This document discusses creating a CLEAR (Collaborative, Lean, Evolving, Adaptable, Reportable) project portfolio. It argues that agile portfolio management is about creating agility at the portfolio level, not just applying agile frameworks to projects. It defines the CLEAR approach and explains how being CLEAR at each level (story, epic, product, portfolio) promotes engagement, understanding of work, adaptability, and visibility. Applying CLEAR principles organically creates agility rather than forcing frameworks.
Accelerating Innovation through Portfolio FrameworksSheen Yap
This talk explains how to use a product portfolio approach to drive experimentation for more effective product strategy. Covers setting outcomes, lean value tree, strategic alignment and three horizons.
Practical Product Management for new Product ManagersAmarpreet Kalkat
This presentation provides tips and tools for a professional who is new to Product Management function (in software).
It does not cover the full lifecycle of a product and primarily focuses on the product development/product building phase. As such, it is more usable for professionals working on existing products than for those in the process of building new products from scratch.
From project to product mindset and onwards to product platform architecturesJorn Bettin
Is it possible to stay innovative and economically manage many hundreds or even thousands of products or product variants?
Organisations interested in benefiting from a product line and product platform approach must adopt values and organisational principles that encourage the development of deep domain expertise. This includes a deep understanding of the forces that continuously change the environment of the product line. These forces can then be harnessed as part of the architectural foundation for the product line.
The pervasive digitisation of services and the desire to create and operate platforms that can support large digital service ecosystems that include many organisations, have put the spotlight on design principles for product lines, product platforms, and related organisational structures.
These slides relate to a talk at ProductTank Auckland (https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Auckland/events/252496542/). The video recording is available at https://twitter.com/pmauckland/status/1021272934416109568.
When Agile teams begin to deliver products incrementally, new opportunities open up at the portfolio level to deliver strategic business value. However, the traditional approach to portfolio management — which depends on long-range forecasting and fixed financial controls — breaks down as business environments grow more complex, leaving portfolio managers ill-equipped to reap the potential benefits of their Agile programs.
SolutionsIQ Managing Director John Rudd and Dave West, Chief Product Officer at Tasktop, discuss active portfolio management from a product management point of view and how it can help guide decision making in an Agile enterprise.
Daniel zacarias - Productized MasterclassesProductized
1. Why it’s important (and how) to engage internal stakeholders Communicate clearly and persuasively, and align towards a common mission and vision.
2. We build tech products, but usually the hard part is not the tech, but the people. Different teams with different agendas, “irrational" decision-making, feature requests coming out of nowhere, lack of strategic direction. If you’ve read this far, you know the drill.
3. “Unpack” these problems and share battle-tested tools that have helped me in my work as a PM and consultant, and that I hope are useful to you as well. There are hard limits into what we can fix as PMs in a broader organization, but there’s also a lot we can do (and should be aware of) to drastically cut down on stakeholder alignment challenges.
4. Tools to help you A framework to manage your internal stakeholders and communications strategically and 4 tools to help you communicate more clearly (and persuasively)
5. And many more strategies Such as techniques to help a group reach consensus without (much) discussion and approaches to gradually lead stakeholders to think about problems first, instead of features (solutions).
EK uses an agile approach in everything we do. In this presentation, Joe Hilger shares how we apply agile across all of our KM projects. Learn how EK uses agile to develop a KM Strategy. Once the strategy is in place, Joe explains how we design agile roadmaps that include a number of smaller projects to ensure rapid ROI and organizational buy-in. Joe also talks about how we use Agile to deliver the technical and business KM solutions in the roadmap. Finally, Joe shares how Agile supports change management on every initiative we deliver. Agile and KM are a natural combination that leads to successful KM initiatives.
Accelerating Innovation through Portfolio FrameworksSheen Yap
This talk explains how to use a product portfolio approach to drive experimentation for more effective product strategy. Covers setting outcomes, lean value tree, strategic alignment and three horizons.
Practical Product Management for new Product ManagersAmarpreet Kalkat
This presentation provides tips and tools for a professional who is new to Product Management function (in software).
