Mojn.Dev is an online Product Backlog Refinement tool for teams to refine stories together
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Bo
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I have been doing digital product development for more than 20 years, I love the feeling of using technology to solve customer needs.
For the last 15 years I have been adding a lot of complexity by also dealing with people - either as coach, manager or manager of managers, which makes it even more exciting.
I still today do a lot of coaching, but have an urge to develop a product that helps digital product development teams - Mojn.Dev is the answer to that urge. Mojn means Hello, Dev means Developer, so the product name is Hello Developer.
The current pain I see for so many teams is the lack of being a real product team, instead they become feature factories and code monkeys. So many teams just do requirements and focus on outputs. So instead of creating valuable solutions, they create a lot solutions, that maybe or maybe not are valuable. I have a dream that more teams deal with customer needs instead and focus on outcomes, which leads to more a valuable product and more creativity in the team.
So, where to start? After doing market research it seems that Product Backlog Refinement is a good place to start.
Refinement done right, means a team that understands the need and the desired outcome. It normally also means that you save a lot of time planning and optimise the flow of development.
These events are so important and quite challenging.
What do you do during Product Backlog refinement?
- How do you prevent discussions going off track or in too much detail?
- Who should be there?
- When do you estimate?
- How much, and how, should you split our stories?
These are just some of the questions that teams struggle to deal with. Further, this often happens online, with one person navigating the backlog tool and the remaining team zoning out.
Mojn.Dev is trying to address several of the pains mentioned above. Bruno Dzięcielski and I are developing a simple, collaborative and guiding tool.
I know that most organisations already use tooling to help them control their backlog, codebase, builds, deployment etc. Jira and Azure DevOps do support organisations quite well in many of their needs. When it comes to supporting collaboration and guiding they could do a lot better. So Mojn.Dev is not in the market to disrupt those tools ...yet, instead offers an addition to these tools - to enable collaboration and guiding in a seamless integration.
For now, seamless integration with Azure DevOps is our focus, no extensions to Azure DevOps are needed, just a simple token(Personal Access Token) and service hook, then you can start to build better stories, together.
Create a small refinement backlog, by adding a "mojn" tag to your user story in Azure DevOps or by searching for it in the Mojn.Dev Dashboard. Then you can manage your refinement backlog and have an overview of refined user stories.
Refinement backlog
To ensure collaboration you get a multi user experience, so everyone can actively participate.
Multi user experience
Start a refinement guided session and make sure you answer some important questions.
Guided refinement session
Get help from AI to ensure you remember important details or need inspiration.
AI assistance
You need to ensure a common understanding of the effort it takes to develop, play a hand of poker planning, built in.
Poker planning
All your changes will automatically sync to Azure DevOps, ensuring that it's always updated.
Ready to Refine Your Backlog?
The beta version of Mojn.Dev is ready, and I’m excited to invite you to take it for a test spin 🚀. You’ll see how much smoother your backlog refinement can be with the right tools and a collaborative, guided process.
Feel free to reach out, and we can schedule an informal demo or onboarding session to get you started.
Thanks for reading and being part of this exciting journey. Let's build better products, together!