Over the past 30 years, Tanzu Labs has developed an invaluable collectionof lean, user-centered, agile practices and workshops.We’re thrilled to share them with you.
Using the “sailboat” retrospective format, start from the goal to find ways on how to get there. Teams place themselves in the future by imagining that their goal has been reached. By exploring their imaginary past, teams agree how to work together to reach the goal.
Create a list of assumptions and identify which are the riskiest
Identify relationships between services in a complex system to reveal the notional target system architecture and record them using SNAP
Provide valuable design feedback to a project team so they can determine if further effort is needed
Understand the problem from different team perspectives and generate many solution sketches using scenario as a guide
An icebreaker that shows a room that even very easy tasks can be exceedingly complex to execute without full alignment
Drive out the domains, bounded contexts and services of a system to reveal vertical slices, trouble spots and starting points for rearchitecting the system
Identify and prioritize key product, business, project, and/or consulting engagement goals and anti-goals (non-goals)
Prioritize any insights that were uncovered during research so the team can use them to make informed product decisions
Using customer narratives and data, “map” what they are doing, thinking, feeling and interacting with over a set period of time.
Summarize “at-a-glance” how users, business and technology meet to create a business opportunity.
Quickly generate many possible solutions after identifying who the user is and what problem they have
A communication and planning tool that shows sequential outcomes that help execute your strategy and build towards your vision.
Help the team understand how the primary persona interacts with all other personas
Create a provisional representation of a user based on existing knowledge and assumptions
Prioritize problems that were discovered during research so the team can focus on the most important ones
Quantify the value a product delivers to users and the business to support your stakeholder’s assessment of their investment in the product
Help sort through generative or evaluative research data using an affinity diagram
Surface risks and how the team might mitigate them
Help the team understand the circumstances surrounding the problem they’re attempting to solve
Help the team understand the technological and human interactions that take place in a customer journey
Extract solutions that could potentially address the identified problem(s)
Determine which solutions to explore first
Speedback is a session where the “speed-dating” format is applied for exchanging feedback within a group of people, usually a team. It is intentional, timeboxed feedback gathering.
Map out business, product, and project stakeholders that may impact or interact with the core team
Plan release cycles by organizing user stories into a step-by-step segmented flow
A set of lightweight techniques using agile and Domain Driven Design (DDD) principles that help teams plan enough to start modernizing software systems
Allow a team to determine, openly discuss and share their team values
Establish a common set of terms understood by the core team