Tool Mentor: Conducting a System Demo with Engineering Workflow Management

Synopsis

"The system demo is a primary mechanism for evaluating the full ART system and gaining feedback from the stakeholders. It occurs at the end of every iteration and provides an integrated, aggregate view of the new features that have been delivered by all the teams on the train in the most recent iteration. It provides the ART with a fact-based measure of current, system-level progress within the Program Increment."

Details

Prepare

Step

Tool guidance

1. Send out invitations

Send out System Demo invitations.

See Meetings and Engineering Workflow Management.

Conduct

Step	Tool guidance
1. Review Business Context and Iteration Goals	Click Project Dashboards > [Project name] to view the Team PI Objectives and Iteration Goals.
2. Overview Features Briefly describe each new Feature or capability that will be demonstrated.	Plans > Quick Planner > All Work Select an iteration from the dropdown menu. Select Display as Lanes. Scroll right to Done. You can now see the list of Features that were Done for the selected increment/iteration.
3. Demonstrate Features Demonstrate each new feature and end-to-end use case.
4. Open Forum Open the forum for questions and comments.
5. Identify risks and impediments. Identify any current risks and impediments that may have emerged from the demo and progress over the last sprint.	Click Plans > Quick Planner > Backlog a. Click in Create a work item and type the name of the risk/impediment. c. Set the Type to Risk. d. To mark the work item as an impediment, click on the work item after it has been created, and set the probability to 100%. See Managing a Project with Quick Planner. You can also create Risks via the web client, see Creating work items in the web client.
6. Wrap Up Summarize progress, feedback, and action items.	See Meetings and Engineering Workflow Management.