It does not cover the full lifecycle of a product and primarily focuses on the product development/product building phase. As such, it is more usable for professionals working on existing products than for those in the process of building new products from scratch.
From project to product mindset and onwards to product platform architecturesJorn Bettin
Is it possible to stay innovative and economically manage many hundreds or even thousands of products or product variants?
Organisations interested in benefiting from a product line and product platform approach must adopt values and organisational principles that encourage the development of deep domain expertise. This includes a deep understanding of the forces that continuously change the environment of the product line. These forces can then be harnessed as part of the architectural foundation for the product line.
The pervasive digitisation of services and the desire to create and operate platforms that can support large digital service ecosystems that include many organisations, have put the spotlight on design principles for product lines, product platforms, and related organisational structures.
These slides relate to a talk at ProductTank Auckland (https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Auckland/events/252496542/). The video recording is available at https://twitter.com/pmauckland/status/1021272934416109568.
When Agile teams begin to deliver products incrementally, new opportunities open up at the portfolio level to deliver strategic business value. However, the traditional approach to portfolio management — which depends on long-range forecasting and fixed financial controls — breaks down as business environments grow more complex, leaving portfolio managers ill-equipped to reap the potential benefits of their Agile programs.
SolutionsIQ Managing Director John Rudd and Dave West, Chief Product Officer at Tasktop, discuss active portfolio management from a product management point of view and how it can help guide decision making in an Agile enterprise.
Daniel zacarias - Productized MasterclassesProductized
1. Why it’s important (and how) to engage internal stakeholders Communicate clearly and persuasively, and align towards a common mission and vision.
2. We build tech products, but usually the hard part is not the tech, but the people. Different teams with different agendas, “irrational" decision-making, feature requests coming out of nowhere, lack of strategic direction. If you’ve read this far, you know the drill.
3. “Unpack” these problems and share battle-tested tools that have helped me in my work as a PM and consultant, and that I hope are useful to you as well. There are hard limits into what we can fix as PMs in a broader organization, but there’s also a lot we can do (and should be aware of) to drastically cut down on stakeholder alignment challenges.
4. Tools to help you A framework to manage your internal stakeholders and communications strategically and 4 tools to help you communicate more clearly (and persuasively)
5. And many more strategies Such as techniques to help a group reach consensus without (much) discussion and approaches to gradually lead stakeholders to think about problems first, instead of features (solutions).
EK uses an agile approach in everything we do. In this presentation, Joe Hilger shares how we apply agile across all of our KM projects. Learn how EK uses agile to develop a KM Strategy. Once the strategy is in place, Joe explains how we design agile roadmaps that include a number of smaller projects to ensure rapid ROI and organizational buy-in. Joe also talks about how we use Agile to deliver the technical and business KM solutions in the roadmap. Finally, Joe shares how Agile supports change management on every initiative we deliver. Agile and KM are a natural combination that leads to successful KM initiatives.
Lean Portfolio Strategy Part 3: Epic Management - Take the ExitsCprime
Organizations might have set up all the process steps for portfolio flow: the monthly strategic portfolio review, the portfolio kanban, even the lean business case. But, they are still not getting the idea that small, testable, constantly evaluated initiatives are what really increase your output of value to the customer and put you way ahead of the competition.
In part 1 of this webinar we explored how signs of imitation LPM show up in an organization’s approach to strategy. In part 2, we covered how to organize around value streams with examples of successful LPM.
Now, in this third webinar in our Lean Portfolio Management series we’ll join Cprime's Michiko Quinones (Jira Align Consultant), Jean Dahl (General Manager, Scaled Agility), & Neha Tiwari (Business Agility Portfolio Consultant) to learn techniques to:
Question performing work that doesn't clearly align to your organization's strategy
Develop a process that makes things smaller and testable when it comes to initiative creation and management
Build a culture that allows work to stop if it's not going to meet its intended purpose
Make sure that you are "thinking lean," rather than just "doing lean"
"The Story of How We Saved an Australia Telco Millions of Dollars by Invalida...Productized
A real product journey went on in 2017 while Amjad Sidqi was working as a Product Manager with one of Pivotal Labs' clients in Sydney.
