Further to discussing personal values within a mentoring relationship, value examination can be extended to our projects. Expanding our curiosity from the financial as a success criteria can create a stronger story and return on our investment of time/energy/focus/ resources. Beyond creating a broader context for evaluation, values can be measured.

Feel free to use these as guidelines:

1.     The project focus is important to the (external) customer today because…<FACT / DATA>

And will remain important upon its launch date of <X> because...

2.     The <project/product> requires these behaviour changes for the customer…

3.     Offering <project/product> requires these behavioural considerations internally…

  

4.     <project/product> is:
improving (adding to existing product/baseline… 
OR 
innovating (net new everything) 
OR
necessary upgrading…(baseline is outdated)

5.     To align with other projects,/products <project/product> need to … <actions, deadlines, owners, commitment to halt/regroup if not met>

6.     Project sponsor's most important duty is…because…

7.  If we received $100,000 extra, we would add… because… 

If we lost $100,00 we would scale back by… because…

8.  Complementary efforts in other business areas include… 
And can be tracked together by… 

Execution money could be shared by...

Values are the best drivers!