Discovery
Alpha
Artefacts
Capabilities
Team Roles
100

In what initial phase do we find a customer problem worth solving

What is Discovery phase

100

What phase do you try out different solutions to the problems you learnt about during discovery.

What is Alpha Phase

100

This tells the whole story of your customer from end to end

What is Customer Journey Map

100

What type of mentality is open to failing fast, learning from it and measuring its impact on the business

What is Test and Learn Mentality

100

A person who is responsible for creating and improving Agile processes within a team or a company.

What is an Agile Coach

200

Solutions for customers deliver this

Value

200

During alpha we explore the hypothesis by experimenting and using this method card to guide us

What is a test and learn card OR experiment card

200

What helps us understand and build a visual representation of our customers pains and gains

What is a Persona

200

Ability to use appropriate tools and techniques to conduct customer research and articulate their needs

What is Understanding Customer Need

200

This role is a servant leader who facilitates the Agile process, coordinates workload commitment and timelines with their team (squad)

What is a Scrum Master

300

You can create this during Discovery – but this is a proposition – not an absolute truth

What is Value Proposition

300

We learn what is valuable by surfacing assumptions and running what 

What are experiments (or tests)

300

This tool helps product teams visualize solutions with customers and tie it back into their problem statements

What is Opportunity Solution Tree

300

Ability to measure value delivery over time and reflect on investment decisions.

Measuring Value and Return on Investment

300

Responsible for defining the customer vision and driving business results

Product Owner

400

A plan to accomplish the promise you made with your value proposition and it is captured and communicated via your roadmap

What is the Strategy / Vision

400

The grid you use to determine the Impact / Effort on a grid

What is Prioritizing Solutions

400

This captures insights from your experiments and turns them into actionable learnings

What is Test and Learn Card

400

You understand the importance of understanding customer problems in order to uncover value and how it can be applied in your own area.

What is Validating Value

400

They build products customers love!

What is a Product Team

500

What kind of (thinking) utilizes elements from the designer's toolkit like empathy and experimentation to arrive at innovative solutions for users

What is Design Thinking

500

As you progress through Alpha phase, what type of statement do you produce to discover new things about the users and service

What is a hypothesis

500

How your product or service promises to solve your customer problems, and the benefits delivered to them.

What is Value Proposition

500

You understand the importance of being outcome not output focused and the shift from project to product.

What is Product Mindset

500

This role bridges the gap between business and tech

What is the Business Partner