Product Flashcards
Acceptance Criteria
A set of predefined requirements that must be met to mark a user story complete
Design Principles
Design principles are value statements that describe the most important goals that a product or service should deliver for users and are used to frame design decisions. When successfully composed and used, design principles ensure consistency in decision-making across designers and teams, removing the need to debate simple tradeoffs and letting designers worry about complex problems.
Design System
A design system is a collection of reusable components, guided by clear standards, that can be assembled together to build any number of products and services. It contains branding, a content style guide, design principles. components and pattern library. Its made to be used by product, marketing, and engineering teams.
Epic
An epic is a large body of work that can be broken down into a number of smaller stories. Epics often encompass multiple teams, on multiple projects, and can even be tracked on multiple boards. Epics are almost always delivered over a set of sprints.
Persona
Personas are typical users whose goals and characteristics represent the needs of a larger group of users. A product typically has more than 1 persona. E.g. Tower has 4 personas: Experimentalist, Bioinformatician, System administrator, and Business Administrator.
Task
A task is a single unit of work broken down from a user story. A task is usually completed by just one person.
User journey map
A journey map is a visualization of the experience and the process a person goes through to accomplish a goal. User journeys help to analyze the current state, map gaps, and issues, align team members’ understanding of the journey, envision the future, and plan the following steps to improve a user’s journey. Every journey includes actor(persona), scenario, phases, steps, tools in use, emotions, and opportunities (critical unmet needs).
User story
A user story is an informal, general explanation of a software feature written from the perspective of the end user. It has a format of: “ I as a….(persona) want to… so I that…” User stories are the building blocks of epic. User stories are almost always delivered in one sprint. The user story also contains acceptance criteria.
User/End-User
A user is a person who is actually using the product/service to accomplish tasks. It is not a person who creates, develops, tests or markets it.
