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Learn the five pillars

Five practices that take you from a good idea to evidence that it created value. Read them in order, or jump to the one you need.

  1. Pillar 1

    Value Architecture Canvas™

    Design the value before you design the solution.

    The Value Architecture Canvas™ is a one-page structure for the conversation with stakeholders that happens before any code is written. It forces the team to agree on the problem, the metric, the users and the risks, so that what gets built has a reason to exist.

  2. Pillar 2

    Quick Value Release (QVR)

    The smallest delivery that moves a real metric.

    A Quick Value Release (QVR) is the smallest delivery that moves a real business metric in 7 to 14 days. It is not a smaller version of the whole product; it is the minimum that produces evidence about whether your hypothesis is true.

  3. Pillar 3

    ROI Sprint Planning™

    Prioritize impact, not pressure.

    ROI Sprint Planning™ ranks competing work by Impact divided by Effort, each scored from 1 to 10. It replaces "whoever asks loudest" with a simple, shared and explicit way to choose what to build next.

  4. Pillar 4

    Value Dashboard™

    See whether delivery is creating value.

    The Value Dashboard™ tracks four kinds of indicators side by side: business, impact, friction and learning. It is designed to answer one question honestly: is what we deliver creating value?

  5. Pillar 5

    Software Expansion Loop™

    Turn each delivery into the next opportunity.

    The Software Expansion Loop™ turns each delivery into additional strategic opportunities. Instead of ending when a release ships, every result, positive or negative, becomes input for the next hypothesis.