Devops for Growth

A Sprint Review is perhaps one of the most difficult elements in the product development with Scrum.

1) Are all the relevant Stakeholders, Users, Customers invited and participating in your Sprint Reviews?

2) Do all the participants understand the “purpose” of the Sprint Review? What are we inspecting? What are we adapting?

3) Does your Development Team demonstrate ownership of the "Done" increment?

4) Are the discussions at the Sprint Review focused around the Product Increment, the customer needs, and the customer's feedback?

5) Are the participants using the Sprint Review as an opportunity to create a shared understanding among the people who create value (Development Team) and the people who benefit from it (End users, Customers)?

6) Does the feedback received at the Sprint Review create a direct and transparent impact in your Product Backlog?

7) Is the Product Owner adapting the product direction based on the customer's feedback to improve ROI?

8) Are the timeline, budget and scope being reviewed and adapted?

Depending on the project, your demo may take the form of sketches or diagrams, a working prototype, new functionality, or a new product. The key is to iterate on it as your project takes shape.

Materials

Paper

Whiteboard

Markers

UI mock-ups

Video


Step 1
Create your end-to-end demo

An end-to-end demo typically starts off as a high-level, low-tech, low-fidelity visualisation of the solution you have in mind – e.g., a diagram or sketches of UI screens on a table napkin. For an existing product or service, your demo should also reflect how your work will fit within the current experience.

As the project becomes more clearly defined, the demo matures – similar to iterative prototyping. It's critical that it shows how a user discovers the product, feature, or service, how they interact with it, and how they leave. Otherwise it's not end-to-end.

In this post, we’ll explain the Liberating Structure ‘15% Solutions‘ and how we've used it. It’s a wonderful structure that can ignite big change by starting with small, individual contributions.