Minimum viable product (MVP) is one of the most misunderstood, misused, and abused terms in contemporary software development. In this presentation Jeff Patton explains the misunderstandings made by thought leaders that lead to confusion we all deal with today.
While many Scrum teams talk proudly about progress, fewer engage in rich discussions about product. Many teams who become more confident in progress, or getting work done, often embrace the more ambiguous question of product, or “Are we meeting the needs of our customers”, with some customers buying, by paying for subscriptions, and others buying in, by showing (and glowing about) their use of the system.
MVP or minimum viable product is a test of a hypothesis about the value of a product to the user. MVP allows you to quickly and cost-effectively test an idea to see if the market needs such a product.
This presentation to provides a framework with which Agile teams can assess their product context, grow confidence in the insight they have developed, and decide on their next best option to deliver customer value. This is the pattern to follow to help break out of the ‘Product Confidence Trap’.
Product metrics and key performance indicator(KPIs) have been getting increasingly more important and useful for Agile organizations that develop digital products. When done right, they can become an engine for product growth and inform great strategic and tactical decisions. When done wrong, they can lead to a huge amount of sunk resources and wasted time.
Ross Clanton and Amy Walters walk through an enterprise playbook, tactics, and case studies for how to successfully transform from a project to product based operating model. The target audience for this paper is leaders at any level of the enterprise who are driving a transition to a product-centric model. Transformations that shift from project to product require changes at every level and in every corner of the enterprise.
The Product Backlog Refinement (PBR) activity is one that many new Scrum teams struggle with. Insufficient PBR often results in long sprint planning meetings and incomplete backlog items at the end of the sprint. This article provides some tips on how to improve backlog refinement, which in the past was called backlog grooming.
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