Background and definitions

The GAITS platform enables teams to plan and capture progress toward completing Deliverables in an interactive display that provides a visual snapshot showing the status of a project. However, things don't always go as planned. As such, GAITS allows teams to show what happened as a result of completing a Deliverable.

Here are the options and definitions:

• As Planned: Things went more or less as expected.
• Minor Pivot: Things did not result as a expected and caused a minor change to plans
• Major Pivot: Things did not result as expected and caused a major change to plans
• Stopped Program: The result showed a fatal flaw which caused the team to abandon the program
• Launched New Program: The results identified a whole new opportunity that is being pursued in addition to the original program.

Lesson Learned

We have found that GAITS visual indication that a pivot has occurred is quite valuable as it helps all team members know if a pivot has ocurred. This way they can check the Deliverables that they are responsible for to see if they are impacted. 

Differentiating between a major and minor pivot:

The following figure helps differentiate between a major and minor pivot:

Differentiation:

• Minor pivot: causes a change of plans moving forward
• Major pivot: causes the team to go back and redo prior work while also changing plans moving forward.