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(also known as CD3 or WSJF) ❓What is it A prioritisation approach to make value and urgency more visible. It quantifies an opportunity cost in economic terms when work is delayed, enabling more objective decision making and trade off decisions. There are ...

❓What is it Usability testing is a research method used to evaluate how usable, desirable and intuitive a service or feature is, by testing it with representative users. In this technique, participants are asked to complete specific tasks while observers wa...

❓What is it Ranking value can be highly subjective and biased. Without understanding and defining value, any prioritisation exercise will create a false sense of confidence. Reference the difference types of value, and identify which are more important tha...

❓What is it Visual Management Tools use visual aids like boards, charts, and graphs to represent work items and their status. These tools enhance transparency, track progress, and change the conversational tone into action oriented conversations. Good visu...

❓What is it A template that provokes a product mindset and critical thinking to develop, articulate and self-validate the idea has genuine value and potential to meet real user needs and support the objectives of the directorate and/or Westminster 👥Who ...

❓What is it Data analytics is the process of analysing raw data in order to draw out meaningful, actionable insights, which are then used to inform and drive prioritisation and decision making. It is a key pillar of lean experimentation, in inspecting the ...

❓What is it Ensures there is enough work in the backlog that is defined, understood and estimated to meet the definition of ready for the team to accept it as a candidate in an upcoming sprint. Refining the backlog is lead by the product manager. They iden...

SOLID Principles: Single-responsibility principle:We write methods that have discreet purposes and avoid side-effects. Open-closed principle:We recognise that both composition and inheritance are just tools in our arsenal and use each where appropriate. L...

❓What is it It is an iterative design practice that places the human user at the center of the design and development process. It emphasizes empathy, rapid prototyping, and user feedback to create solutions that are tailored to the needs, preferences, and c...

❓What is it Identifies and aligns objectives or goals defined at a service/product level with those objectives and key results defined at a portfolio or directorate level. This ensures transparency across the team that the value outcomes are fully supporti...

A Misconception If you want to build a house, an architect drafts the blueprint while a craftsman lays the bricks following that plan. Similarly, in software, a developer may pen the code but it's not natively understood by computers. A compiler (or in...

❓What is it Decisions are made based on the analysis and interpretation of data rather than intuition or observation alone. This product practice capitalises on the increasing volume, variety, and velocity of data available to organisations today. One of t...

❓What is it Discovery activity will surface a number of problem/opportunity statements, and associated assumptions. For each statement and assumption a hypothesis statement should be defined and an experiment identified and defined Typically the effort req...

❓What is it A future visioning technique to articulate the benefits of the idea at the point of it being launched. It employs a PR release format, similar in content and tone as as would be used for launching the idea as a real world service/product. 👥Wh...

❓What is it This analytical technique is intended to get to the root cause of a problem by asking ‘why’ or ‘what caused this several times. Each question seeks a deeper understanding until the asker discovers the root issue. 🔑 Key Benefits / Why is this...

❓What is it An automated test is written in code so a computer can execute it. It might test the validity of a single piece of one system, or of several systems working together. Automated tests are written using specialized tools that simulate program or u...

❓What is it This is a cornerstone of qualitative research, and is recommended that some user research is always conducted during discovery. This technique supports and enhances other available qualitative and quantitative research, by providing depth and n...

❓What is it It is a consensus-based estimation technique that produces quick and reliable estimates backed by the whole development team. It is highly recommended to purchase a purposed planning poker card deck. A good planning poker card deck is based on ...

CI/CDBranch ProtectionThe master branch of the project is projected from direct changes. Changes can only be merged into the master branch, and then only when certain conditions are met.Feature Branch TriggersCode can be pushed to a feature branch without cons...

❓What is it Prototyping serves as a tangible or interactive representation of one or more solution options from the opportunities generated during the discovery phase. The main purpose of prototyping is to visualize how the final product will function and t...