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

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

Craig Kerstiens

March 02, 2020
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  1. Gridding

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  2. 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

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  3. Impact
    Effort

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  4. High Impact
    Low Effort
    Low Impact
    High Effort

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  5. High Impact
    Low Effort
    Low Impact
    High Effort

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  6. 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

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

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  8. First.
    Product and
    engineering
    • Role of product:
    • Product makes sure we get impact
    right
    • Role of engineering:
    • Engineering make sure we get effort
    right

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  9. 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

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  10. 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

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  11. High Impact
    Low Effort
    Low Impact
    High Effort
    Replace broken
    saber blade
    Mount stands for kids
    Hang dark side sabers
    Hang light side sabers
    Mount kids sabers
    Order by color
    Order by timeline
    Keep son away
    from yellow saber
    Get new sabers

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  12. 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

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  13. 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

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  14. High Impact
    Low Effort
    Low Impact
    High Effort
    Replace broken
    saber blade (GK)
    Mount stands for kids (GK)
    Hang dark side sabers
    Hang light side sabers (CK)
    Mount kids sabers
    Order by color
    Order by timeline
    Keep son away
    from yellow saber
    (CK)
    Get new sabers

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  15. For more
    learning
    http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013
    /03/13/planning-and-prioritizing/
    http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013
    /08/13/rule-of-thirds/

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