Who's uses the acceptance criteria during a sprint?
Everyone - Business, analysts, developers, testers and product owners
1. Pre - Inception Activities
Goal: Prepare for and Plan for inception Execution
Value Consulting Workshop
Implementation Workshop
Inception Planning
Benefit Mapping Workshop
Business Trainnig
2. Inception Activities
Goal: Confrim Scope and Estimates and Plan the Project Iterations
Elaborate Requirements
Product and Value Alignment
Confirm Scope
Plan Project / Sprints
Infrastructure Sizing
Developer Training
Methodology Training
3. Development (1) Activities
Goal: Prepare for and Plan for development Execution
Plan Sprints
Build Solution
Demonstrate Results
Learn and Revise
4. Development (2) Activities
Goal: Enable user stories with technology
5 Stabilization
,Goal: Confirm the production quality of the stories for deployment
Regression testing
System/ E2E
Model Office / UAT
Performance Testing
Guidewire Support Transisiton
Review and approve
6 Deployment
Goal: To enable End users to start using system in production
Migrate Data
Pilot Deployment
Full Deployment
Organizational Change managment
Support and Success
Goal: Realize the value of the production Guidewire system
Ongoing customer success program
Value realization
Business as usual
Maintenance Upgrades
Learn and Revise
Inception (Duration)
1 week sprints
Delivery (Duration)
3 -4 Weeks
Success Factors for a cross functional team
Frequent Communication
Co - Located teams
Empowered decision making
Active business involvement
What is SurePath
Guidewire Implementation Approach
, - Optimize scope
- Leverage Content
- Guided Implementation
- Drive Value
Which phases in the Guidewire project lifecycle are divided into sprints?
Inception
Development
Stabiilization
Which is the typical duration of a sprint in the inception phase?
One week
During the stabilization phase what is the purpose of the performance testing?
Run tests to check how well the system works in anticipated and peak loads
During the deployment phase, what happens during the Pilot step?
- Allow a subset of users to use the system
- Gather feedback
- Triage feedback
- Implement changes as needed
During the support phase who is responsible for monitoring business processes?
- Support team
What role is the Product Owner (PO)?
Drives Value
- Key stakeholder representing the voice of the customer
- Business authority to make decisions (can delegate to key SMEs)
- Shares vision with the development team
- Collaborates with the teams to develop and deliver the work
- Defines requirements and answers the development teams questions promptly and with authority
- Responsible for signing off on user stories and defects
- Does not write requirements or test during development
Project Manager (PM)
Facilitates Progress