Build the right thing
What is Value Driven Delivery?
80/20
What is the Pareto Principle?
The process of planning in waves as the project becomes clearer and unfolds
What is Rolling Wave Planning?
A brief statement of the desired future state that would be achieved by developing and deploying a product
What is a Vision Statement?
Project-level planning, release-level planning, and sprint-level planning. Each of those levels is progressively more detailed, and all of those levels are interrelated and interdependent on each other.
What is Multi-Level Planning?
Goals, Uncertainty, Trade offs, Speed
What are the Value Driven Delivery Principles?
Must Have, Should Have, Could Have, Won't Have
What is MoSCoW?
The attempt to plan the entire project up front.
What is Waterfall Planning?
A high level plan that describes how the product is likely to grow
What is a Product Roadmap?
Requires story point estimates and should not have any significant uncertainties in requirements
What is Sprint level Planning?
Financial Return, Time to Market, Risk, Flexibility and Adaptability
What are problems with the Traditional Approach?
Strategic, Project, Tactical
What are the Levels of Prioritization?
Progressively reduces the uncertainty in the project as the project progresses rather than attempting to remove all uncertainty up front.
What is the Agile Planning Approach?
A document that states a project exists and provides the project manager with written authority to begin work
What is a Project Charter?
Used to evaluate the overall feasibility and scope of the effort
What is Project Level Planning?
Difficulty comparing solutions, prioritizing, becoming irrational, fighting for the best solutions
What are difficulties with trade offs?
Developed originally in 1984 to provide a way to determine and model customers' levels of satisfaction with product features.
What is the Kano model?
A point in time where delaying planning beyond that point might have some impact on the project
What is the Last Responsible Moment?
An assessment by the project team to evaluate the feasibility and major risks and issues associated with the project
What is an Exploratory 360 Assessment?
Used to estimate the time and effort to complete a release
What is Release Level Planning?
This management consultant once said, "There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all."
Who is Peter Drucker?
Provides a mechanism for prioritizing requirements based on user input and feedback but also includes the expert judgement of the team
What is Relative Weighting?
Fitting the planning approach to the nature of the project
What is Adaptive Planning?
In Agile, Epics and Themes are examples of this
What is functional decomposition?
A continuous iterative process of refining and further detailing the product characteristics based on more detailed information and insight that becomes available as the project progresses.
What is Progressive Elaboration?