VictoriaMetrics Q1 Meet Up '24 - Community & News Update
Agile inception v1.1
1. Agile Inception
Håkan Kleijn
Ver 1.1 November 2014
0768-640 336
hakan.kleijn@.softhouse.se
A Product Owner ”Tool Set”
2. This course is
based on tools
described in:
Agile Inception
And a fictitious
startup:
Sell flowers
online
3. Course objective
To give you training in a basic tool
set and a feeling for how these tools
relate and can be used together.
4. Business Model Canvas
1. Populate your idea in a
Business Model Canvas
2. Detail customer
segment(s) using User
Persona(s)
User persona
5. 3. Summarize your Value
Proposition using an
Elevator Pitch
4. Detail your channels by
designing a Customer
Life Cycle
6. 5. Create a Impact Map based on
your Elevator Pitch and User
Persona a.k.a customer
segment
6. Define impacts/release goals
(how) and
7. Release content e.g. Basic
functionality (what), and three
more release candidates
7. 8. Create a product roadmap
9. Define metrics to evaluate
your release goals
10. Set timing
Product Roadmap
8. 11. Create a Story Map
”backbone” based on your
Customer Life Cycle
phases and Customer
Relationships
Story map
9. Product Roadmap
12. Decompose your Epics into
User Stories
13. Slice out the user stories
necessary to deliver your
first release
Story map
10. Agenda
09:00 Start Course Introduction
09:30 Workshop: Business Model Canvas
10:00 Coffee
10:15 Workshop: cont. Business Model Canvas => Demo
User Persona, Elevator Pitch , Customer Life Cycle => Demo
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Workshop: Impact Map / Product Roadmap => Demo
14:30 Coffee
14:45 Workshop: Story Map / Release Plan => Demo
16:15 Course Evaluation
16:30 End
12. Business model canvas….
… is a one-pager for business model generation and validation. A business
model describes the basics of how to create and deliver value at a profit.
Business model generation tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoAOzMTLP5s
18. Business Model Canvas
1. Populate your idea in a
Business Model Canvas
2. Detail customer
segment(s) using User
Persona(s)
User persona
19. 19
Håkan
Kleijn
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Lives in Järna
(country side)
2 daughters
1 cat
Orienteering
& Yoga
Read
books
Teach
agile
Stay fit
and
have fun
Boost
my brain
Turn you into
agile
”believers”
Use the power of a persona
to understand your
customer segment and
establish a strong design
target
27. Web site
Social
media
News-letter
Web site
Home
delivery
service
Sub-scription
Fee
Paypal
100
customer
100 * 20 =
2000$ /
month
20$
/month
A need for
a beautiful
home.
Busy
city-dwellers
29. Elevator Pitch
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Additional
value proposition
formats:
http://torgronsund.com/201
1/11/29/7-proven-templates-
for-creating-value-
propositions-that-work
30. Elevator Pitch
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FOR busy city-dwellers,
WHO HAS a need for a beautiful home.
Echo Flower IS A flower decoration service,
THAT continually deliver fresh flowers.
UNLIKE traditional flower suppliers,
Echo flower uses only ecological grown flowers.
33. Make
flower
bouquets
Manage
website
& social
media
Manage
paypal
account
Deliver
flower
bouquets
Manage
sub-scribers
Call new
sub-scribers
34. Web site
Social
media
News-letter
Web site
Home
delivery
service
Sub-scription
Fee
Paypal
100
customer
100 * 20 =
2000$ /
month
20$
/month
Make
flower
bouquets
Manage
paypal
account
Manage
sub-scribers
Call new
sub-scribers
Deliver
flower
bouquets
Manage
website
& social
media
A need for
a beautiful
home.
Busy
city-dwellers
36. FOR busy
city-dwellers
need for a
beautiful
home.
Flower
deco-ration
service
Continu-ally
delivering
echo
flowers
Web site
Social
media
News-letter
Web site
Home
delivery
service
Sub-scription
Fee
Paypal
100
customer
100 * 20 =
2000$ /
month
20$
/month
Make
flower
bouquets
Manage
paypal
account
Manage
sub-scribers
Call new
sub-scribers
Deliver
flower
bouquets
Manage
website
& social
media
Web
editor
Florist
Seller
Carrier
38. Web site
Social
media
News-letter
Web site
Home
delivery
service
Sub-scription
Fee
Paypal
100
customer
100 * 20 =
2000$ /
month
20$
/month
Make
flower
bouquets
Manage
paypal
account
Manage
sub-scribers
Call new
sub-scribers
Deliver
flower
bouquets
Manage
website
& social
media
Web
editor
Florist
Seller
Carrier
Echo
flower
supplier
Courier
Paypal
A need for
a beautiful
home.
Busy
city-dwellers
39. Flowers
Flower
binding /
packag-ing
Paypal
service
fee
Carrier
fee
Salary:
Florist
Web editor
Seller
(1 individual)
Website
fee
40. Web site
Social
media
News-letter
Web site
Home
delivery
service
A need for
a beautiful
home.
