Introduction to the Venture Design Process
My name is Alex Cowan. I teach at UVA Darden. My background is that I’ve been an entrepreneur and an intrapreneur, meaning I started a new venture inside an existing company. Now, three …
Course: Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking
Course Overview and Requirements
Despite everyone’s good intentions, hard work and solid ideas, too many projects end up creating unneeded, unusable, and unsellable products. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Agile and …
Demo: Drafting Problem Scenarios, Alternatives, and Value Propositions
In this video, Alex demos how to setup problem scenarios, alternatives, and value propositions.
Skit: Storyboarding an Epic
In this video, a skit is provided to help you understand how to storyboard an epic.
Skit: Drafting Epics from Problem Scenarios
In this video, a skit is provided to help you understand how to draft epics from problem scenarios.
Using “Day in the Life” to Drive Empathy
In this video, Alex demonstrates an example of using “Day in the Life” to help bring a persona to life.
Designing a Meeting with User Stories
Now that you’ve learned techniques to improve your user stories, this video explains how to create thoughtful, collaborative meetings that brings all this material together to show to your team. …
A Prototype is Worth a Thousand Meetings
In this video, Alex demonstrates how to use prototyping to improve your user stories.
Coaching for Better User Stories
In this video, Alex puts into practice some of the techniques that have been discussed this week to make your user stories better. As you watch this video, think about …
Investable Stories
In this video, Alex explains how to make your user stories better by using Bill Wake’s INVEST list. You’ll be using this INVEST list to check your work on the …
Better Narrative, Better Story
In this video, Alex discusses some advanced techniques to improve the quality of user stories.
Demo: Drafting Child Stories
In this video, Alex demos how to detail an epic into a set of child stories.
Demo: Storyboarding an Epic
In this video, Alex demos how to storyboard an epic using the HVAC example.
Demo: Drafting Epic User Stories
In this video, Alex demos how to draft an epic user story. You’ll learn how to keep your problem scenarios and epic user stories tied together and organized.
