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Agile Product Owner
WorkshopElad Sofer
Agile coach co-founder @ practical-agile
twitter: @eladsof email: [email protected]
blog: www.thescrumster.com
Ilan Kirschenbaum Agile coach
co-founder @ practical-agile twitter: @_kirschi
email: [email protected] blog: http://fostnope.com/
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Connection before content
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A-HA wall
Parking lot
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Physical examination
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Express your preferences
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The product Owner
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Define the product
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Focus on business results
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Communicate
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Define standards
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Define schedule
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The captain of the boat
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The painters game
Decide who are the Artists and Designers. Artists - please leave the room. Designers - choose the messenger Designers are not allowed to talk or gesture with
Artists When using documents only simple text is allowed.
(NO speaking, drawing, or gesturing.
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Round 1 8 minutes
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Round 2 8 minutes
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OutputInput
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Concept Change
Traditionally throws content over the fence no more!
Takes an active role throughout the development lifespan.
Needs to make decisions regarding ROI every sprint.
The single wringable neck.
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Guiding principles for the PO
Talk directly and frequently with your customers
Talk directly and frequently with your development teams
Engage the development teams in creating value for your customers
Maintain your products quality and agility do not let technical debt accumulate
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat.
I dont much care where , said Alice.
Then it doesnt matter which way you go, said the Cat
![Lewis Carrol Alice in wonderland]
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Create a lean canvas for your product
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The marshmallow challenge
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3 simple rules
Build the TallestFreestandingStructure
TheEntireMarshmallow Must be on Top
Use as Much or as Little of the Kit
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The marshmallow Challenge
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Size Matters
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Building the wrong product
Wave
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Building the right products
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User personas
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User persona template
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Create your own personas exercise
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User Stories
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Card
Conversation
Confirmation
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User Stories
A recommended practice to write requirements
Are not use cases!
Describe requirements from the users POV
Suggested formats:a) As a . I would like to. [so that.] b) In order to {achieve something} a {persona/user} would like to {do something}
If you cant fit the story on an index card, get smaller cards!
Modelled for discussion, to overcome the communication gap
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Investing in User Stories
Independent
Negotiable
Valuable
Estimate-able
Short/Simple
Testable
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User Story Examples
As a customer I want to be able to check my current balance
As Margaret I would like to be able to see the overall balance of the customers
A report showing last week sales vs. current week
In order to stay connected, as Joe I want to get all my social-media notifications in one app
As a network admin, I want to see a visual map of faulty network elements, so I can analyze errors quickly
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In order to work effectively with User Stories, as a Product Owner, I want to reserve space
for some meta data
SizePriority
Best Before End Epic
This is just an example
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Functional vs. Non Functional
Functional - anything that the product is intended to do to serve its purpose
Non functional - anything else
What is non functional tends to be elusive
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Examples for Non-Functional Requirements
Usability - e.g. number of clicks
User experience - e.g. scroll acceleration
Performance - e.g. latency and throughput
Sizing - e.g. period of transactions to keep
Scalability - e.g. multithreading/multiprocessing/multi-whatever-ing
Availability e.g. 3-9s/4-9s/5-9s
Also security, certifications, legal, and so on
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Examples for Non-Functional Requirements
In order to compete in the market, 3,000 sales-agents should get a quote in less than 1 second, 24x7
Scroll acceleration in list boxes should feel like on iPhone
In order to avoid data-loss, the recording module must handle 1,000 concurrent calls
In order to reduce hardware costs, the system must meet 5-9s availability with 140% peak-time resources
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Write Some User Stories for Your Product
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Tools for generating requirement
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Based on personas
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Story mapping
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Examine the timeline
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Story Mapping Example
TimeA website for freelancers to find customers
Register Post offering get leads Close deals Get paidCreate account
Edit account
Register company
Delete account
Invite friends
Forgot password
Offer service
Offer package
Discount codes
Affiliates
In-site ads
Tagging
Contact via mail
Contact form
Page visitors
Analytics
Search leads
Update site with deal details
In-site contract templates
Get behaviour analytics per
customer
In-site mail system
Publish free content
Update offline payment
Secure credit card
Paypal support
Automatic invoice
Customize invoice
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Create a story map for your product
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Why Prioritize?
Deciding what will be developed in each iteration/release
Reacting to
Requirements / needs (market)
Actual development capability (size)
Technology / Feasibility (risk)
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How to Prioritize?
If it is not hard, it is probably not good enough!
