“Brand-new shiny” project(s), no legacy, everything being built and designed from scratch…. Dream scenario, isn’t it? Well, it can be a nightmare when under this description is hidden a few-years-old project that is still under construction and can’t be used by businesses/users even though it’s kinda “working.” Yep, this means a lot of mess and a few more years of addressing legacy code even before going to production. Yay, what fun! But even if you’re lost in the darkest forest, there is hope. Always. This session covers the sins that lead to situations such as no product vision, gold-plating, and too big a backlog and prescribes cures for them

3. Delivering Unicorns

4. www.mrowcakasia.eu kasia@mrowca.co.uk

5. Internal IT Department
Software house

6. Consulting...

7. Disclaimer:
all opinions are my own

8. Journey for today:
1. Are we in troubles...?
2. Sins
3. There is a hope!

9. Context is a king!

10. Internal IT Department
Software house

11. Troubles...

12. Source: Chaos raport by Standish Group, 2012
changes
failure
success
Big project Small project

13. Watermelon reporting

14. Watermelon reporting

15. When to stop investing?

16. 'Agile'

18. Time to market
Time to market

19. Sin 1: no product vision

20. 'If I had asked people
what they wanted, they
would have said faster
horses'
~Tom Ford

23. Sin 2: too big backlog

25. Road map

26. Road map
commitment

27. Sin 3: gold plating

28. After doing feature once,
you can do it better next
time, surely?!
</sarcasm>

29. Building
Building Building

36. There is a hope!

37. Vision

39. Heuristics

41. Product tree

42. categories
(modules)
features
Method source: Innovation games

44. no product
vision

45. Do minimum

46. Understand what you are
building

47. Key business process

48. 'Game changers'
vs. show stoppers

49. Get rid of 'shiny'
unfinished features

50. Accept:
app won't be perfect

51. Reduce backlog size

52. Lean backlog

53. Love vs ROI

54. Love vs ROI

55. Love vs ROI

60. Metrics

64. ∞ ÷ 2 ≈ ∞

65. too big
backlog
∞ ÷ 2 ≈ ∞

66. Too many features...?

67. No one use the product
3 2
1
Build the
missing features
Ask what is
missing

68. Number of features
Happinessoftheuser
Happy user

69. Number of features
Happinessoftheuser
Now I can’t find
anything!

70. Validate!

72. Design feedback loop

73. Measure

74. What to measure?

75. gold
plating

76. Wrap up

79. www.mrowcakasia.eu
kasia@mrowca.co.uk