Consulting & Team Facilitation
S2insight Intensive™ sessions are facilitated team events designed to produce weeks of work in just a few days. Every Intensive™ is led by an S2insight facilitator who brings a unique blend of business experience, interpersonal skills, and best practices to this accelerated work session.
Our facilitator will help your team work through the hard issues in a safe environment, identifying and dealing with the personalities and the politics that may stand in your way. And you'll get the support that you need both before and after the event to ensure your success.
Every Intensive produces real results, including professionally prepared documents that capture all the outcomes and decisions from the session. Your team will become aligned, energized, and armed with a specific action plan driven by your goals. That’s the essence of genuine team work – and genuine team building.
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Project Planning Intensive™
Overview:
A Project Planning Intensive is the most effective way to plan the next phase of product development, or to get a troubled project back on track. S2insight will work with your technical leads to define a sequence of product prototypes that proves out your design while achieving targeted technical risk reduction.
Then, in just a few days, we will take your entire team through a process to build a fully integrated schedule spanning all functions, with the prototype sequence as key integration points. The resulting schedule is then fully optimized to hit your business targets. The result is a trackable, manageable plan and an energized team that is accountable for results.
S2insight helps you answer key questions, such as:
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How can we get the job done on time—or sooner?
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How can we win the support of the organization?
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What are the trade-offs and what options can we give our management?
S2insight provides participants with professionally prepared documents that capture all the outcomes and decisions from the customized session. Your team will become aligned, energized, and armed with a specific action plan driven by your goals. That’s the essence of genuine team work—and genuine team building.
Typical Work Sessions:
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Reviewing the business case and business constraints.
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Defining project goals and critical objectives.
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Reviewing and validating the high-level project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
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Agreeing on project scope and major deliverables.
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Establishing clear roles and responsibilities of all team members, including Core Team membership.
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Developing a fully integrated schedule.
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Reconciling interdependencies between groups.
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Assessing risks and establishing a risk response plan.
Delivery Format: On-site or distributed
Typical Duration:
Intensive is 3 days onsite or 2 weeks distributed, followed by several weeks of schedule optimization.
Participants: Project Managers & Cross-Functional Project Team Members
Note: Every S2insight Intensive™ is customized to the client’s specific needs and situation. The agenda and deliverables will be revised as required by the client.
Project Chartering Intensive™
Overview:
The Project Chartering Intensive is a fast and an effective way to kick-off a new project by establishing a set of business, product, and project targets captured in the Project Charter document. These targets can include key elements of the business case, key product features, IP positioning and licensing, measurable success criteria, resource estimates, and the duration of each project phase.
By engaging the project team directly in creating the targets, chartering generates cross-functional buy-in, and a greater commitment to project goals.
Typical Work Sessions:
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Key elements of the Business Case (e.g., target markets, competition, pricing)
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Product scope and requirements (both in and out of scope)
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Techology assessment, IP position, and interactions with other projects.
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Project objectives
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Estimate of resources and time by phase of development.
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Key assumptions & constraints
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Review with key stakeholders
Delivery Format: On-site or distributed
Typical Duration:
2 days on-site or 1-2 weeks distributed
Participants: Project Managers & Cross-Functional Project Team Members
Note: Every S2insight Intensive™ is customized to the client’s specific needs and situation. The agenda and deliverables will be revised as required by the client.
Risk Management Intensive™
Overview:
Risks are the potential threats to a project’s success, and every project involves some degree of risk. But too often, risks are ignored until they occur. After a discussion of risk concepts, S2insight will facilitate a systematic analysis of risks and associated response plans for the project.
Typical Work Sessions:
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Reviewing the language of risk management.
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Reviewing the project’s objectives and scope.
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Developing a project-specific Risk Breakdown Structure (RBS).
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Identifying and assessing risks – which risks demand attention.
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Developing a risk response plan for significant risks – avoidance, transference, mitigation, and contingency planning.
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Discussing how to monitor and control risks.
Delivery Format: On-site or distributed
Typical Duration:
1 day on-site or 1 weeks distributed
Participants: Project Managers & Cross-Functional Project Team Members
Note: Every S2insight Intensive™ is customized to the client’s specific needs and situation. The agenda and deliverables will be revised as required by the client.
Requirements Development Intensive™
Overview:
Developing products that delight customers starts with an understanding of customers’ needs. While many organizations do invest in getting customer insights (e.g. Voice of Customer), they often struggle turning these often vague and conflicting insights into requirements.
S2insight can help your project team translate and transform your customer insights into actionable customer and product requirements. Through one or more workshops, S2insight will facilitator your cross-functional team to not only quickly derive and document customer and product requirements, but to also gain an intimate understanding of user needs and how those needs may be met by a product solution.
Regardless if you need requirements to satisfy quality/regulatory requirements or if you just want to develop great products, our practical, hands-on approach will help your team benefit from requirements-driven design.
Typical Work Sessions:
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Reviewing existing customer insights (e.g. VoC, ethnographic studies, field observations, etc.).
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Deriving initial context diagram, users/actors, and user needs.
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Translating user needs to customer requirements.
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Prioritizing customer requirements.
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Deriving product requirements from customer requirements.
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Allocation of product requirements to subsystem requirements.
Delivery Format: On-site or distributed
Typical Duration:
2 day on-site or 1 weeks distributed
Participants: Project Managers & Cross-Functional Project Team Members
Note: Every S2insight Intensive™ is customized to the client’s specific needs and situation. The agenda and deliverables will be revised as required by the client.
Use Case Development Intensive™
Overview:
While Use Cases have been an integral part of software development practices for decades, they have much broader applicability.
Use Cases are an excellent tool to describe any interaction a User may have with a Product from installation, sample prep, normal operation, maintenance, etc. Use Cases allow a product team to define dynamic requirements very early in the development process.
S2insight can facilitate your cross-functional product development team to identify and define high-impact use cases that inform the product design (not just software!).
Typical Work Sessions:
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Review of existing user needs and customer requirements.
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Deriving initial context diagram, users/actors, and other systems.
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Creating a use case map and identifying high-impact use cases.
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Developing select use cases (based on priority).
Delivery Format: On-site or distributed
Typical Duration:
2 day on-site or 1 weeks distributed
Participants: Project Managers & Cross-Functional Project Team Members
Note: Every S2insight Intensive™ is customized to the client’s specific needs and situation. The agenda and deliverables will be revised as required by the client.