Wedding Planner

This workshop provides some experience in creating a Product Backlog in the form of a Story Map, estimating Product Backlog Items, attributing business value to items, and crafting a release plan for 5 Sprints.

Learning Objectives

• To be able to create new Product Backlog Items and form a meaningful Product Backlog in the form of a story map
• To order the items in a meaningful way
• To be able to estimate items
• To form a basic release plan

Timings

Allow for 60 minutes for table groups to successfully complete their tasks

Materials

• Each team should have a printed copies of:
  • Affinity Estimation Poster
  • Planning Poker Poster
  • Ouija Board Sizing Poster
  • Kano Analysis Poster
  • MVP Poster
  • Buy a Feature Poster
  • Story Mapping Poster
  • Wedding Epics
  • Wedding Stories
• Post-it notes
• Marker pens
• Planning Poker cards
• Poker Chips
• Sticky dots
• Sticky stars
• Flip chart paper
• A4 paper

Workshop Flow

Scenario

The scenario is that your team is working for a wedding planning agency and your task is to provide the best possible wedding within 5 Sprints.

Tasks

1. Review the “Story Mapping” poster and arrange the epics and User Stories into a Story Map
2. Estimate the User Stories using one of the following techniques:
   1. Planning Poker
   2. Affinity Estimation
   3. Ouija Board Estimation
3. Attribute business value to the User Stories using one of the following techniques:
   1. Minimum Viable Product
   2. Kano Analysis
   3. Buy a Feature
4. Add post it notes down one side of the Story Map indicating Sprints 1-5 to form swim lanes for each of the Sprints
5. Adjust the User Stories between the Sprint swim lanes to form a Release Plan over the 5 Sprints
6. Call over the facilitator to review and discuss

See Also

• My Sweet 16 Birthday Party

References

1. http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/agile/planning-poker, accessed 2014
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_model, accessed 2014
3. User Story Mapping Quick Reference Guide, 2014