Quantify your goals Nik Silver @pigsaw
Credit to Tom Gilb @imtomgilb
If you can agree the quantified value to be delivered then (almost) everything else follows
Benefit Feature Why What Goal Deliverable Outcome Output Value Solution
Executive Value Team
Story points
Value
Have a value statement
“Reduce the cost of data collection”
“Reduce the proportion of data collection costs attributed to surveys”
Quantified goals means clearer decision-making
Quantified goals means better conversations
Quantified goals means more creative solutions
Quantified goals means better prioritisation
How to agree our goals Impact mapping
Goals Actors Impacts Deliverables
“Enhance our reputation”
How do we measure? See Douglas Hubbard, “How to measure anything”
1. Can we measure anything ? Tangible difference More or less of something It’s measurable
2. What it means to measure “A quantitatively expressed reduction of uncertainty based on one or more observations”
3. Know why you want to measure
“Enhance our reputation”
GDS Census
GDS Census
GDS Census
GDS Census
Cost of delay Exploiting quantified goals
Feature 3 Feature 1 Value Feature 2 Duration
Period-on-period validation
If you can agree the quantified value to be delivered then (almost) everything else follows
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