{"id":12182,"date":"2016-02-18T17:37:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T15:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mozaicworks.com\/?p=8951"},"modified":"2022-02-01T17:55:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T15:55:23","slug":"challenge-way-work-new-techniques-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mozaicworks.com\/blog\/challenge-way-work-new-techniques-try","title":{"rendered":"Challenge the way you work. New techniques to try on (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Challenge the way you work. Stay happy & productive!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n My colleagues, advising or coaching<\/a>\u00a0teams to be\u00a0happy and productive<\/strong>, listen and learn constantly about the challenges they have during the day-to-day activity.<\/p>\n In the next series of articles, we share with you practical solutions<\/strong>\u00a0to common challenges encountered when\u00a0developing software products,\u00a0as well as new techniques<\/strong> to help you and your team to make steps for improvement.<\/p>\n In this blog post, we focus on\u00a0Product Owner<\/a>, Product Manager, Business Analyst roles<\/em>. In the next ones, you\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>will find \u00a0new techniques and practices to overcome the day-to-day challenges for the Scrum Master, Developer|Software \u00a0crafter, Manager roles<\/em> and how to\u00a0improve collaboration\u00a0in your team(s).<\/em><\/p>\n Besides hands-on coaching, my colleagues are\u00a0part of the product development division of Mozaic Works,\u00a0MozaicLabs<\/a>. Being practitioners themselves, they have a deep understanding and a broad view regarding each role and the need for constant improvement.<\/p>\n From practical knowledge and\u00a0insights from our customers, a series of challenges come into view:<\/p>\n Given these issues, each practitioner can\u00a0experiment\u00a0new techniques that will improve and add more value to their work.\u00a0 Among them, impact mapping<\/a> and story mapping<\/a> can be used to create\u00a0consistency, rigor and prioritization.<\/p>\n If you are also experimenting with different techniques & practices to challenge the way you work, let us know in a comment below<\/small>.<\/p>\n Being a lightweight method to collaboratively plan a strategy for a product,<\/strong> an Impact map gives a better understanding to the connection between the features and the business goals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Impact mapping helps you to<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u201cIf a product milestone or project succeeds in delivering the expected business goal, it is a success from a business perspective, even if the delivered scope ends up being different from what was originally envisaged. On the other hand, if it delivers exactly the requested scope but misses the business goal, it is a failure.\u201d Gojko Adzic, author Impact Mapping: \u00a0Making a big impact with software products and projects<\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/a>Impact mapping example from a\u00a0MozaicLabs<\/a> product: www.eventrix.co<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n The story mapping is used for\u00a0release planning and to preserve the\u00a0context of stories<\/strong>. Jeff Patton<\/a> is the author who coined the term and proposed\u00a0a two dimensional backlog called a story map, <\/strong>as a way to better tackle the user stories.<\/p>\n The story map helps you to<\/strong>:<\/p>\n <\/a>Persona Story Map example from a\u00a0MozaicLabs<\/a> product\u00a0www.eventrix.co\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt all seems important. But then we step back and think about the specific people who will use our product, and what they\u2019ll need to accomplish to be successful. We distill that into a sentence or two. Then we carve away everything we don\u2019t need, and we\u2019re shocked at how small our viable solution really is. It\u2019s magic\u201d Jeff Patton <\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n There is no\u00a0one-size-fits-all technique to improve the day-to-day work. With a healthy mix of experimentation, advice from practitioners, and finding the right tools, each challenge can be bridled.<\/p>\n You can practice Impact mapping\u00a0<\/em>and Story mapping<\/em>\u00a0techniques also by attending\u00a0workshops:<\/p>\n Let us know\u00a0what other challenges you encountered. We’ll be glad for you to find\u00a0practical solutions to your needs\u00a0in the following communications. Stay happy and productive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Challenge the way you work. Stay happy & productive!\u00a0 My colleagues, advising or coaching\u00a0teams to be\u00a0happy and productive, listen and learn constantly about the challenges they have during the day-to-day activity. 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