Here are the training courseware and other resources for a Continuous Planning Workshop that I conducted in 2018 while at was at Cox Automative working as a Senior Enterprise Agile Coach.
Background on this Training
I assembled this courseware and other resources for a few hour Continuous Planning Workshop. It is based on content assembled by other Agile Coaches and especially assembled from the book User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product book by Jeff Patton available at Amazon. So do buy that book as an absolutely essential companion to this content.
In October of 2018 I conducted this workshop for one of the product lines of business while I was working at Cox Automative working as a Senior Enterprise Agile Coach.
Other Learning Resources
Epic > Feature > Story Mapping
- User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product book by Jeff Patton available at Amazon
- AgileNYC : Agile Day 2015 – Jeff Patton: How Doing the little things well make the big things possible (illustration from “Refining a Backlog…” slide borrowed from this slide deck, from slide 23)
- Jeff Patton & Associates
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- MVP, MLP, MMF and the whole Bunch – AgileApplied.com
- Defining MVP, MMF, MMP, and MMR | The Disciplined Agile (DA) Framework
INVEST & SMART
- INVEST – Wikipedia
- SMART criteria – Wikipedia
- INVEST in Good Stories, and SMART Tasks – XP123
- SMART goals – Agile in a Flash
Definition of Ready (DoR) & Definition of Done (DoD)
- Community of Learning (CoL) Training – 2. Feature Definition of Ready & Done – 2018
- Definition of Ready – Scrum Inc. – with a video by Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of the Scrum framework
- Definition of Ready (DoR) vs. Definition of Done (DoD) – Brian Will, Agile book author
- Definition of Done – Scrum Inc. – with a video by Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of the Scrum framework
- Definition of Done by Derek Huether on Leading Agile
Other Agile Resources
- Manifesto for Agile Software Development
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) site
- Scrum Guides
- PI Planning page from SAFe site
Course Topics & Courseware
The courseware that I assembled below, is based on content assembled by other Agile Coaches and especially assembled from the book User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product book by Jeff Patton available at Amazon. So do buy that book as an absolutely essential companion to this content.
Continuous Planning Workshop Part 1 – Workshop Content
- What is Continuous Planning ?
- Epic > Feature > Story Mapping
- Why is a shared understanding important ?
- What is a shared understanding ?
- How mapping supports a shared understanding
- Minimum Viable Product (MVP) & Incremental Delivery
- Techniques for determining MVP
- Workshop Group Activities
Continuous Planning Workshop Part 2 – Appendices
This content was assembled by me and other coaches and provides lots of useful supporting content for the Continuous Planning Workshop.
- Breakdown Techniques
- Story Writing
- Splitting Large Stories
- Story Slicing Examples
- Backlog Work Item Templates
- Sizing
- Backlog Grooming