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Agile Visual Modeling Techniques

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Brainstorming Workshop

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Common Challenges with Requirements

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Limited access to stakeholders

Conflicting priorities

Customers don’t know what they want

Customers change their mind

Getting the RIGHT SMEs

Missing requirements

Jumping into the details too early.

Not thinking outside of the ‘current’ box

Too much focus on one type of requirement

Not separating the What from the How

Developers don’t understand the problem domain

No clear definition of ‘Done’

Moving from Abstract to Concrete


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The Agile Lifecycle

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Agile Requirements Principles

Design upfront a process for collaborative requirements gathering Identify and engage a Product Owner and knowledgeable SMEs Acquire effective facilitation/elicitation and visual modeling skills Focus on breadth early, on depth later Break down/Slice requirements to the right level Define ‘Acceptance Tests’ upfront Keep a ‘Just Enough for the Next Step’ attitude

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Designing Your Requirements Gathering Process

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Cut Scope Creep by Modeling Early!

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Agile Requirements Elicitation Techniques

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Visioning

• Product Box – Vision Statement

• User Roles, Personas

• Use Cases Diagrams

• Process Diagrams

• UI Flow Diagrams

• Context Diagrams

Brainstorming

• Group Brainstorming

• Facilitator Led Callout

• Post-it Note

• Breakout/Converge

• Story Mapping

• Silent Sorting

Breakdown/Slicing

• CRUD

• Acceptance Tests Slicing

• Process Steps

• User/Platform

Deep Dive

• Acceptance Tests

• Test Scenarios

• Example Tables

• UI Prototyping and Wireframes

• Business Rules

• Activity Diagrams


Agile Visioning Toolbox

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Users: Personas, Use Case Diagrams

User Interface: UI Flow, Wireframes

Process/Activity Diagrams

Context Diagrams


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Vision Box

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Create a figurative box that

represents your product



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Context Diagrams


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Sample Persona

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Use Case Diagrams

Who are the actors? What are their Goals?

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Context Diagrams


UI Flow - Sample

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User Interface Modeling

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Sample UI Prototypes


Scott Ambler www.AgileModeling.com

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Wireframes and Mockups


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Context Diagrams


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Process Diagram: Alternative Paths

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Building a Product Roadmap

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Oct Nov Dec Jan Sept Aug

Enterprise Dashboard

Setup Org Objectives/Goals

Reports

Team Agile Assessment

Leadership Assessment

Strategic

Alignment for

Team Backlog

Setup Team

Team Technical Assessment

Release 1 Release 2 Release 3

Team Individual Assessment

Team Health Radar

Team Performance Assessment

Multi-Team Program Setup

Program Health Assessment


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YOUR Questions?

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