How we design Woople using agile design and develop

2. How we build Woople
Using Agile Design & Development
Max Cameron, Product Manager, Woople

3. Table of Contents
• Presentation goals
• July 1st feature estimates
• Woople release cycle
• Why we estimate
• How can we communicate effectively?

4. Presentation Goals

5. Presentation Goals
• Answer the question: “When will we have
reporting?”
• Understand the challenge we face
• Understand our methods & practices
• Make good decisions moving forward
• Learn about the pressure you encounter

6. Pivotal Tracker Reports

7. How did we get here?
• Two countries
• Stakeholders, Designers, Engineers,
• Many tough decisions

8. Planning Hierarchy
Product Roadmap 12-16 months
Release Plan 6-8 weeks
Iteration Plan 2 weeks
Day Plan 5 hours

9. Release Cycle

10. Release Cycle
Requirements
Testing & Acceptance User Goals
Implementation Prioritization
Design & Estimation

11. Requirements

12. Requirements
• Business focused
• Fuzzy
• Visionary
• Problem statements
• Multiple stakeholders

13. Goal Centred Design

14. Goal Centred Design
• Requirements to goals
• Format of a defined user goal
• Role: “As a...”
• Goal: “I want to...”
• Rationale: “So that...”
• Implementation agnostic
• Validation criteria baked in

15. Prioritization
• Ownership of decision-making
• Collaboration
• Pragmatism

16. Design

17. Design
Modelling
Sketches & Diagrams Personas
Generation Workflows

18. Implementation
2 week iterations
Bugs
Documentation Detailed Design
Programming Task Breakdown
Unit Testing

19. Testing and Acceptance
• Defects removed
• Workflows optimized based on user
feedback

20. Why Estimates?

21. Uncertainty

22. Sailing Across the Ocean
... without a GPS

23. Safety in Commitment
• Padded
• Wrong

24. What Gives?
Price Speed
Quality

25. What Gives?
Fixed Budget Efficiency is skill
Open Season

26. True Velocity exercise
week natural velocity requested velocity delivered
1 30 32 32
2 28 30 30
3 26 28 28
4 24 26 26
5 22 24 24

27. Communication
Strategy Discussion
• When will we have X?
• What will it look like?
• A better question: What will we have on
July 1st?

28. Thank You
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