Are you overwhelmed by User Stories? Have you lost sight of the big picture? Are you not sure how to Start Small?
It’s time to try OOPSI, an innovative collaboration technique invented by Jenny Martin.
OOPSI stands for Outcomes, Outputs, Process, Scenarios, Inputs. It is a collaborative agile practice that helps teams break down complex problems and navigate the path to delivering business value faster.
Following the OOPSI framework helps you break down work so that you can start on something small but still deliver something valuable.
The different steps in the OOPSI framework help give structure to the discovery process and provide lightweight documentation that helps align everyone and avoid misunderstandings and rework.
In a nutshell – OOPSI gives you a framework to reduce handovers and get the team co-creating and collaborating effectively from the beginning. It helps you guide the delivery process and confidently navigate complexity.
Join Jenny Martin for this 2-module online training course to get started with OOPSI and improve your product development process.
The Trainer
Jenny Martin brings her expertise in team collaboration and high-performing teams to create transformative experiences. With a passion for helping groups excel, she is a recognized leader in the Product and Agile communities.
Jenny creates immersive, playful workshops that empower teams to unlock their collective intelligence and embrace their diverse strengths. And that’s what we love most about her approach.
Her mission is simple: to see individuals and teams flourish, achieving remarkable outcomes together while allowing every unique talent to shine.
Target audience
Anyone on a software or product development team who wants to learn how to break down complex problems and navigate the path to delivering business value faster.
The OOPSI framework can be applied in many ways, in the large and in the small:
- At the highest level, it can help guide conversations and give confidence to a facilitator who is helping a team explore a problem.
- For Product Managers and Product Owners, the different steps can guide discovery activities and allow for co-creation of lightweight documentation that raises shared understanding and facilitates fast feedback (even structured as a design sprint to rapidly kick off an initiative).
- For Agile and Product Development teams, OOPSI can be used to help explore and split user stories as part of a 3 Amigos workshop, and help structure tests and promote good test design and automation strategy.
Program
- Principles of iterative delivery
- Hunting value – how to start small
- User Story Splitting approaches
- Outcome Based Planning
- Overview of OOPSI
- OOPSI in practice – Outcomes, Outputs, Process, Scenarios, Inputs
- OOPSI Process patterns
- Effective OOPSI workshops
- OOPSI and Living Documentation
- How to implement OOPSI in your team.
The OOPSI Training is structured in 2 sessions delivered remotely in 3.5 hours each.
Learning objectives
- Get unstuck from analysis paralysis – Be able to more confidently break work down using the OOPSI technique and get started quickly.
- Have clear sprint goals and strategy to deliver valuable working software as early as possible and optimise the process for feedback
- Structure the discovery process so that collaboration is effective and the team are strongly aligned.
- Reduce waste – Capture the right level of detail and deliver light-weight concrete living documentation that enables shared understanding.
- Be able to implement the OOPSI technique into any product development environment.
How it works
We will be working in live-streaming on Miro and Zoom.
The workshop will be highly participative – we’ll work through detailed examples and attendees will work or their own and in small groups to familiarise themselves with the technique.