In this PRODUCTIZED talk, Amjad brought to light, in a visual manner, the learnings from this journey, showing some of their research and iterations they made along the way.
Overview of the Implementing Innovation CourseBrad Power
Leading high tech companies (such as Amazon and Google) are achieving a new standard of performance, combining operational excellence and innovation simultaneously. Established companies (such as GE and IBM) are introducing innovation into their traditional management approaches to similarly achieve growth and cost reduction. We apply the lens of process management to examine the operating model which makes this possible, and introduce a number of topics covered in our course:
What is continuous innovation?
How to structure experiments?
How to create an environment for innovation?
Sharing the main lessons from some of my learning experiences in 2015.
Covering insights related to Product Management, User Experience, Cities and some other areas.
Will write in detail on Medium.com about aspects of the top clipped slides of this slideshare.
How to Master Product Management Case Studies by fmr Groupon PMProduct School
Main takeaways
- How does one proceed in an interview when given a product case study to solve
- What are some of the most common case questions to practice
- What hiring managers are looking for when asking candidates to solve a product case
- The importance of a good hypothesis
- Best frameworks that can come in handy
Learning Objectives
• Why do you need to define a product strategy for your company?
• What are the benefits of implementing a product planning process?
• What do you need to create successful products consistently?
Description
The creation of successful products is essential for companies that want to grow or maintain a competitive advantage. Many organizations lack a clearly defined and understood product strategy. We will discuss the benefits of adopting the Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM) Product Management Framework (PMF) to align your business and product strategies with unmet customer needs and market trends to create value for your business using a sustainable approach.
Audience
This presentation is for product managers, marketers, entrepreneurs, innovators, and technology-based business owners that want to expand their knowledge about how to create successful products that customers demand.
For more info, connect with Hector Del Castillo at http:/linkd.in/hdelcastillo.
An Outcome Measurement Model: Is your Agile Adoption Moving the Needle?Cprime
The Version One Annual State of Agile survey indicates that 94% of organizations are practicing Agile in one way, shape, or form.
But what might this investment yield besides an Agile label? In many cases, it appears that organization leaders cannot produce concrete data to meet this ask, or articulate the gain clearly using measures that count and impact the bottom line.
One solution is to begin with the desired outcomes driving the adoption and identify both leading and lagging indicators to gauge whether the change initiative is moving the needle and impacting the bottom line. This approach has been successful because it creates alignment and accountability.
Join Michael McCalla, technology leader, transformation specialist, avid agile practitioner and founder of Lean Agile Intelligence, for this interactive session, and learn how this outcome measurement model can help you start changing the conversation!
Pink Elephant is proud to offer the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of IT and business programmes, including ITIL, BRMP, COBIT, Lean IT, Organisational Change Management and other Best Practices.
Pink Elephant is internationally accredited with PEOPLECERT, APMG, EXIN and BRMI, which are independent examination institutes that manage the Intentional Certification programmes. The Project Management Institute (PMI) also recognizes Pink as a Registered Education Provider (REP).
The way how we help customers at ASPgems to do their software development projects in order to better accomplish their business objective in the Digital World.
Project To Product: How we transitioned to product-aligned value streamsTasktop
The project to product movement is quickly gathering speed - a recent Gartner report found that 85% of respondents are shifting to a product-centric mentality. However, the complexity and uncertainty of software delivery at scale, coupled with the sheer number of people involved in the process, is too much for traditional project management techniques. Motivation is not enough to achieve a successful transformation—the product-centric model requires new skill sets, different investments and a change in culture.
What does the shift away from project-thinking really look like?
