Business Value Driven Development's (BVDD) focus is on business value, such as increased revenues or decreased costs. For customer facing groups, the business value typically involves customer focused delivery (CFD) – such as developing things that increase customer satisfaction.
BVDD involves decomposing changes into small releasable items and sequencing these items. It also deals with the impact of those changes on all stakeholders, e.g. the customer, marketing, and customer service.
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Small Releasables
To deliver business value effectively, changes to systems should be grouped into the minimum set that can be released and produces business value. This minimum change set has been called the Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Minimum Marketable Feature (MMF), or Minimum Business Increment (MBI). In this part of BVDD, the emphasis is on decomposing changes in smaller pieces, creating releasable change sets, and creating doneness tests to check for the delivery of the business value for a change.Sequencing
The sequence of releasing change sets should allow for the quickest delivery of business value. This typically can be scheduled by first determining the relative business value of the changes. The cost of delay, opportunity enhancement, or risk reduction can also be added to the business value.Decomposition
Decomposition in BVDD revolves around breaking down epics or themes into features and the features into stories. The features and stories are placed into change sets (MVP, MMF, MBI, etc.) If a feature does not require every story to be released at the same time, then some stories can be placed in another change set. Note that stories give a summary of a change; the details are gathered at the appropriate time. ©
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