AI-Enabled Product Requirements Masterclass

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• A word from Steve Jobs about making ideas happen in the world

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• Definition of "requirements"

• Research requirements

• Design requirements

• Development requirements

• Requirements deliverables in action

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• PM's and PO's and BA's...oh my!

• Requirements roles at different companies

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• You would like requirements gathering if you...

• Requirements involve language, communication, and interpersonal dynamics

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• The Agile Manifesto as it relates to requirements

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• How MVP's and MMP's are developed in Agile product teams

• Defining MVP and MMP

• Common product milestones for MVP and MMP

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• The process of building, refining, and delivering requirements on Agile product teams

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• How developers should get involved in the requirements process

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• Watch a YouTube video called "The Expert"

• Homework assignment to reflect on the requirements gathering techniques and approaches of "The Expert" in the video

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• Assumption forming and testing

• Assumptions and requiremetns

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• Solutions equal assumed problems to solve

• The difference between "user problems", "user needs", and "user goals"

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• Understanding user needs and user behavior

• Understanding market opportunity

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• Dispelling a misconception about problem statements

• How to write problem statements

• Identifying root problems

• Breaking down by aspects of the problem

• Putting it all together with a full example

• Project Assignment: Write 10 problem statements

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• How to write a Problem Checklist

• Putting it all together with an example

• Project assignment: Create 10 problem checklists

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• Releasing iteratively

• Prioritizing problems to solve

• Make one vision board per audience per release

• The anatomy of a vision board

• Putting it together with an example

• Project assignment: Create release-level vision and scope

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• Epics, features, and tasks

• Putting it all together with an example

• Project assignment: Create epics and features

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• Let's get ready to rumble

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• Feature-level and task-level scope

• Using the I.N.V.E.S.T. acronym to scope tasks

• Putting it all together with an example

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• Anatomy of a user story statement

• Putting it all together with an example

• Project assignment: Create 10 task-level user story statements

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• Anatomy of use cases and task flows

• Putting it all together with an example

• Project: Create use cases and task flows for your product

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• Anatomy of acceptance criteria

• Putting it all together with an example

• Project assignment: Create task acceptance criteria for your 10 user stories in your product

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• Anatomy of "behavior-driven development" scenarios

• Putting it all together with an example

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• All about the roadmap

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• All about the backlog

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• All about "refinement"

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• What is "level of effort"? (Spoiler alert: it IS NOT equal to time)

• How to run "Planning Poker"

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• Iterations vs. releases

• Release planning

• Iteration planning for Scrum

• Iteration planning for Kanban

• "Responding to change over following a plan" as it relates to planning