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Foundation
Discovery practices start with the current as-is state and help you ask important questions about outcomes.
Why are you doing this? What problems are you trying to solve, and for whom? How will you measure the results?
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5 Elements Canvas
Building empathy and collaboration between silos to solve complex problems.
6 Dimensions of Discovery
Gather, document, sort and prioritise our challenges and bright spots across 6 dimensions.
Abstraction Laddering
Reconsider a problem statement by broadening or narrowing its focus
AEIOU Observation Framework
A heuristic framework used for ethnographic observations.
Alternative Worlds
Use different perspectives to generate fresh ideas
Backcasting / Pre-mortem (Premortem)
Performing a project or product premortem
BHAGs (Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals)
Create compelling, long-term goal that can inspire and motivate groups of people to take action.
Business Priorities Exercise
Get alignment on what will drive value and realise goals.
Change Agenda
Capture and define the strategy changes or shifts that an organization or engagement needs to achieve in order to realize their desired outcomes
Chase the State
Assess progress and the current state of any type of software delivery work in a holistic way
Cognitive walkthrough
Make your service more useful
Comparing Concept Maps
Identify differences in team members' mental models
Crazy 8s
A fast sketching exercise to generate solution ideas
Lightning Decision Jam
A workshop to solve any problem, with any amount of people
Design The Box
From ideas to essential features and outcomes
Domain Storytelling
Learn domain language. Talk about requirements. Tell domain stories.
Dominating Forces
Surface risks and issues, identify metrics, and define the impact of strategy execution before it starts.
Emotional Journey
How users feel at each stage of the experience
Empathy Mapping
A collaborative tool for gaining insight about humans (customers, users, stakeholders, etc.).
Event Modeling
To model Event-Driven Software Systems
Tormenta de eventos
Un método rápido e interactivo de descubrir los procesos de negocio.
Event Storming
A rapid, interactive approach to business process discovery and design that yields high quality models
Experience Mapping for Agile
Understand individuals' actual experience through a process, to identify priorities from a new prespective
Fly on the Wall
A Crowdsourced Approach to Problem Solving
Formal Relational Contract
Govern highly complex relationships that demand collaboration and flexibility which exist in an ecosystem
Futurespective
Looking to the future
Hackathon
A collaborative event; encouraging teams to come together and build solutions
How Might We _____ ?
Turning insights into questions that spur creative solutioning
Hopes and Fears
Reveal your team's expectations and doubts before starting a new journey
Impact Mapping
An engaging, graphical, strategic planning technique
Independent Service Heuristics (ISH)
Sparking collaborative conversations to identify software boundaries that facilitate fast flow.
Is – Is not – Does – Does not
Provide a structured approach for clearly understanding and defining a problem, object, concept, or situation.
Kano Model
Easily visualize and explain the impact and priority of different features
Lean Canvas
A 1-page business plan template to help you focus on problems, solutions, key metrics and competitive advantages.
Lean UX Workshop
Solve real problems for real users
Lean Value Tree
A simple tool to align people and initiatives across all levels of the business
MBOs (Management by Objective)
Improves employee motivation and commitment.
Metrics Based Process Mapping (MBPM)
Map your process in detail and collect key baseline metrics
Mission Statements
Capture and define an inspirational purpose of an organization as the starting point of a strategy development process
MoSCow Method
The objective of using the MoSCoW method is to prioritize and categorize requirements or features based on their importance and relevance to a project.
Motivation Mapping
Understanding the motivation
MSPOTs (Mission, Strategy, Plays, Omissions & Targets)
Set product goals when you need to unite your team around a strategic vision.
NCTs (Narrative, Commitment, Task)
Give more context around goals as to ‘why’ they were defined
News Headlines aka Cover Story
From idea to essential product features and outcomes
Non-Functional Requirements Map
A collaborative approach for capturing non-functional requirements
North Star Framework
Helps achieve alignment on the 'why' and overall purpose.
Objectives & Key Results (OKRs)
Align people around a shared ambitious goal and then maintain focus through measuring progress regularly
One-Pager
Communicate objectives clearly, establish shared understanding and create enthusiasm for an initiative
Opportunity Solution Tree
Show how your product solutions map back to a desired outcome
PESTEL Analysis
Understand your environment
Priority Sliders
Facilitate conversations about relative priorities to focus upcoming activities
Proto-Persona
Define your target users
Purpose to practice (P2P)
Enables stakeholders to collaboratively shape the success of their initiative.
Backlog Filter
Identify and action high complexity backlog items in any context.
Service Blueprint
A business process diagram analyzed from the people perspective.
Silent Brainstorming / Brainwriting
Generate greater diversity of ideas and foster inclusivity
SMART Goals
Setting SMART objectives ensure that your goals hit 5 key criteria, to ensure progress.
Spaghetti Wall
An always-open space for collaborating on new problems and ideas
Stakeholder Map
Create a stakeholders map to build a communication plan
Stakeholder Mapping (Mobius Outcome Delivery)
Who is impacted and has a stake in the game?
Stakeholders Interview
Help identify concrete objectives, targets and main priority areas
Start At The End
Describe what success looks like and use this to define the goal of effort
Start With Why
Connect to your purpose
System Diagram
A method for describing a system at the highest level possible
Target Outcomes
Capture and articulate the goals and outcomes a team are striving to deliver
The Big Picture
A simple workshop for getting shared understanding in a complex space
Threat Modeling
A practice to learn What Could Go Wrong and What Are We Going To Do About It
User Persona
Develop detailed profiles of target users to inform and guide product design and development.
V2MOMs (Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, & Measures)
Enable communication of strategy, especially when you need strong top-down alignment.
Vision Statement
Capture and define a strategic destination for strategy or enterprise engagement
Wardley Mapping
Strategic decisioning through visualization of a value chain's evolution.
Where to Start
Solve the problem of choosing properly which product should be treated in a digital transformation journey
Whole Product Plotting
A visual approach for scoping the most important features of a product/service.
Why do we exist
Achieve a shared understanding of the organizational purpose