Make Time for Product Discovery

If you start the conversation focused on outcomes you’ll end up with a backlog filled with delivery stories. Instead, start the planning meeting with, “What is the most important thing we need to learn this sprint?”

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If we want to ensure product discovery takes place in a sprint we need to provide a vehicle for its visualization. Enter the experiment story. This is a story type dedicated to product discovery. It captures:

The hypothesis we are testing

The specific assumption we believe is risky

The type of experiment (aka product discovery activity) we plan on running

Who is going to do this work

And (if we’re estimating) a sense of scope for this work

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By prioritizing all of our work in the same place the team is forced to decide how much of their time will be spent on delivery work as well as discovery work.

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Posted on November 7, 2023