Several methods exists:
Survey users to understand value (e.g Kano)
Focus on ROI (e.g. MoSCoW)
Risk analysis
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MoSCoW
Introduced with early concepts of agility (DSDM, RAD)
Intended to quickly analyze desired scope for the short time-boxes ahead
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MoSCoW
Must have Must have at least one Must
Should have As important as Must, but not necessarily time critical
Can have Maybe some low hanging fruit, for example
Wont haveEither dropped, or not now. Not necessarily not important
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Simple ROI analysis
Put chart from NSN PPT
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High Risk Low Value
High Risk High Value
Low Risk Low Value
Low Risk High Value
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Risk-Driven: The objective is to start with the most important and riskiest features better early than late. Tackling hard, problematic issues early is difficult and painful
Simple Risk analysis
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Kano Model
A model to understand and classify users needs
Classify to Mandatory, Linear, Exciters, Neutral, Indifferent
Mandatory - Must haves, cant sell without them
Linear - The more the better
Exciters - Great if there, no problem if not
Reverse - May satisfy some users, but dissatisfy others
Indifferent - Most users dont care
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Classification Example
Mandatory - Can make phone-calls
Linear - Memory size, Battery performance
Exciters - Holographic display
Reverse - Automatic Facebook check-in
Indifferent - Built-in IDE
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Kano Diagram
(Exciters)(Linear)
(Mandatory)
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Kano Survey
For each feature ask participants two questions:
What if the feature will be there?
What if the feature will not be there?
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Kano Survey - Example
Question
How would you feel if your phone featured a compass?
If your phone did not have a compass, would you like it?
I disl
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Its O
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Im N
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I Like
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Analyzing a Single Requirement
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I Like
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I dislike it
Its OK
Im Neutral
It must be
I Like it
M Mandatory
L Linear
E Exciter
I Indifferent
R Reverse (can be either way)
Q Questionable
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Analyzing Results - Medial
Requirement M L E I R Q Result
Requirement 1 50 35 7 8 0 0 M
Requirement 2 42 55 1 2 0 0 L
Requirement 3 20 25 45 8 2 0 E
12 15 11 62 0 0 I
M Mandatory
L Linear
E Exciter
I Indifferent
R Reverse (can be either way)
Q Questionable
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Analyzing Results - Average
Question
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R I I I M
R I I I M
R I I I M
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I dislike it
Its OK
Im Neutral
It must be
I Like it
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Prioritize using the kano model
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Kano Categorization Table
Question
Q E E E L
R I I I M
R I I I M
R I I I M
R R R R QI d
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Its O
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Im N
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It mus
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I Like
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I dislike it
Its OK
Im Neutral
It must be
I Like it
M Mandatory
L Linear
E Exciter
I Indifferent
R Reverse (can be either way)
Q Questionable
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Sizing User Stories User stories become more granular over
time.
Usually the stories starts as very big items (Epics) and are split into smaller sized items.
Optional size - 2 stories per team per week.
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When & How ?
Requirements grooming \ Refactoring meeting
Done by the PO with the team
Grooming = Splitting, clarifying & estimating
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Splitting User stories Splitting across the data model.
Support only a subset of attributes Splitting across operations
CRUD \ parts of a protocol Splitting on results - Success and failure scenarios. Splitting cross-cutting concerns like Logging \
Security. Splitting functional & non-functional requirements Stubbing\mocking external dependencies
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Choose the biggest user story you have and split it into smaller User stories
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Acceptance Criteria
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Acceptance Criteria
The terms and conditions to be met in order to accept a requirement as Done
Are not the Definition of Done
Acceptance Criteria are specific for a requirement Represents the contract the team accepts with each
Definition of Done is a set of standardsReflects the degree of engineering skills of the team
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Acceptance Criteria
Are progressive towards a requirement being Done
Are SMART
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Relevant
Timely
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Acceptance Criterion
Is a simple to follow condition
Reflects an incremental step within the requirement
Helps the team visualize what will it look like when it gets Done
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Acceptance Criterion
Is not:
A set of instructions
A design document
A user-guide
A use-case
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Acceptance Criterion
Recommended format GIVEN a pre-condition WHEN an action happens THEN an expected result occurs
Some people call it a test [And some others resent the notion of tests in requirements]
Can promote a test-first culture
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Acceptance Criteria Examples
GIVEN login dialogWHEN user enters username=Mickey AND password=Mouse THEN result=Successful Login
GIVEN login dialogWHEN user enters username=Mickey AND password=TheMouse THEN result=Unsuccessful Login
GIVEN login dialogAND login_type=secure WHEN username=Mickey AND password=Wrong WHEN submit WHEN submit THEN result=User Blocked
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Acceptance Criteria Examples
GIVEN order AND order_status=New AND number_of_items=1 AND WHEN Submit_order THEN Result=Order OK AND Workflow_status=bla bla" AND Processing_Time=500msAND
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Acc. Criteria for Splitting Stories
Login with username + password
Failed login
Enter wrong password 3 times
Password expired
3-part login
Session timeout
Basic
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Executable Specifications
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Executable Specifications
Acceptance Criteria become actual tests
Actual tests activate code-to-be-written via fixtures
Code gets tested as soon as it gets written
GivenWhenThen
Test Framework Fixture
ActualCode
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Specification Workshops
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Specification Workshops
A practice to enhance and improve acceptance criteria
Increases team engagement
Increases business-domain knowledge
Good practice to eliminate Chinese Whispers
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Specification Workshops
Performed as part of the backlog grooming
Discuss specific examples
Product owner contributes to understanding the business motivation
Programmers contribute to technical edge-cases
Testers contribute to behavioral edge-cases
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Write acceptance criteria for your top priority items
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MVP
MVP = Minimum Viable Product A way to test the business assumptions.
