Brew Studio - Product Life Cycle Maturity Test

Summary

The product discovery process is key to understanding if your idea has a place in the market.

Are you confident that your software development process, whether Agile or Waterfall, fully incorporates product discovery? Take this quick 15-min quiz to assess the maturity of your discovery process. Uncover opportunities to unlock the full potential of a well-thought-out discovery approach for your propduct.

Agenda

Take this quick and simple 15-minute assessment to find out if your processes are evolved and centered around the crucial first step of product creation - discovery.

Ideal for

Product owners
Product managers
Business stakeholders
Product founders/ co-founders
Agile teams
Development teams
Anyone involved in the product development process

Benefits

Analyse the effectiveness of your discovery process
Uncover areas that require potential improvements
Identify pitfalls or gaps in your product scope
Understand why your development time may be longer than estimated

Discovery and Documentation

Does your product have well documented modules, functionalities with each module and user stories for each functionality for designers and developers?

We have documented high level modules only

We have documented high level modules and functionalities only

We have documented all requirements within each functionality and modules along with it's pre and post conditions, exceptions and users

We have not documented anything, requirements are given to the developers and designers through informal communication

I don’t know the difference between modules, functionality and user stories

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Does your product have an information architecture?

Information architecture: Information architecture also known as IA is the The practice of organising the information / content / functionality of a web site so that it presents the best user experience

Yes

No

Somewhat

Don’t know what information architecture is (0 points)

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Do you maintain design specifications as well as software specifications?

Yes, our designers create the specifications for our front-end developers

Our front-end developer are capable to design without the specifications

Never heard of design specifications

Business Analysis

Do you have an updated SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis?

Yes

No

Our developers figure that out on their own (0 points)

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Do you have a clear ‘Out of Scope’ for your product/solution/system ?

Yes

No

Never heard of out of scope

We assume the out of scope is understood as a by product of the in-scope

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How did you define the user personas and/or well defined end users and entities for your product?

We did a market survey and individually spoke to the audience of the survey (3 points)

We assumed the the attributes of the end user and created the user personas based on those assumptions (1.5 points)

We have user personas defined but have not documented their attributes (1 point)

Never heard of user personas

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Is there a well-defined document highlighting competition analysis for your product/ solution/ system?

We believe we have no competition

Yes but there is no documentation

Yes, we have a detailed competitor analysis done for our Value proposition.

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We have clearly defined north star matrix for our product/ system/ solution

True

False

Never heard of North star matrix

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We have clearly defined north star matrix for our product/ system/ solution

True

False

Never heard of North star matrix

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Can you clearly state the mission and/or purpose of your product?

Yes

No

Somewhat

Process and Planning

How are future features decided for your product/system/ solution?

Based purely on user feedback

Based on user feedback and business priority

Based purely on stakeholders’ inputs

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How are priorities for requirements decided?

Based purely on stakeholders’ inputs

Based on a well defined matrix such as MoSCoW

Developers pick the requirements based on their convenience

There is no prioritisation done for features

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Do you have a clearly defined risks, assumptions, constraints and issues matrix with owners for each defined ?

Yes

Yes, but we don’t have owners

No

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How do you release features into the market?

After a developer finishes it’s development.

After the internal testing process has been completed

After the beta testers have done business testing on it and their feedback is noted.

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Is the role of each team member defined clearly and communicated periodically to them?

Yes, there is a process set for the same and each member has defined responsibilities.

No, we are an “all hands on task” team

Yes, but there is no formal distinction between responsibilities just an understanding

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We conduct regular customer surveys and use the information to improve our customer service/retention

Yes

Somewhat

No

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