This document outlines an agenda for an executive team presentation focusing on developing features for the second half of 2013. It includes several group exercises: 1. Listing potential new features on sticky notes and organizing them into themes. 2. Individual and group dot voting to rank features by perceived customer benefit. 3. Relative sizing and ROI calculation to estimate effort and organizational prioritize the backlog of features. The presentation aims to have an interactive and hands-on discussion of real product needs and develop an agreed upon prioritized backlog for upcoming development.

1. Executive Team Presentation
Laszlo Szalvay
Direct of PO and UX (Candidate)
2 July 2013

2. #aboutme

3. What I heard…
Define Business Case
#bizcase
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4. Our Story
– How we win
#winning
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5. How I like to win
http://youtu.be/rJNNkIp8xAM

6. Agenda
Interactive hands-on deep dive into a real world
feature discussion, using
teamwork

7. Discuss H2 ‘13 Epic
Development (7 mins)
Exercise: small table discussion

8. Detailed Instructions:
– List all features (a.k.a Epics) you want built on sticky
notes provided
– Each person can have 0+N feature ideas / requests
– Features can be at ideation stage
– Put sticky notes on flip chart

9. Themes

10. Add Themes to Epics (4
mins)
Exercise: small table discussion

11. • Detailed Instructions:
– As a group create a ‘theming’ organization to your
features
– Add 0 + N themes per Epic on the flip chart(s)
Create Named Themes

12. My Two Cents & Dot Voting

13. Dot voting (4 mins)
Exercise: individual silent activity

14. Detailed Instructions:
– In silence, Using Dot-Voting vote for the Epic(s) that
you alone think will benefit our customer (CISO) the
most.
– You must utilize both of your votes

15. Rhetorical Persuasion

16. Re-voting (8 mins)
Exercise: small table discussion

17. Detailed Instructions:
– Employing your best rhetorical style, Using a Dot-
Voting strategy vote for the Epic(s) that as a group
you think will benefit our customer (CISO) the most.
– Must utilize all group votes

18. #breakfor5minutes

19. Relative Sizing Explained
Effort estimation is a means to an
end. The ultimate goal is an
achievable commitment

20. ROI Calculation (8 mins)
Exercise: small table discussion

21. Detailed Instructions:
– Using your (a) group based dot voting, (b) your
themes, and (c) my relative effort based sizing
create a ‘back of the napkin’ ROI calculator to help
organize your backlog
– Present to each other a stack ranked list of Epics to
do in H2 ’13 that matches to our story

22. #AgileExecutiveDashboard

23. #ThankYou!

24. What facilitator needs to bring
• Electrical Tape
• Poker Chips or Pennies (20)
• Pens, markets, sticky notes