Main takeaways:
- Walk you through real case study of how an MVP was negotiated, defined and delivered
- Why Minimal Viable Product helps reduce cost and time to market, mitigate risk and increase ROI
- How MVP's provides business with a flexible approach thus allowing to adapt change.
6. Inspiration
To make world a better place:
● Help build awesome software products
● Love working with teams
● Teach Isha Hatha Yoga
● Build and Fly RC planes
13. Return On Investment
a. Monitory -- Release to Earn
b. New discoveries - Release to Learn
c. Growth - Increase in User Base
d. Happy Clients, Happy Team
21. First Sprint to Success
1. How to navigate towards changing goal?
2. How to adapt?
3. How to get intelligent user feedback?
4. How to shorten ROI path?
The answer can be a MVP approach
22. SPRINTING TO SUCCESS - Incremental Changes
SPRINT 1
SPRINT 2
Many Sprints to Product Success
Intelligent
User
Feedback
Deliver
Business
Value
Change
and Adapt
Early ROI
Quick Time
To Market
24. Stretto
1. Bankruptcy Management Firm
2. Mid Size Company
3. Transforming from Waterfall to Agile shop
4. Co-located in Irvine, Poland, India, New York
25. Problem
1. Rapid Growth - Scalability
2. Determine cost for each case
3. Generate Invoicing
4. Bill the client
26. Generate Cost Per Case
1. Time Sheet Entry
2. Define Roles & Permissions
3. Generate Reports for monitoring and pricing
4. Timesheet Lock Functionality
5. Internal Employee and External Employee
6. Login and Privileges
7. Import Time Entries from Excel
8. Cost = Hours * Dollar Amount ( Role Based)
29. Process of defining MVP
1. Identify business Value
2. Planning board with high level user stories
a. Excel
b. Stickies
c. Any other collaborative tools
3. Calendar Planning Meetings
4. Engage StakeHolders & Technology Reps
5. Refine, Define, Schedule
30. Challenges
1. MVP may change - refinements, boundaries
2. MVP is a Final Product (false notion) - Manage
Expectations
3. It takes effort to find clear business values
4. How to create an impactful MVP:
a. Release to Learn
b. Release to earn
5. Every Persona may have entirely differant perception of
business value.
31. Benefits of MVP
1. Creates value in early on
2. Infuses trust amongst business and technology
3. Establishes trust and strong relationships
4. Provides intelligent and actionable feedback
a. Improvements in dev, qa process
b. Enables User Centered Testing
c. Reduces Risk to final delivery: Ex: AWS
d. Process from inception to deployment is validated
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