During this webinar, Tasktop VP of Product Development, Nicole Bryan, combines our own journey with the experience of working with our enterprise customers, to paint a clear picture of the cross-organizational challenges in store - and how you can address them by:
- Adopting a “customer-first” mindset
- Appointing a Product Value Stream Lead and a Product Manager
- Implementing the Flow Framework™ to align the language of IT with the language of the business
Finding Product / Market Fit: Introducing the PMF Matrix - Presentation by Ri...Rishi Dean
These slides were used to facilitate a discussion of entrepreneurial MIT alums, mainly from the MIT Sloan business school. My intention was to introduce many of the newer, leaner concepts of early stage start-up development to a group that often sees "technology first" businesses.
This presentation centers on the concept of Product / Market Fit: what it is, why it's important, and how to achieve it. I propose my "Product Market Fit Matrix" that helps to characterize the issues of the start-up and presents various frameworks that can help guide development. In a sense the Product / Market Fit Matrix is a meta-framework.
For more information please visit: http://www.rishidean.com
Change Management for Product ManagersBülent Duagi
Presentation of some core concepts in change management, held during Product Tank, March 2017 in Bucharest, Romania.
Managing change is a core capability of product managers, as the product team has to navigate through lots of changes: market, tech, organizational, strategy, team etc.
For any further questions, reach out @bulent_duagi.
#changeon
Customer experience surveys are typically company-focused more than customer-focused. This is why response rates are challenging. To maximize customer engagement, actionability, and value to all involved, re-design your voice-of-the-customer instruments to capture what matters most to customers, in the ways they prefer to share with you.
See https://ClearAction.com
Lean Portfolio Strategy Part 3: Epic Management - Take the ExitsCprime
Organizations might have set up all the process steps for portfolio flow: the monthly strategic portfolio review, the portfolio kanban, even the lean business case. But, they are still not getting the idea that small, testable, constantly evaluated initiatives are what really increase your output of value to the customer and put you way ahead of the competition.
In part 1 of this webinar we explored how signs of imitation LPM show up in an organization’s approach to strategy. In part 2, we covered how to organize around value streams with examples of successful LPM.
Now, in this third webinar in our Lean Portfolio Management series we’ll join Cprime's Michiko Quinones (Jira Align Consultant), Jean Dahl (General Manager, Scaled Agility), & Neha Tiwari (Business Agility Portfolio Consultant) to learn techniques to:
Question performing work that doesn't clearly align to your organization's strategy
Develop a process that makes things smaller and testable when it comes to initiative creation and management
Build a culture that allows work to stop if it's not going to meet its intended purpose
Make sure that you are "thinking lean," rather than just "doing lean"
"The Story of How We Saved an Australia Telco Millions of Dollars by Invalida...Productized
A real product journey went on in 2017 while Amjad Sidqi was working as a Product Manager with one of Pivotal Labs' clients in Sydney.
In this PRODUCTIZED talk, Amjad brought to light, in a visual manner, the learnings from this journey, showing some of their research and iterations they made along the way.
Overview of the Implementing Innovation CourseBrad Power
Leading high tech companies (such as Amazon and Google) are achieving a new standard of performance, combining operational excellence and innovation simultaneously. Established companies (such as GE and IBM) are introducing innovation into their traditional management approaches to similarly achieve growth and cost reduction. We apply the lens of process management to examine the operating model which makes this possible, and introduce a number of topics covered in our course:
What is continuous innovation?
How to structure experiments?
How to create an environment for innovation?
Sharing the main lessons from some of my learning experiences in 2015.
Covering insights related to Product Management, User Experience, Cities and some other areas.
Will write in detail on Medium.com about aspects of the top clipped slides of this slideshare.
How to Master Product Management Case Studies by fmr Groupon PMProduct School
Main takeaways
- How does one proceed in an interview when given a product case study to solve
- What are some of the most common case questions to practice
- What hiring managers are looking for when asking candidates to solve a product case
- The importance of a good hypothesis
- Best frameworks that can come in handy
Learning Objectives
• Why do you need to define a product strategy for your company?
• What are the benefits of implementing a product planning process?
• What do you need to create successful products consistently?
