Managing Products with Agility [P2]: Manage products with agility / product value

Question 1

Explain the perspective you need to have on customer value

Answer 1

• Need feedback from end users
• No point wasting time making things that users don’t want!
• Takes time to truly understand user needs
• Takes a lot of effort and time to convince people to change their minds
• Why do you want to change? - core idea!
  
  • What are you wanting to achieve?
  • How do you think will help you?
  • Have conversations to understand the REAL problems
• Preparing the ground for the change to be brought in

Question 2

Explain the learnings of how a team delivered value in 7 days

Answer 2

• Get the right people from the right areas - team of people who add value and improve the process
• cross functional team
• PO who understand the mission
• SM helps team with process and gets team to focus

Question 3

Explain plan driven model

Answer 3

• waterfall
• heaps of requirements - must finalise before going to stage 1 (analysis)
• analysis, design, develop, test, release phases
• customer cannot see anything until the end of the process
• **rigid - fixed reqs, changes must go through change management process**
• low visibility - customer in the dark about the final outcome
• plan-centric - plan in place and work on product

Question 4

Explain value drive model

Answer 4

• Have reqs and don’t need to know all of them before starting
• ordered reqs - e.g. most valuable for customer at top
• refine requirements from highest priority
• max 1 month iterations
• relesable at end of sprint - don’t have to give to client then though e.g. after 3rd iteration, let them use the product
• ****flexiblity - change reqs as needed and adapt****
• high visibility - release to customer and can use and give feedback
• customer-centric - focus on customer
• E.g. scrum