Impressions from Product Camp Berlin 2015
I attended a few sessions and I wanted to share a few notes for two of those sessions that resonated with me the most.
Judith Andresen talked about reducing the complexity to ship faster and that a product should have a true north.
The time between story creation and deployed should be measured (cycle time)
Goal: Keep the cycle time short!
Minimize your complexity costs
Wrong question: How long does it take to implement feature XY?
Right questions: How much complexity do we add?
Always focus on the simple solution
Simple Solution = Best Solution
Low complexity costs means you can ship faster (ultimate goal)
The true north are 3-5 short action oriented statements that clarify for the whole team what the product ist about und where it should be heading
Session: Problem Roadmaps
Kadir Topal talked about a running experiment at Mozilla. They replaced feature roadmaps with problem roadmaps.
Have a roadmap with problems not features
Don't think in features or solutions. Think what problems for the customer should be solved.
List all problems and prioritize them
Problem need metrics to measure if the problem was really solved
A ticket in JIRA does not end with Done -> measure after deployment
Everybody wants to be data informed or data driven but feature roadmaps that extend over several months can't be data informed
Mozilla has problem finding meetings every 6 weeks and reevaluates the problem roadmap
