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SIMPLY INNOVATION: THE TAO OF FIRE

A PUBLIC SPEND FORUM PRODUCTION FEATURING DANWARD

WELCOME!

Dan Ward @thedanward Frank McNally @NecessitysChild

A TALE OF TWO PROJECTS

CHEAP WINNERS & EXPENSIVE LOSERS

Winning Characteristics

• Large budgets, large teams, long

schedules

• Skeleton crews, shoestring budgets,

cannonball schedules

Losing Characteristics

DON’T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT…

AUTONOMY AS A FUNCTION OF STAKEHOLDERS & RED TAPE

Stakeholders & Resources Interference & Red Tape

Small Projects

Medium & Moderate Projects Large & Grand Projects

FIRE IN FIFTEEN MINUTES

Key Principles to Invoke Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained & Elegant Innovation

FIRE IS NOT…

• FIRE is NOT about process improvement
• The goal is to improve our objectives and
• utcomes rather than our processes (it is

product centric)

• (This is not to say that we don’t believe

process improvement is a healthy discipline! Its just not the objective of FIRE.)

HEURISTICS

• VS. RULES: MASTERING TRADECRAFT
• Learn the general protocols
• Use them as a guide for behavior and

decision-making in uncertain situations

• As opposed to pre-defining exactly

what you will do and when you will do it

WHAT DO YOU VALUE?

Speed Thrift Simplicity

X Take your time X

Spare no expense

RESTRAINT & CREATIVITY

Restraint Quality Decision- making Problem- Solving

WHEN CONSTRAINT & RESTRAINT WINS

• A “very simple spacecraft” with three

directives:

• Encounter a comet
• Collect some particles
• Bring them Home
• Salvaged Deep Impact (several years

after the Stardust mission)

PARKINSON’S LAW

Outcomes Schedule

Original scope & schedule Additional Time More time does not generally improve functionality or performance

“If you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute.”

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STARTING BEFORE WE START

“Official” Work “Official” Schedule

• Building relationships
• Talking to users
• Strategic Market research
• Sharing draft requirements
• Preparing your electronic

contract management system

• Finalizing the requirement
• Designing the solicitation
• Tactical market research
• Going out for bid
• Contract administration

Getting Prepared Getting Ahead

ANTIFRAGILITY

PROJECT A PROJECTS B-E

NASA FBC

E B C D

A NOTE FOR PROGRAM OWNERS: OBSERVE THE FIRE PRIME DIRECTIVE!

Project leaders may not interfere with the natural progression of a project by introducing unnecessarily advanced technologies or excessive,

• ver-engineered features.

KIDS, DO TRY THIS AT HOME!

Eager to adopt the principles of FIRE into your workplace?

DEMONSTRATED LEARNING

• Application is the best way to learn, so for anyone who wants

to transfer knowledge into practice we invite you to check

• ut a trimming exercise from Dan’s book
• Trimming is a great way to simplify your next presentation,

requirements document, system architecture diagram, or any

• ther technical document
• If you submit an artifact to demonstrate learning, you’ll be

eligible to earn a learning badge in simple innovation

SIMPLY INNOVATION LEARNING BADGE

EARN YOUR CONTINUOUS LEARNING CREDIT

• Participants are eligible to earn one continuous learning credit for

attending this webinar

• To qualify for your credit, please complete the brief comprehension survey

we will email you in follow up to this session

• Your certificate will be emailed to the address you used to register for

this webinar.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Learning Path + Simplicity Workshop, tailored for public sector professionals

LEARNING PATH + SIMPLICITY WORKSHOP

https://helpified.com/paths/the-tao-of-fire

THANK YOU!

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