From the course: Agile Requirements Foundations
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Context techniques
From the course: Agile Requirements Foundations
Context techniques
- Are you seeing the forest through the trees? Or is your backlog a huge mess of trees where you're walking around lost not knowing where anything fits into the bigger picture. We looked at product maps as a technique to see the big picture. And they're one of a handful of visual techniques you can use to help with context. Context is so important to agile teams. It's critical to helping our product owner and team make good decisions. We don't just accept the backlog as is and work through it just like a checklist. Instead, it's all about analyzing and making sure we have the right stuff in the backlog. We give the team a shared understanding of the context so we understand what's important to the user and why. A few commonly used context techniques include context diagrams, process models, data flow diagrams, customer journey maps, and user story maps. All of these techniques provide that big picture view. But each is a bit unique in how it provides context to the team. If you've…
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