program selection system

Achieving and maintaining a shared understanding across a team about just what a project is intended to deliver, and just why that matters, is tremendously challenging. It is also tremendously important. This workshops explores how a team can create and iterate a number of lightweight models to help both (i) build a shared and evolving understanding of the business problem and what potential solutions look like (ii) make sure they are asking the right kind of questions early. Models considered will include user, process, financial and interface / interaction (e.g. storyboards).

Every day, many ideas of widely varying completeness and quality are generated for new products and services. Organizations and individuals face a constant challenge in how they determine which of these ideas will receive further investment and which not. In this paper, we look at a lightweight approach to the assessment of ideas that helps face this challenge.