Kidfund Priorities (Iterating an Early Startup)

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1. Kidfund Backlog AKA Q1-Q2 Priorities
2. So, what do we have? • Iteration • New Features • Technical Debt
3. Iteration • Making existing things BETTER to increase customer delight and reduce support requests / complaints. Happier users will recommend the app more. • Fixing bugs. Some users can see, some they can't
4. New Features Both small and big Examples • Small: Features to make telling people about Kidfund easier • Big: Redo Onboarding, [redacted] • Bigger: You know, build the website
5. Technical Debt
6. Technical Debt • Automated Tests: Wouldn't it be great if we could push a new version of the app out every 1-3 weeks? (And make new builds of the app & backend less dangerous) • Leads to: Less manual testing • Improve Infrastructure - Make deploys faster and safer. Additional prep for scale
7. So, what's the plan? 1. Focus on priority iteration and stability tickets 2. Sprinkle in new features that directly effect growth or re-use 3. 50% Build (#1 and #2) / 50% Paying off Technical debt Then, 1. MOAR NEW FEATURES
8. Focus on priority iteration and stability tickets redacted
9. Focus on priority iteration and stability tickets (Re)Design: redacted
10. Context for what bigger things we can do sooner vs later redacted
11. Sprinkle in new features that directly effect growth or re-use redacted
12. Sprinkle in new features that directly effect growth or re-use redacted
13. Questions?
14. The care and pruning of a good backlog Process Update: Our backlog has grown to the point where managing it is time consuming
15. Backlog will be split: • "App" (existing) will remain and contain prioritized tickets (what we've talked about today) • "Inbox" will contain everything else • Every NEW ticket, with the exception of crashes, goes here • Inbox & App will be pruned & re-prioritized roughly once a month (to start)
16. The care and pruning of a good backlog Why? • Easier to manage day to day (less cognitive load) • Will make prioritizing new ticket's easier: Is it REALLY more important than the shorter prioritized list?