Play by Play: MVP Scope Discovery with Steven Maguire

In this course, you'll see a client interview for a real-world application. We're not coding a solution -- yet. Before starting to code, or even defining domain objects and models, this discovery interview is all about understanding the business, the people involved, and their primary activities. Identifying those key pieces, and the frequency of each activity, will help us focus our efforts on building an application that has the highest impact on operations. This course will teach you how to conduct a successful client discovery meeting, demonstrating some exercises to uncover the key features of a minimum viable product.

Play by Play is a series where you get a rare view into the workflows and thought processes of top admins, developers, and designers. This is not a planned or rehearsed presentation, but a live, unrehearsed problem solving and troubleshooting session where you see an expert think through issues and design solutions, as they do in the real world every day. In this course, Software Architect Steven Maguire conducts a client interview for a real-world application. We're not coding a solution -- yet. Before starting to code, or even defining domain objects and models, this discovery interview is all about understanding the business, the people involved, and their primary activities. Identifying those key pieces, and the frequency of each activity, will help us focus our efforts on building an application that has the highest impact on operations. Steven's an old friend and colleague from TrainSignal and has a terrific way of eliciting and analyzing requirements, so this course shows not only how to conduct these scope discovery exercises, but also shows a master analyst at work.

• Introduction 1min
• Problem Discovery and Building Personas 35mins
• User Activities 47mins
• User Activity Analysis and Prioritization 23mins
• What's Next 3mins