[Workshop] Prioritising features

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Workshop Request

What is the title of your workshop

Prioritising features

What are the key topics that will be covered in the workshop?

In Decomposition Sprint 2 we intentionally give our trainees a project with too many requirements. They are building a chat application, and we give them a long list of features a chat application could have, but only give them one week to build something.

We want a workshop where we take a project, and consider:

• The value of features - which are required, which are high value, which are optional
• Links or dependencies between features - which are related, which only make sense if several are built, which unlock several others
• How much work the features are likely to be
• How much uncertainty do we have around each feature.
  • Some approaches to uncertainty: Avoid uncertain tickets, do little experiments to reduce uncertainty, embrace uncertain tickets early so we can learn more

We can do this with the chat project (which the trainees will be actively working on, so have context for), or with some other project (so they can apply the techniques themselves to the chat project).

What knowledge does the trainee need before starting?

Have worked on a (well-scoped) project before.

What are the topics that will not be covered in the workshop?

We don't want to go too deep into implementation details of projects - just keeping to planning/scheduling.

Any other notes?

Ideally I'd like this to fit inside 90 minutes, but taking less time is fine.

Completion

When completed the lesson plan and exercises should be added as a markdown file to https://github.com/CodeYourFuture/CYF-Workshops