Requirements

Articulate and prioritize personas and their problems so that the appropriate products can be built. Check out this resource bundle to dig deep into making your requirements work for you. From hand-offs between product and development, to backlogs and prioritization, this collection of resources has you covered. 

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Tools & Templates
Note: Tools & Templates are accessible by course completion. 
You will not be able to access templates that you haven't taken the course for.
Requirements That Work Use this template to document each of the detailed requirements you have discovered in the market. Include the persona, use scenario and description.
  The Plan Template Use this template to document your requirements launch plan, the deliverables included and get signed agreement from involved stakeholders.
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Articles, Blogs & Reports
(Article) From Shore to Shore Offshore development teams can add huge value and bandwidth, but they often come with a unique set of communication challenges. This hands-on article walks you through the critical factors you need to consider to successfully integrate offshore teams.
  (Article) Writing Requirements as an International Team You’ve probably heard the saying, “Teamwork makes the dream work.” But in today’s global environment, you probably have team members in different cities, time zones, countries and cultures. This article walks you through how to come together as a team to create requirements that work. 
  (Blog) On Reqs and Specs: The Roles and Behaviors for Effective Product Definition What are requirements? What are specifications? What purpose do they each serve and who is really responsible for each on a streamlined team? This article answers these questions and more so you can create clear delineation of the “what” from the “how”. 
  (Blog) Prioritizing Software Requirements with Kano Analysis Noriaki Kano developed the Kano analysis model in the late 1980s to identify and contrast essential customer requirements from incremental requirements. Check out this article to learn the process step-by-step. 
  (Blog) Why Prioritizing Your Agile Backlog for ROI Doesn't Work This resource makes the compelling and well-research argument that ROI prioritization is not in your best interest. Rather, you should focus on balancing stakeholder demands, aligning to corporate strategy and driving your profit engine. 

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PAC Discussions
Format for Writing Features In this thread, members share their templates on how to writing a consistent Feature. 
  How Do You Prefer to Get Criticism? Here members craft their preferred ways to get their criticisms (including structure on how to design a healthy way to ask for feedback from others).
  What Should Your Leaders Understand About Building Products? In this conversation members walk through what the believe the basic rules leadership should understand.
  How Do You Create Your User Personas? This beginning conversation is a excellent starting point for those looking to begin building out their personas. It includes custom templates and examples from PAC members! Also check out a sample buyer persona here.
  Why exactly do we need frequency information in our requirements? Wondering what the purpose of frequency information is on your requirements? Members answer the question in this thread.
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Videos, Webinar & Podcasts
User Personas In Action Have you ever wondered how other companies put the Pragmatic Marketing Framework into actual practice? Jon Fan, VP of product management at Box, joins the Pragmatic Live podcast to discuss the role of product management at Box.
Cage Fight: Product Owner vs. Product Manager Hear from Scrum.org, the home of Scrum and Pragmatic Institute, the leader in product management and marketing, on how to resolve the tension and avoid getting into a cage fight between the two roles of Product Owner and Product Manager in this webinar.
Writing Requirements as an International Team Webinar: In today’s global environment, you probably have team members in different cities, in different time zones, in different countries and with different cultures. How do you come together as a team to create requirements that make sense and that your entire team agrees on to build high-quality products and services that people want to buy?
How the Elephant and 6 Blind People Can Help Articulate Your Product's Vision Check out this webinar to hear from Johnathan Lucky, scrum master at Perform Group, as he walks you through the tricky roles in defining your product vision. Topics include gathering requirements and market problems, applying data-driven decision-making, and creating a feedback loop of inception, iteration and planning.

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