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Agile Mind Maps: Exploring the User Wishes
Agile method advocate use cases and user stories, but there are no standard processes or guides available to help gather user requirements. That is why documenting user requirements can be challenging. Without strong communication experience the scrum process can collapse, leading towards unfruitful requirements and imperfect software. This article offers a path to overcome these hurdles through the simplicity and clearness of mind mapping. ConceptDraw Scrum Worflow solution lets explore the user requirements for your Agile development project before they are formalized. You can easily create professional Mind Maps that will effectively collect and structure the information on what a user actually wants, or the “User Wish.”PM Agile
PM Agile solution provides powerful tools for project management, project planning and software development, ensuring support of Agile methods, assisting in holding the Scrum-meetings, collaborative planning sprints, maintaining backlog, calculating and reporting the velocity of the team. Intended for the companies using Agile methodology, specifically Scrum, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, software developers, and management specialists, this solution includes examples demonstrating the main principles of Agile methodology and Scrum, and numerous templates specially developed in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM and ConceptDraw MINDMAP applications. All Agile meetings and documents are powered by the mission of adapted Mind Map templates, tuned for collaborative work of development team. The key diagrams for visualization are made in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM.
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Agile methodology is an excellent alternative to waterfall and traditional sequential development. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software extended with SCRUM Workflow solution is ideal for quick and easy designing various diagrams, charts, mind maps and schematics illustrating software development using Agile methodologies, and in particular Scrum methodology.Agile Project Management Methodology
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This agile software development infographic example illustrates roles in disciplined agile delivery (DAD).
"Disciplined agile delivery (DAD) is a process decision framework that enables simplified process decisions around incremental and iterative solution delivery. DAD builds on the many practices espoused by advocates of agile software development, including Scrum, agile modeling, lean software development, and others." [Disciplined agile delivery. Wikipedia]
The infographic sample "Roles on DAD teams" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO software extended with the Scrum solution from the Project Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
"Disciplined agile delivery (DAD) is a process decision framework that enables simplified process decisions around incremental and iterative solution delivery. DAD builds on the many practices espoused by advocates of agile software development, including Scrum, agile modeling, lean software development, and others." [Disciplined agile delivery. Wikipedia]
The infographic sample "Roles on DAD teams" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO software extended with the Scrum solution from the Project Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
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This agile software development infographic example was inspired by Mike Cohn's post "The Ideal Agile Workspace" from the Mountain Goat Software blog.
"... a list of all the things that ... should be visible within the ideal agile workspace:
* Big Visible Charts. ... the sprint burndown chart, showing the number of hours remaining as of each day of the current sprint. ... big visible charts showing the number of passing customer acceptance tests, the pass/ fail status of tests by day, sprint and release burndown charts, number of new stories introduced to the product backlog per sprint ...
* Additional feedback devices. ... a lava lamp that is turned on whenever the automated build is broken. ... flashing red traffic lights to indicate exceptional conditions such as an issue on a production server. ... ambient orbs and Nabaztag rabbits, which are wireless programmable devices that can also be configured to change colors, speak messages, or wiggle their ears as a team desires.
* Everyone on your team. Each person on the team should ideally be able to see each other person on the team. ...
* The sprint backlog. ... The best way to do that is by displaying the sprint backlog on a wall, ideally in the form of a task board A task board is usually oriented in rows and columns with each row containing a particular user story and one index card or sticky note for each task involved in that story. Task cards are organized in columns, minimally including “To Do” “In Process,” and “Done.” ...
* The product backlog. ... tack the index cards with those upcoming user stories on a wall where all can see them. ...
* At least one big white board. ...
* Someplace quiet and private. ...
* Food and drink. ...
* A window." [mountaingoatsoftware.com/ blog/ the-ideal-agile-workspace].
The infographic sample "Scrum workspace" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO software extended with the Scrum solution from the Project Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
"... a list of all the things that ... should be visible within the ideal agile workspace:
* Big Visible Charts. ... the sprint burndown chart, showing the number of hours remaining as of each day of the current sprint. ... big visible charts showing the number of passing customer acceptance tests, the pass/ fail status of tests by day, sprint and release burndown charts, number of new stories introduced to the product backlog per sprint ...
* Additional feedback devices. ... a lava lamp that is turned on whenever the automated build is broken. ... flashing red traffic lights to indicate exceptional conditions such as an issue on a production server. ... ambient orbs and Nabaztag rabbits, which are wireless programmable devices that can also be configured to change colors, speak messages, or wiggle their ears as a team desires.
* Everyone on your team. Each person on the team should ideally be able to see each other person on the team. ...
