Getting priorities in a competing environment, e.g. regional Product Managers competing for R&D capacity
Problem: PMs with local responsibility will hardly find good global priorities, because they are too focused (and maybe rewarded) on their own market results.
Approach
- Every PM gets a number of „value chips“ representing the amount of influence of their region (e.g., the gross margin of that region)
- Possibly central management will add some chips to PMs with strategic markets
- Regional PMs can invest in the development of products and features that promote their business (i.e. they forecast business value)
- It is beneficial that PMs form alliances with other PMs to mutually promote common goals
To enhance equity
- PMs with more chips start to «invest» until they have the same amount of chips left than others
- When PMs have the same amount of chips left, they invest alternately
Multiple investment rounds
Play multiple rounds with different feature sets to invest on, when PMs cannot agree on current feature sets. To define these feature sets (and the feasibility of their combination) members of the System Team should attend the game. They also estimate the effort of the features.
Visualization of the Priority of Product Variants (Feature Sets)
