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Parking Lot Diagram

November 20, 2017 by Kent McDonald

What Is a Parking Lot Diagram A parking lot diagram is a way to visually communicate status of work on a product in the context of major blocks of functionality intended to deliver a specific outcome. The parking lot diagram uses boxes to indicate the relationship between the different levels in a product functionality hierarchy, …

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Internal Product Opportunity Assessment

September 11, 2017 by Kent McDonald

What Is the Internal Product Opportunity Assessment Marty Cagan in his book Inspired suggests a product opportunity assessment. Cagan’s assessment consists of ten questions to ask when examining a product opportunity to elicit more information about it and determine whether it is worth pursuing. I’ve compiled a similar list of questions for people working on …

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Six Questions

August 29, 2017 by Kent McDonald

What are the Six Questions? The six questions listed below help guide your discussion about your organization’s differentiating activities. These six questions represent two different perspectives. You can use the first four questions to identify differentiating activities in your organization: 1) Whom do we serve?2) What do they want and need most?3) What do we …

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Measuring Business Value Is Not The Points

June 12, 2016 by Kent McDonald

I facilitated a version of the Product Owner Value Game at IBADD2016 . Dojo Breddels and Paul Kuijten created the Product Owner Value game to use during their coaching efforts to help people become more value driven. They presented the game at Agile2015 where they shared the rules of the game and provided some thoughts …

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Purpose Based Alignment Model

February 18, 2012 by Kent McDonald

What is the Purpose Based Alignment Model? The Purpose Based Alignment Model, created by Niel Nickolaisen, is a method for aligning business decisions and process and feature designs around purpose. The purpose of some decisions and designs is to differentiate the organization in the market; the purpose of most other decisions is to achieve and …

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