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Congratulations, you have been approved to use Scrum to manage the Lizard Farm project.

To start planning the work, you need to complete the following:

A Product Vision Board. A template is attached.

For the Product Vision, please use one of the format highlighted in Essential Scrum on Page 293, Table 17.1

High-Level Product Backlog with 4-5 Strong Epics. Release Schedule (this will be an estimate)

Use the lecture and Essential Scrum, Page 294-295 for guidance.

Draft 1-2 pages addressing the following:

Who needs to be on your team? Include yourself as the Scrum Master.

How long will your sprints be? How did you decide this?

As always, make sure the presentation is professional and something you would feel confident presenting to the VPs you drafted a memo to last week.

Lizard Farm – We’re working to keep your money…

Insurance Management System (IMS)
Project
Description
New system needed within a year or so, to handle all aspects of our company’s insurance business. We

operate in all 50 states. We handle auto insurance and home insurance, and offer discounts if you use

us for both together. We do not do life insurance: apparently, everyone dies at some point.

The system must do at least the following:

 Claim recording

o For Example: If I have a car accident or a storm destroys the roof of my home I need to

alert Lizard Farm.

 Claim tracking

o For Example: Lizard Farm needs to track that car accident or destruction to my home, so

different people in the company have access to it.

 Claim payments

o For Example: Lizard Farm must pay me for the damage caused to my car in a reasonable

amount of time.

 Customer tracking

o For Example: Lizard Farm must be able to track customers, so they can determine if a

customer is “high risk” – such as constant car accidents.

 Premium tracking

o For Example: Lizard Farm needs to know if customers are paying their premiums.

General Assignment Notes
You will be expected to do some research here into the nature of Insurance companies and what they

do, but you are not expected to become an expert in software of that type. You should be able to

identify with and perhaps enhance the list above, but that is primarily to give you a fertile field for

picking User Stories for the project. I am more interested in how you communicate your thinking, both

to me, to your fictional team, and to the senior organization people that need convincing that Agile is

viable.

Remember the marking standards! If you do exactly what the assignment asks for, you will get a good

solid B+ (85%). To get an A, you must exceed expectations without going beyond the assignment

boundaries – for example, if you include a detailed project schedule with the first assignment, you will

probably lose points!

Below is the general assignment breakdown – each week will contain details on the specific assignment.

All weeks will be open, so you are welcome to “look ahead” to see what the upcoming assignment will

be about.

Assignment 1
Produce Agile Justification Memo

Assignment 2
High-Level Product Plan and Epics

Assignment 3
Completed Sprint Plan and Backlog.

Assignment 4
Relative Estimation and Task Board

TARGET GROUP NEEDS PRODUCT BUSINESS
GOALS

VISION

Which market or market segment does the
product address?

Who are the target customers and users?

What problem does the product solve?

Which benefit does it provide?

What product is it?

What makes it stand out?

Is it feasible to develop the product?

How is the product going to benefit the
company?

What are the business goals?

THE PRODUCT VISION BOARD
What is your purpose for creating the product?

Which positive change should it bring about?

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