Talk: A New Approach for Improving Estimations with Content Discovery Workshops
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Richard Jones
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A New Approach for Improving Estimations with Content Discovery Workshops
Short synopsis:
Sometimes content rich projects don’t map easily to user stories. There’s a missing link which means that our Agile processes might not give us everything we need to get the end result we were looking for. In this session we’ll introduce the idea of a content discovery workshop that takes a project team through a journey where the content is considered as the primary value of the project.
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The Discovery phase is the foundation of any technology project. During this process we can understand the project from the perspective of the stakeholder and bring everyone together with a common understanding before diving into code. Ideally, our Discovery phase will generate a backlog of user stories that we can prioritise based on their value to the end user and start planning how we can meet these requirements. However, with content projects it’s easy to fall into a trap where user stories don’t map easily to the tasks or capabilities of the system. This is when estimation becomes less accurate - especially when some stories appear to be “0 points” because the functionality is “out of the box”. In this session, we’ll present the idea of a Content Discovery Workshop - which starts with the assumption that the value in the project is the content itself and not the technology that delivers. In addition we can extend this workshop concept to Personalisation - so that we can gather all of the unknowns together with confidence. Taking this approach to discovery helps the tasks required for estimation more accurately match the business goals - and also works as a checklist to make sure no area has been missed.
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