MVP
What is the purpose of a minimum viable product?
To avoid cost and risk associated with developing the wrong product by testing a hypothesis, reducing waste, or increasing speed to customers for feedback and adoption.
What is the purpose of Personas?
Used to understand and empathize with an intended stakeholder in order to align the solution with stakeholder need
What is the purpose of Planning Workshops?
Used to determine what value can be delivered over an agreed time period
Kanban Portfolio is a useful technique for what context?
Communications
Facilitates shared understanding, collaboration, and increased communication
What is the purpose of Product Roadmap?
Used to communicate direction and progress towards the vision for a solution or initiative, and it measures progress against that vision through achieving the stakeholders' desired outcome.
What 3 steps does MVP generally follow?
1. Determine the problem to be solved
2. Identify a minimum set of features to test the hypothesis of the solution
3. Analyze validated learning from customers to determine next step
Why are Personas ranked?
To identify those will realize the most benefit from the solution design
What technique is used in preparation for a Planning Workshop?
Backlog Refinement
What do the columns of the Kanban board represent?
All the steps identified in the organization to move an initiative or item from idea to completion.
Product Roadmap enables iterative delivery by expressing features using what terms?
Now
Next
Later
a) Communications
b) Process Analysis
c) Product Mgmt or Refinement
d) Requirements Mgmt
e) Understanding Your Customer
Product Management or Refinement
What solution the team is delivering
This technique works well with both Internal and External teams
What are the Elements of a Persona?
1 Long and Short Template
2 Persona Name and Image
3 Traits and Characteristics
4 Motivations
5 Needs
6 Differentiators
What is the focus of a Planning Workshop at the Strategy Horizon?
Organizational goals, metrics to achieve these goals, and initiatives that can deliver value towards these goals.
Why is work in progress limited?
To increase speed of delivery and reduce waste
Kanban emphasized limiting WIP to increase flow through the system. The focus is on getting items through the portfolio in a timely manner over having many initiatives in progress without completion.
Product Roadmap is a strategic document and plan used to acquire a budget, define milestones, and identify check points.
True or False?
False
Agile values working solutions; product roadmaps focus on product/feature/value delivered not milestones or check points.
Target audience
The goal to achieve
The mechanism to measure learnings
What are the Limitations of Personas?
-Personas may not be a good substitute for a real user. Personas can distance a team from a user community
-Personas need to be regularly reviewed and updated.
What the the 2 parts of a Planning Workshop?
2. How - the team discusses how each item can be completed and what is needed for the team to successfully complete them.
Kanban Portfolio manages flow during the entire delivery cycle by focusing on what?
-Visualizing the work
-Limiting WIP
-Identifying bottlenecks, and stalled items
-Making decision making and rules explicit
-Incorporating feedback loops
-Increasing collaboration and continuous improvement
What are the Strengths of Product Roadmap
-Visible and accessible to all stakeholders
-Orients stakeholders to a shared focus
-Presents a unified view of the solution direction
-Can be used to facilitate a discussion of options and priorities
-There can be different views based on the audience for the information
What are the Strengths of MVP?
-Less expensive than developing a product with more robust features
-Reduces cost and risk by gathering customer feedback before engaging in a full solution
-Avoids building products customers don't want, thereby reducing risk
-Tests actual usage scenario instead of relying on market research
Personas are a useful technique for Communications?
True or False?
False
Personas are useful for Understanding Your Customer
Identifying, understanding and clarifying who the customer is and what they need or value.
What is Backlog Item Selection?
What are the Limitations of Kanban Portfolio?
-Not useful if there are different paths/columns through which an initiative can move
-Initiatives should be appropriately sized to regularly move through columns. The approach does not add clarity if items sit in the same column for a long period of time
-Best used for a single flow system. Multiple systems represented on one Kanban board will be overwhelming and not provide the necessary clarity
Product Roadmap is a useful technique in which context?
Product Mgmt. Refinement
What solution the the team is delivering