Tuesday, November 29, 2011

From Business Goals to Product Backlog...


After this year's XP Days, I came across Gojko Adzic's effect mapping technique for deriving product features from a software company's business goals (see also his recent paper). Hence, features and user stories implemented can be traced back to a common business goal and prioritized according to the respective effect they have. On the way from goals to backlog, effect mapping determines relevant stakeholders and how they need to act in their respective real-life contexts - this might in turn be a challenge to be tackled by a design thinking team...

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