Lean Canvas is a visual representation of a business model that helps companies understand and optimize the most important aspects of their business. It is based on the idea of the Lean Startup, which emphasizes the importance of rapid experimentation and continuous learning in the development of a successful business. The Lean Canvas consists of […]
The Value Proposition Canvas is a tool used to design, create, and communicate the value proposition of a product or service. It is a visual chart that helps businesses to understand and articulate the unique value that their offering provides to customers. The Value Proposition Canvas consists of two main parts: The Value Proposition Canvas
A Product Vision Board is a tool used by product managers and teams to communicate and align on the long-term goals and direction for a product. It is a visual representation of the product’s desired future state and can include elements such as the product’s target audience, key features, user experience, and overall value proposition.
The Business Model Canvas is a strategic management and lean startup template for developing new or documenting existing business models. It is a visual chart with elements describing a firm’s or product’s value proposition, infrastructure, customers, and finances. It helps entrepreneurs and managers to develop, design, and test business ideas more effectively. The Business Model
User Story Map is a technique used in agile software development to visualize and prioritize the user stories that make up a project. It helps teams to understand the bigger picture, identify dependencies and gaps, and ensure that the end product meets the needs of its users. It is a powerful tool to discover the
The success of the Product and Product Owner depends on 3 Vs – Vision Value and Validation. Product Owners should bring empowerment and entrepreneurship to the role by initiating innovation and functionality, not just receiving it. The Product Owner is a strategic level role. Scrum Guide can not tell all the strategic work the Product
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Test Driven Development (TDD) is a software development approach in which developers write tests before they write code for new features. The code is changed to make the tests pass and subsequently, is refactored to meet the functional and non-functional requirements. This sequence of steps is repeated until all test cases for all features pass and can
Linked Issues in Jira will help teams to manage the developed code, estimate the scope of work, and monitor the general and individual employee progress. Issues within a project or even several projects correlate with one another. Oftentimes, you can’t resolve one issue without affecting the other somehow. That is the reason why we are
Product Owner plays a vital part in guiding the development of a successful product. However, there are Product Owner Stances that should be adopted to maximize their effectiveness and contribute to the product’s overall success. There are preferred & misunderstood Product Owner Stances. There are six key preferred and six key misunderstood stances of a product
There are five levels of Product Owner Maturity in an organization: The Scribe, The Proxy, The Business Representative, The Sponsor & The Entrepreneur. A competent Product Owner not only possesses a deep understanding of the product vision but also exhibits a high level of maturity in executing their responsibilities. Based on the authority and responsibility,
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Kano Analysis Model is a Lean Six Sigma tool that helps us prioritization of product features, and we can understand the trend of satisfaction level of our customers. Most of the prioritization techniques are based on business values & over a period of time, almost all features expected by the user will get categorized as
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MoSCow prioritization technique plays a key role in Agile Project Management. In traditional projects, teams balance the ‘triple constraints’ of Scope, Time, and Cost. For Agile projects, however, the emphasis is on continuous value realization for the end customer. The triangle structure can be reused, but with a set of different vertices, namely – Value,
JIRA Backlog Refinement otherwise called JIRA Backlog Grooming is a key process in Scrum. Product Backlog Refinement is a regulated process where product owner and their teams review and prioritize items to be developed, and then escalate them from the product/project backlog to the sprint backlog. The priorities for these items are set based on
A successful Scrum Master ‘s key responsibilities include creating successful scrum teams with strong skills in self-organization and cross-functionality and a drive for continuous improvement. Helping & supporting Product Owners in visualizing progress, creating a transparent Product Backlog, and maximizing the value of the product. Helping organizations in making & successfully adopting Scrum by supporting management in changing processes,
Sprint Retrospective is to plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness. It is an opportunity for teams to reflect on their journey, refine their processes, and set the stage for continuous improvement. This blog unravels the significance of the Sprint Retrospective, exploring its purpose, key practices, and the transformative impact it can have on team
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JIRA Labels are tags or keywords that you can add to issues to show whether they possess certain characteristics. They let you classify issues more flexibly and more informally than by assigning version numbers or components. It is similar to the hashtag (#) used on Twitter, Facebook, or other social sites. Labels can be created and
Technical Debt is the collection of design or implementation constructs that are expedient in the short term but set up a technical context that can make future changes more costly or impossible. In other words, Technical Debt is the deferment of good software design for the sake of expediency. It presents an actual or contingent
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Velocity Chart indicates how many product backlog items have been completed, as per the Definition of Done, during a sprint by the Scrum team. Velocity is a measure of the progress of work executed by the Scrum team. It can be defined as the ‘rate at which Scrum teams consistently delivery product value’. The velocity is a
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There are three commitments (Product Goal, Sprint Goal, and Definition of Done) were added to the artifacts. Product Goal provides additional quality to the artifact to improve transparency. For Product Backlog, the commitment is the Product Goal. These are a set of tangible and measurable expressions of what success looks like for a product. It connects Product
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Affinity Estimation is a technique many agile teams use too quickly and easily estimate a large number of user stories in story points. Other estimation methods like Planning Poker or Bucket System are effective methods of establishing consensus in small projects. Affinity Estimation is a great technique if a project has just started, and have
Dot voting is usually considered a decision-making tool, not an agile estimation technique. For example Dot Voting is preferred to select the most important 2-3 items during sprint retrospective. It’s a simple and effective way to prioritize or indicate the value of several small items quickly. When there is a relatively small set of items and
Bucket System Estimation technique is used when there is a very large numbers of items to be estimated with a medium to big sized group of people, and to do it quickly. This approach provides a consistent way for teams to size stories by discussing each story in terms of pre-defined buckets of complexity before
Agile teams need to estimate the size of their stories or product backlog items. The goal of the White Elephant Game is to get a quick estimate of the relative size of an agile project and the size of the individual stories before the project starts. It gives opportunity to everyone for their voices to be
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You can create Jira Bulk Issue using a comma separated by value file (CSV). JIRA Bulk Issue import using CSV template is one of the key features of JIRA. This feature can be very useful when you have a large number of issues to create or when you need to import issues from an external
There are three categories (Agile Reports, Issue Analysis Reports & Forecast & Management Reports) of JIRA reports. Issue Analysis Reports can be further subdivided into the below-mentioned sub-categories. Average Age Report − Displays the average age in days of unresolved issues. Created Vs Resolved Issue Report − Display the number of issues created vs the number of
