PIM-Go Manifesto of Values
PIM-Go is founded on 4 values:
Simplicity
“We believe in practices that are simple, understandable for those who lead or participate in them.”
There are several practices to be used in product development. Without a clear understanding of those, there will be a lack of team engagement and less value delivery.
Thus, PIM-Go seeks to be simple by filtering what is essential for developing an outstanding product through an understandable flow (Big Picture). Particularities of each organization can and should be incorporated as needed, though without losing sight of the final simplicity. Complex workflows for dealing with exceptions should be avoided and direct communication promoted.
Fail Fast
“We believe that failing is inherent in the learning process, but it must be anticipated as much as possible.”
“Fail Fast” is directly related to “Learn Fast”. Organizations adopting PIM-Go should create environments that foster experimentation, validation and learning, preferably as early as possible.
Thus, PIM-Go includes stages and activities specifically designed for this purpose. As an example, the Conception stage uses ideation, design and feedback techniques to validate value hypotheses at an early stage, when few resources have been spent.
Breadth
“We believe that products have different market characteristics and contexts and should therefore have different approaches.”
PIM-Go is not a methodology, but models and techniques that can and should be adapted by organizations according to the characteristics of products and projects to be developed. Both models, PIM-Go Agile and PIM-Go Hybrid, cover largely recurrent situations in product and project management.
However, the nature of a product or project does not necessarily imply its adoption in all the organization’s initiatives. As an example, PIM-Go’s program and portfolio management is comprehensive to incorporate different initiatives developed with predictive, hybrid or agile processes.
Ease of Use
“We believe that theoretical models should be associated with guidance and artifacts that facilitate adopting them quickly in practice.”
The lack of practical guidance on processes is also one of the reasons for decrease in the value created by teams. Thus, PIM-Go has contents integrated in the model that detail each stage in order to facilitate its use in organizations.
In many cases, these stages are supported by templates and Canvases with step-by-step instructions. This does not imply, however, that other techniques or adaptations cannot be used. On the contrary, throughout PIM-Go’s flow, teams and organizations are encouraged to choose the technique that relates most closely to their characteristics.
An example is Risk Analysis. While there are several techniques for this purpose, PIM-Go suggests adopting a model based on three Canvases (Assumptions and Constraints, SWOT and Analysis). However, if the organization is familiar with another technique that achieves the same goal, that technique can be used.