For continual value delivery, stakeholders must partner to develop a shared understanding of product needs. How does this partnership gain a focused yet holistic understanding of the highest‐value requirements? How do they effectively plan the project so that the delivery team builds the right product, at the right time? Learn how to go beyond user stories and engage in “structured conversations” to explore and evaluate product needs and clearly identify what to build and when. You’ll use these conversations to fuel your daily work, refine your product backlog, and efficiently plan, analyze, and allocate product needs to allocate them to delivery cycles. Keynote by Ellen Gottesdiener, EBG Consulting Agile Development Practices ~ 05 March 2013 ~ Potsdam, Germany

1. Power Up Your Agile
Planning and Analysis:
Deliver Value via Structured
Conversations
#AgileDevPrac
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Ellen Gottesdiener
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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
Twitter: @ellengott
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eNewsletter: Success with Requirements
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4. give-away!
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5. conversations
barriers?
effective?
struggles?
efficient?
puzzles?
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6. structured
concepts conversation
holistic product wrap
needs
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7. concepts
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9. product
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10. vision
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11. ends and means
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12. 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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13. product backlog
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14. partners
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16. value decisions
benefits
costs
risks
dependencies
value considerations
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17. plan
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18. views
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19. holistic
product needs
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20. 7 product dimensions
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21. user
Users
interact with
the product
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22. interface
The product
interfaces to
users, systems,
and devices
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23. action
The product
provides capabilities
for users
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24. data
The product
includes
a repository
of data and
useful information
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25. control
The product
enforces
constraints
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26. environment
The product
conforms to
physical properties
and technology
platforms
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27. quality attribute
The product has
certain properties
that qualify its
operation and
development
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28. 7 product dimensions
functional
nonfunctional
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29. beyond stories
As a user role
I need to action data
so I <value >
action data
control
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30. structured
conversation
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32. shared
understanding
of needs
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33. “The most efficient and effective
method of conveying info to and
within the development team is
face-to-face conversation…”
The Agile Manifesto
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34. requirements
value
management
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35. structured
conversation
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36. explore each D
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37. evaluate each D
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38. assemble options
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39. confirm to learn
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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. define
validate
validate verify
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42. wrap
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43. conversations
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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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