Just in time resources for internal products
What Is Story Splitting Story splitting is the act of examining a large backlog item and splitting it into smaller backlog items that provide value and can be delivered in a short time frame. You can consider story splitting to be a planning technique that helps you organize your backlog into manageable chunks. You can …
What Is Example Mapping Example Mapping is a backlog refinement technique that helps you structure your team’s conversation around a backlog item. The conversation focuses on drawing out all of the relevant acceptance criteria (or rules), related scenarios and pertinent questions associated with the backlog item you are discussing. An example mapping session identifies: An …
What Is Usability Testing Usability testing is a way to test how intuitive the design, user flows and content is in your product, app or website. This form of testing consists of asking real people who are similar to potential users to perform various tasks on your product. You can use the information gained from …
What Is A Sprint Review The Sprint Review is a discussion at the end of a sprint intended to review what the team accomplished in the sprint (including demonstrating done functionality), get feedback, and determine what, if any changes should happen in the team’s plan moving forward. These changes usually consist of revisions to the …
What is a product roadmap A product roadmap is a statement of intent for how you are going to implement your strategy. The product roadmap is a living thing that indicates your best understanding at the point that you last updated it and it also reflects whatever uncertainty you faced when you last put it …
Most information systems are intended to accept, process, and provide information to either support a business process, or to provide information that people in the organization use to make decisions or to answer questions. Business intelligence (BI) efforts often start to allow users to meld information from multiple systems, or arrange data in a way …
On Friday, May 29, 2020 I did a Fireside Chat with the Hyderabad Chapter of International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA). Here are the questions that came up during the session along with my answers. I answered some of these questions during the session so these answers reflect what I would say having time to …
There’s a wide variety of roles that product people play in their organization. Along with common roles such as product management and business analysis, a new role that is starting to become more prevalent is delivery lead. Because the role is fairly new, I thought it would be helpful to examine the role, identify its …
How to be an agile business analyst explains how to apply business analysis skills in an agile manner so you can help your team.
When you work with remote product teams, you want to have a shared understanding about the problem you’re trying to solve and what your solution is supposed to look like. You want to be able to effectively collaborate with everyone on the team to make sure everyone keeps heading in the right direction and makes …
What are discovery sessions If you’ve been reading InsideProduct for a while, you’ve probably picked up by now that I focus on solving the right problem and ignore everything else. I’ve found that one, or a small series of, discovery sessions is an excellent way to identify what that problem is and also understand the …
The term stakeholders is often used to categorize everyone that a team works with who is not explicitly a customer or a user of their product. There are a lot of different types of stakeholders that have different interactions with your team. One of the more important types of stakeholders is the Subject Matter Expert …
The Build-Measure-Learn loop is a concept coined by Eric Ries in The Lean Startup (Affiliate link) to capture the feedback loop startups use to convert ideas into products. The Build-Measure-Learn loop is an application of the Plan-Do-Study- Act (PDSA) cycle, originally created by Walter Shewhart and advocated by W. Edwards Deming. Organizations have used the …
Agile has reached, and frankly blazed past buzzword stage. It’s no longer new (the term being applied to software development over 2 decades ago). And there are a lot of different perspectives about what agile is, and isn’t. There’s also a lot of myths and misconceptions about agile practices and techniques. Here’s my attempt to …
Last week I shared a way you can head off bad ideas at the pass. Yes, I know most of you are rarely involved in discussions that early. I can hear you know reading that last post and saying “that’s great Kent, but I’m never in that situation! What do I do when I get …
