Continuous Exploration and Finding New Features
In Continuous Exploration, product management works with people both inside and outside the Agile Release Train (ART) to find features that will provide value to the customer, explore the needs and wants of the customer, verify the feasibility of new features in the current architecture, and prepare new features to be developed by the ART.
As we can see in the following illustration, Continuous Exploration, the first stage of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, establishes the trigger for subsequent development:
Figure 10.1 – Continuous Delivery Pipeline (© Scaled Agile, All Rights Reserved)
In a nutshell, the following activities will be discussed in this chapter:
- Hypothesizing the customer value
- Collaboration and research
- Discussions about architecture
- Synthesizing the work
The work that product management does during Continuous Exploration is important for the ART...