Product Scoping and Prioritisation
Product Development in Practice
- Instructor-led, Online
- Course Category: Business Analysis, Product Management, Agile Methods
GBP
45
Instructor-led, Online
Duration: 2 hours
Course Code: TXV-BAP-4527
Skill Level: Intermediate
Product Scoping and Prioritisation
Overview
Today, more than ever, we are witnessing flux everywhere. Change and chaos are posing the biggest challenge to all of us today, but in them also lie huge opportunities and avenues for success. Getting your priorities right will help you not only to be successful at creating a great product, but also in continually delivering superior experiences to your stakeholders, customers and users. As an IT professional, you need to prioritise the product’s features, plan your product releases, expedite the time-to-market, and help in marketing activities such as product launch campaigns. To learn about proper scoping of a product, and explore the tools and techniques to help prioritise, enrol to TEXAVI’s Product Scoping and Prioritisation course now!
Who can attend?
- Anybody with or without work experience
- IT professionals (eg., Developers, testers) considering a move to BA role
- Non-IT people who want to learn IT skills thinking of a career switch
- Graduates and university students who aspire to get into IT industry
- Students who have just passed their B. Tec, A-Levels or college studies
COURSE OUTLINE
- Overview and setting the context
- Introduction
- Prioritisation in software development
- Inputs and outputs for prioritisation
- Core principles in scoping
- Popular methods in prioritisation
- Prioritisation in agile methodologies
- The MoScoW method
- Kano’s model and prioritisation sliders
- The Goals, tasks and tools model
- Best practices in scoping
- Summary – Q & A
What will you learn?
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Define what prioritisation in the context of software product development
- Explain the context and scope of prioritisation
- Talk about the benefits and value from prioritisation
- List the people involved in the prioritisation and scoping
- Discuss the six facets of prioritisation in product development:
- Reliable quality
- Functional utility
- Technical feasibility
- Contextual usability
- Visual desirability
- Commercial viability
- Describe the mapping of STOp technique to timelines:
- Strategic –> Vision ( 3- 5 years)
- Tactical –> Product/release goal (1 – 3 years)
- Operational –> Iteration goal (2 – 4 weeks)
- Clarify the saying “Plans are nothing, planning is everything!”
- Elaborate on the steps to perform prioritisation:
- Estimate
- Prioritise
- Develop
- Evaluate
- Talk about the inputs and outputs for prioritisation
- Discuss some of the best practices in scoping
- Explain the core principles of scoping:
- What you don’t need is as important as what you do need
- Scoping out > Scoping in
- First broaden it, before narrowing down
- Separate user needs from product features
- Using the TEXAVI Matrix for scoping exercise
- List and discuss the popular prioritisation methods in software development
- Importance vs urgency matrix
- POLDAT Technique
- Pugh Matrix
- Buy a feature
- 20-20 vision
- Discuss the importance of prioritisation in agile development
- Relate prioritisation with backlog grooming and story refinement
- Elucidate the use of prioritisation in agile deliverables:
- Product backlog
- Release backlog
- Iteration/spring backlog
- Epics and themes
- Stories, tasks and sub-tasks
- List some of the prioritisation techniques and tools
- Describe the following techniques and tools, highlighting their applications:
- MoSCoW technique
- Kano’s model
- Prioritisation slider
- Goals, tasks and tools model
What do you need?
There are no pre-requisites for this course. There is no need for any prior experience, working knowledge or awareness of software development or projects experience. The course is suitable for experienced professionals working in the industry or academia, aspirants and early stage professionals, as well as students in universities and colleges. Professionals and aspirants from technology, business, operations or sales, are all welcome to explore and understand the importance of having clear vision and roadmap in the journey for creating successful products.
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Trainer Profile
Your trainer for this course is Pardha Saradhi Mantravadi. Pardha is a seasoned and well-qualified trainer, coach, mentor, influencer and thought leader. He has rich and varied IT-industry experience of 25 years, working in different roles as an IT professional with blue-chip organisations viz., HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Dyson, Asda, Cambridge University Press, Roche, King’s College London , Royal Society of Chemistry etc. Pardha delivers his training sessions by blending the concepts and principles with practical insights from real-life projects and programs…click here to view the complete trainer profile.
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Texavi Toolkit
Team TEXAVI created relevant videos, podcasts, blog posts, white papers, posters and articles for your use. Check the below content out to understand more about the product scoping and prioritisation:
- Prioritising for success in product development and product management
- Behaviour change and design framework – Texavi’s Do It Now framework
- Manage user expectations and experiences – TEXAVI’s poster
- Product management practices in agile development projects
- MoSCoW prioritisation method – Watch the animation video
- Addressing the problem of MANY in product scoping and prioritisation