Overview

Product Discovery is a five-day hands-on workshop with stakeholders, teams, SMEs, Product Managers, Architects, and everyone responsible and interested in identifying the MVP and define a release plan for the product.

Day Wise Agenda

Day 1

• Participant's Introduction: Who am I, What my role is, How can I support this group, Why am I most concerned
• Solution/System/Product/Services Introduction: Fit, ROI, Value, (Why, How, What)
• Domain Introduction: Market, Opportunity, Size, Segment, (Identify, Study, Research, Analysis, Report)
• Business Aspiration Definition: How we want to build/ get there?
• Solution/System/Product/Services Vision/Goal Setting: What we want to build?
• Customer Expectations Analysis: Why we want to build?

Tools and techniques used during day one - Press Note, SWOT, Crossing the Chasm, Product Vision Board, Risk Register, System Role & Expectation Matrix, Customer Interviews, Personas.

Day 2

• Building Initial Idea List: Business Case
• Defining Solution Context: Capabilities and Value Hypothesis
• Identify Features Backlog: Feature and Benefits Hypothesis
• Creating Feature Map: Feature Dependency Chart

Tools and techniques used during day two - Product Canvas, Capability Hypothesis, Product in the Box, Story Mapping.

Day 3

• Defining Architecture Schema: Heat Map, HLD
• Define Object Relationship: Information/System Flow Charts
• Identify Themes: Customer Journey
• Define Minimum Viable Product: Initial Roadmap and Milestone
• Define Initial Release: Prirised Feature List

Tools and techniques used during day three - Architecture Heat Map, System/Components Flow Charts, Customer Journey Maps, MVP, Roadmap, Release Plan.

Day 4

• Define Stories and Acceptance: Spec by Examples
• Break-down Stories: Big to Small Business Value Iterations
• Slicing Stories: Fat to thin Business Value Increments
• Story Mapping and Detailing: Dependency, Risk, Assumption, Non-functional requirements
• Storywise Prototype Sketching: Whiteboarding and Rough Sketching

Tools and techniques used during day four - SbE, Story Map, Risk ROAM, User Interface/System Interface, Prototype.

Day 5

• Relative Size Estimation of Stories: Affinity Estimation, T-shirt Sizing
• Refine Release Plan with Estimation and Capacity: Capacity Driven Plans
• Release Goals Formulation and Updation: SMART Goals
• Milestone Review Cadence Setting: Cadence Planning
• Design Working Prototype using Tools (Optional activity)*: wireframes using in Vision
• Risk Assessment and Management: Updated Risk Management Plans
• Bucketing Iteration Plans: Next 2-3 Iteration Plans
• Commit the First Release Plans and Retrospect: Team & Stakeholder Commitment

Tools and techniques used during day five - Relative Size Estimation, Capacity Planning, Cadence, Iterations, Draft Press Release.

Learning Objective

• First day of Product Discovery workshop is focused on Understanding and Defining Business Goals, Customer Expectation, and Product Vision.
• Second day is focused on Ideating and Listing, Business Epics, Solution Capabilities and Features, and the Feature Maps.
• Third day is focused on defining Architectural Heat Map, Defining System Component and relationship, Customer Journey, and MVP based initial roadmap, milestone and release plans.
• Fourth day is focused on diving deep in converting requirements to executable stories, by breaking-down and slicing techniques. Along this, a detailed analysis of Dependency, Assumption. NFR and Risk Assessment is done using Story Mapping technique and Prototype Sketching.
• Fifth day is focused on Refining and Committing the first release using Relative Size Estimation, Wireframing, Risk and Capacity Planning.

Course Deliverables

The Bootcamp is designed to deliver a concrete outcome each day

• A detailed analysis of a domain, business goals, market, and customer analysis
• Detailed business case analysis, List of potential feature set for the product, and Feature dependency mapping
• High-level design, List of features by priorities, workflows, and milestones
• A wall full of User Stories in story map format, and, a final workflow document for actual designing & final designs for the workflow as Prototype Sketches
• Estimated Stories, Release and Iteration Plans for initial terms with goals and capacity driven milestones.