Envision, Speculate, Explore, Adapt, Close
Envision, Speculate, Explore, Adapt , and Close are the stages that are part of the Agile Delivery Framework.
| Envision | Speculate | Explore | Adapt | Close |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Objective: Purpose and the Outcome of this Project | To plan is to speculate. | Iteration Planning: What will get done? | Using information, change what’s needed for a purpose. | Was the objective of the Project met? |
| Conceptualisation | Build long list of backlog, work not yet completed. | Workload Management: Who will do it? Based alongside self managing teams. | Feedback wrt. vision. | Project Status Report |
| How? Architecture – Technical Knowledge needed, inclusive, participatory, guiding principles | Build Release Plan, Releasable Functions, Plan for the Release-ability. | Progress Monitoring Review, Daily StandUps / Meetings, Check-ins on work day-by-day. | Key Areas: Value: Customer Feedback Report – Customer Centric. | Final Review for Ongoing Improvement, Larger strategic, macro objectives. |
| Aligned Conceptual Awareness of the objective/ Goal: Stakeholders , Execs, PM, PO, and Investors. | Backlog of Features – Story Driven Interactions. | Remove Obstacles, Minor Changes, Technical Debt, Technical Weakness. | Quality: Does it work? Technical Review – Team Centric and Customer Centric | Is it going to fulfill its purpose. |
| Value – Start with Why? How it plans on doing what it needs to do, User Experience, Features, How it is going to do what it needs to do. | Creation of Stories / Product Backlog | Build Value / Stories accepted by the customer / people/ leadership. | Method / Performance – Team Performance Evaluation – Team Centric | Bring everything full circle |
| Quality – Acceptance, and Testing Methods | Do it! | Vision / Status – Are we Fulfilling the vision and/or revised vision? – Customer & Team Centric | Got to link back to the Vision, Business Objectives, ROI, Did We Achieve those Goals? | |
| Constraints: Fixed Budget, Fixed Timelines – What flexibility? | We are not ready to make decisions! | Make decisions! | Working Software | Closure is personal as well as functional. |
| Return On Investment | Review, Revise, Respond | |||
| Vision | ||||
| Objectives & Constaints | ||||
| Community | ||||
| Approach | ||||
| Principles | ||||
| Envision is to link Strategic Objectives with Practical Objectives | ||||
| Business Analysts | ||||
| Business Case | ||||
