Method Overview
As much as you would like to tackle all the features and functionalities that surfaced, you must decide which to focus on first. You want to avoid prioritizing features, and functionality that doesn’t align with your organization’s goals. Bring diverse perspectives to this workshop so that you can ensure stakeholders, technical experts, designers and the rest of the team are aligned in scope. This can be done initially by starting with a Feasibility, Desirability, Viability Scorecard, or Impact*Effort Matrix. Then you can use Dot Voting to prioritize items based on the votes each item receives. You can use the list of ranked items to feed your backlog and drive prototyping.
Note: It is important to have a ServiceNow Platform expert during this activity to ensure the feasibility of delivering the capability with the platform. You may also need to consult representatives from other IT groups if the feature requires integration with another system.
Outcomes
Team alignment and ownership for features/functionalities that are most important for the roadmap
Reduction in scope creep
Prerequisites
- How Might We workshop
- Conducting reality checks for proposed ideas, evaluating impact, and effort
Participants
The best teams are made up of product manager, business analysts, design strategists, developers, platform architect, and stakeholders
Materials Needed
- Conference room
- whiteboard
- markers
- sticky dots
- butcher paper
- Or real*time collaboration whiteboarding tools such as Miro, or Mural
Agenda
Duration | Activity |
**** | **** |
10 minutes | Welcome and Agenda |
60 minutes | Effort and Impact Matrix |
5 minutes | Session wrap*up |
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