The dictionary defines vision as appearance, vision, future draft. In my speech today is to the vision as a dream image and future of design in software development. The fact that I write about, obviously has a reason:
Before about two weeks in late October, I flew to Sweden’s beautiful capital Stockholm. Although the city is very worth seeing, was the reason of my journey professional nature: the
Scrum Gathering the 2008th Since mid-Step Scrum supports this year, we internally Scrum to the development of our products use, and some customers for agile ideas have excited, this was an exciting opportunity to updates to learn, exchange ideas and new ideas.
A contribution, I particularly recall remained, had the title “The Product Vision: Defining the Scrum Project’s True North”. Taking the example brought by Jeff Sutherland Scrum, one of the “inventor” of Scrum, the idea of product vision closer. And here again the definition of the word vision comes into play, as the vision of the future draft.
The vision of Scrum
Jeff sees himself as a Product Owner in the introduction of Scrum, and as such needs a vision: a rousing, convincing idea, with which his clients of his project, the company and ultimately the entire development team for Scrum can inspire.
How can you inspire a team, within the framework of a project, based on a waterfall-like product plan within 17 months of a finished product goal is to present? Jeff’s simple answer: Schult, the company, the team that brings them the ideas of Scrum and agile development nearby and the first delivery is within 2 months of completion, with the highest quality. That is the vision of Scrum.
What is a vision in Scrum?
Why now is the vision of such an important part in the framework Scrum? As in the previous example, clearly, is the finding, carrying and spreading further the vision task of Product Owners. Not the technical implementation is the vision, but the idea of something to create a product that all want to have, where when people see it, all wondering how they ever could live without it “[To Read : Scrum Log Jeff Sutherland]. That there is such a well-designed product can still enter, for example, illustrates iPhone. Nobody had it absolutely needed, but they all wanted to have it.
How do I find a vision?
To get a vague idea or an unsatisfactory situation indeed a magical, thrilling vision to create, you can use different techniques.
One way to come there, it is the perspective change: Put yourself in the position of the customer.
* Why does the customer something new?
* Where he needs support?
* What are his needs?
Imagine the results that you see the vision as a picture of the future: How will the final product in the environment fit? How, when and where will it be used?
Can the following questions with a yes answer:
* If my customers buy my new product?
* Is my product better than competing products?
* Will any new product, my great wish to have?
Or as Jeff put it somewhat provocatively: Is the world within reach?
The role of vision in Scrum
As always with Scrum, the customer is king. The Product Owner is still responsible for his product in accordance with the wishes and needs of the customer to develop a safe harbor to leave his company and into the strange world of the customer to go. The Product Owner is responsible, jointly with the client’s vision with the help of his team Scrum reality.
The vision is not only in terms of customers, but also for the Scrum team. Such a thrilling idea breathes the principle of self-only life: The vision is the goal to which the team working towards. The vision is the goal, whose realization of the focus around which self can form. The vision helps one small everyday decisions in the sense of the great whole meet. The other hand, they also, more serious decisions, such as concerning the architecture, with a view to the final result in an overall context.
Also for the Product Owner course, as a member of the Scrum team, the vision is very important. He must manage the Product Backlog, here serves as the vision of prioritizing assistance. The vision runs like a thread through the project. The vision is intended to refocus and motivation within the team. Not least is the product of their owners also operate to the management within its organization to convince the vibrant and catchy the vision, the easier it will be the fall.
Perhaps the vision is not only the way for a project, but rather the heart of a project. To the central artifacts and ideas of how the Scrum Product Backlog, the self-organization, the ownership of the team and working closely with customers to manage and realize you need a common idea.
This from the dream, the initial idea of the Product Owners, a goal for all concerned, is applicable:
A vision is only a vision, if everyone knows it!