Product Planner is a powerful Azure DevOps extension designed to revolutionize how empowered product teams collaborate on product discovery and prioritization. By combining Opportunity Solution Tree and User Story Mapping boards, Product Planner provides the structure and flexibility your team needs to stay aligned, user-focused, and goal-driven.
Whether you're leveraging existing work item types or creating new ones, Product Planner adapts to your workflow, making it the ultimate tool for product planning in Azure DevOps.
Key Features
Opportunity Solution Tree
The Opportunity Solution Tree is a structured visualization tool that helps product teams achieve desired outcomes by exploring and organizing various paths to success. It emphasizes a systematic approach to product discovery while fostering alignment and collaboration.
Breakdown of the Tree:
Outcomes: Define both business and product outcomes to align your team on goals.
Opportunities: Identify customer needs, pain points, and areas for improvement based on research.
Solutions: Brainstorm features or ideas that address opportunities.
Experiments: Validate solutions with experiments to ensure effectiveness.
User Stories: Translate validated solutions into actionable development tasks.
User Story Mapping
User Story Mapping helps teams visualize the user journey and manage work effectively. It organizes the workload into manageable layers, ensuring that development remains aligned with user goals and the product vision.
Layers of the Story Map:
User Activities (Epics): Represent major user journeys or features.
User Tasks (Features): Break activities into specific user steps.
User Stories: Further refine tasks into actionable development items.
Tasks: Optional breakdown of stories into granular work items.
Why Choose Product Planner?
Seamless Azure DevOps Integration: Access Opportunity Solution Tree and User Story Mapping boards directly within Azure DevOps, leveraging existing work items or creating new ones.
Collaboration at Scale: Enable product teams to work together effectively, fostering discussions and aligning on product strategy and priorities.
Enhanced Flexibility: Tailor work item types and boards to your team's specific needs.
Focus on Learning: Use experiments and validation to refine solutions and continuously improve your product.
Getting Started
Install: Click the "Get it free" button to add Product Planner to your Azure DevOps organization.
Setup: Follow the guided setup process to integrate the extension with your environment.
Start Planning: Leverage Opportunity Solution Tree and User Story Mapping boards to take your product planning to the next level.
