Exploring discover to deliver!

Yaaqub Mohamed (Yamo) — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:24:00 GMT

Dear Fellow BAs,

Discover to Deliver was released by Ellen and Mary a few weeks ago. I got an opportunity to interview them and ask about what insipred them to write this book, and also discussed in-depth the various facets of the book.

If you are into agile product planning and analysis, I highly encourage you get a copy of this and also listen to the podcast.

Here is the Sneak Peek of the Episode

Their experience with helping numerous organizations with introduction of agile or transition to agile.
Discussion around the pendulum of the industry.
The reason why teams leave out details in the user stories. The reason why they are skipping a few dimensions from the seven dimensions.
The importance of using visual tools to help improve the conversations.
The framework of understanding the highest value options. Discussion around value and options. Product partnership the trilogy – business, technology and customer partners.
Why they like using product champion vs product owner. Explore / Evaluate and Confirm..
The pain points this book is solving Why they believe that this book serves the entire team.
The biggest problems facing agile teams and how this book addresses them.
Use of color and symbols in the book.
The rationale behind the title “Discover to Deliver” The swinging through in the infinity symbol.
The bigger view of the product.
Why product is more important that project. Product Vs Project. How value changes with time in an initiative. Discussion around organization of the book.
High level walkthrough of the book. Walkthrough of the 6 sections.
The seven product dimensions. The color semantics for the dimensions. Product manager and Project manager – the integrated language.
Example of how they used the colors / dimensions for creating user stories. The meta-process to iterate through the seven product dimensions. The preview, the now view and the big view. Why this book is for the team.
How this book relates to the agile extension of the BABOK.
How different readers can read this book (product manager, product champion, analyst).
One big message for the readers from Mary and Ellen. The team gaining, obtaining and sustaining a shared understanding.

Download the mp3 file and listen to episode here -> Discover to Deliver

Hope you find this episode of AuthorCast useful.

Cheers!
Yamo

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Exploring discover to deliver!

Here is the Sneak Peek of the Episode