* The sprint backlog. ... The best way to do that is by displaying the sprint backlog on a wall, ideally in the form of a task board A task board is usually oriented in rows and columns with each row containing a particular user story and one index card or sticky note for each task involved in that story. Task cards are organized in columns, minimally including “To Do” “In Process,” and “Done.” ...
* The product backlog. ... tack the index cards with those upcoming user stories on a wall where all can see them. ...
* At least one big white board. ...
* Someplace quiet and private. ...
* Food and drink. ...
* A window." [mountaingoatsoftware.com/ blog/ the-ideal-agile-workspace].
The infographic sample "Scrum workspace" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO software extended with the Scrum solution from the Project Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
The vector stencils library "Scrum people" contains 30 icons: scrum master, product owner, development team, etc.
Use this clipart set to design your agile software development diagrams and infographics with ConceptDraw PRO software.
"There are three core roles in the scrum framework. These core roles are those committed to the project in the scrum process — they are the ones producing the product (objective of the project). They represent the scrum team. ...
Product owner
The product owner represents the stakeholders and is the voice of the customer, who is accountable for ensuring that the team delivers value to the business. The product owner writes (or has the team write) customer-centric items (typically user stories), ranks and prioritizes them, and adds them to the product backlog. ...
Development team
The development team is responsible for delivering potentially shippable increments (PSIs) of product at the end of each sprint (the sprint goal). A team is made up of 3–9 individuals who do the actual work (analyse, design, develop, test, technical communication, document, etc.). Development teams are cross-functional, with all of the skills as a team necessary to create a product increment. The development team in scrum is self-organizing...
Scrum master
Scrum is facilitated by a scrum master, who is accountable for removing impediments to the ability of the team to deliver the product goals and deliverables. The scrum master is not a traditional team lead or project manager, but acts as a buffer between the team and any distracting influences. The scrum master ensures that the scrum process is used as intended. The scrum master helps ensure the team follows the agreed scrum processes, often facilitates key sessions, and encourages the team to improve." [Scrum (software development). Wikipedia]
The clip art sample "Design elements - Scrum people" is included in the Scrum solution from the Project Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Use this clipart set to design your agile software development diagrams and infographics with ConceptDraw PRO software.
"There are three core roles in the scrum framework. These core roles are those committed to the project in the scrum process — they are the ones producing the product (objective of the project). They represent the scrum team. ...
Product owner
The product owner represents the stakeholders and is the voice of the customer, who is accountable for ensuring that the team delivers value to the business. The product owner writes (or has the team write) customer-centric items (typically user stories), ranks and prioritizes them, and adds them to the product backlog. ...
Development team
The development team is responsible for delivering potentially shippable increments (PSIs) of product at the end of each sprint (the sprint goal). A team is made up of 3–9 individuals who do the actual work (analyse, design, develop, test, technical communication, document, etc.). Development teams are cross-functional, with all of the skills as a team necessary to create a product increment. The development team in scrum is self-organizing...
Scrum master
Scrum is facilitated by a scrum master, who is accountable for removing impediments to the ability of the team to deliver the product goals and deliverables. The scrum master is not a traditional team lead or project manager, but acts as a buffer between the team and any distracting influences. The scrum master ensures that the scrum process is used as intended. The scrum master helps ensure the team follows the agreed scrum processes, often facilitates key sessions, and encourages the team to improve." [Scrum (software development). Wikipedia]
The clip art sample "Design elements - Scrum people" is included in the Scrum solution from the Project Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Used Solutions
The vector stencils library "Scrum workspace" contains 21 icons.
Use this clipart set to design your agile software development diagrams and infographics with ConceptDraw PRO software.
"... a list of all the things that ... should be visible within the ideal agile workspace:
Big Visible Charts. ... the sprint burndown chart, showing the number of hours remaining as of each day of the current sprint. ... big visible charts showing the number of passing customer acceptance tests, the pass/ fail status of tests by day, sprint and release burndown charts, number of new stories introduced to the product backlog per sprint, and more.
Additional feedback devices. In addition to big, visible charts, it is common for an agile team to use additional visual feedback devices in their workspace. One of the most common is a lava lamp that is turned on whenever the automated build is broken.
... flashing red traffic lights to indicate exceptional conditions such as an issue on a production server. Also popular are ambient orbs and Nabaztag rabbits, which are wireless programmable devices that can also be configured to change colors, speak messages, or wiggle their ears as a team desires. ...
Everyone on your team. Each person on the team should ideally be able to see each other person on the team. This absolutely includes the ScrumMaster and ideally includes the product owner. ...
