Abstract
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. Following the framework gives you the confidence to collaborate and co-create, where everyone in a multifunctional team can contribute to their fullest.
Join Jenny Martin for this 2-module training course to get started with OOPSI and improve your product development process.
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, and more specifically:
- Scrum Masters,
- Agile Coaches,
- Business Analysts,
- Product Owners,
- QA Leads and Engineers.
You should have worked in an agile / product development environment, and have some experience with user stories or requirements. It would be very beneficial if you’ve been working on a cross / functional team.
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.
In all cases, OOPSI helps teams quickly identify and focus on the most valuable work and align strongly to shared goals. The collaborative approach helps bridge communication gaps between product and engineering teams, resulting in less rework and happier more motivated teams.
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.
Expect to get your hands dirty – How does it work
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. There’ll be plenty of time for discussion and sharing.
The workshop will keep its interactive and hands-on spirit despite being online.
This is why we require that all participants keep their webcam on for the whole workshop duration: this will enhance the quality of the communication and the workshop as a whole.
You won’t be sitting at your desk watching slides and videos, and you’ll be engaged in real-time activities for the majority of the time… as if we were in a real classroom!
Why should you buy a ticket
Still unsure about the benefits of OOPSI? Check it out as it…
- Provides teams with a structure for discovery and collaboration
- Helps teams quickly identify and focus on the most valuable work
- Guides teams to align their efforts with outcomes and make good decisions
- Encourages storytelling and a customer-focused approach
- Promotes shared understanding and reduces rework
- Supports good design and testability
- Enables best practice implementation of test strategy and automation
In a nutshell – OOPSS 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.
