Session 3: You Are Here. You Want to Go There?
Johanna Rothman
Do you wonder if your projects are progressing as smoothly as they could be? You may be considering a transition to agile and would like to know how far away you are. You might be considering a reorganization for more effective projects. Whatever change you’re considering, you need to know where you are now.
Relying on your gut is not enough. Data will help you understand what people think and feel about their work, where the bottlenecks are, and how product development actually works in your organization.
An assessment of your project, process, or organization provides you a qualitative and quantitative view of your current situation. A valuable assessment doesn’t have to cost a million bucks and it doesn’t have to come from the outside.
I’ll share some of the questions I use to start an assessment and we’ll address how you can adapt those questions and manage the issues of assessing from inside the organization. You’ll have the opportunity to conduct an assessment conversation with another person, to gather data, and then examine the data to see some organizational and/or project patterns. You’ll see areas to consider for intervention, and we’ll discuss how to make specific-rather than one-size-fits-all-recommendations for your organization.
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