Transfer %
Knowledge: 30%, Skill-Building: 70%Learning Outcome
- Understand the thought process and steps involved during a typical product discovery and release planning session
- Using various User-Centered Design techniques, learn how to create a User Story Map to help you visualize your product
- Understand various prioritization techniques that work at the Business-Goal and User-Persona Level
- Learn how to decompose User Activities into User Tasks and then into User Stories
- Apply an Acceptance Criteria-Driven Discovery approach to flush out thin slices of functionality that cut across the system
- Identify various techniques to narrow the scope of your releases, without reducing the value delivered to the users
- Improve confidence and collaboration between the business and engineering teams
- Practice key techniques to work in short cycles to get rapid feedback and reduce risk
Deliverables
When we finish this workshop, your team will have:- A prioritized product backlog/roadmap with high-level estimates for the upcoming release
- A story map to visualize the overall product backlog/roadmap
- External and internal release milestones
- Paper prototypes or wireframes for user stories planned for first internal release
- A list of important risks and concerns the teams have identified for this project
- The confidence to start executing the product development
Techniques
Focused Break-Out Sessions, Group Activities, Interactive Dialogues, Presentations, Heated Debates/Discussions and Some Fun GamesParticipants
In the past, this workshop has been most successful if the following roles are present for all the 5 days:
- Product Owner
- Release/Project Manager
- Subject Matter Expert, Domain Expert, or Business Analyst
- User Experience team
- Architect/Tech Lead
- Core Development Team (including developers, testers, DBAs, etc.)
Ideally the number of participants for this workshop is 10-12 people.Course Level
AdvancedWorkshop Prerequisites
- Required: basic understanding of Agile (iterative and incremental software delivery models)
- Required: buy-in and support from senior management
- Highly Recommended: co-located team members for this workshop
The workshop will be completely customized to best suit your needs.
- Product Owner
- Release/Project Manager
- Subject Matter Expert, Domain Expert, or Business Analyst
- User Experience team
- Architect/Tech Lead
- Core Development Team (including developers, testers, DBAs, etc.)
Course Level
AdvancedWorkshop Prerequisites
- Required: basic understanding of Agile (iterative and incremental software delivery models)
- Required: buy-in and support from senior management
- Highly Recommended: co-located team members for this workshop
The workshop will be completely customized to best suit your needs.
Contents
| Introduction |
| Domain Overview |
| Define Product Vision |
| Ice Breaker |
| Identify Users That Matter |
| Create User Personas |
| Define User Goals |
| A Day-In-Life Of Each Persona |
| Prioritize Personas |
| Break Down Activities And Tasks From User Goals |
| Lay Out Goals Activities And Tasks |
| Walk Through And Refine Activity Model |
| Prioritize High Level Tasks |
| Define Themes |
| Refine Tasks |
| Define Minimum Viable Product |
| Identify Internal And External Release Milestones |
| Define User Task Level Acceptance Criteria |
| Break Down User Tasks To User Stories Based On Acceptance Criteria |
| Refine Acceptance Criteria For Each Story |
| Find Ways To Further Thin-Slice User Stories |
| Build Quick Paper-Prototype For Vague User Stories |
| Spike Out Risky User Stories |
| Capture Assumptions And Non-Functional Requirements |
| Define Relative Size Of User Stories |
| Refine Internal Release Milestones For First-Release Based On Estimates |
| Define Goals For Each Release |
| Sketch Out Walking Skeleton Using Wireframes |
| Discuss And Agree To A Collaborative Working Model In The Team |
| Refine Product And Project Risks |
| Present And Commit To The Plan |
| Retrospective |
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Transfer %
Knowledge: 30%, Skill-Building: 70%Learning Outcome
- Understand the thought process and steps involved during a typical product discovery and release planning session
- Using various User-Centered Design techniques, learn how to create a User Story Map to help you visualize your product
- Understand various prioritization techniques that work at the Business-Goal and User-Persona Level
- Learn how to decompose User Activities into User Tasks and then into User Stories
- Apply an Acceptance Criteria-Driven Discovery approach to flush out thin slices of functionality that cut across the system
- Identify various techniques to narrow the scope of your releases, without reducing the value delivered to the users
- Improve confidence and collaboration between the business and engineering teams
- Practice key techniques to work in short cycles to get rapid feedback and reduce risk
Deliverables
When we finish this workshop, your team will have:- A prioritized product backlog/roadmap with high-level estimates for the upcoming release
- A story map to visualize the overall product backlog/roadmap
- External and internal release milestones
- Paper prototypes or wireframes for user stories planned for first internal release
- A list of important risks and concerns the teams have identified for this project
- The confidence to start executing the product development
Techniques
Focused Break-Out Sessions, Group Activities, Interactive Dialogues, Presentations, Heated Debates/Discussions and Some Fun GamesParticipants
In the past, this workshop has been most successful if the following roles are present for all the 5 days:
- Product Owner
- Release/Project Manager
- Subject Matter Expert, Domain Expert, or Business Analyst
- User Experience team
- Architect/Tech Lead
- Core Development Team (including developers, testers, DBAs, etc.)
Ideally the number of participants for this workshop is 10-12 people.Course Level
AdvancedWorkshop Prerequisites
- Required: basic understanding of Agile (iterative and incremental software delivery models)
- Required: buy-in and support from senior management
- Highly Recommended: co-located team members for this workshop
The workshop will be completely customized to best suit your needs.
- Product Owner
- Release/Project Manager
- Subject Matter Expert, Domain Expert, or Business Analyst
- User Experience team
- Architect/Tech Lead
- Core Development Team (including developers, testers, DBAs, etc.)
Course Level
AdvancedWorkshop Prerequisites
- Required: basic understanding of Agile (iterative and incremental software delivery models)
- Required: buy-in and support from senior management
- Highly Recommended: co-located team members for this workshop
The workshop will be completely customized to best suit your needs.
Contents
| Introduction |
| Domain Overview |
| Define Product Vision |
| Ice Breaker |
| Identify Users That Matter |
| Create User Personas |
| Define User Goals |
| A Day-In-Life Of Each Persona |
| Prioritize Personas |
| Break Down Activities And Tasks From User Goals |
| Lay Out Goals Activities And Tasks |
| Walk Through And Refine Activity Model |
| Prioritize High Level Tasks |
| Define Themes |
| Refine Tasks |
| Define Minimum Viable Product |
| Identify Internal And External Release Milestones |
| Define User Task Level Acceptance Criteria |
| Break Down User Tasks To User Stories Based On Acceptance Criteria |
| Refine Acceptance Criteria For Each Story |
| Find Ways To Further Thin-Slice User Stories |
| Build Quick Paper-Prototype For Vague User Stories |
| Spike Out Risky User Stories |
| Capture Assumptions And Non-Functional Requirements |
| Define Relative Size Of User Stories |
| Refine Internal Release Milestones For First-Release Based On Estimates |
| Define Goals For Each Release |
| Sketch Out Walking Skeleton Using Wireframes |
| Discuss And Agree To A Collaborative Working Model In The Team |
| Refine Product And Project Risks |
| Present And Commit To The Plan |
| Retrospective |
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