2. Start Fresh
• Perspective — it's a great time to step back
and re-gain perspective on what matters to
you.
• Pruning — is it time to "prune" your
products, processes, and portfolios?
• Priming — a new year is a great time to
"prime the pump" and refresh your personal
brand.
3. Here’s What We’ll Cover
Perspective
Pruning
Priming
Personal
Core Values
Exercise
Time Management
Relationship
Management
Professional
STAR Stories
Reputation
Management
Networking
Product
SWOT Analysis
Lifecycle
Management
Weighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process
Use Case Diagrams
Value Stream
Analysis
Opportunity
Mapping
5. Core Values Exercise
• Your core values are simply what matter most
to you.
• When your work is aligned with your core
values, you find natural creativity, energy, and
passion.
• When your work is aligned with what you
don’t value, everyday is a demoralizing slog to
work that bores or frustrates you.
6. What matters to you?
Balance
Vitality
Cooperation
Teamwork
Strength
Wisdom
Spirituality
Excitement
Competition
Diversity
Self-Realization
Wealth
Helping Others
Structure
Prestige
Humility
Time
Curiosity
Growth
Fun
Risk
Effectiveness
Knowledge
Achievement
Relationship
Critical
Winning
Commitment
Creativity
Security
Belonging
Productivity
Freedom
Equity
Religion
Accuracy
Justice
Adventure
Tranquility
Mastery
Quality
Independence
Excellence
Health
Clarity
Honesty
Advancement
Equality
Autonomy
Innovation
Respect
Humor
Service
Solitude
Power
Uniqueness
Challenge
Integrity
Communication
Leisure
Love
Duty
Family
Beauty
7. What are your top values?
Vitality
Balance
Cooperation
Teamwork
Strength
Wisdom
Spirituality
Competition
Diversity
Self-Realization
Communication
Wealth
Helping Others
Structure
Prestige
Humility
Love
Time
Curiosity
Growth
Fun
Risk
Effectiveness
Knowledge
Achievement
Relationship
Critical
Winning
Commitment
Creativity
Security
Belonging
Productivity
Freedom
Equity
Religion
Accuracy
Justice
Adventure
Tranquility
Mastery
Quality
Independence
Excellence
Health
Clarity
Honesty
Advancement
Equality
Autonomy
Innovation
Respect
Humor
Service
Solitude
Power
Uniqueness
Challenge
Integrity
Excitement
Leisure
Duty
Family
Beauty
8. What are your bottom values?
Balance
Vitality
Cooperation
Teamwork
Strength
Wisdom
Spirituality
Excitement
Competition
Innovation
Excellence
Equality
Mastery
Productivity
Helping Others
Structure
Prestige
Humility
Time
Curiosity
Growth
Fun
Risk
Effectiveness
Knowledge
Achievement
Creativity
Security
Belonging
Commitment
Relationship
Critical
Winning
Justice
Adventure
Tranquility
Accuracy
Freedom
Equity
Religion
Clarity
Honesty
Advancement
Health
Quality
Independence
Respect
Uniqueness
Autonomy
Solitude
Power
Humor
Service
Diversity
Self-Realization
Wealth
Challenge
Integrity
Communication
Leisure
Love
Duty
Family
Beauty
10. Personal Pruning
Perspective
Pruning
Priming
Personal
Core Values
Exercise
Time Management
Relationship
Management
Professional
STAR Stories
Reputation
Management
Networking
Product
SWOT Analysis
Lifecycle
Management
Weighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process
Use Case Diagrams
Value Stream
Analysis
Opportunity
Mapping
12. Time Management: Tasks
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Always know the 1 thing that must get done today
Stop multitasking
Group similar tasks into manageable chunks
Save brainless tasks for when you have less brain
Set deadlines
Constrain the amount of time you may spend on tasks
Respect deadlines, constraints, and limits
Record how you spend each day in small increments
throughout the day
• Review how you’re spending time weekly
14. Time Management: Meetings
• Don’t go to meetings if you
don’t know why you should
be there
• Tell participants what their
meeting roles are, and don’t
invite people without roles
• Schedule an important
meeting early in the day so
time leading up to it isn’t
wasted
• Group meetings into blocks
to give chunks of time back
to the team
15. Time Management: Attitude
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Respect your time and make it respected
Respect Flow
Be present
Minimize context switching
Good enough means not perfect
Ship Minimum Viable Products (MVP)
Iterate
Reward yourself for intense sprints with
‘procrastination’ activities like Facebook and Twitter
• Failure is a critical part of the learning process
16. Personal Priming
Perspective
Pruning
Priming
Personal
Core Values
Exercise
Time Management
Relationship
Management
Professional
STAR Stories
Reputation
Management
Networking
Product
SWOT Analysis
Lifecycle
Management
Weighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process
Use Case Diagrams
Value Stream
Analysis
Opportunity
Mapping
17. Relationship Management: #kbmf
Corporate version
ProductCamp version
Translation
Care
Get naked
Be present
Be vulnerable
Be open to being wrong
Set aside your ego
Connect
Fall in love
Be genuinely and authentically invested
in the other person’s positive outcomes
Empathize with them
Show them you have their back
Collaborate
Get dirty
Work with them
Compromise
Focus on the things that matter
Allow for imperfection
Consistently
Rinse and repeat
Don’t ever stop
Have coffee with the person with whom you least want to have coffee.
