Why Short User Stories are a Competitive Advantage and how they lead to Continuous Shipping

Today’s product teams manage to radically reduce their development cycle times because of their habit of continuous integration & continuous deployment.

This slidedeck is about introducing a practical framework called "Dimensional Planning" on how to develop products early & often and eventually continuously.

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1. Allan Berger Design & UX, Co-Founder & CCO Why Short User Stories are a Competitive Advantage
2. Lean Product Management @allanberger allan@blossom.io allanberger.com allanberger Allan Berger
3. Lean Product Management @allanberger What is a user story?
4. Lean Product Management @allanberger Competitive Advantage Release earlier & often Earlier market feedback Iterate on learnings Higher quality support & response times
5. Lean Product Management @allanberger Dimensional Planning How does it work?
6. Dirt Road
7. Cobblestone Road
8. Asphalted Road
9. Highway
10. Lean Product Management @allanberger Example: Login Form Dirt Road: Input Fields & Submit Button Cobblestone Road: Autofill Asphalted Road: Save Password Highway: User Avatar
11. Lean Product Management @allanberger Apply to multiple Areas Content Marketing Design & UX Code Feature Development …
12. Lean Product Management @allanberger Ask yourself if the effort is applicable Is it worth it to build the Cobblestone Road now? ! Shall we rather build a Highway Version of a
 heavy used feature? ! Do we need an Asphalted Road of this code part? ! Does the customer gain benefit if we ship just the Dirt Road now?
13. Lean Product Management @allanberger “ ” Would this version of the product deliver more value to the customer than the one that’s currently live? Mindset to ship continuously
14. Lean Product Management @allanberger Thank you