How to Use a Product Vision Board for Citizen Development

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Ideation 2.0 uses tools and approaches to bring ideas to life (read more in our article An Introduction to Ideation 2.0 in Practice). By using a product vision board, you can capture the key elements of what you plan to develop in a clear and concise tool that also helps communicate with different stakeholders.

What is a Product Vision Board?
A product vision board is a simple—yet immensely powerful—tool that agile (and, in particular, scrum) practitioners will be very familiar with.

It is a derivative of the agile vision board that Roman Pichler first shared in 2012. When well crafted, it is a clear and concise communication tool and acts as the team’s North Star. It informs and influences everything from who is engaged (and to what extent), how the application will fit in the wider landscape, what requirements are captured in the backlog, and what the build priorities are.

It is intended to be high level and should give direction in an easily digestible manner.

Product vision board template (licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License)

Vision

“What is the motivation for creating this application? What positive change will this bring about?”

Completing the vision section can sometimes be the hardest part of the exercise. Some teams do this at the beginning, but it can also be a task well…

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