Description
The creation of successful products is essential for companies that want to grow or maintain a competitive advantage. Many organizations lack a clearly defined and understood product strategy. We will discuss the benefits of adopting the Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM) Product Management Framework (PMF) to align your business and product strategies with unmet customer needs and market trends to create value for your business using a sustainable approach.
Audience
This presentation is for product managers, marketers, entrepreneurs, innovators, and technology-based business owners that want to expand their knowledge about how to create successful products that customers demand.
For more info, connect with Hector Del Castillo at http:/linkd.in/hdelcastillo.
An Outcome Measurement Model: Is your Agile Adoption Moving the Needle?Cprime
The Version One Annual State of Agile survey indicates that 94% of organizations are practicing Agile in one way, shape, or form.
But what might this investment yield besides an Agile label? In many cases, it appears that organization leaders cannot produce concrete data to meet this ask, or articulate the gain clearly using measures that count and impact the bottom line.
One solution is to begin with the desired outcomes driving the adoption and identify both leading and lagging indicators to gauge whether the change initiative is moving the needle and impacting the bottom line. This approach has been successful because it creates alignment and accountability.
Join Michael McCalla, technology leader, transformation specialist, avid agile practitioner and founder of Lean Agile Intelligence, for this interactive session, and learn how this outcome measurement model can help you start changing the conversation!
Pink Elephant is proud to offer the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of IT and business programmes, including ITIL, BRMP, COBIT, Lean IT, Organisational Change Management and other Best Practices.
Pink Elephant is internationally accredited with PEOPLECERT, APMG, EXIN and BRMI, which are independent examination institutes that manage the Intentional Certification programmes. The Project Management Institute (PMI) also recognizes Pink as a Registered Education Provider (REP).
The way how we help customers at ASPgems to do their software development projects in order to better accomplish their business objective in the Digital World.
Project To Product: How we transitioned to product-aligned value streamsTasktop
The project to product movement is quickly gathering speed - a recent Gartner report found that 85% of respondents are shifting to a product-centric mentality. However, the complexity and uncertainty of software delivery at scale, coupled with the sheer number of people involved in the process, is too much for traditional project management techniques. Motivation is not enough to achieve a successful transformation—the product-centric model requires new skill sets, different investments and a change in culture.
What does the shift away from project-thinking really look like?
During this webinar, Tasktop VP of Product Development, Nicole Bryan, combines our own journey with the experience of working with our enterprise customers, to paint a clear picture of the cross-organizational challenges in store - and how you can address them by:
- Adopting a “customer-first” mindset
- Appointing a Product Value Stream Lead and a Product Manager
- Implementing the Flow Framework™ to align the language of IT with the language of the business
Finding Product / Market Fit: Introducing the PMF Matrix - Presentation by Ri...Rishi Dean
These slides were used to facilitate a discussion of entrepreneurial MIT alums, mainly from the MIT Sloan business school. My intention was to introduce many of the newer, leaner concepts of early stage start-up development to a group that often sees "technology first" businesses.
This presentation centers on the concept of Product / Market Fit: what it is, why it's important, and how to achieve it. I propose my "Product Market Fit Matrix" that helps to characterize the issues of the start-up and presents various frameworks that can help guide development. In a sense the Product / Market Fit Matrix is a meta-framework.
For more information please visit: http://www.rishidean.com
Change Management for Product ManagersBülent Duagi
Presentation of some core concepts in change management, held during Product Tank, March 2017 in Bucharest, Romania.
Managing change is a core capability of product managers, as the product team has to navigate through lots of changes: market, tech, organizational, strategy, team etc.
For any further questions, reach out @bulent_duagi.
#changeon
Customer experience surveys are typically company-focused more than customer-focused. This is why response rates are challenging. To maximize customer engagement, actionability, and value to all involved, re-design your voice-of-the-customer instruments to capture what matters most to customers, in the ways they prefer to share with you.
See https://ClearAction.com
IT Project Portfolio Planning Using ExcelJerry Bishop
To provide a simple and transparent paper-based method for setting up an IT project portfolio using Excel.
Excel Workbook for this presentation also in my Slideshare uploads.
