Release Roadmap October 2011 1 Releases 0.5 to 0.8* will focus on - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Release Roadmap October 2011

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Releases 0.5 to 0.8* will focus on 4 key user driven needs 0.6 Practice and Regional Managers ** 0.5 Firm Leadership ** (Capabilities will also benefit external usrs) (Capabilities will also benefit external users) Guiding Principles About practice and regional managers: About firm leaders: • Practice managers work with practice and • Firm leaders are firm members within regional leaders to define and implement McKinsey that are in certain positions and • Time boxed 1 month releases practice and regional strategies, which above focused on each user includes both direct support of projects and • They are looking to build relationships with constituent the development and dissemination of external users at new or existing clients cutting edge specialized knowledge • Launch to and obtain feedback • They are looking to find and track notable Why we value them: from the user constituents after • They can help validate the client focused value external users and experts in their practice each incremental release or region proposition for Product X • They can help drive excitement and adoption Why we value them: around the application • They will serve as catalysts that will allow the firm to connect with alumni on expertise, industry insights, and at a client engagement level 0.8 Existing External Users 0.7 New/Transitioning Firm Members TBD CSS Firm Members (Capabilities will also benefit firm members) (Capabilities will also benefit firm members) (Capabilities will also benefit external users) About existing external users: About new and transitioning members: About firm members: • New and transitioning members are firm • Consultants in positions below project • Existing users are users that have left the members that are in the process of manager level firm for over 1 year • They are looking discover, connect, and • They are looking to re-engage with the transitioning out of the firm or have recently left the firm leverage the external user community for firm, connect with former colleagues, and stay informed about the latest firm news expertise, industry insights, and/or • They are looking for new career opportunities and/or knowledge development and knowledge ways to maintain and initiate relationships with other firm members Why we value them: Why we value them: Why we value them: • External users have expressed significant interest in • They are potential experts or industry leaders in areas • They are the new generation of external users and are connecting and building relationships with firm that the firm cares about important in developing and sustaining a strong, vibrant members. Firm member’s participation in the • Some are currently work at one of the firm’s leading external user community community is important. priority clients • They can be potential clients and help the firm drive • They will help drive content and interactions within • They are looking to get more involved with the firm new business the community and network with other external users • They want to remain involved with the firm * Release for firm members is TBD 2 **The 4 user constituents are subsets of the Firm Family. As a result their user needs can be applied to Firm Members and External users.

Release 0.5 to 0.8* will be achieved in 4 incremental releases Release 0.5 Release 0.6 Release 0.7 Release 0.8 Prepare Evaluate Release 0.5 Release 0.6 Release 0.7 Release 0.8 ….. Success backlog Measures ~ 1 month ~ 1 month ~ 1 month ~ 1 month Timeframe ~ (4/5 – 4/30) ~ (5/3 – 5/28) ~ (3/1 – 4/2) ~ (2/1 – 2/26) ▪ Enable practice and • Allow new and transitioning • Enable External users to re- • Build awareness and Goals firm members to share their engage with the firm, regional managers the connections with external information before connect with former ability to find, track, and users at new, existing, and transitioning and colleagues, and stay generate exportable lists of potential clients • Provide a structured method maintain/initiate relationships informed about the latest notable external users and with the firm firm news and knowledge experts in their practice to connect with external • Facilitate external users in and/or region that they can users • Leverage firm leaders to connecting with their next leverage to communicate career opportunity with on offline knowledge scale and build adoption for co-creation efforts Product X across the firm User • New and Transitioning Firm • Practices and Regional • Firm Leadership Constituents • Existing Alumni Members Leaders • New job boards • Saved searches • Client/company focused Capabilities • Allow external users to • Event management tool • Profile news feed update landing page with structured update and display more (e.g. registration, event info, (for followers and people advanced search information on their profile attendees list, etc) managed by admins) • Recommendations engine ▪ Highlight (and be notified • Auto-enrollment and filter (e.g. sector/function, (incorporate connection company info, etc) search results by firm of) new members that fit strength, training data) • Single sign on login for created groups my saved search results • My network of external • Post and respond to external users criteria (sphere of users (follower model) and • Ability to disseminate Firm message on a discussion influence) top 10 people I’ve worked • Geography based search news to external users and board with most • Ability to download search firm leaders • Integrate with internal single • Monitor of suspicious usage results to excel sign on More Definitive Tentative Evaluate 0.5 Evaluate 0.6 Evaluate 0.7 feedback and feedback and feedback and Re-assess v0.6 Re-assess v0.7 Re-assess v0.8 * Release for firm members is TBD 3