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SBM is a large IT company with offices all around the world. The company offers a wide range of products and services. One of the reasons for their success is their ability to invent and find new uses for the technology. SBM’s emerging technologies division is always monitoring new technology and figuring out ways in which it can serve the community. It oversees the Smart Weather project.

Smart Weather

A product owner in the new technology division came up with the idea of creating a weather portal to provide weather-based services. The basic idea of the weather portal is to pull weather forecasts for any location from multiple public services and aggregate them for the common user. The data can be put to several uses.

The main system will comprise of a web portal and a set of apps available on all popular mobile operating systems. Apart from this, clients can ask for specific services or apps based on the data that is collated.

Backlog for Main Portal

Work Items

Integrate with number of publicly available weather services based on location

Detect location using GPS (if on a device) or IP

Create a schema for storing weather data based on location

Write logic for aggregating the data from multiple weather services

Provide severe weather advisory (push for app users)

Create placeholders for advertising on portal and app

Show current weather status

Show 5-day forecast by default

Link to 15-day forecast

Link to long-range forecast

Show satellite images on a map

Show time-lapse videos of satellite forecast

Make site responsive or accessible from mobiles and tablets

Publish API/services for client apps

Create apps for iOS, Android, Windows, and Blackberry

Apart from creating, maintaining, and enhancing the main portal, there are several client projects that are lined up.

Project 1 - BigBucks Café

BigBucks Café is a leading retail chain of premium coffee shops. They would like to use weather data to customize their products and manage their day-to-day operations. The backlog looks like this.

Work Items

Integrate with the Smart Weather services to get store-specific weather data

Use weather data to decide advertising strategy – ice creams when the weather is hot, coffee when the weather is cold

Order supplies based on weather – more hot supplies during cold weather and more cold ones during hot or rainy weather

Map supply packages based on weather

Summer order – adjust quantities before placing the order and pick up the summer package

Winter order – adjust quantities before placing the order and pick up the winter package

Determine promotions and pricing based on weather

Project 2 - LeViva Life Insurance

LeViva life insurance is one of the world’s biggest insurers. The company would like to use weather data to serve its customers through an app. The backlog looks like this.

Work Items

Integrate with the Smart Weather services to get location-specific weather data

Map health tips with weather

Provide health tips based on the weather

Allow users to report symptoms and ask for remedies

Allow one-click calling to a nurse or a nearby dispensary

Show the nearest pharmacy and dispensary on a map

Allow sponsored links – e.g. winter jackets during cold weather, flu medicines when pollen is high

Take the following steps to complete the project.

Create 3 personas for users of the Smart Weather application (main portal).

Rewrite user stories for the main portal in the format: As a <user/persona> I need <feature> for <reason>

If you are the product owner of Smart Weather, what would be the minimally viable product (MVP) for the main portal? Accordingly, classify the stories using the MoSCoW criteria, i.e. must have, should have, could have and won’t have for the first release of the main portal. State reasons for your choices.

As more and more projects come up (e.g. BigBucks, LeViva) what should be the “scaling model” for the overall Smart Weather program? Describe the model by explaining how you would scale the PO, scrum master, and team member roles and enable multiple teams to collaborate the work together.