Value Proposition Canvas | Glossary

Definition

A canvas which displays the Value Proposition. It represents where the company’s product often intersects with the customer’s desires. It represents the magic space between what you make and why people buy it. The value proposition is the crunch point between business and brand strategy.

It is helpful when a new company is being started. A Value Proposition canvas is a simple tool that rapidly gives you the ‘minimum viable clarity’ that is required to start the building and test procedures.

Further Reading

  • “Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want” (book), by Alexander Osterwalder.

 

User Roles | Glossary

Definition

‘User Roles’ determines the question: Who to write the User story for? It follows the belief that Agile is a ‘story’, and that ‘stories’ cannot be written from a single perspective and require multiple experiences. A User Role is then, a collection of defining attributes that describe a population of user and their interactions with the system.

The primary concern when writing user stories, is as mentioned, the identity of the user. Writing better User Roles, lead to better User Stories, then eventually better software.

Further Reading

  • “Succeeding with Agile : Software Development using Scrum 1st Edition” (book), by Mike Cohn.