Dev Kick-Off

The goal of dev kick-offs is to introduce upcoming features to the dev team. During the meeting, they have the opportunity to ask questions to understand the issue better and to challenge assumptions & motivation. Lastly, the goal is to split the feature into several work packages (stories in clubhouse) that can be built and estimated separately.

Basics

Frequency: Ad-hoc

Duration: As short as possible

Participants: PM, Designer, Devs

Goal

1. Introduce new feature

• Inform about upcoming product features:

  1. Which screen(s) are affected

  2. User journey changes

  3. Design changes

  4. The motivation for the changes

  5. Assumption/ design tests completed

• Developers can challenge assumption & motivation and ask questions to understand better

2. Split feature into separate stories

• Split feature into separate stories and create tickets in clubhouse

• Create work packages for front-end and back-end

• Pre-sort into must-have and nice-to-have features

• Get a very rough estimation