2. About the speakers
§ Andrii Karabak
§ Product Owner
§ Exonum, Bitfury Group
§ Project management
§ Business development
§ Optimization and implementation of
business processes
§ works on the development of
international standards of business
analysis
§ Dmytro Kuyavets
§ President
§ Kyiv Chapter of IIBA
§ Product management
§ Business analysis
§ Agile approaches
§ believes in empowered product teams
focused on business results
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3. Is the era of management over?
§ Management is the process of dealing
with or controlling things or people, right?
§ Management (and the division of labour in
general) was the hallmark of the industrial
era
§ All work that requires supervision is being
outsourced to robots and algorithms
§ Dealing with uncertainty is the number
one challenge and it’s the number one
opportunity too
§ The hierarchical management mode is no
longer suited for the challenges of the
modern economy
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5. What is product-mode?
Project Product
What gets funded? A pre-defined solution or scope A team
For what part of the development
lifecycle is funding made available?
Building the solution Building, running and iterating
the solution
How are the stages of “ideate”, “build”
and “run” organized?
As separate departments As a single department
How long do teams last? Until project funding lasts As long as the roadmap has
business relevance
How does prioritization work? Projects are prioritized by
business along with project
portfolio management
Roadmap items are prioritized
by product owners
How is success defined? Delivery of agreed-upon scope
on time and budget
Improvement of a metric
directly related to a business
outcome
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6. Products over projects
§ Ability to Reorient Quickly
§ Reduced End-to-End Cycle Time - Don’t
run it like a city
§ Ability to Truly Iterate
§ Knowledge Retention
§ Architectural Integrity
§ Ownership of Code and Systems
§ Team Motivation and Dynamics
§ Economies of Flow and Iteration
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7. Scrum is a great example of
paradigm changing
§ No hierarchy
§ Project manager role is absent
§ Business analyst role is not specified
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12. What is the difference?
§ Work as part of the team
§ Collect business requirements and
decompose them into user and
functional ones
§ Recommend right solutions and
priorities
§ Support the team with the requirements
§ Work within the team
§ Set business requirements and works
together with the team on user and
functional ones
§ Set priorities
§ Make decisions on right solutions
§ Support the team with the vision
§ Business Analyst
§ Focus on What
§ Product Owner
§ Focus on Why
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