The sprint backlog. One of the best ways to ensure that everything necessary is completed in the sprint is to make the sprint backlog visible. The best way to do that is by displaying the sprint backlog on a wall, ideally in the form of a task board ...
The product backlog. One problem with running an endless series of sprints is that each can feel disconnected or isolated from the whole of a planned released or related set of new capabilities. A good way to reduce the impact of this problem is by displaying the product backlog somewhere clearly visible. ... tack the index cards with those upcoming user stories on a wall where all can see them. This allows team members to see how the user stories they are working on in the current sprint relate to others that are coming soon.
At least one big white board. ... Locating this in the team’s common workspace encourages spontaneous meetings." [mountaingoatsoftware.com/ blog/ the-ideal-agile-workspace]
The clip art sample "Design elements - Scrum workspace" is included in the Scrum solution from the Project Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Use this clipart set to design your agile software development diagrams and infographics with ConceptDraw PRO software.
"... a list of all the things that ... should be visible within the ideal agile workspace:
Big Visible Charts. ... the sprint burndown chart, showing the number of hours remaining as of each day of the current sprint. ... big visible charts showing the number of passing customer acceptance tests, the pass/ fail status of tests by day, sprint and release burndown charts, number of new stories introduced to the product backlog per sprint, and more.
Additional feedback devices. In addition to big, visible charts, it is common for an agile team to use additional visual feedback devices in their workspace. One of the most common is a lava lamp that is turned on whenever the automated build is broken.
... flashing red traffic lights to indicate exceptional conditions such as an issue on a production server. Also popular are ambient orbs and Nabaztag rabbits, which are wireless programmable devices that can also be configured to change colors, speak messages, or wiggle their ears as a team desires. ...
Everyone on your team. Each person on the team should ideally be able to see each other person on the team. This absolutely includes the ScrumMaster and ideally includes the product owner. ...
The sprint backlog. One of the best ways to ensure that everything necessary is completed in the sprint is to make the sprint backlog visible. The best way to do that is by displaying the sprint backlog on a wall, ideally in the form of a task board ...
The product backlog. One problem with running an endless series of sprints is that each can feel disconnected or isolated from the whole of a planned released or related set of new capabilities. A good way to reduce the impact of this problem is by displaying the product backlog somewhere clearly visible. ... tack the index cards with those upcoming user stories on a wall where all can see them. This allows team members to see how the user stories they are working on in the current sprint relate to others that are coming soon.
At least one big white board. ... Locating this in the team’s common workspace encourages spontaneous meetings." [mountaingoatsoftware.com/ blog/ the-ideal-agile-workspace]
The clip art sample "Design elements - Scrum workspace" is included in the Scrum solution from the Project Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Scrum Workflow
The Scrum Workflow Solution extends the capabilities of ConceptDraw DIAGRAM with a large collection of professionally-designed samples and a selection of ready-to-use scrum design elements: scrum diagrams and arrows, scrum icons of people, artifacts, workflow, workspace and other colorful scrum clipart, and also scrum charts.
Scrum
What is Scrum? Scrum is the famous agile software development methodology which depicts an iterative and incremental approach for the work on the complex projects. Use ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with SCRUM Workflow solution to draw various types of professional-looking Scrum Charts, Scrum Workflow Diagrams, Scrum Mind Maps, Scrum boards and attractive Scrum Infographics.This agile software development infographic example was designed on the base of the Wikimedia Commons file: NL-scrum.jpg. [commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/ File:NL-scrum.jpg]
"Sprint
A time period (typically 1–4 weeks) in which development occurs on a set of backlog items that the team has committed to — commonly referred to as a time-box or iteration" [Scrum (software development). Wikipedia]
The infographic sample "Scrum sprint cycle" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO software extended with the Scrum solution from the Project Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
"Sprint
A time period (typically 1–4 weeks) in which development occurs on a set of backlog items that the team has committed to — commonly referred to as a time-box or iteration" [Scrum (software development). Wikipedia]
The infographic sample "Scrum sprint cycle" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO software extended with the Scrum solution from the Project Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
The vector stencils library "Scrum clipart" contains 93 icons.
Use this scrum clip art set to design your agile software development diagrams and infographics.
"Scrum is an iterative and incremental agile software development framework for managing product development. It ... enables teams to self-organize by encouraging physical co-location or close online collaboration of all team members, as well as daily face-to-face communication among all team members and disciplines in the project.
