Project Inception Deck: Alignment and Decision-Making Tool

An inception deck is a valuable tool for aligning team thinking, setting expectations, and avoiding assumptions of consensus. It helps teams reach alignment and make smart decisions by clearly defining the purpose and goals of a project. This structured approach aids in setting objectives, understanding the audience, defining key features, and outlining what to prioritize. Fostering collaboration and clear communication, an inception deck streamlines the project initiation process and promotes a shared understanding among team members.

• Project Management
• Team Alignment
• Decision Making
• Collaboration
• Agile Methodology

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1. PROJECT NAME + COPY ME Inception Deck | Date

2. Agenda What will be doing today? - Inception Deck

3. Why do an Inception Deck? An inception deck helps us as a team to be aligned in our thinking and expectation setting. All too often we assumethere is consensus when none exists. An inception deck helps us to get that consensus, so we aren t thinking triangles and circles -we are all thinking circles. Powered by Agile Warrior: https://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/the-agile-inception-deck/

4. Why are we here? We can t build a great thing if we don t know why we are building it in the first place. So why we are here helps us to make all those smart decisions while we are executing. Powered by Agile Warrior: https://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/the-agile-inception-deck/

5. For <audience> Who <what do they want to do> Elevator Pitch The <name of the thing > Is a <what is the thing ?> That <what does this thing do?> An Elevator Pitch tells people what your product is, who it is for, and why it s special in about the time it takes a ride in an elevator. Unlike <another similar thing in the market> Our thing <our thing will do what?> Powered by Agile Warrior: https://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/the-agile-inception-deck/

6. What is it!? Box What are the top three reasons people are going to use this thing ? And if there was one slogan that captured the spirit of this thing, what would it be? Powered by Agile Warrior: https://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/the-agile-inception-deck/

7. Create a Not List Saying yes is easy. So what aren t we going to do? Powered by Agile Warrior: https://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/the-agile-inception-deck/

8. OUT OF SCOPE IN SCOPE UNRESOLVED

9. Meet your neighbours Core team As part of our journey we need to think about our wider community. Powered by Agile Warrior: https://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/the-agile-inception-deck/

10. <ENTER FAVOURITE RISK>> <ENTER FAVOURITE RISK>> Mitigation: Mitigation: Impact: Impact: Likelihood: Likelihood: What keeps you up at night? <ENTER FAVOURITE RISK>> <ENTER FAVOURITE RISK>> Mitigation: Mitigation: Impact: Impact: Likelihood: Likelihood: We all know things can go wrong, some we can handle and some we can t. <ENTER FAVOURITE RISK>> Let each other know what keeps you up at night (i.e. the risk), so we can work out whether they are worth while worrying about or not to sweat them. <ENTER FAVOURITE RISK>> Mitigation: Mitigation: Impact: Impact: Likelihood: Likelihood: Powered by Agile Warrior: https://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/the-agile-inception-deck/

11. Size it up This exercise is about answering the question: is it bigger than a breadbox? We can t exactly say how many days it s going to take to do this project up front. But we can say whether it s a 3, 6 or 8 week er. Powered by Agile Warrior: https://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/the-agile-inception-deck/

12. Scope Fixed Flexible What s not going to give? Quality Fixed Flexible Time Fixed Flexible All projects have levers like time, scope, and quality. Which of these is most important? Powered by Agile Warrior: https://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/the-agile-inception-deck/

13. What do we need to get this project started?

14. Thanks for your time today!