Kano analysis is a great tool for prioritizing the capabilities that you build into your product. It provides a great framework for competitive analysis, comparing products in the context of what actually matters to users and not just a list of checked and unchecked boxes.
Scott Sehlhorst is an agile product manager, product owner, and business analyst and architect. He helps teams achieve software product success by helping them build "the right stuff" and "build the right stuff right." Scott started Tyner Blain in 2005 to focus on helping companies translate strategy and market insights into great products and solutions. Read more at tynerblain.com/blog.
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Using acceptance criteria to define an acceptable product works all the way up the stack from clarifying what the development team is being asked to do, to understanding what the users really need, to defining the minimum viable product that allows the company to achieve its goals.
Agile software development teams are getting caught on the merry-go-round of incremental product improvements and are failing to create innovative products. Are bad product backlogs to blame?
With the increasing trend toward outsourcing aspects of software development, Scott Sehlhorst analyzes how this trend affects companies and their agile development teams.
The Scrum process is built around the process of implementing user stories. Many teams struggle with the challenge of knowing how to split user stories so that the individual stories have atomic value and are properly sized.
The business model canvas is an informal presentation of a formalized description of why a business will succeed, built around the value proposition of the business. We explore the core of the canvas, examine the value proposition, and provide tips on how to start a business model canvas.
Without boundaries, a process analysis could go on forever. Adapting things learned from working in agile software development, Scott Sehlhorst provides tips for starting—and ending—a process analysis.