CA Project & Portfolio Management for Business Transformation : Prioritize, ...CA Technologies
Executives around the world are beginning to look at CA Project & Portfolio Management (CA PPM) to do more than assist a single PMO. In this innovative session, see how CA PPM can be configured to expand beyond a PMO and service the enterprise need for ideation, prioritization, execution and realization of business transformation objectives.
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
Technology Multipliers PPM solutions help optimize the value of your project portfolio and increase pipeline productivity. Our solutions utilize ProModel's project and portfolio simulation tools and Microsoft's project management tools. This Technology Multipliers webinar provides a comprehensive overview of project portfolio management concepts, process, and keys to success for technology companies.
Use this modern go-to-market framework to define the activities required to successfully build market-driven products & services that customers will accept.
Business driver prioritization is an executive exercise and consensus. Properly done, the business benefits from aligning strategy and the portfolio design.
Business Agility: Accelerating Business Innovation & TransformationCory Smith
Business Agility focuses on finding holistic
solutions to complex business problems; linking innovation
and transformation to outcomes the business cares about and
creating a rich picture of the problem(s) to be solved,
collaboratively.
From Product Vision to Story Map - Lean / Agile Product shapingJérôme Kehrli
A lot of Software Engineering projects fail for a lack of shared vision due to poor communication among people involved in the project.
A sound maintenance of the product backlog can only be achieved if all the people have a good understanding of what they have to do (common vision).
Roman Pichler, in a post originally written in Jul 16 2012, has proposed a really interesting approach: use various canvas to create and share product vision and product backlog creation and refinement.
This presentation is a drive through these various boards and canvas that should be designed in prior to any product development: the Product Vision, the Lean Canvas, The Product Definition and the Story Map.
Overview and explanation of the 12 Principles contained in the Agile Manifesto.
For more - and a complete implementation of Agile for $1.90 - go to Agile201.com.
The Learn Phase: Recasting the Agile ManifestoTraction
In this episode of The Learn Phase, Goyo asks how can a creative agency that focuses on creating marketing and advertising in a digital world take advantage of the 12 principles of the Agile Manifesto.
Please explore the presentation below for more detail, or reach out to one of the key contacts if you’d like to discuss how Venture Path could help your organisation innovate and grow.
Creating Actionable Product Strategy by Turo Director of ProductProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Measure what matters – Establishing the right metrics and KPIs early on can provide tremendous clarity. Driving towards the wrong goals can result in team misalignment, at best, and a failed product strategy, at worst.
- Distinguish the highest impact ideas from the good ideas
- Most companies have lots of good ideas. PMs must separate the great from the good, and craft product strategies that yield the highest impact outcomes for their customers and business.
Iterate, based on customer feedback & data – Great product strategies should evolve over time, with the ongoing incorporation of customer feedback, data, and stakeholder input. Strategies developed in a vacuum are unlikely to succeed, as are strategies that fail to evolve with the changing needs of customers.
Notes on Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love by Marty CaganIvan Nashara
I made this note and presentation for the executives in my company. We discuss how the product organization should be evolving and how we can create a strong innovative company.
Inspired is one of the best books to introduce you to product management. And it's also a strong one that can be easily read and understood by the business and non-product people in the company.
Becoming agile with Peapod Labs Sr. Product OwnerPromotable
What is Agile and what does it have to do with Product Management? We always hear companies use jargon like Agile. We know it's important, however many people don't understand what it is, when or why to use it and how to get started implementing Agile into your company's processes.
Takeways:
What is Agile? A mindset, not just a process
How to get started?
Development Cycle: From Project to Backlog
Agile Product Development Live cycle
Building an Agile Mindset into a Company’s Transformation.
About the Instructor: Rodrigue Carneiro is a Senior Product Manager at Peapod Digital Labs. He was previously a Sr. Product Manager at Ahold Delhaize, a large European company with a total of 21 brands with 6500 stores. Including Peapod Digital Labs, Food Lion, and Giant grocery stores.
