Matrix-Based Prioritization for Strong Organizational Alignment

Name: Matrix-Based Prioritization for Strong Organizational Alignment
Start: 2021-03-25T12:30:00-04:00
End: 2021-03-25T13:30:00-04:00

Hosted By

Thomas P. F.

Matrix-Based Prioritization for Strong Organizational Alignment

Details

Join us for lunch (12:30 pm to 1:30 pm EST) on Thursday, March 25th when Casey Watts will deliver a presentation entitled:

"Matrix Based Prioritization for Strong Alignment"

As a team, how do we decide what to do first? You may have used or seen the good ol' 2x2 matrix for prioritizing things in the past. The most common ones are "impact vs urgency" and "business goals vs user goals". The 2x2 matrix is a visual tool to help us determine and discuss priorities.

But for some decisions, two dimensions are not enough to get the team aligned. Without alignment, a project team experiences churn, conflict, and "bikeshedding". We all deserve confidence and pride in what we're working on, and why. Fortunately, teams can totally get aligned when we embrace the real-world complexity of decision-making.

In this workshop, we will complete several prioritization matrices of increasing complexity: building up from the simple 2x2 matrix to a 3+ variable matrix, all the way to a weighted 3+ variable matrix. After this workshop, you will have the tools to visually discuss a whole range of complexities with these tools. Some questions we answer include: when to use which tool? how to determine decision-making criteria?

This workshop is helpful for people who prioritize what gets done at a company: organization leadership, product managers, and engineers. Respectively: which projects to prioritize staffing, what features research and implementation to prioritize, and which tech debt/engineering backlog issues to prioritize.

With strong team alignment, we'll go farther, faster!

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Casey Watts is an independent consultant based in the Washington, DC area.

Casey published a book recently entitled "Debugging Your Brain" and the companion website can be found here:

https://www.debuggingyourbrain.com/

The book is also available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0578755033

Connect with Casey on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseywatts/

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