Agile Product Development

Navigate the cone of uncertainty by testing assumptions through prototyping and MVPs, conducting ux and technical research, and iterating to discover how reality aligns with product goals.

Explore agile architecture decisions, balancing product owner input and team collaboration, while documenting choices to avoid repetition. Acknowledge uncertainty, seek information, and consider platform constraints like Windows availability.

Integrate designers into agile product development to build real, usable products through short iterations, rapid feedback, and collaboration across design, software, and testing teams.

Define the definition of done in Scrum, detailing requirements like source control, testing, and deployment to production, and explain how teams collaborate in retrospectives to keep it current.

Learn how the increment in scrum yields a potential shippable product delivered in short two-week sprints, enabling rapid feedback loops and MVP-focused improvement.

Explore how the sprint serves as the container for five scrum events, defining a 1–4 week cycle that yields an increment through sprint planning, daily scrums, reviews, and retrospectives.

Attend sprint reviews to inspect the product, invite stakeholders, gather feedback, and assess what was achieved or missed within a time-boxed, transparent backlog discussion.

Scale scrum by forming teams of seven plus/minus two, dividing work by business domains, keeping one product backlog and one product owner, and a definition of done to speed releases.

Explore how photographs reveal building details and user perspectives, and learn to identify key elements that inform agile product development decisions.

Learn how to write independent, negotiable, small, testable user stories using the INVEST framework, emphasize customer value, estimation, and slicing stories for Scrum sprints.

Learn, as a product owner, to manage stakeholders and sponsors by creating a network map, understanding company politics, and building connections with internal and external partners to safeguard your product.

Slice products and user stories into smaller iterations, train your brain with baby step cat exercises, and progressively build from ferries to larger epics.

Explore agile product development through five Scrum questions, clarifying the product owner's sole decision authority, backlog refinement, and how sprints and teams collaborate to minimize waste.

The lecture uses a wooden harbour tower as a live example to build a backlog, write requirements, define goals and vision, and craft user stories.

Explore weather-protected design through practical examples and a sample solution, focusing on user stories, weather safety, water resistance, emergency exits, and daylight from windows.

Explore a wooden building feature tour highlighting weather resistance, waterproof lamps, flood protection, and a fire-exhaust system, then translate observations into a product backlog for agile development.