Tom Gilb on eliciting what stakeholders need & solving customer problems, opportunities and threats, the principles of success planning & impact estimation tables

Agility Island - for practitioners & coaches in Product Management, Lean, Agile & Scrum

English - July 28, 2023 16:30 - 53 minutes - 60.9 MB
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Tom Gilb joins me on this week's episode of the Agility Island podcast to discuss what stakeholders need and how to solve solve customer problems, opportunities and threats?

On the agenda:
1. How can we, as practitioners, be better at eliciting what stakeholders really need, who the right stakeholders are, and how can we solve customer problems, opportunities, and threats?

2. Tom’s Background

3. Review and quality control of requirements

4. Definition of ready

5. Definitions of success and failure and examples

6. Value objectives

7. The principles of success planning and definition: Define the success criteria and the constraints of the failure criteria

8. The importance of rigorous systematic thought

9. Definition of the state of success

10. Scientific inquiry

11. The secret of avoiding failure

12. No evil and outsmarting the evil

13. Limiting losses

14. Choose good

15. The importance of having estimates for much safety will be delivered in a timeframe

16. Who are your critical stakeholders? Who do we need t look after?

17. Tom’s experience at Boeing

18. Value requirements and examples

19. Constraint levels: intolerable, tolerable, success, stretches

20. Impact estimation tables

21. Long-term objectives: mature planners vs. immature planners

22. Technical debt

23. Laws of project success

24. Ethics of success

25. De-composing stakeholder needs

26. Delivering miracles while in planning mode?

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Tom Gilb on Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/u/tomgilb
Tom’s website (free ebooks): https://www.gilb.com/

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