In this session presented at Tools4AgileTeams 2-12-2021, we discussed some necessary building blocks to make the critical changes associated with an agile transformation helping to de-risk the organization's agile journey.
An introduction to "agile development" and what "agility" means in the world of software. Principles to embrace, culture changes to pursue, and so forth.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
2. MATRIX OVERVIEW
32 Years IT Solutions
Experience
Privately-held, $210M
Top 25 in the U.S.
National Firm with 12
offices across the U.S.
Offshore Services in
India via Joint Venture
Offshore
Delivery
Centers
MATRIX Office
MATRIX Virtual Office
Offshore Delivery Center
States MATRIX has supplied resources
3. Agile portfolio management is not about taking a bunch of
‘agile-like’ projects and throwing them into a portfolio; it’s about
creating agility at the actual portfolio & decision-making level.
6. 09 Continuous attention to
technical excellence and good
design enhances agility.
07 Working software is the
primary measure of success.
08 The most efficient and
effective method of conveying
information to and within a
development team is face-to-
face conversation.
06 Agile processes promote
sustainable development. The
sponsors, developers, and users
should be able to maintain a
constant pace indefinitely.
05 Build project around
motivated individuals. Give them
the environment and support
they need and trust them to get
the work done.
04 Business people and
developers must work together
daily throughout the project.
01 Our highest priority is to
satisfy the customer through
early and continuous delivery of
valuable software.
02 Welcome changing
requirements, even late in
development. Agile processes
harness change for the
customer’s advantage.
03 Deliver working software
frequently, from a couple of
weeks to a couple of months,
with a preference to a shorter
timescale.
10 Simplicity – the art of
maximizing the amount of work
not done – is essential.
11 The best architectures,
requirements, and designs
emerge from self-organizing
teams.
12 At regular intervals, the
team reflects on how to become
more effective, the tunes and
adjusts its behavior accordingly.
13. There is a difference between
scaling agility and scaling a process.
(SCRUM/KANBAN/Etc.)
14. Based on common failures (and successes) in
scaling agility into a portfolio process
Focuses on some of the most core aspects of
Agile principles that often get lost in scaling
Can be applied at every level of an enterprise
portfolio
Is process agnostic and organically creates
agility as opposed to forcing a framework-fit
scenario.
15. 15
•Collaborative: We come up with the best requirements and most
innovative ideas through continual conversation around what will best fit our
customer’s needs.
•Lean – By ensuring we limit our work in progress, eliminate waste and
knowing what done means. The concept of starting small, reviewing and
adapting based on outcome and feedback.
•Evolving – Go into this body of work with the mindset that it will need to
evolve over time to the benefit of the customer. Embrace the idea of the
evolution of the concept as opposed to fighting it.
•Adaptable – Have the courage to create the change needed. While
evolution is embracing the idea of change, adapting is initiating the change
itself. Sometimes the most difficult part to follow through on.
•Reportable – Critical to making good decisions is useful information.
Choose carefully what information best represents your ability to determine
success, completion and opportunity for improvement.
The CLEAR Definition
18. 1. What is the reasoning behind taking a user story and pruning it
down to a small consumable level?
(Quick feedback, adaptability, response to change, fail quickly)
2. What is the value behind identifying a minimum viable product?
(Good enough not perfect, quick to market, feedback, value)
3. Why is it important for a team to understand backlog priority?
(Working right items, highest business value)
4. Top attributes of a truly Agile project/team?
(Adaptability, collaborative, predictable, transparent)
19. 1. Why would you slice a portfolio like you would user stories?
(Quick feedback, adaptability, response to change, fail quickly)
2. What would the reasoning be behind minimum viable
portfolio?
(Good enough not perfect, quick to market, feedback, value)
3. Why is it important for a team to know portfolio priority?
(Working right items, highest business value)
4. Top attributes of a truly Agile enterprise portfolio?
(Adaptability, collaborative, predictable, transparent)
beyond the basics
21. Collaborate – determine user needs, work effort,
innovation, value
Lean – Is there waste in this effort? Small enough?
Evolve – Watching for possible evolution in
requirements, effort, or value.
