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Good reference material

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2020

Gojko's book presents a series of elements that are helpful for the alignment of products and projects, facilitating communication with stakeholders and joining the technical and business side to an extremely rich conversation, aligned with a set of topic of agility; concepts such as value delivery, early iterations, collaboration, flow visualization, Upstream in Kanban Method, Outcome over Output, the Impact Mapping can be of great importance in our teams when defining the strategy we will use, leaving aside the features and list of requirements, for more essential core elements... Interesting material, to have it as a reference...

100% recomended !! 😎 👍 👍

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Impact Mapping is a buzzword in agile/lean community in recent ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2018

Impact Mapping is a buzzword in agile/lean community in recent years. The book clearly explains why we need impact mapping. But this is merely just a "spiritual guideline" and needed lots of practice and examples to get the essence of it. And this is the part where this book falls short.

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Miguel Angel Magüida T.

Good reference material

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2020

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Paul Klipp

This is a brilliant tool, clearly described, that you can put to use immediately

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2014

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I started using impact mapping with the Kanbanery team almost two years ago, based on a blog post I'd read, and found it immediately helpful in identifying the connections between the work we were doing and the outcomes we expected. The approach addresses many of the problems I've seen with agile web development, which include chasing vanity metrics, adding unnecessary clutter (features that don't achieve their desired results but stay in anyway), and whim-driven design.

In this short book, Gojko describes the tool, why it works, how to use it, how not to use it, and then he kindly walks you through the entire agenda for an impact mapping meeting, explaining how to conduct the meeting and what to expect from each step.

There's no fluff here, just clear instructions on how to use this powerful tool for getting the best results from your product development effort.

I highly recommend it.

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Ellen Gottesdiener

Essential guidance in a useful, useable format on a technique that encourages product partners to build the right product

Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2012

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Impact Mapping provides essential guidance on using an efficient and effective technique that encourages product partners to build the right products--ones that have impact. Impact mapping, the subject of Gojko's lithe, approachable book, is an adaption of visual mapping technique (effect mapping).

Impact maps serve to align teams to business objectives, test mutual understanding of goals and expected outcomes, focus teams toward the highest value features to deliver, and enable collaborative decision-making. As such, impact maps--succinctly and approachably described in Gojko's book--is a key tool for collaborative strategic planning.

This is a book you can reference with ease as you plan and facilitate workshops (collaborative meetings with clear purpose and outcomes) for example: release or iteration planning, product roadmapping, process improvement, product and team chartering. And don't forget: it's not just for software products. You will find impact mapping and Gojko's book, useful for strategic alignment needed for any product--software, systems, or services.

Gojko's book is useful, useable and desirable--all the characteristics we want in a great resource! It is useful for building a shared understanding of the big "why's" for our work that is visual, fast to use, and encourages product partners to collaborate. It is useable--easy to read, including engaging cartoons and color, examples, references, and tips. It's desirable to build product that provide impact--aligns to goals and objectives and provide evidence of their value.

Try impact mapping and use Gojko's marvelous book, Impact Mapping: Making a Big Impact with Software Products and Projects to guide you to do your best, most impactful work.

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Jessica Saldana

Easy read, great references, very practical

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2017

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This book was recommended to me by a coworker and I actually enjoyed reading it. It's a short, easy read with lots of graphics and simple, practical instructions on how to facilitate impact mapping.
I gave it 4 stars only because the first 3/4ths of the book were all a bit fluffy, explaining the benefits and methodologies applied in great detail without explaining how or what you do in impact mapping. The last quarter really spelled out the info you needed.
I would have preferred the ratio reversed - there were many questions and more details I would like to learn without picking up another book. Luckily the writer cited plenty of material for me to begin exploring!
Glad I read this - I really needed a tool like this for my current project at work.

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Pavel Gatilov

A well-focused guide

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2018

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I think the book is great for fulfilling its promise - give a short guide to the impact mapping technique with further references. It's good that it's short as it keeps focus. At the same time, it covers everything important: the idea, the benefits, the how-to and the pitfalls.

I would recommend it to everyone interested in agile management practices. This should not be restricted to managers. Engineers might find the book useful as well because everyone should make good decisions on the scope of an agile product, especially in small teams.

I assume the technique should be usable in many areas, not just software. I don't see anything software-specific in the book. Any goal oriented business following agile management approach should find impact mapping useful.

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Mike Hales

Fantastic

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2018

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I'm in the early stages of a potentially huge project and had the good fortune to have someone point me towards this book. It has given me both the tools and process to properly plan my project, involve stakeholders and generate a shared vision. How happy am I! Short, practical and extremely valuable. If you're planning a project of any kind, this is worth your time and money as it might just save you a fortune and improve you're standing in your business in one hit as you lead a successful project with transparency!

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Parijat Mishra

Actionable advice for building technology roadmaps

Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2019

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The author examines the problem technology teams have with having a huge task list with no goal posts, and with senior tech leaders not being able to see the impact of all those user stories at a level where they can map it to business outcomes.

Invaluable actionable techniques to get senior business and tech leaders to communicate unspoken assumptions and needs and to communicate effectively across the organisation.

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Impact Mapping is a buzzword in agile/lean community in recent ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2018

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Francisco

This is a jewer book

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2019

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This is a very good bock. Although it is very short, it teaches a powerfull tool. I think impact map is one of the most versatile tool that I know in the agility world. It can be used to join tactical and strategic level in a practical and agile way.

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Mack

Well worth reading

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2013

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This book melds many of the concepts of Lean and Agile into a process that yields a useful product roadmap based upon business needs and technical capabilities. The process brings business, product, project and delivery people together in a forum that encourages communication and innovative thinking and discourages "everything is priority #1" thinking.

Eric Ries' "Lean Startup" is a wonderful book, but it left me wondering how to implement his concepts. This book brought it all together for me -- Agile, Lean and the Lean Startup.

Pro:
- clearly written
- to the point
- lots of references to additional information (and acknowledgement of other thinkers)

Con:
- none

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