KonMari Your Backlog: Tidying Up Those PBIs Presented - PDF document

¡ ¡ AT3 ¡ Product ¡Ownership ¡Practices ¡ Thursday, ¡November ¡7th, ¡2019 ¡10:00 ¡AM ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ KonMari ¡Your ¡Backlog: ¡Tidying ¡Up ¡ Those ¡PBIs ¡ ¡ Presented ¡by: ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ Julie ¡Wyman ¡ ¡ Excella ¡ ¡ Brought ¡to ¡you ¡by: ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ 888 -­‑-­‑-­‑ 268 -­‑-­‑-­‑ 8770 ¡ ·√·√ ¡904 -­‑-­‑-­‑ 278 -­‑-­‑-­‑ 0524 ¡-­‑ ¡info@techwell.com ¡ ¡ https://agiledevopseast.techwell.com/ ¡ ¡ ¡

¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ Julie ¡Wyman ¡ ¡ Julie ¡Wyman ¡is ¡an ¡agile ¡coach ¡with ¡Excella ¡Consulting. ¡She ¡is ¡a ¡Certified ¡Scrum ¡ Professional ¡(CSP) ¡and ¡IC-­‑Agile ¡Certified ¡Professional ¡in ¡Agile ¡Coaching ¡(ICP-­‑ACC) ¡ with ¡eight ¡years ¡of ¡experience ¡in ¡areas ¡including ¡agile ¡software ¡delivery, ¡traditional ¡ project ¡management, ¡and ¡client ¡training. ¡Julie ¡has ¡coached ¡multiple ¡globally ¡ distributed ¡teams ¡to ¡deliver ¡and ¡drive ¡continuous ¡improvement, ¡while ¡leveraging ¡ Scrum, ¡kanban, ¡and ¡other ¡agile ¡frameworks. ¡She ¡has ¡coached ¡development ¡and ¡ business ¡teams ¡in ¡commercial, ¡federal, ¡and ¡nonprofit ¡environments ¡at ¡places ¡such ¡ as ¡Thomson ¡Reuters, ¡Caterpillar, ¡Appian, ¡and ¡DHS. ¡ ¡

KonMari Your Backlog Tidying Up Those PBIs excella.com | @excellaco Julie Wyman Raffle! Drop off a business card at the front of the room for a chance to win one of Marie Kondo’s books!

KonMari Your Backlog Tidying Up Those PBIs excella.com | @excellaco Julie Wyman

The inspiration excella.com | @excellaco

Applying Project 1: Case management tidying system support at work Project 2: Web portal development Project 3: Grants management excella.com | @excellaco

Agenda 1. Product Backlog pop quiz! 2. Why tidy up? 3. How does this work for a Product Backlog? 4. Tips on storage 5. Next steps excella.com | @excellaco

Pop Quiz! excella.com | @excellaco

QUESTION 1 How many PBIs are currently in your backlog? excella.com | @excellaco

QUESTION 2 How long has the oldest PBI been on the backlog? excella.com | @excellaco

QUESTION 3 How many sets of duplicate PBIs? excella.com | @excellaco

QUESTION 4 Are work items hiding in any other locations ? excella.com | @excellaco

QUESTION 5 Could a randomly selected team member find a PBI? excella.com | @excellaco

Product Backlog Pop Quiz How many PBIs are in your backlog? 1. How old is the oldest PBI? 2. How many sets of duplicate PBIs? 3. Are PBIs hiding in any other locations ? 4. Could a randomly selected team 5. member find a specific PBI? excella.com | @excellaco

Why tidy up?

Simplicity – the art of maximizing the amount of work not done – is essential. Principles behind the Agile Manifesto excella.com | @excellaco

Without simplicity… Mental overhead • Everything becomes noise • Can’t find what’s important • excella.com | @excellaco

As a result… Harder to make decisions • Impossible to prioritize • excella.com | @excellaco

Simplicity supports self-organization excella.com | @excellaco

Reduce future stress by making a mindset shift excella.com | @excellaco

How to start?

