Challenge your product development department by a challenging contest with LEGO bricks: "Who Delivers Value First?" - Agile or Waterfall? Product Owner Challenge is an agile game w/ Lego bricks. Its about challenging the product development to communicate clear objectives, requirements, and vision. Slidedeck contains playing instructions, examples, and further info. Material needed: (a) "Presentation User Stories for POChallenge", (b) "Process Cards for POChallenge" - both on my SlideShare account

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URL: http://bit.ly/ProductOwnerChallenge
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Not adding
components
incrementally
Instead adding
stand-alone
solutions – value –
incrementally
The Most Mysterious Thing…

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Not
adding components
incrementally
Instead
adding stand-alone
solutions
– value – incrementally
The Most Mysterious Thing…

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The Minimum Viable Product
“MVP is a concise summary of the smallest possible group of features that will
work as a stand-alone product while still solving at least the “core” problem
and demonstrating the product’s value.”
-Steve Blank
From the “Gurus”
1. A tool to manage risk and maximize return on investment for new products – Frank Robinson
2. A tool to maximize learning from customers in high-uncertainty markets – Eric Ries
3. A tool to accelerate time-to-market by targeting the least demanding customers first – Steve Blank
“MVP is that unique product that maximizes return
on risk for both the vendor and the customer”
-Frank Robinson
Minimum Viable Product is that version of a new product
which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of
validated learning about customers with the least effort.
-Eric Ries

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Meaning of “Minimum Viable”
1. “Minimal” is as important as “viable”!
Most people concentrate on one at the expense of the other.
2. A solution that you can most quickly come up with, which will solve the
problem.
Does not matter if it is crappy.
Quickly means it is minimal and if it is solving the problem even in a poor
way, it means it is viable.
3. Whole point of a MVP is to show value enough to attract early adopters and
collect feedback. This feedback is what everything is all about. – MVP is a
tool for generating maximum customer learning in the shortest possible time.

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https://pixabay.com/de/wasserfall-ozean-meer-nat%C3%BCrliche-1005895/ https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Process/waterfall.pdf
Winston Walker Royce: MANAGING THE DEVELOPMENT OF LARGE SOFTWARE
SYSTEMS.
Proceedings, IEEE WESCON, August 1970, pages 1-9.
Winston Walker Royce - Director at Lockheed
Martin Software Technology Center, Austin, Texas.

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https://pixabay.com/de/wasserfall-ozean-meer-nat%C3%BCrliche-1005895/ https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Process/waterfall.pdf
Winston Walker Royce: MANAGING THE DEVELOPMENT OF LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS. Proceedings,
IEEE WESCON, August 1970, pages 1-9.

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https://pixabay.com/de/wasserfall-ozean-meer-nat%C3%BCrliche-1005895/ https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Process/waterfall.pdf
Winston Walker Royce: MANAGING THE DEVELOPMENT OF LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS. Proceedings,
IEEE WESCON, August 1970, pages 1-9.

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https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Process/waterfall.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development)
„Inspect & Adapt“ cycles in both
Scrum defines
„incremental” = 1 sprint

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Challenge Your Product Development !https://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/7291403658/in/dateposted/
The Contest – Waterfall vs. Agile

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The Setuphttps://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/7291403658/in/dateposted/
For Each Table
 Teams à 4 persons: 1 Product Manager/PO, 2 developers, 1 time-keeper
 Each team select a Product Owner / Product Manager
 Product Owner / Product Manager opens white envelope – and read:
Team Waterfall Team Agile
 Product Owner / Product Manager picks a LEGO set and decides which
product will be built
Product Owner Challenge

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Materialhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/7291403658/in/dateposted/
 Lego sets (3x1 Creator Series)
 User Story cards
 Process cards
Product Owner Challenge

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Rules
 Only Product Owner / Product Manager has the building instructions
 Product Owner / Product Manager is not allowed to show the instructions
to DevTeam, nor to make pictures or scribbles
 Product Owner / Product Manager is allowed to return to the plan as
often she needs to inspect
 DevTeam has Lego bricks only, and no building description
URL: http://bit.ly/ProductOwnerChallenge

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/7291403658/in/dateposted/
Game Objectives
 Product Owner / Product Manager:
share product vision with your
DevTeam clearly and instruct team
as precise as possible to build the
product right
Process Objectives
 Team Agile:
 estimate how many sprints;
 for each sprint do a planning
and a retrospective after to
improve
 Team Waterfall:
 PO/PM: try to slice your
deliverables in stand-alone
usable chunks
 DevTeam: re-ensemble the
model as less as possible

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