Sub-scription
Fee
Paypal
100
customer
100 * 20 =
2000$ /
month
20$
/month
Make
flower
bouquets
Manage
paypal
account
Manage
sub-scribers
Call new
sub-scribers
Deliver
flower
bouquets
Manage
website
& social
media
Web
editor
Florist
Seller
Carrier
Echo
flower
supplier
Courier
Paypal
Flowers
Flower
binding
/packag-ing
Paypal
service
fee
Carrier
fee
Salary:
Florist
Web editor
Seller
(1 individual)
Website
fee
Busy
city-dwellers
48. FOR busy
city-dwellers
need for a
beautiful
home.
Flower
deco-ration
service
Continu-ally
delivering
echo
flowers
Web site
Social
media
News-letter
Web site
Home
delivery
service
Sub-scription
Fee
Paypal
100
customer
100 * 20 =
2000$ /
month
20$
/month
Make
flower
bouquets
Manage
paypal
account
Manage
sub-scribers
Call new
sub-scribers
Deliver
flower
bouquets
Manage
website
& social
media
Web
editor
Florist
Seller
Carrier
Echo
flower
supplier
Courier
Paypal
Flowers
Flower
binding
/packag-ing
Paypal
service
fee
Carrier
fee
Salary:
Florist
Web editor
Seller
(1 individual)
Website
fee
This is nothing but guesses !!!
49. Assess your business model
• Assess your business model against the questions below.
• Learn and adapt
1. Is it difficult for customers to switch to a competitor?
2. Do you have recurring revenue?
3. Do you have income before you have expenditures?
4. Is your cost side a game-changer?
5. Do you have others working for you for free?
6. How scalable is your business model?
7. Does your business model protect you from
competitors?
– How easy is it for someone to copy and catch up?
50. Create a validation test
• Create a validation test to get customer
feedback
• Validation testing requires many test
cycles with new learnings and business
model adaptation in between.
51. Validation test
Test name:
1. Hypothesis:
2. Test:
3. Metric:
4. Criteria:
Subscription is king
We believe that we will earn 0.1 million $ a year
To verify that, we will sell subscriptions for 3 months
And measure how many subscriptions we sold
We were right if we sold more than 100 subscriptions
52. 5. Create a Impact Map
based on your Elevator
Pitch and User Persona
a.k.a customer segment
6. Define impacts/release
goals (how) and
7. Features (what), e.g. Basic
functionality) for four
releases.
53. WHY? WHO? HOW? WHAT?
FOR busy city-dwellers,
WHO HAS a need for a
beautiful home.
Echo Flower IS A flower
decoration service,
THAT continually deliver
fresh flowers.
UNLIKE traditional flower
suppliers,
Echo flower uses only
ecological grown flowers.
Busy city-dwellers
Basic functionality
(R1)
(R2)
(R3)
(R4)
Using our
service
54. PRAISED
• Productivity gains
• Reduced cost
• Avoided cost
• Increased revenue
• Service level improvements
• Enhanced quality
• Differentiation in the marketplace
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These are
normas
business
reasons for
another
release
55. WHY? WHO? HOW? WHAT?
FOR busy city-dwellers,
WHO HAS a need for a
beautiful home.
Echo Flower IS A flower
decoration service,
THAT continually deliver
fresh flowers.
UNLIKE traditional flower
suppliers,
Echo flower uses only
ecological grown flowers.
Busy city-dwellers
Using our
service
Basic Functionality
(R1)
?
(R2)
(R3)
(R4)
Increase
revenue
58. 8. Create a product roadmap
9. Define metrics to evaluate
your release goals
10. Set timing
Product Roadmap
59. Product Roadmap
• A product roadmap states planned major releases,
typically one year ahead, their goals, key features, and
metrics.
• The roadmap goals are still hypotheses but our structured
modeling approach make us able to make qualitative
assumptions and not wild guesses.
• Evaluate each release against its metrics and take action.
62. 5. Create a Story Map
”backbone” based on your
Customer Life Cycle
phases and Customer
Relationships
Search Chose Change Pay Recieve Subscribe
Story map
63. Product Roadmap
12. Decompose your Epics into
User Stories
13. Slice out the user stories
necessary to deliver your
first release
Story map
64. Story mapping
1. Stories are short verb phrases that describe what people
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do
2. Stories in a map are arranged in left-to-right narrative
flow
3. The depth of a map contains variations and alternative
stories
4. Stories are organized by epics across the top of the map
5. Epics form the backbone of the map
6. You can slice the map to identify the stories you´ll need
to reach a specific outcome (release)
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What happen
between the alarm
signal and travelling
to work?
My
Morning
Story map
EXAMPLE
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Exercise Make breakfast Getting cleaned
up
Epics form the backbone of the map
68. Do push-ups Walk the dog Make coffee Brush teeth
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Exercise Make breakfast Getting cleaned
up
Stories are organized by epics across the top of the map
Stories in a map are arranged in left-to-right narrative flow
69. Exercise Make breakfast Getting cleaned
up
Do push-ups Walk the dog Make coffee Brush teeth
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Jog
Do yoga
Make Tea Apply extra
deodorant
Shave
The depth of a map contains variations and alternative stories
70. Slice out stories to reach an outcome
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• Use slices to identify all stories relevant to a specific
outcome
– ”Get out the door in few minutes”
71. Exercise Make breakfast Getting cleaned
up
Do push-ups Walk the dog Make coffee Brush teeth
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Jog
Do yoga
Make Tea Apply extra
deodorant
Shave
You can slice the map to identify the stories you´ll need to reach a specific outcome