Questions
- Is your team aligned on product vision with business?
- Does your team understand same definition of product?
- Are team members and business clear on business goals?
- Did the team create the product roadmap with business?
- Is the product roadmap visible for everyone, anywhere?
- Do we have 1 'product' or do we split into multiple products?
- Is each team working on 1 product ?
- Does team deliver product based on prioritized value items?
- Does team directly work with business and users?
- How do we get user feedback spread through the team?
Virtues
- Enable all team members to communicate with users
- Product transparency: roadmaps, visions, goals are visible to everyone
- Think from users perspective
- Products should be clearly defined
Practices
- Product visioning workshops with the whole team
- Regular backlog refinement with the whole team
- User feedback communication rhythm: have users in the demos and have the complete team communicate with them. Alternatively, record videos of users giving feedback and using the product and share that with all teams.
- Use tools like confluence to have a complete overview of all documents related to your product (vision/goals, roadmap, personas, marketing collateral, videos, images)
- Split big products into feature based sub-products, so each team can have a deep understanding about the feature area they are working on.
Work aligned with product value streams and not projects
Products can be built on top of other products (or made up of other products)
Define Product features using user stories.
User story mapping can be used for visual product backlog, defining MVP and release planning