The Cynefin Framework is a sense-making device for understanding the sort(s) of environment you and your team/organization may need to make decisions and take action in. Here is a great 8′ video on it by its creator, Dave Snowden.
Nice 27′ video on conceptualizing and managing product backlog. Uses JIRA as an example software platform for managing it “right” and, for conceptualizing it “rIght”, the acronym DEEP – Detailed appropriately, Estimated, Emergent, Prioritized.
Examples are the context diagram and use case diagrams. Such models are very useful strategically. They complement product visions, stories, or value propositions, customer segmentations, customer personae, etc. Also, they can be progressively elaborated into more detailed structural and/or dynamic models. Here is a fine video – 8 minutes or so – on four such […]
Context diagrams represent a project’s product boundaries or “scope”. They model the product at a high level, in its “done” context. They do this by representing only the entities that interact with the product in that context. Thus, they do not represent the parts of the product or its behavior over time. As high level […]
Short introduction of EI with definitions of its 4 components by the guy who “wrote the book on it”, Daniel Goleman.
This 5′ minute TED talk – “The Power of Mentoring” – emphasizes long term benefits flowing from the role.
Good 5′ explanation and slidedeck relating to the job of understanding stakeholders for project purposes. Very important at the front end of most any project, but particularly those developing their products via a plan-driven approach.
Here is a 4′ introduction to two key constructs in quantitative risk analysis, namely sensitivity analysis and the tornado diagram. Useful slides, basic definitions.
The theme of this useful, results-oriented advice on resolving conflict in projects is “It’s your fault!” Worth a listen (although the format is talking heads and it includes a brief cm).