11. The Options Pivot
During the Discovery Loop, we started to come up with lots of ideas for implementation. The Impact Map gave us deliverables that formed hypothesis statements. The human-centered design and Empathy Mapping practices gave us ideas directly from the user. The Event Storm gave us standalone features (triggered by commands) that can be implemented using standalone microservices (codifying the aggregate). The Metrics-Based Process Map and Non-Functional Map gave us ideas on how we can speed up the development cycle and improve security, maintainability, operability, scalability, auditability, traceability, reusability, and just about anything else that ends with ability!
The next step after the Discovery Loop is the Options Pivot, where all the information from these practices that we've used gets boiled down to a list of options for actions to take and decisions to make on what to deliver next.
The Options Pivot is the heart of the Mobius Loop. On...