How to formulate order/customer request?
Hi,
I'm working as a Scrum Master in a project at a very big place, over 20000+ employees. My biggest issue here is to implement scrum as it should. But with the hierarchy, policies and all deadlines they have here, it's impossible.
Making a long story short, we have issues with how the clients should formulate their "order/customer requests". So my question is, how should they formulate what they want with a good description and acceptance criterias? Are there any templates that we can use?
This is the first step before the scrum team takes over and creates epics and stories.
Try coaching them to frame the scope in terms of MVP's (Minimum Viable Products). This is often a struggle with clients who are new to agile practice, because they find it hard to think in terms of incremental value, and it would be better to tackle this sooner rather than later. An epic and story mapping workshop can follow on from that.
The following strategy would help.
1. Group the related customer requests that will form one requirement/Main Feature. (E.g:- Payment gateway support in a mobile app)
2. Come up with the list of features under it(E.g:- include user option, gateway implementation, sync with user account)
3. Order the groups with the client request's importance.
4. Extract the minimum set of features from the top order ones to form MVPs
5. Epics can be created and stories can be evolved from there.