Part 3 of the "How to build the best Software Products" Series, brought to you by Blossom.co Examples & best practices for a continuous workflow covering the activity of each role in a software team. Roles: 1. Designer & UX 2. Engineer 3. Marketer 4. Product Manager Additional: 5. Activity & Reports

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How to build the best Software Products
Kanban Workflow
Best Practices for each
Role in a Software Team
Part 3

2. 1 Designer & UX
Engineer
Marketer
Product Manager
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3
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Workflow Examples for Software Teams
Reports & Activity5

3. Designer & UX
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4. 1 Designer & UX
Designer & all involved team members collect research
material in various formats.
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Tip: Research in the UX phase, but add information as well
continuously throughout the whole process.

5. 1 Designer & UX
Profound research …
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• lets the team understand a feature very well
• simplifies the upcoming process
• leads to higher quality results

6. 1 Designer & UX
Wireframes, Prototypes, Mockups
Code Examples
Keynotes, Slides
Audio, Video
Discussions, Opinions, Inspiration
Collect

7. 1 Designer & UX
As soon as research is done, the card can be marked as
ready by the designer or card owner to be pulled into the
next stage.

8. Engineer
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9. 2 Engineer
If a slot is open in the “Implementation” stage, the engineer
pulls the card into it and starts working on the feature.

10. 2 Engineer
If a slot is open in the “Implementation” stage, the engineer
pulls the card into it and starts working on the feature.

11. 2 Engineer
Development work begins.

12. 2 Engineer
Frontend Development
Backend Development
Develop

13. 2 Engineer
Blossom Integration with GitHub (recommended):
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Create a new git branch, push it to GitHub and connect it
to the Blossom card.

14. 2 Engineer
Blossom Integration with GitHub (recommended):
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Code updates get synced automatically and are visible for
all stakeholders in the card and in the daily digest.

15. 2 Engineer
If a slot is open in the “Review” stage, the card gets pulled
into it and the review process starts.

16. 2 Engineer
If a slot is open in the “Review” stage, the card gets pulled
into it and the review process starts.

17. 2 Engineer
Code Review
Quality Assurance
Acceptance Tests
Review

18. 2 Engineer
As soon as the review is done, the card can be marked as
ready by the engineers or the card owner to be pulled into
the next stage.

19. Marketer
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20. 3 Marketer
If a slot is open in the “Marketing” stage, the marketer pulls
the card into it and starts the marketing process as defined
in the marketing policy.

21. 3 Marketer
If a slot is open in the “Marketing” stage, the marketer pulls
the card into it and starts the marketing process as defined
in the marketing policy.

22. 3 Marketer
The Marketing process begins.

23. 3 Marketer
Publishing
Social Media
Email Campaign
Marketing

24. 3 Marketer
As soon as marketing is done, the card can be marked as
ready by the marketer or the card owner to be pulled into
the final stage.

25. 3 Marketer
The card gets pulled into the final stage.

26. 3 Marketer
Feature shipped! 😀🎉🐢🍭
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The card can be archived.

27. Product Manager
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28. 4 Product Manager
Sees what’s going on at a glance. Always on top of things.

29. 4 Product Manager
Bird’s-eye view about where what is in the process.

30. 4 Product Manager
Ideal for stand-up meetings in local or remote teams.

31. 4 Product Manager
Overview about who is working on what.

32. 4 Product Manager
Easily identify bottlenecks.

33. 4 Product Manager
Aware of blockers to keep the process flowing.

34. 4 Product Manager
Overview about activity on GitHub.

35. 4 Product Manager
Team Retrospectives & Kaizen.

36. 4 Product Manager
Analyze blockers & improve in upcoming iterations.

37. 4 Product Manager
Work time gets tracked automatically.

38. 4 Product Manager
Cycle Time Analysis.

39. 4 Product Manager
Evidence based performance metrics. No Estimations.

40. Reports & Activity
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41. 5 Daily Activity Digest
You can use the Daily Digest for the daily standup meeting
or to forward the current status for example.
All actions that happen
throughout the process are
delivered directly via a daily
activity digest to your
inbox.

42. 5 Activity Notifications
If you have messaging tools like Slack, Flowdock or HipChat
connected to Blossom you can get instantly notified about
important events and never miss a thing.

43. 5 Activity Notifications

44. 5 Activity Notifications

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