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We will externalize our work as part of the following organization-standard rituals:
Quarterly Strategy Reviews (folder)
Squad Demos (/wiki/spaces/AT/pages/1742471458, are sre)
With Director(s)
In addition to the above org-wide rituals, work with your engineering director to establish a cadence of regular review of the squad’s process and artifacts. For example, the director may request a weekly touchpoint to review the squad’s WIP and artifacts from steps 3-5 below.
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Create once | Have an ideation and affinity-mapping (to group into high-level categories) exercise with members of the squad. If possible, invite stakeholders to the session. 🙊 Remind attendees to ideate on a “moment of time” in the user’s journey and to keep it technology-agnostic and not solution-oriented. |
Review and update every 6 months | With members of the squad and stakeholders. |
Arch example (link)
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SRE example (link)
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Idea-1: Products, Tools, and Services offered by the team can be mapped to the part of the user journey each of them addresses.
Idea-2: Later (step 5 below), the team’s roadmap can be externalized by mapping upcoming work to each part of this user journey.
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Visualizes the team’s mental model of the problem space
Promotes the idea of many bets or multi-tracking towards the business outcomeoutcomes
Binds solutions in groupings (opportunities) that are themed, contextual and most importantly, aligned to the outcome
The trees can also be used in reverse; if you have a lot of ideas (or a backlog you’ve just taken over), you can work backward to the outcome and discard ideas that don’t align
Allows measuring at many levels — business outcome, opportunities, solutions, experiments
Ensures opportunities are exposed through generative research (like the Kata Table)
Note: we need to find a standard way to link opportunities to user insights.
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Any time a new epic or reasonably sized story is considered for prioritizing in the squad’s backlog. | Members of the squad can do this together as part of their planning and/or grooming process. 🙊 Remind the squad that anything can be measured. Without validation, you would be prioritizing output and not an outcome. |
When appropriate, publish the proposed prioritized opportunity in a Consumer Review Approach Memo.
👩🎓 5. CONTINUOUSLY LEARN: Kata Table
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Mobile squad's roadmap: aligns efforts to business outcomes, which makes it easier to understand themes of investment across outcomes.
FY21 Architecture User Story Roadmap: aligns efforts to user journey and Open edX named releases.
📔 7. DESIGN, LAUNCH & ROLLOUT: OEPS, ADRs, Announcements
Use Open edX Proposals and Architecture Decision Records to document and publish your technical design decisions.
Announce your deliverables using Arch’s /wiki/spaces/AT/pages/2331836527 as a framework.