19. STAR Stories
• Free-write everything you can remember about last year (3 pages)
• Go back and organize into categories
Situation
Task
Action
Background or
What was the job
What did you do
context for why this that needed doing? about it?
story is special
The obstacle that
needed
overcoming?
Result
What can you claim
as a result?
• Buff out the holes row by row
• Prioritize and rank the stories even failures can be great stories
• These stories become the bullets of your resume, LinkedIn profile
and your interview prep
• Update your resume and LinkedIn!
21. Reputation Management
• Google yourself
• Look at the first 10 pages
• If there’s any content you don’t want there,
remove it or ask to have it removed
• If you can’t remove it, publish and promote
positive things to push the bad stuff down in
the search results
23. Networking
• Networking is NOT schmoozing
• Networking is building relationships
• Be persistent and present in your network,
both offline and online
• Who are your pillars?
• Who is ‘at risk’?
• Who are you avoiding?
25. SWOT Analysis
Analyze Product
Internally focused
Anything that the product
does well
Any internal factors that lead
to its success
Internally focused
Anything that the product
does poorly or not at all that it
should do
Any internal factors that lead
to its failure
OPPORTUNITIES
THREATS
Externally focused
New markets, technologies,
trends, etc.
Externally focused
New competitors, bad
economies, political strife, etc.
OPPORTUNITIES
THREATS
STRENGTHS
WEAKNESSES
SO:
How can strengths
help us realize
opportunities?
ST:
How can strengths be
used to combat
threats?
WEAKNESSES
STRENGTHS
Propose Strategies
WO:
How can we use
opportunities to
mitigate our
weaknesses?
WT:
How can we prepare
for worst-case
scenarios?
26. Product Pruning
Perspective
Pruning
Priming
Personal
Core Values
Exercise
Time Management
Relationship
Management
Professional
STAR Stories
Reputation
Management
Networking
Product
SWOT Analysis
Lifecycle
Management
Weighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process
Use Case Diagrams
Value Stream
Analysis
Opportunity
Mapping
29. Product Priming
Perspective
Pruning
Priming
Personal
Core Values
Exercise
Time Management
Relationship
Management
Professional
STAR Stories
Reputation
Management
Networking
Product
SWOT Analysis
Lifecycle
Management
Weighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process
Use Case Diagrams
Value Stream
Analysis
Opportunity
Mapping
30. Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)
• Lean way to prioritize the next
couple sprints of your backlog
in other words, this is a
new continuous process, not
an annual one-off task
User Value + Time Value + RR&OE Value
WSJF = ---------------------------------------------------Job Size (duration)
*RR&OE = Risk Reduction & Opportunity Enablement
• Use Fibonacci Sequence to
rank features across values: 1,
2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34…
• Most people start having
difficulty comparing more than
20 items, so keep the list short
Features
User Time RR&OE Job
WSJF
Value Value Value Size
Feature D
5
3
2
1
10.0
Feature B
2
1
5
2
4.0
Feature A
1
2
8
3
3.7
Feature E
8
8
1
5
3.4
Feature C
3
5
3
8
1.4
33. Process Pruning
Perspective
Pruning
Priming
Personal
Core Values
Exercise
Time Management
Relationship
Management
Professional
STAR Stories
Reputation
Management
Networking
Product
SWOT Analysis
Lifecycle
Management
Weighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process
Use Case Diagrams
Value Stream
Analysis
Opportunity
Mapping
35. Process Priming
Perspective
Pruning
Priming
Personal
Core Values
Exercise
Time Management
Relationship
Management
Professional
STAR Stories
Reputation
Management
Networking
Product
SWOT Analysis
Lifecycle
Management
Weighted Shortest
Job First (WSJF)
Process
Use Case Diagrams
Value Stream
Analysis
Opportunity
Mapping
