Product Agility: 3 fundamentals from the trenches (Braga,PT)Pedro Teixeira
Product Agility: 3 Fundamentals from the Trenches
There is no silver bullet for Product and Business Agility.
On this talk, you will know which are the fundamentals and some of the initiatives in place in the OutSystems Engineering Journey to better responding rapidly and flexibly to our customer's demands.
Satyam Kantamneni, former Managing Director of UX at Citrix, explains how to grow and nurture your UX team to meet business objectives. Based on 15 years experience across Citrix, Paypal, and other companies.
You'll learn:
- When to hire generalists vs. specialists.
- How to drive business outcomes from day 1.
- How to evaluate design culture as you build it.
- How to build a long-term governance framework.
Modern Agile – What's It Good For? - Jacob Creech - AgileNZ 2017AgileNZ Conference
The Agile Manifesto has been around since 2001 and, although the industry has rapidly developed, the principles still hold very true. However, there are lots of great new ideas that people have been experimenting with since the Manifesto was signed and, in this talk, attendees will hear about a few of these developments, focusing on the concept of Modern Agile.
About Jacob Creech:
Jacob started out in web development around 2000 and discovered that people constantly asked for things they didn't actually need, which led him on a journey of discovery that ended up in this thing called 'Agile'. He found himself in China helping develop virtual products for Second Life and then as the one and only non-Chinese person in a web development agency – good for language practice, not so much for delivering amazing work.
After some time back in New Zealand on a usability product among other things, he returned to China to co-found an Agile consulting company, worked with a variety of large, impressive-sounding international companies at a scale that would make most New Zealand cities look tiny, and managed to stumble into a range of interesting opportunities all around Asia that kept him busy for the next few years.
However, after some time, he got the itch to return to NZ and ended up at Assurity in late 2015 where he now heads up the Agile practice and works with government and non-government clients to deliver work in ever-improving ways. In his spare time, he (poorly) plays table tennis and enjoys naming babies after entrepreneurs.
Customer experience and product instructionsSharon Burton
Product instructions are part of the Use cycle of the customer experience but how do you know if they are meeting the needs of your customers?
How do you know if your product instructions are meeting your customers needs?
Product Agility: 3 fundamentals from the trenches (Braga,PT)Pedro Teixeira
Product Agility: 3 Fundamentals from the Trenches
There is no silver bullet for Product and Business Agility.
On this talk, you will know which are the fundamentals and some of the initiatives in place in the OutSystems Engineering Journey to better responding rapidly and flexibly to our customer's demands.
Satyam Kantamneni, former Managing Director of UX at Citrix, explains how to grow and nurture your UX team to meet business objectives. Based on 15 years experience across Citrix, Paypal, and other companies.
You'll learn:
- When to hire generalists vs. specialists.
- How to drive business outcomes from day 1.
- How to evaluate design culture as you build it.
- How to build a long-term governance framework.
Modern Agile – What's It Good For? - Jacob Creech - AgileNZ 2017AgileNZ Conference
The Agile Manifesto has been around since 2001 and, although the industry has rapidly developed, the principles still hold very true. However, there are lots of great new ideas that people have been experimenting with since the Manifesto was signed and, in this talk, attendees will hear about a few of these developments, focusing on the concept of Modern Agile.
About Jacob Creech:
Jacob started out in web development around 2000 and discovered that people constantly asked for things they didn't actually need, which led him on a journey of discovery that ended up in this thing called 'Agile'. He found himself in China helping develop virtual products for Second Life and then as the one and only non-Chinese person in a web development agency – good for language practice, not so much for delivering amazing work.
After some time back in New Zealand on a usability product among other things, he returned to China to co-found an Agile consulting company, worked with a variety of large, impressive-sounding international companies at a scale that would make most New Zealand cities look tiny, and managed to stumble into a range of interesting opportunities all around Asia that kept him busy for the next few years.
However, after some time, he got the itch to return to NZ and ended up at Assurity in late 2015 where he now heads up the Agile practice and works with government and non-government clients to deliver work in ever-improving ways. In his spare time, he (poorly) plays table tennis and enjoys naming babies after entrepreneurs.
Customer experience and product instructionsSharon Burton
Product instructions are part of the Use cycle of the customer experience but how do you know if they are meeting the needs of your customers?
How do you know if your product instructions are meeting your customers needs?
This is a talk to introduce agile ways of working involves & why its effective.
There's an overview of waterfall, agile, Scrum, Kanban boards, retros & impact mapping
Agile From the Top Down: Executives & Leadership Living Agile by Jon StahlLeanDog
I believe that executives must practice what they preach. If they want teams to be transparent and agile, they need to practice themselves and lead by example. This talk will share some Agile & Lean techniques, applied in a new way, to help organizations understand their constraints so they can transparently carry forward their journey to becoming Agile. “Seeing the Whole” includes customers, projects, applications, people, leadership, financials and Standard Work. We will propose creating a BVR (Big (I mean big) Visual Room), refactoring the PMO and suggest some practices to help support this journey. Executives are challenged to lead by example and be transparent. - Jon Stahl
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You'll learn:
- How to quickly identify user groups despite vague assumptions.
