Exploring User Wish

through Mind Mapping

Kenji HIRANABEMind map by Michal Splho

{Using for}

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Agenda

• Introduction

• What is a Mind Map and Why

• Exploring User Wish using Mind

Mapping

• Demonstration using Astah

• Conclusion

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Kenji HIRANABE(1/2)• (co-)Translator of …

OO, UML books Mind Map book

XP/ Agile books

• (co-)Author of …C++ book

Scrum book

Agile and Scrum:

Collaborative Software

Development That Connects

Customers, Engineers and

Management

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Kenji HIRANABE(2/2)• CEO of Astah.net.

• astah – UML editor (formerly known as “JUDE”)

– With Mind Map, ERD

– http://astah. net/

– Runs on• PC, Mac, Linux, iPad

http://www.publickey1.jp/blog/11/10_innovation_sprint_2011.html

Innovation Sprint 2011

Jeff Sutherland Ikujiro Nonaka

me

Toyota Production System

Lean

Lean Software Development

Kanban

Lean Startup

Agile

Scrum

XP

The New New Product Development Game

Four steps to the epiphany

Agile and Lean

Startup

Patterns

Manufacturing Industry in Japan

2013 Yasunobu Kawaguchi

Copyright © 2005-2007 Kenji

HIRANABE, Some rights

reserved

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Exploring User Wish

through Mind Mapping

Kenji HIRANABEMind map by Michal Splho

{Using for}

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Mind Map

• Tony Buzan

• Graphical note technique

– And more than that

• Visualize thoughts with

a radiant structure

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“How it feels to have a stroke”

Brain Scientist Jill Bolte Taylor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU

Mind map by Michal Splho

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Mind Mapping

• Examples …

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Product Feature Map in Release Planning

Seminar Ideas

Project Christmas Planning

Meeting Minutes Template

Guitar Chord

Diagram

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“Mastering the Requirements” Process by Suzanne and James Robertson,1999.

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Mind Map

1. Keyword Oriented

2. Loose syntax and semantics

3. Fast and Easy

4. High level View

5. Evocative

6. Explore and Gather Ideas

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User Stores: Ron Jeffries’ 3 Cs

• Card

– Written on note cards.

– Cards may be annotated with estimates, notes, etc.

• Conversation

– Details behind the story come out during conversation with customer

• Confirm

– Acceptance tests confirm the story was coded correctly

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User Stories: Mike Cohn

• Shift focus from writing to talking

• Metaphor of Trawling (by Suzanne and James Robertson)– Requirements can be captured with different sized nets

– Requirements change, mature, possibly die

– Skill is a factor

• Avoid “The user”, find “Roles”

• In order to <benefit>,as a <role>,I want to <story>,

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Why Mind Map and User Stories Fit ?

• Shift focus from writing to talking

• Trawl requirements with coarse sized net first

• Capture Emotion, Use your right brain !

Colors, and Pictures !

– To fully utilize broadband communication and

preserve it in your brain, as the same time, keep it

into a mind map as a memento of the situation. In

the future conversation, you can use it to resume

the context back.

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User Wish Mind Map

• The first step of getting what you want.

• Get the Big Picture.

• Who? first.

• Semi-structured.

• Gather info and mine UseCases/User Stories.

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Demonstration

• City Library System Interview…

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Library Interview Mind Map

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UseCase Diagram

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User Stories Mind Map

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User Stories Spreadsheet

Also to PowerPoint!

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User WishUser Wish

Big Picture Mind MapBig Picture Mind Map

User Stories/ Use CasesUser Stories/ Use Cases

Why?Why?

Who?Who?

When?When?

Estimate, Plan, Prioritize, Test

valuerole

The big picture of this presentation

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Conclusion

• Mind Mapping is effective when

– Gathering Information

– Exploring topics freely

• User interview with Mind Mapping

– Is Semi-structured

– Gives a high-level view of user wish

– Creates a big picture of the user wish from which

you can carve out good use cases or user stories.

• Why, Who, When are good input to user stories.

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Stickyminds.com article“Agile Modeling with Mind Map and UML”

Search: stickyminds Kenji HIRANABE

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Let’s make software development

more collaborative, productive and FUN!

Free Evaluation of Astah from: http://astah.net/

Follow me on twitter: @hiranabe, @astah_en

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ThankThank you for your attention!you for your attention!

Requirements gathering is a critical and also slippery activity.

Customer engagement and shared visualization is essential.