Project Program Details

The Project Program (Formerly known as T4) utilizes the best Innovation Tactics so you can control your project's destiny and deliver concrete results within 6 months.

Drive Results

The Project Program enables you to figure out as quickly as possible if the idea is worth pursuing and worth your time. For that purpose, it offers a series of bite-size training modules and weekly feedback sessions.

At each stage of the innovation process, different things need to be validated. For that reason, The Project Program is divided into four tiers: START, VALIDATE, TRANSFORM, and SCALE.

While progressing on your innovation journey, you will become familiar with methodologies such as:

  • Lean startup
  • Customer discovery
  • Jobs-to-be-done
  • Agile
  • Design thinking
  • Discovery driven planning
  • Reverse income statement
  • Affordable loss
  • Project management

 Start

The Start program will help your team to set up for success. In 2 weeks, it will result in clarity about:

  • The project's purpose and boundaries
  • Who the solution is for and why they will use and pay for it
  • The commitment of the team
  • The learning ability of the team

Duration: 2 weeks

Result: Project description

 Validate

The Validate program is a 12-week program that will help your team to build a fact-based business case and will give you clarity about:

  • Who the user is and why they will buy or use the new solution
  • The investment needed to bring a first version of the solution to practice
  • The financials and business model for the new solution
  • The high-level timeline of what the team will deliver when
  • What needs to happen next

At the end of the 12 weeks, your team will deliver a business case. If it turns out the project is not worth pursuing, the team will deliver a lessons learned report instead.

The Validate program is an excellent opportunity for talented employees to learn more about how the business operates and to learn what it takes to bring an idea to practice.

Duration: 12 weeks

Result: Fact-based business case 

 Transform

The Transform program provides ongoing support for teams in the development and implementation phases to create a viable new offering and serve the first client(s). Your team will receive continued guidance from an experienced innovator, to make sure that:

  • Clarity exists about what needs to be done when
  • Scope creep does not stand a chance
  • The client and user needs stay front and center
  • A valuable solution gets developed and implemented
  • The most important key performance indicators get tracked

Duration: monthly

Result: Viable solution & first paying client(s)

 Scale

The Scale program encourages the team to bring their solution to the next level and scale it so that more users and clients can benefit. Your team will receive continued guidance from an experienced innovator, to make sure that:

  • Clarity exists about what needs to be done when
  • Lessons learned from the past are not forgotten
  • The client and user needs stay front and center
  • The most important key performance indicators get tracked
  • The offering gets scaled to the max!

Duration: monthly

Result: Scaled offering

Outcomes

All teams are able to deliver concrete results within six months when staying in control, moving their project forward consistently, and putting in about five hours each week as a team.

Listen to Scott Howell, the Technology & Information Services Director of McInnes Cooper. He explains in a 2-minute video how the Steering Wheel (Formerly T4) platform benefited their law firm.