History

~1994

Phase of RUP

~ 2002

Luke Barrett _{✞ 2014} started a Quick Start movement to initiate projects inside ThoughtWorks

~ 2004

Jeff Patton added Design Thinking ideas like Personas, User Journeys, etc..

Scrum + Design thinking

2004 ~ 2006

Jonathan Rasmusson was using technical discussions and business prioritisation sessions

Agile Inception Deck

2006

Paulo Caroli joined ThoughtWorks and start attending inceptions with Jonathan and Jeff

Paulo mixed both styles in the Agile Inception

2011

Paulo became father and didn't want to stay away from home for two weeks

MVP MVP MVP

• Release Planning
• User Stories
• Tech/Archtecture Decisions

Lean Inception

Why?

Flavors of Inception

Agile Inception

• Two weeks
• Discovery -> Analysis -> Technical Discussions -> Release Planning

Lean Inception

• One Week
• Focus on the MVP
• User Story
• Technical Discussions

Feature Inception/Kick Off

• 1 day or half-day
• Focus on a subset of a project

Lean Inception

Format

Workshops

Product Vision

The Product Is/Is Not - Does/Does Not

Describe the Personas

Discover The Features

Show the User Journeys

Display features in Journeys

Technical and Business Review

Sequence the features

Build the MVP Canvas