Points Don't Mean Prizes
Are you sick of seeing your team treated as a sausage machine for turning user stories into code? Can your developers only talk about how long something will take, or how exactly it will be built? In this session, I’ll explore how to get your team focused on delivering customer value instead by: • asking questions that refine stories to deliver value more effectively, rather than estimating story points and technical tasks • building and refining backlogs around customer journeys, rather than breaking down epics into prioritised lists of stories • creating a culture of continuous discovery and experimentation, rather than delivering a fixed roadmap of features This session directly addresses some common problems tech leads face in managing and estimating product backlogs. We’re giving specific methods that tech leads can take back to their teams to start dealing with those problems. More people are having to manage “non technical” discussions about customer value and this session offers a framework to help with those discussions.
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- 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IsthmusCityChips.jpg Points Don’t Mean Prizes Adrian Howard (@adrianh) quietstars.com
- 25. This is A LIE
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- 36. Three Questions That Can Help
- 52. Value questions still make stories smaller
- 68. This is A LIE
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- 70. Outcomes ★
- 75. OKRs
- 77. Objective Qualitative + Time Bound + Actionable Key Results Quantitative + Steer + Set by those responsible
- 78. O: Migrate our data customers from OldPlatform to NewPlatform platform.
- 79. O: Migrate our data customers from OldPlatform to NewPlatform platform. KR: % total data running through NewPlatform
- 80. O: Migrate our data customers from OldPlatform to NewPlatform platform. KR: % total data running through NewPlatform KR: % data pipelines running on NewPlatform
- 81. O: Migrate our data customers from OldPlatform to NewPlatform platform. KR: % total data running through NewPlatform KR: % data pipelines running on NewPlatform KR: % customers using NewPlatform
- 82. O: Migrate our data customers from OldPlatform to NewPlatform platform. KR: % total data running through NewPlatform KR: % data pipelines running on NewPlatform KR: % customers using NewPlatform KR: % customers stopped using OldPlatform
- 83. OKR
- 84. OKR OKR OKR
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- 86. Impact Mapping
- 91. Wardley Maps
- 95. This is A LIE
- 97. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tabulating_Machine_Co_Organization_Chart.jpg Conway’s Law "Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."
- 99. Points Don’t Mean Prizes
- 100. Points Don’t Mean Prizes so… Size Questions < Value Questions
- 101. Points Don’t Mean Prizes so… Size Questions < Value Questions so… You must understand value
- 102. Points Don’t Mean Prizes so… Size Questions < Value Questions so… You must understand value & The org needs to align on value
- 103. Points Don’t Mean Prizes so… Size Questions < Value Questions so… You must understand value & The org needs to align on value
- 104. Points Don’t Mean Prizes so… Size Questions < Value Questions so… You must understand value & The org needs to align on value
- 105. Points Don’t Mean Prizes so… Size Questions < Value Questions so… You must understand value & The org needs to align on value
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