How It Works

The idea behind the inception deck is that if we can get the right people in the room and ask them the right questions, this will do wonders for collectively setting expectations about our project.

By putting the team through a series of exercises and capturing the output on a slide deck (usually PowerPoint), we can collectively get a pretty good idea about what this project is, what it isn’t, and what it’s going to take to deliver.

The right people for the inception deck are anyone directly involved in the project. This includes customers, stakeholders, team members, developers, testers, analysts—anyone who can materially contribute to the effective execution of the project.

It is also really important that you get the stakeholders ...

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