Five Steps

Think of Your Product Vision excella.com | @excellaco

Find all PBIs. Put them in one place. Uncover “unofficial backlogs” Combine separate lists of features, enhancements, bugs, technical debt items, etc. excella.com | @excellaco

Sort by category. Sort to help make sense What are some possible Product Backlog categories? excella.com | @excellaco

Start simply . Practice with easier items Build up your tidying skills before tackling harder items excella.com | @excellaco

Keep what “sparks joy” Delight the customer Let go of some “good” ideas “This is not only the simplest but also the most accurate yardstick by which to judge” - Marie Kondo excella.com | @excellaco

Five 1) Define your product vision 2) Find all PBIs – Steps put them in one place Recap 3) Sort by category 4) Start simply 5) Keep what “sparks joy” excella.com | @excellaco

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Decide to keep or discard first. Then worry about refining. excella.com | @excellaco

If you’re stuck… Find a PBI that definitely sparks joy Use that as a benchmark to help compare against others excella.com | @excellaco

Be respectful when discarding Recognize that emotions may be involved Appreciate the time and effort that was put in excella.com | @excellaco

Let go. Do not pass along. Don’t create clutter for another team If it’s not important enough to be on your backlog, they don’t need to it either excella.com | @excellaco

Do it all at once. Invest the necessary amount of time One product backlog by the time you’re done excella.com | @excellaco

Storage

Increase Empower self-organization by making it easy for anyone to visibility find what they need Facilitate decision-making by highlighting key information excella.com | @excellaco

Vertical Folding Before After excella.com | @excellaco

For backlogs … try story mapping Concept source: Jeff Patton https://www.jpattonassociate s.com/user-story-mapping/ excella.com | @excellaco

Story Map Benefits Visualizes the requirements Provides a holistic view Makes prioritization easier excella.com | @excellaco

Cluttered Board excella.com | @excellaco

Tidy Board excella.com | @excellaco

Board view: before and after excella.com | @excellaco

Cluttered Story View excella.com | @excellaco

Tidy Story View excella.com | @excellaco

Tidy Story View excella.com | @excellaco

Story view: before and after excella.com | @excellaco

Don’t become a storage expert Don’t focus too much on storage Keep it simple, so you’ll actually do it Not about using a particular tool excella.com | @excellaco

Wrapping Up excella.com | @excellaco

Okay, so… now what? What did you learn today that you can use to help your team ace the Product Backlog pop quiz? excella.com | @excellaco

Marie Kondo resources Website: https://konmari.com/ Netflix : Tidying Up with Marie Kondo Books by Marie Kondo: 1. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing 2. Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up 3. Life-Changing Magic: A Journal 4. The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up: A Magical Story excella.com | @excellaco

Additional resources KonMari for a Product Backlog that Sparks Joy • The Life Changing Magic of Tidying (Your Product Features) Up • Does your Scrum Team have a compulsive hoarding disorder? • The Project-changing Magic of Tidying Up Your Backlog • KONMARI YOUR CODE; REFACTOR YOUR LIFE • Four Steps to Keep Your Product Backlog Small and Manageable • 5 Benefits of Story Mps • Story Mapping Resources from Jeff Patton • INVEST in Good Stories, and SMART Tasks • excella.com | @excellaco

How to reach me… Julie Wyman julie.wyman@excella.com https://excellalabs.com/people/juliewyman/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-wyman/ excella.com | @excellaco

Don’t let the clutter sneak up Give it a try. on you… make the mindset shift now! WHY? A simpler, tidier backlog … • facilitates better decision-making • leads to better products HOW? • Do it all at once. • Sort. • Start with the easy stuff . excella.com | @excellaco

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Image Sources https://konmari.com/collections/books/products/the-life- https://www.netflix.com/title/80209379 changing-magic-of-tidying-up excella.com | @excellaco