Retirement Life Project

This week you will continue down the path of developing your product into a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) or as it is also known, a prototype.

For each benefit listed in your previous assignments, your team will brainstorm features that can provide that benefit. Tip – Prioritize these features and focus on the top 3 features per benefit. It’s quite possible that you have brainstormed more than 3 features for each of your benefits or maybe you have only 1 or 2. The point here is that you just want to focus on no more than the top 3 features per benefit. Remember, things will change and focusing on more than 3 could be wasteful!

Using page 85 (figure 6.3) as an example, create a list of prioritized feature chunks for each benefit (these benefits come from your previous assignment).
Next using page 87 (figure 6.4) as an example, decide which feature chunks you will focus on for the first 3 versions of the product. For your MVP (version 1) Product, please make sure you address at least 5 – 10 feature chunks from your list of must have benefits, performance benefits, delighter benefits.
For the feature chunks you decide to move forward with for your MVP V1 Product, develop 5 associated user stories per feature chunk.
Finally, decide which 2-3 UX features you would like to create in your MVP V1 Product and use the UX Design Iceberg to guide your planning of those features.

Features
For each must have, performance, and delighter benefits listed in your previous assignment, your team will start to brainstorm features that can be built to provide that benefit. Prioritize these features within each benefit and focus on no more than the top 3 features per benefit.

Once you have a list of prioritized feature chunks per benefit, use page 85 as an example and create Figure 6.3 for your Product making sure to incorporate the concepts.

Next using page 87 as an example, create figure 6.4 for your product and decide which feature chunks you will focus on for the first 3 versions of the product. For your MVP (version 1) Product, please make sure you address at least 5 – 10 feature chunks from your list of must have benefits, performance benefits, delighter benefits and incorporate the concepts learned in the book and the lecture.

User Stories
As a result of brainstorming features for each benefit, you are also working to create the user stories for your product.

A main part of product development which is commonly utilized by Lean and Agile teams is the development of user stories. This week as part of your assignment, and continued Lean Product development approach, you and the team will be writing 5 user stories (per feature chunk) that start to bring to life each critical feature of your MVP V1 product (you don’t need to write user stories for anything past v1). This work is usually done by the product owner or product analyst and presented at the Sprint Planning session for the Scrum team to dig into and start estimating. Think of each of your benefits as an epic and you are creating user stories under each epic.