- How to define clear features amidst complex requirements and business objectives.
- How to establish efficient UX processes across disjointed teams.
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This presentation will focus on the topic of working in a distributed agile team. We’ll go over terminology (remote vs near shore vs offshore vs distributed vs satellite etc) and I will share three different examples of distributed teams I’ve worked on and how we managed to be agile with our practices around pairing, knowledge sharing, and minimizing upfront design.
We will discuss why the notion of distributed teams is becoming more and more relevant for modern organizations, what advantages and drawbacks exist, and what leadership needs to carefully evaluate when asking if distributed is right for their teams.
From Divided to United - Aligning Technical and Business TeamsDominica DeGrandis
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My presentation for the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (http://cptsc.org/) annual meeting. My teaching approach for UX and project management in an agile environment.
Agile Architecture (Scrum + DevOps) by Milan ChhedaAgile ME
This topic will cover about how-to build the culture of agility and collaboration using Scrum and DevOps. With the help of Atlassian tools including JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo & JIRA Service Desk, one can start small to build the culture to embrace the change and incrementally improve and evolve. Scrum and DevOps unites Agile, Continuous Delivery, Automation, and much more, to help development and operations teams be more efficient, innovate faster, and deliver higher value to businesses and customers.
Topics covered :
Product Discovery – a concept to identify basic need
Design Direction, User Persona
Understanding of MVP, MVE and MLP with examples
How we can do prioritization – A brief with real time examples on each
How we can Feature identification
How we can do mapping to user stories
An overview of Joshua Kerievsky’s "Modern Agile", used to generate some interesting discussion at Agile Ottawa in Feb 2016.
Based on Joshua's work:
* blog: https://www.industriallogic.com/blog/modern-agile/
* webcast: http://leankit.com/blog/2015/12/modern-agile/
The predominant mindset around complex problem solving is decomposition; we inevitably jump to ways of ‘chunking up’ a solution. At Aginic, our experience of delivering hundreds of engaging data experiences is that this often misses a step that is crucial to creating compelling digital experiences: experimentation. In this talk we’ll describe how we have baked in experimentation to our ability to explore and navigate complex problem spaces and how this has helped deliver engaging outcomes for our customers.
This talk is a must for anyone tackling complex projects, particularly involving data.
Post-agile approaches - agile for the real world and how to avoid agile failureYuval Yeret
A session for an ILTAM forum in Israel - Agile is really great. Can it fail? Are failures due to mismatch of practices? principles? Only implementation details?
We will look at the strengths weaknesses opportunities threats related to the major agile frameworks as well as common failure modes and what to do about them
(the actual session includes case studies from audience and agilesparks experience)
Creating a Lean PMO. Empower People, Enable FlowJulee Everett
Align. Fund teams, not projects. Leave them alone to do what they said they would do. Adapt. Sound easy? Then why do we make it so complicated? Stop being good at process & start getting good at business.
This is a talk to introduce agile ways of working involves & why its effective.
There's an overview of waterfall, agile, Scrum, Kanban boards, retros & impact mapping
Agile From the Top Down: Executives & Leadership Living Agile by Jon StahlLeanDog
I believe that executives must practice what they preach. If they want teams to be transparent and agile, they need to practice themselves and lead by example. This talk will share some Agile & Lean techniques, applied in a new way, to help organizations understand their constraints so they can transparently carry forward their journey to becoming Agile. “Seeing the Whole” includes customers, projects, applications, people, leadership, financials and Standard Work. We will propose creating a BVR (Big (I mean big) Visual Room), refactoring the PMO and suggest some practices to help support this journey. Executives are challenged to lead by example and be transparent. - Jon Stahl
Lean UX in the Enterprise: A Government Case Studyuxpin
You'll learn:
- How to quickly identify user groups despite vague assumptions.
- How to define clear features amidst complex requirements and business objectives.
- How to establish efficient UX processes across disjointed teams.
Agile Anywhere in the 21st Century: Setting up distributed teams to be effectiveAgileDenver
This presentation will focus on the topic of working in a distributed agile team. We’ll go over terminology (remote vs near shore vs offshore vs distributed vs satellite etc) and I will share three different examples of distributed teams I’ve worked on and how we managed to be agile with our practices around pairing, knowledge sharing, and minimizing upfront design.
We will discuss why the notion of distributed teams is becoming more and more relevant for modern organizations, what advantages and drawbacks exist, and what leadership needs to carefully evaluate when asking if distributed is right for their teams.
From Divided to United - Aligning Technical and Business TeamsDominica DeGrandis
This is a true story of one SaaS company's journey to gain alignment across business and technical teams by changing how four important factors were viewed: customer demand, work prioritization, team metrics, and communication etiquette.
