inception deck

The method proposed in "Agile Samurai. A tool for teams to clearly verbalize and share project objectives.

• Markdown template

• Five questions to capture the big picture

  • Why are we here?
    • Communicate the significance of the team to the sponsors who fund the project
  • Elevator Pitch
    • I want to "fulfill a latent need or solve a problem."
    • For "target customers."
    • The product named "Product Name" is,
    • The "product category."
    • This can be "an important advantage, a compelling reason worth the price",
    • Unlike "the best of alternatives."
    • It is equipped with the "defining characteristics of differentiation."
    • p116 Elevator Pitch Game
  • Package Design
    • Promote efficacy, not product features!
      • → game storming p.87 "Cover Story" A game to imagine being featured in a magazine.
        • Cover, headline, column, quote, brainstorm, image
    • Make [list of things not to do
    • Do = problem to be solved, don't = don't care this time, decide later = decide later whether to do it or not.
  • Find your "neighbors." - Clarification of stakeholders -> PMBOK.
    • Gamestorming p. 124 Stakeholder Analysis

• Five questions to materialize

  • Draw up a solution
  • What is it about these issues that keeps you up at night?
    • Identify risks and agree on which risks to address
    • Verbalize and clarify, rather than vague insecurity.
    • Avoid situations where some people on the team are anxious and the rest are unaware of it
  • Determine the period
  • Be clear about what you are giving up. - Trade-off slider: Decide in advance which of the two axes to give up when multiple axes are trade-off.
    • The situation of allocating limited time to either of two tasks that have a trade-off relationship is time scarce, so it's hard to devote time to that discussion.
    • So, discuss this in advance at the start of the project
  • What and how much do you need? inception deck 2017-04-21

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