    x 3 grid • Isn’t the end of planning is just a framing to help get people on the same page • Can be the rough high level plan if you’re agile enough
  2. How do you do it? • Start with capturing ideas

    • Shared doc or individual, everyone writes down their things they can do within the next cycle • Rotate around the room and share 1 idea from list • Place them on the grid live • Timebox aggressively • Dedupe as you go
  3. First. Product and engineering • Role of product: • Making

    sure we build the right product • Role of engineering: • Making sure the product is built right
  4. First. Product and engineering • Role of product: • Product

    makes sure we get impact right • Role of engineering: • Engineering make sure we get effort right
  5. How do you do it? • Start with capturing ideas

    • Shared doc or individual, everyone writes down their things they can do within the next cycle • Rotate around the room and share 1 idea from list • Place them on the grid live • Timebox aggressively • Dedupe as you go
  6. Second. Keep it simple • Within a box there is

    no difference in priority • If it’s medium effort and medium impact, it’s not slightly more effort than the other things in medium
  7. High Impact Low Effort Low Impact High Effort Replace broken

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  8. Other principles • Effort isn’t just “code complete” • 1

    week of engineering could be 24 months of convincing others we need to do something… this is high effort
  9. The advanced mode • Know your velocity • I.e. •

    1 big project each cycle, 3 medium, 6 small • 1 big project per person, 1 medium for principle, 1 small per person • Roughly assign, people aren’t fungible • Farina is not working on JavaScript
  10. High Impact Low Effort Low Impact High Effort Replace broken

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