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The BA and the MVPGuiding the Solution that’s Needed

Leading Advantage, Inc. 2018

About Me

• Kelley O’Connell, PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP, ICP-BAF

• Project Manager 20+ years

• Scrum Master 10+ years

• Agile Trainer & Coach 5+ years

• LinkedIn Learning Author 3+ years

• Passionate about: My Family, Life-Long Growth & Learning

• Hobbies: Travel, Art, Theater, Literature, Particle Physics (seriously!)


Agenda

Define the MVP

The Agile Business Analyst

The Intersection of the BA and the MVP

Guiding to the MVP

Conclusion


Define the MVP


MVP vs. MMF

MVP = Minimum Viable Product

Eric Reis, Lean Start Up

Tool for Exploration and Hypothesis Validation

MMF = Minimum Marketable Feature


MVP | Build – Measure - Learn

Test your Product

Vision Hypothesis Early

Capture Customer

Feedback

Generate Revenue to

Fund Future Features

Get to Market Quickly

with Minimum

Expenditure


The MVP – Your Turn

Start with the Vision

It’s Monday Morning and You’ve Got to Be at Work on Time

What do you normally do to get ready?

Make a list of all your steps…



It’s Monday Morning and You’re Going to Work BUT You Woke Up Late

What changes based on your time constraint?

Now, spend a few minutes defining this process…


The Agile Business Analyst


The BA Role

Traditionally

Large Requirements Elicitation Processes

Focus on Documentation

Agile

Capture Requirements as a Reminder for Future Conversations

Light-Weight Documentation

Just Enough, Just In Time

Agile Lifecycle Management Tool becomes the Source of Record


Critical Agile BA Skills

Carry the Vision Forward

Maintain the Big Picture

Understand and Communicate Details

Effective Facilitation

Business-to-Team

Team-to-Business

Everywhere In Between

Emotional Intelligence

Understand Desire vs. Need

Negotiate Best Path Forward


The BA and The MVP

Clarify the MVP with the PO

Keep the PO Focused on Minimum Deliverable—No More, No Less

Prevent Scope Creep for the MVP

Challenge the Development Team

Keep the Team Informed on WHAT the MVP is

Watch and Eliminate Development Gold-Plating

What About the Scrum Master

Process Owner


Getting to the MVP


Step 1: What Problem Are you Trying to

Solve?

BE Your Customer

Who is Your Customer?

Why do they need this Product?

How can the Product help?


Step 2: Understand Your Competitors

What Products are in your Target Market?

What will Differentiate Your Product?

What do Your Competitors Do Well?

How can you Adapt those Ideas?

Where are there Gaps your Product can Fill?


Step 3: Define the User Flow

What Steps will your Customer take to Reach the End Goal of your Product?

Don’t worry about Features yet

Focus on Process Stages

What is the Value Attained at Each Process Step?


Step 4: Identify Features

Decompose Each Process Step into Component Features

This is the Brain Dump Stage

Capture EVERYTHING you think could be Valuable

At this Step, you’ll have More Features than will become your MVP

Look for Groupings and Subsets – which items logically belong together

Use a Story Map to Prioritize the Features You’ve Identified

Which Features are the Minimum Required for Initial Release?

Don’t Worry about Feature Size Yet


Step 4: User Story Map

Step 5: Build – Measure - Learn

Define the Scope for the Initial MVP

Features are Prioritized, now Size them

Goal is to target MVP release in roughly a Quarter

Remember the goal for the MVP is direct Customer Feedback to Validate your Business Assumptions

Sequence the Features

Technical Dependencies

Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)

Decompose the MVP Features into User Stories

Keep the Story Map Visible to the PO and Development Team

Challenge anything that isn’t represented on the Story Map of your MVP


Step 5: Build – Measure - Learn

Prepare for MVP Release

Alpha Release a.k.a. Friends & Family Release

Feedback Mechanisms

Portal?

Survey?

Focus Group

Establish Feedback Threshold to Beta Release into Market

Feedback Mechanisms

Build Story Maps for Future Releases



Vision:

For the Active Family who Needs

Groceries Delivered at Home, the

Grocery Guru is a Delivery Service

App that Stores your Product

Preferences and Delivers What

you Want in your Timeframe.


Step 1: What Problem are we

Solving?

Step 2: Understand your

Competition

Step 3: Define the User Flow

Step 4: Identify Features

Step 5: Build – Measure -

Learn

Conclusion

The Agile Business Analyst is the Essential Pivot Point to Attaining the MVP

Your key skills of Business Understanding, Tech Savvy, Big Picture Focus, Detail

Understanding and Emotional Intelligence will keep the Team on Track

Challenge the Whole Team to Maintain the MVP Focus

Reaching me

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelley-oconnell

• Meet and Greet Tonight!

• Hotel Deco, Monarch Bar and Grill

• 1504 Harney St.

• Thursday, Sept. 27th

• 6 PM – 8 PM

• Complimentary hors d’oeuvres, wine, and beer


https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelley-oconnell

Thank you!


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