Adapt – If above landscape has changed, shall we
adapt? Change the story based on requirements, effort,
or value evolution.
Report –Are people happy with results?
22. Being CLEAR at the story level promotes
Engagement with the all required people
Understanding the right amount of work to complete this
item
Productive discussion around innovation
The mindset to watch for evolution in requirements
Adaptability when change in need is apparent from a
customer point of view or technology point of view
Visibility into the work via success criteria and
measurable progress
23. Collaborate – determining higher level desires to break
down into smaller slices
Lean – Where is the value in this epic? Wasted movement?
Evolve – As stories evolve, will we evolve the epic? Value?
(opportunities or requirements?)
Adapt – Does this particular item still make sense where it
is? Change it or eliminate it!
Report – When is this item complete or successful? Are
people happy with results? Release reporting, initiative
planning, etc.
24. Being CLEAR at the feature level promotes
◦ Engagement at both the team and business or stakeholder
levels
◦ Productive discussion around innovation
◦ The mindset to watch for evolution in requirements (or
opportunities)
◦ Adaptability when change in need is apparent from a
customer point of view
◦ Visibility into the work via success criteria and opportunity
for road-mapping and resource allocation
25. Collaborative – To help determine cross dependencies,
downstream impact, ongoing business value
Lean – Are we seeing value in right areas? Project waste?
Frequent feedback? WIP issues and bottlenecks!
Evolving – Are we watching the project and customer
landscape for market evolution?
Adaptive – Based on above, does this particular project still
make sense? Change it or eliminate it!
Reportable – When are we successful (road-mapping)? Are
people happy with results? Financial re-allocation
opportunities or ongoing product development?
26. Being CLEAR at the projectproduct level
promotes
◦ Cross-project discussion looking for risks, dependencies and
opportunities
◦ Verification of Minimum Viable Product and what doneness
really is.
◦ The mindset that we don’t know everything about this
product and probably wont until its complete.
◦ Adapting the entire project to suit actual needs vs. assumed
ones.
◦ Visibility into completion status, continued value, ROI,
quality, planning and prioritization opportunities at the
portfolio level
27. Collaborate – Cross project priority conflicts, business value
stream, resource availability and allocation, short/long term
view
Lean – Do we have project waste? Minimum Viable Portfolio,
WIP Limits!
Evolve – Are we watching the corporatemarket landscape
for possible evolution? Project complexity vs Value?
Adapt – Will we have the courage to delay or cut projects
adapting the portfolio to the ongoing changes?
Report – Again...When are we successful? Are people happy
with results? Where can we improve?
28. Being CLEAR at the portfolio level promotes
◦ Great decision making based on constructive discussions and
useful information
◦ Verification of Minimum Viable Portfolio. How much do we
have in flight? Portfolio waste & WIP limits.
◦ The humility to accept that we don’t know everything about
our market and the future.
◦ Adapting our approach to our customers based on our
customers, not our own, opinion.
◦ Determining what we are really capable of getting done
within the organization. Using real data to make decisions as
opposed to gut feelings.
29. Portfolio
Project/
Product
Epic
Story
Lets try a team
out and see
what happens
Lets see if we
can convince the
decision makers
now
Often the
business is not
100% invested
Uphill battle to get
the process scaled
up
30. Portfolio
Project/
Product
Epic
Story
Develop BV based on
collaborative
business decisions
Agility has an
organic trickle
down effect
Create a CLEAR
portfolio the org
can embrace
Working on the
right thing at
every level
32. What can I take with me today and apply
tomorrow for a CLEAR portfolio?
At each level (story, epic, product, portfolio)
don’t let one item go by which has not been discussed with more
than one person.
be determined to watch for and eliminate wasted movement,
evaluate WIP and respond to feedback
go into each body of work with the understanding it will evolve
over time and we will need to be watchful and…
responsive. When evolution happens, have the courage to adapt
the body of work for the benefit of the customer.
know what success looks like and make that the goal. Find ways to
create visibility to everyone who needs it which will only result in
better decision making.
