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PM PODs Kickoff Meeting Summary Report

1. CPO (Ksenia) Key Updates

Leadership Engagement & Visibility

  • Successful presentations to senior leadership including:
    • Bhaskar (Chief Strategy Officer)
    • Jack Azaguri (CEO SMC Consulting North America)
    • Upcoming presentation to Global Management Committee (Top 40 Accenture leaders) on Dec 9
    • Potential presentation at Davos forum in January

Client Progress & Scale

  • Current goal: 15 clients by end of fiscal year
  • Challenge from leadership: Scale to 50 clients
  • Key Client Milestones:
    • Church Client: First external client employees onboarding tomorrow
    • AstraZeneca: In data collection stage
    • SSAB (Nordic Steel Company): In pipeline

Implementation Learnings

  • Identified fundamental platform challenges through client onboarding:
    • Data upload issues
    • User login complications
    • Basic functionality limitations requiring manual support
  • Need to balance exciting features (AI) with fundamental usability
  • Current focus on supporting engineering team for 1.4 release

2. CPO Goals for Next 2 Weeks

Primary focus areas:

  1. Pod formation and member clarity
  2. Each pod to develop clear understanding of user value delivery
  3. Minimum 1-2 discussions per pod about value proposition
  4. Focus on understanding how work impacts end users

3. PM Goals by Pod

Data Management Pod (Gene)

  • Focus on three main epics:
    1. Bulk upload improvements
    2. Org view integration for reference data
    3. Admin interface development
  • Initial Sprint Goals:
    • Team formation and rhythm establishment
    • Clear requirements definition
    • Design concepts for bulk upload improvements

Insights & Visualization Pod (Yannick)

  • Focus Areas:
    • Balance between improving current functionality and adding new features
    • Enhanced user guidance implementation
    • Data point interconnection and insights delivery
  • Sprint Goals:
    • Establish pod working methods
    • Create visual workflow tracking
    • Implement lean and effective processes

Virtual Agent Pod (Ben)

  • Key Objectives:
    • Make chat available with client data to all users
    • Link project/program pages with chat summaries
    • Develop change impacts structured response
  • Sprint Goals:
    • Assessment of universal chat access requirements
    • Initial UX concept and content for change impacts response
    • User testing preparation

4. CPO Vision for Pods

Focus areas emphasized by CPO:

  1. Clear User Value
  • Understand how users interact with the platform
  • Focus on practical user challenges
  • Ensure features add tangible value
  1. Quality Over Speed
  • Balance between new features and fundamental functionality
  • Address basic usability issues
  • Ensure reliable core features
  1. User-Centric Development
  • Consider user workflow and experience
  • Focus on real user problems
  • Validate solutions with users

5. Core Operating Values

Cultural Values

  1. Commitment
  • To team objectives
  • To product quality
  • To sprint goals
  1. Focus
  • On sprint objectives
  • On user value
  • On quality delivery
  1. Openness
  • Share challenges
  • Ask for help
  • Communicate blockers
  1. Respect
  • For team members' capabilities
  • For diverse perspectives
  • For team processes
  1. Courage
  • To raise issues
  • To ask questions
  • To propose changes

Operating Principles

  1. Work flows through pods, not functional groups
  2. Functional groups provide enablement and guidance
  3. Accept initial chaos while maintaining quality focus
  4. Balance delivery with learning and improvement
  5. Utilize sprint ceremonies to maintain structure

This structure provides a foundation for the new pod-based operating model while maintaining focus on user value and quality delivery.