Impact Mapping: Focusing on Business Value in Agile Development
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Impact mapping is a strategic, collaborative planning technique that, through visualization, surfaces the hidden assumptions, interpretations and intentions that often derail a product development effort. By focusing first on required business outcomes and then drilling down to deliverables, impact maps provide a focus for informed discussion and decision-making about which products/projects/features to prioritize. Impact maps facilitate collaboration between senior decision-makers in the business, customers and technical developers; support definition of fitness-for-purpose through identifying required changes in actors’ behavior, together with the metrics to measure them; help manage road-maps by focusing on business outcomes rather than pre-set scope limits. In this course you learn how to create, as well as use, impact maps.
You Will Learn How To:
- Distinguish between outcomes and outputs
- Discover real, not assumed, business goals
- Identify actor types and the changed behaviors that are needed to meet the goal
- Relate user stories to impact maps in an Agile development environment
- Define and use appropriate measurements
- Draw effective impact maps
- Use your impact map to identify key priorities
Important Course Information
Who Will Benefit:
- While Product Owners, Product Managers and Business Analysts will benefit most from this course, it is also useful for Scrum Masters, Agile coaches and Agile Development team members such as programmers and testers
Exam Information:
- Scrum Alliance: This course qualifies for 7 SEUs (Scrum Education Units). To receive your SEUs, you will need to pass the Learning Tree end-of-course exam. Once notification of passing the exam has been received, please contact Learning Tree's customer service to request your SEU registration with Scrum Alliance.
Course Outline
- Anatomy of an impact map
- Goal
- Actors
- Impacts
- Deliverables
- Impact maps and Agile development
- Adaptive planning driven by business value
- Incremental and iterative development
- User stories and impact maps
- Creating impact maps
Preparing the impact map
- Discovering goals
- Defining measures
- Planning milestones
Drawing impact maps
- Drawing the skeleton impact map
- Finding alternatives
- Identifying key priorities
- Outcomes: earn and/or learn
- The practice of impact mapping
- The impact mapping workshop
- Facilitating impact mapping
- Communicating impact maps and their meaning
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Tuition
Standard
Government
In Classroom or
Online
Standard
$690
Government
$520
Private Team Training
Course Tuition Includes:
Training Hours
Standard Course Hours: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
*Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
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This course is approved by PMI® for 11 professional development units (PDUs). For more on the Project Management Institute and a full list of courses approved for PDUs.
Technical : 5 PDUs
Business & Strategic : 6 PDUs