Tag: Release Plan

“…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 […]

“…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. […]

Tailoring Project Life Cycle

28′ video by Cogent Language. This visual project walkthru shows how to use PMI’s new 7th Edition PMBOK® Guide to tailor a project lifecycle to a specific business context. It also offers guidance on how virtual teams can customize any consistent set of authorities, standards, principles, or methodologies to any specifc project situation or challenge […]