Great 3′ intro to this key construct for many of today’s projects, especially those where the knowledge needed to build the product does not already exist.
Category: Modeling Development
Creating and maintaining, for all key stakeholders, high-level visual representations of what is to be developed and how, that is, of a) what “done looks like” and b) of project phases by which the team expects to get done.
“How to Get Your JIRA Product Backlog Right”
Nice 27′ video on conceptualizing and managing product backlog. Uses JIRA as an example software platform for managing it “right” and, for conceptualizing it “rIght”, the acronym DEEP – Detailed appropriately, Estimated, Emergent, Prioritized.
“…Depicting Project Scope and the Context Diagram”
Examples are the context diagram and use case diagrams. Such models are very useful strategically. They complement product visions, stories, or value propositions, customer segmentations, customer personae, etc. Also, they can be progressively elaborated into more detailed structural and/or dynamic models. Here is a fine video – 8 minutes or so – on four such […]
“Context Diagrams for Scoping Projects”
Context diagrams represent a project’s product boundaries or “scope”. They model the product at a high level, in its “done” context. They do this by representing only the entities that interact with the product in that context. Thus, they do not represent the parts of the product or its behavior over time. As high level […]
“Tornado Diagrams…”
Here is a 4′ introduction to two key constructs in quantitative risk analysis, namely sensitivity analysis and the tornado diagram. Useful slides, basic definitions.
“What is Backlog Grooming?…”
Lots of good content and links in this short video on a key topic for agile PM and product management. (Though some of the production decisions can be a bit distracting).
“Scrum vs. Kanban”
Nice 5.5′ video explaining these two approaches to agile project management. It is also a useful introduction to PMi’s 6 Disciplined Dgile Delivery lifecycles, of which, 4 are based on Scrum and Kanban.
“Story Mapping – Brainstorm and Plan your User’s Journey Visually”
On this topic, here is a very nice 2′ video. Though done as a CM, it is quite useful.
“…Lean Roadmapping and OKRs…”
Here is a fine 43′ presentation on the topic of “lean roadmapping”. It connects a) product discovery, risk management, and day-to-day project work to b) corporate goverance, “North Star” objectives, and power relationships between C-level and project teams. As presented here, the work of “roadmapping” corresponds in many ways to what is also called in […]
“User Story Mapping 101”
Check out this nice 3′ video on user story mapping. “User Story Mapping” is a technique agile project teams use to organize product backlogs comprised of user stories. It was developed and popularized by Jeff Patton. This technique is very similar to that of customer journey mapping, which is popular and important for marketing purposes. […]