s your team struggling with unproductive meetings and workshops? Are you unsatisfied with how your team comes together to refine requirements and specify solutions? Have you heard about example mapping and want to know more? Specifying and delivering software is a process of discovery. No team has ever delivered a valuable product without discovering many things during the development process, but many teams struggle to get good at discovery. Matt Wynne created a technique called example mapping that has helped thousands of teams around the world use examples to reach a shared understanding of the problems that need solved. As a consequence there are fewer misunderstandings, fewer disagreements, and a smoother flow of value delivery. This session will teach you what example mapping is and why it works. Through a series of practical demonstrations, we will explore the essential actions needed to prepare for, facilitate, and derive value from example mapping. This knowledge will then make it simple for you and your teams to adopt example mapping successfully (using the many excellent online teaching resources available) and adapt it to your specific context.
10. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com
Reserving a book at the library
At the library, it’s free to take out books that are on the shelves,
but there is a charge of £1.00 if you want to reserve an item that’s
currently out on loan.
11. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com
Reserving a book at the library
At the library, it’s free to take out books that are on the shelves,
but there is a charge of £1.00 if you want to reserve an item that’s
currently out on loan. Apply reservation charges to
library members
Members pay a reservation
charge of £1
12. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com
Reserving a book at the library
At the library, it’s free to take out books that are on the shelves,
but there is a charge of £1.00 if you want to reserve an item that’s
currently out on loan. Apply reservation charges to
library members
Members pay a reservation
charge of £1
Andrew reserves a book
He is charged £1
13. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com
Reserving a book at the library
At the library, it’s free to take out books that are on the shelves,
but there is a charge of £1.00 if you want to reserve an item that’s
currently out on loan. Apply reservation charges to
library members
Members pay a reservation
charge of £1
Andrew reserves a book
He is charged £1
Andrew reserves two books
He is charged £1
14. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com
Reserving a book at the library
At the library, it’s free to take out books that are on the shelves,
but there is a charge of £1.00 if you want to reserve an item that’s
currently out on loan. Apply reservation charges to
library members
Members pay a reservation
charge of £1
Andrew reserves a book
He is charged £1
Andrew reserves two books
He is charged £1
£1 £2
15. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com
Reserving a book at the library
At the library, it’s free to take out books that are on the shelves,
but there is a charge of £1.00 if you want to reserve an item that’s
currently out on loan. Apply reservation charges to
library members
Members pay a reservation
charge of £1
Andrew reserves a book
He is charged £1
Andrew reserves two books
He is charged £1
£1 £2
per item
16. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com
Reserving a book at the library
At the library, it’s free to take out books that are on the shelves,
but there is a charge of £1.00 if you want to reserve an item that’s
currently out on loan. Apply reservation charges to
library members
Members pay a reservation
charge of £1
Andrew reserves a book
He is charged £1
Andrew reserves two books
He is charged £1
£1 £2
per item
Is there a limit to
the number of
books that can be
reserved?
25. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com
Andrew is a library member
Context
Action
Outcome
Andrew reserves one book
Andrew is charged $1.00
Library members pay a
reservation charge of $1 per item
Anatomy of
an example
49. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com
Keep example mapping
short
(less than 30 minutes)
All unanswered questions
should have owners
Schedule example mapping
daily
(after stand-up)
In my experience …
50. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com
Keep example mapping
short
(less than 30 minutes)
All unanswered questions
should have owners
Schedule example mapping
daily
(after stand-up)
Give team at least 24
hours notice about story
being discussed
(select relevant expertise)
In my experience …
51. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com
Keep example mapping
short
(less than 30 minutes)
Not everyone need attend
(6 or fewer)
All unanswered questions
should have owners
Schedule example mapping
daily
(after stand-up)
Give team at least 24
hours notice about story
being discussed
(select relevant expertise)
In my experience …
52. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com
Keep example mapping
short
(less than 30 minutes)
Not everyone need attend
(6 or fewer)
All unanswered questions
should have owners
Schedule example mapping
daily
(after stand-up)
Business, dev, & test
needed to be quorate
(3 amigos)
Give team at least 24
hours notice about story
being discussed
(select relevant expertise)
In my experience …
53. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com
Keep example mapping
short
(less than 30 minutes)
Not everyone need attend
(6 or fewer)
All unanswered questions
should have owners
Schedule example mapping
daily
(after stand-up)
Business, dev, & test
needed to be quorate
(3 amigos)
PO/BA brings story &
candidate rules
(not examples)
Give team at least 24
hours notice about story
being discussed
(select relevant expertise)
In my experience …
54. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com
Keep example mapping
short
(less than 30 minutes)
Not everyone need attend
(6 or fewer)
All unanswered questions
should have owners
Schedule example mapping
daily
(after stand-up)
Business, dev, & test
needed to be quorate
(3 amigos)
PO/BA brings story &
candidate rules
(not examples)
Try to write examples
first, rather than talk
Give team at least 24
hours notice about story
being discussed
(select relevant expertise)
In my experience …
55. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com
Keep example mapping
short
(less than 30 minutes)
Not everyone need attend
(6 or fewer)
All unanswered questions
should have owners
Schedule example mapping
daily
(after stand-up)
Business, dev, & test
needed to be quorate
(3 amigos)
PO/BA brings story &
candidate rules
(not examples)
Try to write examples
first, rather than talk
Give team at least 24
hours notice about story
being discussed
(select relevant expertise)
In my experience …
High bandwidth is priority
(don’t use Given/When/
Then)