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Activity:

Estimate Project (CMMI Level 2 : PP 1.1 )

Participating Roles

Responsible:

User Experience Architect

Business Analyst

Accountable:

Project Manager

Consult:

Any

Informed:

All

Overview

Entry Criteria

  • The vision for the product.
  • The case justifying the project.

Sub-Activities

1

Identify End-to-End Scenarios

  • Hold a focus group and identify a list of end-to-end product scenarios which deliver the essence of the product vision and enable the business case when brought to market.
  • The purpose of this exercise is to identify a minimum set of scenarios which cover the wide scope of the product and deliver the intent of the product vision without getting exhaustive.
  • End-to-end scenarios are long and detailed and involve several personas.

2

Storyboard End-to-End Scenarios

  • Develop a storyboard for each end-to-end scenario.
  • Each storyboard should be approximately 40 to 70 panels.
  • There are just a few end-to-end scenarios but they provide a lot of detail and insight into the usage of the product.

3

Review Storyboards

  • Review the storyboards with the project team.
  • Has each persona been included? Is there enough content to be compelling for each persona?
  • Has the essence of the vision statement been covered?

4

Gain Consensus on Critical To Quality Factors

  • Agree to a consensus on the set of end-to-end scenarios and storyboards as representing the critical to quality (CTQ) and project success factors.

5

Publish Storyboards

  • Publish the storyboards so that the whole project might learn and understand the critical to quality project success factors.

Exit Criteria

The critical to quality (CTQ) scenarios defining the high level scope of the project.

The storyboards of the critical to quality (CTQ) scenarios

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