Does the product provide value? Will people pay for it? How long will it take to build the
complete solution?
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MVP Examples
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Come up with an MVP for your product
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Defining the standards
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Definition of DONE
Terms of satisfaction of the product owner.
Defined by the PO with the team.
Example:
Design, code, tested, installer ready, documented, less than 10 known bugs.
Identical for all items in the backlog.
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Beware of undone work
Undone Undone Undone Undone
Stabilization sprint(s)
Sprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3 Sprint 4
Undone = riskUndone = no visibility Can we release ?
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Technical Debt
Time
Work left
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So How
much will this MVP
cost?
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S U I C I D EPlease consider it
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There is no known way to accurately calculate the cost of a s/w project
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Estimating cost (in advance) Once you have estimated the scope you may try
and put a price tag on it You have several methods:
Use past data to estimate progress Works better with same team, same
technology and same product Run a single cycle to try and get a rough
estimate on progress Educated guess
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Educated guess (1)Estimate all User stories using story points
(Relative estimate) Take several stories which you have
relatively high confidence in. Without looking at the points, estimate
them in time units. Calculate average for a story point (A
range)
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Educated guess (2)
Now you have the time effort estimate (range) for a single point.
Multiply the total points in your backlog with the time per point parameter.
Send the price quote to your manager. Pray.
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Educated guess (Example)
Now you have the time effort estimate (range) for a single point.
Multiply the total points in your backlog with the time per point parameter.
Send the price quote to your manager. Pray.
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Educated guess (Example)
We need to estimate cost for 500 points. We choose 3 stories - A(8),B(13) & C(5) A is estimated at 20 MD = 2.5 md/p B is estimated at 40 MD => 3.07md/p C is estimated at 10 MD => 2 md/p
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Educated guess (Example)
1 point = 2md 3.07md
Totals backlog is 500 points.
The estimate is calculated : 2mdx500 3.07mdx500
Estimate is 1000md 1535md
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Reacting to Changes
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Tracking progress To guess progress, you need the following
combination: Average completion rate (aka Velocity,
yesterdays weather) Total remaining work Definition of Done being followed
You can ask how much time left? Total unfinished / avg. Velocity Time and cost derive from the previous one
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Visualising the data
Visualizing the data should provide answers stakeholders are looking for:
Content status What is complete and what is not
Progress status
How are we progressing according to original estimates?
When do we expect to be done?
When will feature X be ready for review?
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Burndown chart analysis
Just by looking at the Product\Release burndown, we can smell issues
Combining the standard BD chart with other, more advanced data can really teach us a lot about our product
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May apear that there is no progress
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Earned Value Management (EVM)
A simple way to visualize
Scope
Schedule
Cost
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EVM
Scope
Accumulated value of done things
If estimating value is hard, use relative value
If estimating relative value is hard, try using size (it may be better than no number at all)
Alternatively use number of known stories
Schedule
Plotting iterations (or other cadence) on the X-axis
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EVM
Cost
If obtaining cost is hard, use other abstract representation
Team/s allocation is usually simple enough
Avoid using cumulative micro data (e.g. timesheet reports)
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We would rather be wrong than uncertain
Dan North
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Earned Value Monitoring
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Typical S Curve
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S Curve
Explore - maximize discovery
Stabilize - maximize variance
Commoditize - maximize efficiency and a good sign to move to the next thing
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EVM - Exercise
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Decide what to do now?????????
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Long term"
Sometimes the org \ market requires you to plan ahead several releases.
Ways to do that is:
Story mapping (Focuses on scope)
Velocity based (Focused on time)
EVM (Focuses on budget)
Dont! Focus on continuous delivery of business goals
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Story Mapping Revisited
Time
A website for freelancers to find customers
Register Post offering get leads Close deals Get paidCreate account
Edit account
Register company
Delete account
Invite friends
Forgot password
Offer service
Offer package
Discount codes
Affiliates
In-site ads
Tagging
Contact via mail
Contact form
Page visitors
Analytics
Search leads
Update site with deal details
In-site contract templates
Get behaviour analytics per
customer
In-site mail system
Publish free content
Update offline payment
Secure credit card
Paypal support
Automatic invoice
Customize invoice
Release 1 Release 2 Release 3
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BDC Revisited
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EVM & Forecasting
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Dont! Focus on business goals. How?
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Impact mapping
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Impact mapping
Business Goal
Who can help achieve the
goalHow can they help
What can i do to
encourage them to do it?
Who
Who
How
How
How
What
What
What
User Story
How could i do it?
User Story
User Story
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We want 1000 more freelancers
registered
Registered freelancers
Unregistered freelancers
Other site owners
Friends
Family
Invite friends
Posting about the site
Give bonus for invites
As a freelancer i would like to get 1 month free when i invite a friend
As site admin i would like to freelancers that
have more than 5 invited promoted on
search results
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Choose a goal (You can use the key metrics in your lean canvas)
And Create an impact map
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Questions? "Parking lot
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FeedbackCan we quote you?
Can we use your name?