Technique Brief

When you’re starting to look forward to the next year, do a personal retrospective to identify the outcomes you seek and the habits you’ll start and stop.

Outcome based metrics are a way to quantitatively tell whether you’ve delivered an outcome and to avoid measuring progress and success based on output.

The context diagram shows how your product interacts with outside people, organizations, and/or systems. The context diagram helps you to identify the interfaces you need to account for, helps you to identify scope, identify potential stakeholders, and build a better understanding of the context in which you are working.