8. Feature 1 Feature 2 Feature 3 Feature 4
Story A
Story B
Story C
Story D
Story E
Story F
Story G
Story H
Story I
Story J
Initiative
Something a
customer cares
about.
Something you
budget for.
9. Feature 1 Feature 2 Feature 3 Feature 4
Story A
Story B
Story C
Story D
Story E
Story F
Story G
Story H
Story I
Story J
Initiative
Prioritize Within...
must-have
should-have
could-have
11. Broader Value Streams
Input Analysis Ready Develop Internal-only External
Exit Criteria Preliminary Estimate
Stories broken down
Must-have stories
UI Mock-ups
Should-have stories
Tech Design
Code complete
Automated Tests passing
Manual testing
Documentation complete
Marketing Blog
Email marketing done
Website updated
Customers identified
Business case
Metrics collecting
FEATURE
Marketing
Support
Sales
Support
Product UX
Architecture
Engineering Marketing
Ops
12. Even Broader Value Streams
Business
Case
Analysis Fund Development
Collect
Evidence
Exit Criteria Feature Break-down
Other dependencies
High-level estimates
Resources allocated
Code complete
Major feature shipped
ROI
Top Customers to use
Usage Metrics
Business Case check-in
INITIATIVE
16. User/Business Value + Time Value + Risk Reduction / Opportunity Enablement
Cost
What does this make
easier? What sort of
leverage can we get?
How timely is this? What’s the
cost of missing?
How much do our
users/customers value
this?
Track a Business Value Point
18. Forecasting Dates in an Agile Way
1 Calculate Throughput across period (week, month, etc)
2 Use throughput to compute how many items on force-ranked
backlog you can complete in the chosen period.
19. Example: Forecasting Dates
XS
S
M
L
2
Point Conversion
4
8
16
Quarterly Throughput
Q1: 40 feature points
Q2: 38 feature points
Q3: 42 feature points
FEATURE SIZES
Q3
Q4
Large Feature 1
Small Feature 1
Small Feature 2
Remember that there
is prioritized variable
scope within each
Feature!!!
Large Feature 2
20. Options: Forecasting Dates
Loads of options based on process...
Artifact: Feature or Story
# of items or Sum of Estimates
Story Point Estimates or T-Shirt Sizes
22. Are our T-shirt sizes good?
XS
S
M
L
2
Point Conversion Actual Cycle Times
1d
4 3d
8 5d
16 20d
2x 4x
23. Business Value Feedback
Forecast
Our biggest customers really need
this.
This is going to kill the competition.
This is going to save use millions of
$$.
Every user is craving this.
Actuals
Yet only 2 customers start using it after
the release.
The competition copied us in a month.
Cost of training and change negated the
savings.
5% of users tried out.
24. Measure everything
● Usage
○ By customer
○ By user
● Revenue
○ Sales cycle
○ Win-loss
● Cost-savings
● Customer Satisfaction
● Developer Satisfaction
● Support Tickets
● Forum posts
● Help searches