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It's hard to sell the value of cross-team, inner sourced projects that don't provide a direct impact on company revenue.
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Here's a data-driven way to represent your project that both articulates its value and amplifies it.
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# Context
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##Context
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* You are responsible for a cross-team that serves as a platform for others in the company.
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* The cross-team project does not deliver any direct value for company revenue.
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# Problem
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##Problem
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Cross-team projects can potentially have a very large impact on the company yet are difficult to represent in a data-driven fashion.
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As a result, it is easy and common to either pursue projects that does not provide real value or to underfund what would otherwise produce great value.
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# Forces
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##Forces
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* Projects need to show value (objective or subjective) to company leadership in order to be funded.
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* Cross-team project value is dispersed across multiple end business units.
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* Due to this dispersal, cross-team project value is difficult to measure directly.
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# Solution
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##Solution
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Set in place a pattern and model of how to value cross-team projects.
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Such models give us the tool that we need to focus and amplify high-value collaboration for the company.
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In-practice, as long as these valuations are within an order-of-magnitude of reality and one-another, they are sufficiently accurate to fill these purposes.
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They will provide a head-and-shoulders improvement in on-the-ground results over the ad-hoc valuations (and resultant effects) described in the **Problem** section at the beginning of this document.
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# Resulting Context
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##Resulting Context
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* Data-driven means to discuss the value and funding of the cross-team project with leadership.
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* Key metrics around the cross-team project instrumented in raw form.
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* Defining how the cross-team project provides value tends to lead to it actually producing greater value for the company.
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* Generally-successful project and "buzz" around it.
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# Known Instances
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##Known Instances
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* Nike
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# Authors
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##Authors
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* Russ Rutledge
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# Acknowledgement
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##Acknowledgement
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* Jeremiah Wright for teaching me to think about cross-team projects as an internal business dealing in the currency of developer time.
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