Maximim Impact, Minimum Effort – Gojko Adžić

Maximize your impact and minimize effort with Gojko Adžić's talk on creating direct alignment with business goals through impact maps, leading indicators, and data-driven decision-making.

Key takeaways

Maximizing impact while minimizing effort requires understanding what drives business results and measuring progress towards goals.
Focus on impacts and behavior changes, rather than deliverables and features, to create a direct alignment with business goals.
The most important part of an impact map is the middle section, which describes leading indicators of value and behavior changes.
The way most organizations track work is insane, and tracking progress towards goals is often not possible.
It is important to focus on the next 2-3 months of work and identify the important impacts related to that period, rather than trying to tackle everything at once.
The stakeholder has no idea how to measure value, and it is the responsibility of the team to help them understand how to do so. *Technical expertise is not sufficient to ensure success, as many projects fail because they do not align with business goals.
Focus on achieving small, incremental changes, rather than trying to solve all problems at once.
It is the duty of the team to expose their assumptions and discuss them with stakeholders to ensure alignment.
One of the best things about an impact map is that every connection is an assumption, which can be exposed and discussed with stakeholders.
Impact maps can help organizations ship products with the highest potential to drive business results, while avoiding wasted effort and resources.
Junior engineers should aim to understand and track progress towards business goals, rather than focusing solely on technical tasks.
Measuring progress towards goals is essential, and teams should focus on creating a culture of data-driven decision-making.
The “impact map” is key to achieving the desired outcome.

Maximim Impact, Minimum Effort – Gojko Adžić

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