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Recognizing products, features, and value streams
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CriterionAgileLeanWaterfall
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A product will have minimal dependencies upon other productsYYY/N
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A product will have different users/customers, features, or a distinct journey which distinguish it from other productsYYY/N
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A product will have clear value to justify its continued development.YY/NY/N
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The value of a product can be determined by empirical means and metricsYY/NY/N
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At any given time, the amount of remaining work in a product can be estimatedYY/NY/N
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A product will be delivered incrementallyYYN
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A product will never be completeY/NY/NN
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A product has a clear product ownerYY/NY/N
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A product is a learning platform for requirements discoveryYY/NN
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A product is independently releasable from other products
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Each product feature will assert an hypothesis which allows a requirement to be evaluatedYY/NN
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Each product feature will be refined, before it is acted on, by the feature team which will implement and deliver it.YY/NN
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Each product feature will be estimated, before it is acted on, by the feature team which will implement and deliver it.YY/NN
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Each product feature will have a description, an order in a backlog of work, a value, and a size relative to other features of that product.YYY/N
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Each product feature will be independent of other product featuresYYY/N
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The scope of each product feature will be negotiable at all times prior to deliveryYY/NY/N
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Each product feature will provide a clear and defined value.YY/NY/N
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Each product feature will be small enough to be delivered within a time-box not exceeding one monthYYY/N
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Each product feature will be testable in accordance with clear acceptance criteria.YYY/N
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A value stream will support the release of value as discrete increments at intervals not exceeding one monthYYY/N
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A value stream will provide value which is empirically measurableYY/NY/N
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A value stream will represent a coherent product or serviceYY/NY/N
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A value stream will be adaptable such that it can be made more efficient over timeYYY/N
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A value stream will be inspected and optimised by those performing the work, as closely as possible to the time and place in which work is carried out.YYY/N
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A value stream will minimise work-in-progress, depreciation, latency, and other forms of wasteYYY/N
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