Discovery Workshop for Software Recomendation service

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Purpose

Why do Discovery workshop?

• Understand existing research and gather existing knowledge in order to determine additional research plans over the course of the project
• Understand stakeholder expectations
• Build a mutual understanding of the overall project direction, key milestones, and vision for the entire team
• Get a glimpse into the broader context (e.g., culture, parallel efforts, etc.) that may affect the project

Objective

• Understand existing research and gather existing knowledge
• Understand stakeholder expectations
• Build a common understanding of the overall project direction, key milestones, and vision for the entire team
• Minimize the risk of building the wrong thing
• Understand who the customers are and how the product will improve their lives
• Define what sets the product apart in the market
• Define what success looks like

Deliverables

Some of the desired and expected outputs from a discovery workshop are:

• Aligned product vision and purpose inside the whole team
• Setting clear, realistic goals for the product
• Define the target audience, user personas, flows, and scenarios,
• Sketch the User Journey mapping
• Aligned vision over the project roadmap and priorities

Workshop Details

Date and Time: 15 Jan, 2024, 10:00AM to 4:00PM

Location: Meeting room 1


Participants: Facilitators: 2 (UX Lead and Product Manager) : Designers: 1, Engineers: 2, Stakeholders: 3, Observers: 1

Steps

1. Define a goal and output for the workshop.
2. Decide on workshop participants.
3. Gather needed materials
4. Plan your agenda

Agenda

1. Introductions (Workshop intro, attendee intro) — 15 min
2. Design process overview (Walkthrough the design process steps, milestone and desirable outcome for each) — 15 min
3. My first job Icebreaker activity - 15-20 min
4. Stakeholder interview (About the Client, Business Goals & Objectives)- 45 min
5. Assumption mapping (Mapping how desirable, viable and feasible is the product)- 45 min
6. break- 15 min
7. Who are our users — 45 min
8. What are your user's goals (Get everyone to know the users better) — 30 min
9. Personas — 45 min
10. Lunch — 60 min
11. Brain dump exercise (Great way to generate a lot of ideas)- 60 min
12. Voting — 15 min
13. Discuss the results — 15 min
14. Coffee break — 15 min
15. User journey mapping (Will help generate feature ideas)- 90 min
16. Coffee break- 15 min
17. Present journey — 30 min
18. Final review — 60 min
19. Coffee break- 15 min
20. Feature prioritization — 90 min
21. Coffee break — 15 min
22. Define MVP — 90 min