Strategic MVP and Iterations

Karol McCloskey, View Points | September 10, 2012 by | 3 Comments

Each strategic project is a set of related user stories – Liz Rice, MindTheProduct

The lively discussion continues around exactly how strategic is Agile if you constantly run short Sprints. Doesn’t it take longer to be strategic?

Actually no…The two concepts (Agile & Strategic) are not mutually exclusive! I read a very interesting article this weekend by Liz Rice who outlines exactly HOW to do this. She’s keen on being realistic and keeping on track.

Liz advocates using a roadmap and planning to prioritize User Stories needed to build the MVP, keeping in mind that it is best to not bog down in details. Plan for the predictable things and get buy-in from your development teams. We all know priorties can and will change, that’s what Agile does so well. Don’t sweat the small stuff but remember if you don’t consciously integrate critical MVP “must have” features into the Quarterly Plan you’ll be forever dealing only with short-term and “urgent” requests.

And that’s no way to develop world class software.

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3 Responses to “Strategic MVP and Iterations”

  1. Jim Ewel
    September 10, 2012 at 9:22 am #

    Karol, great article, but I missed the link to Liz’s article. I found it fairly easily doing a google search, but is there a link in the article that I just missed?

    Jim

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    • Karol McCloskey
      September 10, 2012 at 4:22 pm #

      Let me look that up for you. Karol

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