Product Development Terms
Aims
Goal: deliver a 30-second standup and a one-minute sprint plan using five agile terms — sprint, standup, ship, retrospective, iteration — accurately.
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: Speak product
2 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: Building Products the Startup Way
Read a 301-word text about Building Products the Startup Way
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Product Development Vocabulary
8 items
- Reading10 min
Reading: A model standup and sprint plan
Read a 284-word text about A model standup and sprint plan
- Practice7 min
Practice: Practice: Fix Product Development Mistakes
Error-correction exercise, 4 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Practice: agile vocabulary
Gap-fill exercise, 6 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Match the ritual to its purpose
Matching exercise, 6 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: Role Play: Discussing the Product Roadmap
Role-play: You are discussing the product roadmap and development priorities with your engineering lead, using common product development terminology. (4 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Your mission: standup and sprint
3 discussion questions
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Target vocabulary
In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.
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