Collaborate to discover and deliver valued products using structured conversations: Your agile team needs a holistic understanding of the most valuable product needs to deliver—just‐in‐time and just enough. Ellen shares how product partners—customers, business and technology stakeholders—engage in structured conversations to explore, evaluate and confirm product needs. Hear about essential practices you can use in your daily work that blend value‐based decision‐making, a testing mindset, and disciplined analysis. You will see how front‐loading verification and validation when discovering product needs fuels collaboration, saves development time and is instrumental to delivering a high quality product. [Presented in NYC, 01-October-2012 at Skillsmatter's the Agile BDD Exchange in New York City]

1. Explore, Evaluate & Confirm
Product Needs with
Structured Conversations
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Ellen Gottesdiener
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Explore, Evaluate & Confirm
Product Needs
with Structured Conversations
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3. Ellen Gottesdiener
Founder & Principal Consultant,
EBG Consulting
Facilitator, trainer, mentor, agile coach, conf. advisor
Certified Professional Facilitator, Certified Scrum Master
IIBA® BABOK®: expert reviewer; contributor to agile extension
Author: articles, blog, books
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4. give-away!
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5. structured
concepts conversation
holistic product wrap
needs
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6. concepts
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8. product
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9. ends and means
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10. partners
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12. value decisions
benefits
costs
risks
dependencies
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13. vision
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14. plan
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15. views
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16. views
want
need
requirement
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17. holistic
product needs
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18. 7 product dimensions
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19. product options
Alternatives, choices, possibilities…
to achieve a goal or solve a problem
for its stakeholders.
Adapted from: Gottesdiener, Software Requirements Memory Jogger
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20. user
Users
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interact with
the product
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21. interface
The product
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interfaces to
users, systems,
and devices
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22. action
The product
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provides capabilities
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for users
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23. data
The product
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includes§
a repository
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of data and
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useful information
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24. control
The product
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enforces
constraints
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25. environment
The product
conforms to
physical properties
and technology
platforms
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26. quality attribute
The product has
certain properties
that qualify its
operation and
development
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27. beyond stories
As a user role
I need to action data
so I <value >
action data
control
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28. structured
conversation
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30. shared
understanding
of needs
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31. “The most efficient and effective
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method of conveying info to and
within the development team is
face-to-face conversation…”
§ The Agile Manifesto
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32. product backlog
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33. structured
conversation
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34. explore each D
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35. evaluate each D
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36. assemble options
Quality
User Interface Action Data Control Environment Attribute
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37. confirm to learn
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38. confirm
representation acceptance criteria
feature, scenarios
epic
MMF, acceptance
story criteria list
story, Given-When-Then,
scenaris data exampls,
planguage
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39. acceptance test
Story
Scenario
business rules
context of system Given
pre-condition (state)
fixed data
what will be tested When
action
input data
result Then
output data
post-condition (state)
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40. explore
validate
execute
verify
Adapted from: Agile Alliance
Functional Testing Tools
Open Space Workshop 2007
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41. collapse the “v”
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42. define
validate
validate verify
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43. wrap
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44. Discover to Deliver™
The product partners continually
collaborate to the evolving product.
7 Product Dimensions.
The partners options for the
They identify
and cohesive chunks of
high-value options and allocate them
to plans at all views.
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