A key principle of scrum is its recognition that during production processes, the customers can change their minds about what they want and need (often called requirements volatility), and that unpredicted challenges cannot be easily addressed in a traditional predictive or planned manner. As such, scrum adopts an empirical approach — accepting that the problem cannot be fully understood or defined, focusing instead on maximizing the team's ability to deliver quickly, to respond to emerging requirements and to adapt to evolving technologies and changes in market conditions." [Scrum (software development). Wikipedia]
The icons sample "Design elements - Scrum clipart" is included in the Scrum solution from the Project Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Use this scrum clip art set to design your agile software development diagrams and infographics.
"Scrum is an iterative and incremental agile software development framework for managing product development. It ... enables teams to self-organize by encouraging physical co-location or close online collaboration of all team members, as well as daily face-to-face communication among all team members and disciplines in the project.
A key principle of scrum is its recognition that during production processes, the customers can change their minds about what they want and need (often called requirements volatility), and that unpredicted challenges cannot be easily addressed in a traditional predictive or planned manner. As such, scrum adopts an empirical approach — accepting that the problem cannot be fully understood or defined, focusing instead on maximizing the team's ability to deliver quickly, to respond to emerging requirements and to adapt to evolving technologies and changes in market conditions." [Scrum (software development). Wikipedia]
The icons sample "Design elements - Scrum clipart" is included in the Scrum solution from the Project Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Scrum board
ConceptDraw diagramming and vector drawing software extended with SCRUM Workflow solution from the Project Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is an ideal scrum tool and powerful software for creating pictorial and professional-looking Scrum board for easy tracking the workflow, for facilitating daily synchronization and productivity improvement.HelpDesk
How to Create an IDEF0 Diagram for an Application Development
IDEF0 methods are intended to model the functions of a process, creating a graphical model that displays: what controls the function, who makes it, what resources are used and how they are connected with other functions. The IDEF0 tool is used to model the decisions, actions, and activities of a software system during the development process. IDEF0 diagram graphically depicts a model of a desired version of the application. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM allows you to create and communicate the IDEF0 diagrams of any complexity.Sprint Planning Meeting Agenda
Scrum is a framework that allows to solve the radically different tasks, from the development of complex IT products to the creation a reasonable to-do list. The sprint is a basic concept in Scrum, it is an iteration during which is created the functional growth of software. The duration of each sprint is defined by the scrum team individually, based on the tasks, objectives, requirements and composition, which gives to the development process the predictability and flexibility, usually it takes from one to six weeks. The Sprint planning meeting occurs at the beginning of each new sprint, with the participation of the product owners, the scrum master and the entire scrum team. During the Sprint planning meeting is determined the amount of work, the list of tasks, the tasks are broken into the subtasks and their implementation is discussed, at this the tasks are estimated in man-hours. The Mind Map visualizing the Sprint planning meeting agenda was created in ConceptDraw MINDMAP software with help of PM solutions included to ConceptDraw Solution Park.Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD) with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM
Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD) is applied for detailed description of structures and high-level (conceptual) design databases using the Chen's and Crow's Foot notations. An ERD represents a diagram constructed mainly of rectangular blocks (for entities, data) linked with relationships. The links between the blocks are used to describe relations between the entities. There are three types of relationships: one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many. Use the specialized ERD software - ConceptDraw DIAGRAM to create the Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) of any degree of complexity with Chen's and Crow's Foot notations. Draw them easily applying the powerful built-in tools and libraries of predesigned ERD vector objects from Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD) solution from the Software Development area of ConceptDraw Solution Park. You can also start with one of ready template or sample included to this solution. Designing the ERDs in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM you can easy move the objects within a diagram with saving the relationships between them.Project Management Package
Project Management Package includes a large set of graphical solutions from the ConceptDraw Solution Park. They are selected specially to help in completing the business and management goals, creating business models and modeling business processes, analyzing business progress and efficiency of projects implementation. The tools of this package's solutions are helpful to create number of diagrams and dashboards including Management Diagrams, Business diagrams, Bubble diagrams, Circle-spoke diagrams, Circular arrows diagrams, Venn diagrams, Scrum charts, Kanban boards, Business Intelligence maps, Business Metric charts, Dynamic charts, Project diagrams, Hierarchical charts, Influence diagrams, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Resource Breakdown Structures (RBS), PERT Diagrams, Project management charts, Project timelines, Gantt Charts, Funnel diagrams, Stakeholder Onion diagrams, and many more.
Jackson Systems
Entity structure diagram (ESD) notations may be created in the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM same as any other diagram, including a Jackson Structured Programming (JSP) Diagram. Having the Jackson Structured Programming (JSP) Diagrams solution may simplify the work of drawing the needed illustration representing the given data within only a few minutes. Having the pre-made examples of the JSP diagrams, any ConceptDraw DIAGRAM user is able to make his own unique as well as smart looking drawing in a fun and entertaining way.HelpDesk
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