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    How to Prioritize Your Project Portfolio Using Conteneo Collaboration Games: A Playbook in the Epic Wins Series
    How to Prioritize Your Project Portfolio Using Conteneo Collaboration Games: A Playbook in the Epic Wins Series
    How to Prioritize Your Project Portfolio Using Conteneo Collaboration Games: A Playbook in the Epic Wins Series
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    How to Prioritize Your Project Portfolio Using Conteneo Collaboration Games: A Playbook in the Epic Wins Series

    By Luke Hohmann

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    This playbook is intended for senior leaders who want to create better business results when prioritizing a project portfolio, for portfolio managers who are frustrated by the limits of ROI analysis, and anyone who thinks that current approaches to picking the best projects aren’t working. It’s for people like Sallee Peterson, Senior VP Global Customer Support at VeriSign, who faced a seemingly intractable problem: She had asked her global team of nearly 200 support representatives to submit ideas on how to improve customer service. She was pleased—and overwhelmed—with the results: After culling through the submissions, she and her leadership team identified 46 innovative projects. Unfortunately, they could only afford about six to ten projects. As Sallee explained, the traditional process would have been to simply have her leadership team pick the projects, explaining the selections to employees through a series of management briefings. But Sallee wanted to try something different: She wanted to engage her global team in selecting the best possible projects. She used a game plan from this project prioritization playbook enabling her team to collaboratively identify the top seven of the 46 projects. And that’s not all they achieved. The incredibly high degree of employee engagement in the process and their support of the resulting choices led Sallee to estimate that VeriSign saved more than three months of implementation time—a truly Epic Win.

    Created from more than a decade of experience working with Fortune 500 and other progressive organizations, the game plans described in this playbook show you how to harness the amazing power of collaborative play and serious games to prioritize your organization’s project portfolio. The result is your Epic Win: your project portfolio prioritized to both business objectives and customer needs with an organization motivated to implement the same.

    Using the game plans described in this playbook, you’ll be able to change stakeholder “me” perspectives to “we” perspectives. That’s because “winning” these game requires working with others, forming alliances, thinking strategically, and structured negotiations on the highest impact results for the company. Conteneo’s games enable employees to rise above organizational silos and think holistically about what is right for the company.

    The Conteneo collaboration games described in this playbook are fast and easy to play and scale to organizations of all sizes. They will enable you not only to choose the best projects for execution but also ensure that projects have the resources required for success. The book’s game plans focus on strategic, longer-term priorities along with tactical, near-term projects.

    The book includes a discussion of common challenges associated with traditional approaches to portfolio management and explains how to choose a game plan to eliminate those challenges and select the right plan for your company. It also includes guidelines for producing a successful game event and provides case studies of VeriSign, Hewlett-Packard, and Daimler Financial Services. No matter what your unique situation is, this playbook will show you a better way to prioritize your project portfolio that results in an Epic Win.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLuke Hohmann
    Release dateJan 23, 2014
    ISBN9781310714474
    How to Prioritize Your Project Portfolio Using Conteneo Collaboration Games: A Playbook in the Epic Wins Series
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    Luke Hohmann

    Luke Hohmann is the Founder and CEO of Conteneo, Inc. (formerly The Innovation Games® Company). Luke’s playfully diverse background of life experiences and his background in strategic planning and decision making in large and small companies uniquely prepared him to design and produce serious games. Luke is the author of the Epic Wins series—playbooks that show companies how to harness the amazing power of collaborative play and Conteneo’s serious games to super power Epic Wins in business. Luke graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.E. in computer engineering and an M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. In addition to data structures and artificial intelligence, he studied cognitive psychology and organizational behavior. He is also a former National Junior Pairs Figure Skating Champion. .In his spare time, Luke likes roughhousing with his four kids and long runs in the Santa Cruz mountains to burn off his wife’s cooking. He’s an old-school Silicon Valley entrepreneur and is building Conteneo to change the world.

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      How to Prioritize Your Project Portfolio Using Conteneo Collaboration Games - Luke Hohmann

      How to Prioritize Your Project Portfolio Using Conteneo Collaboration Games

      Luke Hohmann

      How to Prioritize Your Project Portfolio Using Conteneo Collaboration Games

      A Playbook in the Epic Wins Series

      Published by Luke Hohmann at Smashwords

      Copyright 2014 Conteneo, Inc.

      Smashwords Edition

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. 

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      Luke Hohmann

      Conteneo, Inc.

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      Mountain View, CA 94040

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      Limit of Liability and Disclaimer of Warranty: The author has taken care in the preparation of this ebook but makes no representation or implied warranty of any kind and assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions. No liability is assumed for incidental or consequential damages in connection with or arising out of the use of the information or programs contained herein.

      This ebook identifies product names and services known to the author to be trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of their respective holders. They are used throughout this ebook only for reference and in an editorial fashion. Using such terms does not imply the author’s endorsement of the mark, nor does it imply that the holder of the mark endorses this ebook.

      Acknowledgments

      Like a Hollywood movie star receiving a first Oscar, I have a long list of people I want to thank and only a few short moments to do so. So, before the microphone stand drops, I’d like to thank the Conteneo team, our customers, the Certified Collaboration Architect community, Every Voice Engaged Foundation, my family, Peter Baust, Matt Brown, Kyle Forbes, our graphics guru Duke Houston, Steve Johnson, Dhaval Panchal, Jon Snyder, and most especially, Kathleen Goolsby, who edited this book with an active voice and the Chicago Style Tami Carter finds so fashionable. The author takes full responsibility for all rhetorical questions.

      Chapter Content

      Chapter One:

      Creating Epic Wins In Business

      Epic Wins are Great Victories

      Is This Book for You?

      Overview of Playbook

      About Conteneo

      Chapter Two:

      Serious Games and Game Plans

      What’s a Serious Game?

      Serious Games Produce Serious Results

      Employees Want to Engage

      Overview of Games and Game Plans

      Chapter Three:

      Portfolio Prioritization Needs an Epic Win

      The Negative Impact of Poorly Prioritized Portfolios

      Portfolio Prioritization is Hard—and Getting Harder!

      Traditional Approaches to Portfolio Management are Epic FAILS

      Chapter Four:

      Choosing the Right Game Plan

      Portfolio Prioritization Games and Game Plans

      Choosing a Game Plan

      Game Plan Variations

      How Conteneo Game Plans Overcome Prioritization Challenges

      Chapter Five:

      Knowsy for Alignment

      How to Play Knowsy

      Why Knowsy Works

      Knowsy Game Results

      Chapter Six:

      Prune the Future for Strategic Prioritization

      How to Play Prune the Future

      Why Prune the Future Works

      Prune the Future Game Results

      Chapter Seven:

      Buy a Project for Tactical Prioritization

      How to Play Buy a Project

      Why Buy a Project Works

      How to Prepare Projects for the Games

      Buy a Project Game Tournaments

      Buy a Project Statistical Sampling

      Handling Massively

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