Product Definition · master area

Walking Skeleton

The smallest end-to-end release that changes the named person's situation. Spans every Epic in the cycle. One thin slice all the way through, not a horizontal layer.

Owners: PO + trio Phase it lives in: What We Shape Sized: ships in week one of the cycle, behind a flag.

Where it lives in the chain

• What We Shape · Walking Skeleton — the canon
• What We Shape · Slicing & Prioritization — how the skeleton is sized

How to do this

• Skill path — Designer foundations · Step 5 · Developer foundations · Step 3
• Canon — What We Shape · Story Mapping

Related crafts

• Story Mapping — the map the skeleton is one slice of
• Slicing & Prioritization — the sizing discipline
• Feature Flags — what holds the skeleton until it's ready