Reverse Chaos Method of Requirements Prioritisation

Reverse Chaos Method of Requirements Prioritisation

Gena Drahun

Gena Drahun [ˈɡə-na dra-ˈgün]

More than 100 design projects…

Experience with small projects…

Experience with large projects… •  Failed: 75% (3 of 4) •  Great success: 25% (1 of 4)

Chaos Manifesto Standish Group

Chaos  Report,  Standish  Group  

Study of

Project Success

Successful  76%  

Challenged  20%  

Failed  4%  

Success Rates of Small* projects

* Less than $1 million in labor content

Challenged  52%  Failed  

38%  

Successful  10%  

Success Rates of Large* projects

* More than $10 million in labor content

Large Projects vs. Small Projects

•  10x times more decisions to made

•  7,5x lower success rate

Can we make less decisions and provide the same customer value?

Study of

Features Used

Hardly  or  never  50%  

SomeFmes  or  occasionally  

30%  

OHen  20%  

Usage of Implemented Features

Not  implemented  

33%  

Hardly  or  never  used  

33%  

Used  someFmes  or  infrequently  

20%  

Used  oHen  14%  

Planned Features

Even if you have half your users asking for a feature it doesn’t necessarily mean they will actually use the feature. What people say they will do is often radically different from what they actually do.

hLp://www.mindtheproduct.com/2013/05/the-­‐minimally-­‐viable-­‐feature-­‐approach/  

… there’s a much bigger problem… : people are often incapable of articulating why they do things or how they would behave in the future.

hLp://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerdooley/2012/10/04/market-­‐research/  

Reverse Chaos

Scope of a Sample Product: •  90 Features •  ~ 900 User Stories

Let’s apply the statistics from Chaos Report

14% Features will be used often

(1 feature of 7 planned)

Select <N1> features that you will be using (expect to be used) often

Closed Card Sorting: •  Individual/ Group Sorting •  with Product Team/ Users/ Business

MFP? Minimum Functional Product

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.  

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry  

20% features will be used sometimes

(1 feature of 5 planned)

From the features left, select <N2> features that you will be using (expect to be used) sometimes

Second round of Card Sorting

“Optimal” Product scope?

hLp://www.jeffgothelf.com/blog/agile-­‐doesnt-­‐have-­‐a-­‐brain/#sthash.riyIEay3.dpbs  

Agile doesn’t have a brain. Bill Scott

… no mechanism for determining if they’re building the right feature.

Jeff Gothelf

THINK  WORK  SMARTER  NOT  HARDER    

Almost the

END

MVP

Who of you know what is MVP?

Are you sure?

We define MVP as… unique product that maximizes return on risk for both the vendor and the customer.

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Frank Robinson Coined the term “Minimum Viable Product” in 2001

http://www.syncdev.com/minimum-viable-product/

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Frank Robinson, Coined the term “Minimum Viable Product” in 2001

http://www.syncdev.com/minimum-viable-product/

* Hurdle rate is the minimum acceptable rate of return. Most companies use 12% hurdle rate.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_acceptable_rate_of_return

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Ash Maurya Author of “Running Lean” and creator of “Lean Canvas”

http://leanstack.com/minimum-viable-product//

Minimum Viable Product is the smallest thing you can build that delivers customer value (and as a bonus captures some of that value

back).

hLp://www.mindtheproduct.com/2014/10/lean-­‐product-­‐management-­‐the-­‐mvp-­‐culture-­‐within-­‐every-­‐featureenhacement-­‐development/  

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Gena  Drahun,  September  2015  |  With  compliments  to  Jussi  Pasanen  and  Aaron  Walter  

Build the product small but complete, not by a part, by a slice or by a layer.

One step further?

MVF Minimum Viable Feature

hLp://www.mindtheproduct.com/2013/05/the-­‐minimally-­‐viable-­‐feature-­‐approach/  

You can set the level of “perfection” per individual feature

Choose the quality of your product ingredients

*  Stephen  Anderson’s  Experiences  Pyramid  

Meaningful  

Pleasurable  

Usable  

FuncFonal  

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