Inception

Efficient scoping
 Hi
I’m Sergey from Railsware
 Goals
• Get product stakeholders on the same page

• Describe product via framework

• Mitigate the risks

• Define solution direction

• Define roadmap
 Agenda
• Introduction to Inception
• Team members introduction
• Demo
• Product discovery
• Real world Users. Personas portraits.
• Issues, Benefits, Risks, Domain Knowledge
• Business Goals and Key Metrics
• Solution
• Ideas, Directions, Variations
• Application roles
• Epics and Features breakdown
• Matching with product discovery
• Prioritisation
• Roadmap
• Risks session
 Rules

• Laptops down

• No mobile devices

• No emails/chats reading/responding
 the Tools

• Laptops down

• No mobile devices

• No emails/chats reading/responding
the Process
Results
Now let’s move to the details…
 Team Introduction

• Participants introduce themselves

• Name

• Role in the product

• Set of skills and experience, that will be

utilised in this product
 Demo

Product owner(s) present existing materials

 Roles

• Real world Consumers with their portraits

i.e Taxi Driver, Sales, Housewife,..

• Business representatives
i.e Support, Marketing manager,..

• Business
Owners & Board of Directors
 Consumers. IBR’s.

• Issues

• Benefits

• Risks

• Domain knowledge
 Business. IBR’s.
• Issues

• Benefits

• Risks

• Domain knowledge

• Goals with Key Metrics

IBR’s. Results.
 Solution

Ideas. Directions. Variations.

 Solution

Application roles
 Solution

Epics & Features breakdown

Breakdown. Results.
Boards Matching
 Prioritisation

• MUST
• SHOULD
• COULD
• WON’T
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoSCoW_method
Roadmap. Results.
Roadmap. Results.
 Risks session

All the team shares any type of risks and

discuss how to mitigate them
Thank you :)