Product delivery spans the entire lifecycle of a product, from conception to customer approval. It involves cross-functional collaboration to understand customer needs and deliver a solution. A product is anything offered to satisfy customer wants or needs. Product delivery aims to balance technical debt, customer expectations, prioritization, and communication to iteratively present progress through demonstrations focused on new features. The goal is usability and addressing customer needs within the planned timeline and budget.
2. What is product delivery?
What product is?
Done – Done
Tech debt
Customer expectations
Estimation
Prioritization
Presenting product/progress
Product delivery
Developers perspective
Customers perspective
Task vs feature vs use case
Ownership
Communication
Estimating task/feature business value
What should be focused
Common mistakes
Agenda:
3. Product delivery spans the entire lifecycle, from idea to customer
and market approval.
Product delivery
What is product delivery?
It involves everyone across the enterprise working together with
a shared understanding of how the product should solve customer
problems and satisfy needs.
4. Product delivery
A product is anything that can be offered to a market that might
satisfy a want or need
What product is?
5. Product delivery
“All that’s left is to finish up the graphics, but other than that, it’s done.”
“Well, we’ll still need some final polishing, but it’s done.”
Done - Done
“I just need to run it thru some testing, but for now, it’s done.”
Do you think that sounds very done at all? It doesn’t.
6. Product delivery
Also known as “design debt” or “code debt”.
The debt can be thought of as work that needs to be done before
a particular job can be considered complete or proper. If the debt is
not repaid, then it will keep on accumulating interest, making it
hard to implement changes later on.
Tech debt
7. Customer expects to receive fully functional product.
He wants to be able to predict how big investment will be and when
we will be able to see the results.
Product delivery
Customer expectations
8. Product delivery
Process of finding estimate. After estimation we should be able to
determine how much time each part of project will take.
Estimation
9. Product delivery
Process of determining, in cooperation with customer, which parts
of project are most important and should be done first.
Prioritization
After estimation and prioritization, we should be able to present
road-map with milestones of project, and customer will know when
he will receive each part to review.
10. Product delivery
Each milestone (or even iteration if possible) should be finished with
a demo, where customer can see results of work. Demonstration
should be focused on newly added features, in a way that is as easy
for the customer as possible.
Presenting product/progress
12. Product delivery
Customer specifies more or less what he wants to receive, and
expects to have it in planned deadline and cost.
Customers perspective
13. Product delivery
Task – atomic thing to do by developer
Feature – functionality that can be used in product (consist usually
of several tasks)
Use case – scenario how project can be use (consist of several
features)
Task vs feature vs use case
16. Product delivery
When working on certain task, developer needs to keep in mind how
it will be used and how it will affect use cases.
Estimating task/feature business value