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Clarify priorities with MoSCoW (Must, Should, Could and Won’t)

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Prioritization Technique – MoSCoW (Must, Should, Could and Won’t)

The MoSCoW technique is a good focus method that helps you choose when you have too many options.

MoSCoW is an easy-to-memorize acronym that provides a straightforward way of prioritizing items.  Dai Clegg of Oracle UK Consulting first described MoSCoW in CASE Method Fast-Track: A RAD Approach. Clegg then donated the Intellectual Property Rights to the Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) Consortium.

How Now, MoSCoW?

By following MoSCoW, we can classify each option in a list of possibilities with rating criteria:

M – MUST have this
S – SHOULD have this if at all possible
C – COULD have this if it does not affect anything else
W – WON’T have this time but WOULD like in the future

The o’s in MoSCoW are added just to make the word pronounceable, and are often written in lower case.

MoSCoW empowers you and your customer to participate actively in the decision process regarding the best order of doing things (and which ones are really important).

So, now…how will you MoSCoW?

Free Learning Job Aid Toolkit

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Are You On The Move! Yet?

The Move! toolkit contains over 50 ‘one page’ job-aids with involving methodologies in five distinct areas : Individual, Team and Organizational Development as well as Project Management and Instructional Design & Facilitation.  You can browse through all the tools here.  Tons of helpful resources, and best of all…they’re FREE.

A. INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

Performance Management Process / Objective Setting SMARTT / Build-Up coaching session / GROW model for coaching / Coaching Styles / Constructive Feedback / Questioning & Listening / Behavior Wheel / ACHIEVE Model / Individual Development Plan / Checklist for effective coaching / Appraisal Interview /

B. TEAM DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

Team Work Model (GRPI) / GRPI Questionnaire / Action Centered Leadership (Adair) / Intervision / Meeting Management / Multi Voting / Brainstorming / Mind Mapping /Effective Decisions / SWOT Analysis / New Leader Expectation Activity / SADIE problem solving / SORA problem solving / Intake Teamdevelopment

C. ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

Consulting Process / Intervention Strategy / Business Needs Analysis / Stakeholder Analysis / Initial Customer Contact / Contracting Checklist / Force Field Analysis / Scenario Planning / SARAH coping with change / Change Loop / Balanced Scorecard / Community of Practice / Autonomous Motivation (Self-Determination Theory) / Confrontation Matrix / Environmental Scan

D. PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS

Project Process Map / Project Planning (GANTT) / Critical Path Method / Cause & Effect Analysis (Ishikawa) / Impact – Effort analysis / Risk Analysis / Project Learning Review / Stakeholder Activities / Focus Groups / Individual Interviews / Data Analysis / Responsibility Matrix

E. INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN TOOLS

8 Field Analysis (Kessels & Smit) / Learner focused versus content focused / Experiential Design model / Checklist Learning Activities / Types of Process Interventions / Guidelines for debriefing group activities / Involvement : look at training / Scenario Template / Statement Game / Checklist for instructional design / Learning Activities /

 

How are you surfing the social layer?

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The Social Layer – Guest Blogger, Thomas Hendrich, weighs in:

What’s this #sociallayer thing? Cloud Apps & VPNs/Citrix are a great leap forward for building engagement where we work, but not the final leap. I’m toying with Google+, and one thing I’m drawn to is the concept of embedding the #sociallayer across the application suite. What does this mean for us? As a user engagement model, I like Google+ placing the #sociallayer where we interact in our work, collaborate, learn, and ultimately, live our lives. In the workplace, this social layer can connect conversations around tangible places of work initiatives and projects. Adding the #sociallayer through enterprise apps such as Sharepoint, Outlook, Portals, ERPs, CRMs, HISs, and major apps can create better connections with real value-add, AND enhance user ease-of-access to social tools, bringing conversations to where we interact and congregate. Check out the 2 screenshots I’ve attached, one from Google apps, another from Gmail, illustrating the ability to connect with others directly from these apps. Let’s roll with #Enterprise2.0! #yam

Do You Have Klout?

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What is Your Klout Score?

Klout is the measurement of your overall online influence. Klout scores range from 1 to 100, and higher scores represent wider and stronger sphere of influence. Klout looks at 35+ variables on Facebook and Twitter to measure True Reach, Amplification Probability, and Network Score. They believe influence is “ability to drive people to action.”

Ex: True Reach = size of your engaged audience (based on followers and friends who actively listen and react to your messages). Want to learn more about Klout?

So…do I have enough Klout to get you to respond to this post?

About Klout

http://mashable.com/follow/topics/klout   

Klout is a San Francisco based company that provides social media analytics that measures a users influence across their social network. The analysis is done on data collected from sites such as Twitter and Facebook and measures the size of a person’s network, the content created, and how other people interact with that content.