My presentation for the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (http://cptsc.org/) annual meeting. My teaching approach for UX and project management in an agile environment.
Agile Architecture (Scrum + DevOps) by Milan ChhedaAgile ME
This topic will cover about how-to build the culture of agility and collaboration using Scrum and DevOps. With the help of Atlassian tools including JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo & JIRA Service Desk, one can start small to build the culture to embrace the change and incrementally improve and evolve. Scrum and DevOps unites Agile, Continuous Delivery, Automation, and much more, to help development and operations teams be more efficient, innovate faster, and deliver higher value to businesses and customers.
Topics covered :
Product Discovery – a concept to identify basic need
Design Direction, User Persona
Understanding of MVP, MVE and MLP with examples
How we can do prioritization – A brief with real time examples on each
How we can Feature identification
How we can do mapping to user stories
An overview of Joshua Kerievsky’s "Modern Agile", used to generate some interesting discussion at Agile Ottawa in Feb 2016.
Based on Joshua's work:
* blog: https://www.industriallogic.com/blog/modern-agile/
* webcast: http://leankit.com/blog/2015/12/modern-agile/
The predominant mindset around complex problem solving is decomposition; we inevitably jump to ways of ‘chunking up’ a solution. At Aginic, our experience of delivering hundreds of engaging data experiences is that this often misses a step that is crucial to creating compelling digital experiences: experimentation. In this talk we’ll describe how we have baked in experimentation to our ability to explore and navigate complex problem spaces and how this has helped deliver engaging outcomes for our customers.
This talk is a must for anyone tackling complex projects, particularly involving data.
Post-agile approaches - agile for the real world and how to avoid agile failureYuval Yeret
A session for an ILTAM forum in Israel - Agile is really great. Can it fail? Are failures due to mismatch of practices? principles? Only implementation details?
We will look at the strengths weaknesses opportunities threats related to the major agile frameworks as well as common failure modes and what to do about them
(the actual session includes case studies from audience and agilesparks experience)
Creating a Lean PMO. Empower People, Enable FlowJulee Everett
Align. Fund teams, not projects. Leave them alone to do what they said they would do. Adapt. Sound easy? Then why do we make it so complicated? Stop being good at process & start getting good at business.
Hand out slides to a presentation I have given to the Project Management Institute PMI Quality round table and other groups on Organizational Agility. I discuss Scrum, Lean Startup, Lean Canvas, Minimum Valuable Product MVP, Design Thinking, Agile scale, SAFe, DAD, ASM, LeSS Scaled Agile Scrum, DevOps, TDD, ATDD
To book a guest lecture or Agile Coaching services, see my presentation for contact information. I am based in New York and am available to travel to your location.
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.
Scaling Frame Works are great guideline for Scaling Agile but teams and companies who are working Scrum and/or Kanban for sometime now can scale Agile Implementation following certain disciplines and structural approached and . This talk is to discuss one such implementation.
Doing Agile Right - Transformation without Chaos - A summaryRagavendra Prasath
This is the summary of the book titled 'Doing Agile Right - Transformation without Chaos' published by Harvard Business Review Press 2020. The authors include Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk, and Steve Berez who are the Partners at Bain & Company, Inc.
This captures the essence of a roller coaster ride for every organization undergoing Agile. The ideas in the book are not only just applicable to enterprise IT and also to the Business side of it. The book not only provides ideas, but also stimulates thinking and creates an urge.
It does not stop by covering just one aspect like Innovation, but also encompasses different angles such as budgeting (i liked most), funding, reviewing, customer loyalty and obsession, functional silos and bureaucracy and GOLDEN MEAN.
When introducing Workday into your organization, how you manage change is critical to a successful transition. While change is most often driven from a technology perspective, a successful change management program should be focused on the impact to strategy, business processes, and people. Increasing user adoption of Workday and improving how work gets done within an organization requires an intentional investment of effort.
Austin Hay is the VP of Consulting Services for The Growth Practice. He helps Enterprise companies Walmart jumpstart digital product growth. In this talk, he gives lessons in designing and implementing growth practices in the enterprise.
New technologies have change the way we teach and the way our students learn in numerous ways, especially in the education sector in Australia.
In this session we show how educators can confidently implement technology in your organisation and stay relevant in this digital age.
Drupal GovCon 2021 - The MOST Important Agile Role NO ONE is Talking AboutBill Annibell
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This session was by Tejaswini M, Agile coach,
techniques and best practices of user story estimation & a practical session on How to Write good user stories, Acceptance Criteria and estimating the Stories using different techniques.
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We designed this webinar as a must-attend event for those who are looking for a kick-start moment to lead their organization into the DevOps environment. It attracted several attendees from all parts of the world. They all sat back and learned valuable insights on DevOps culture and practices.
People are tired of hearing the countless amount of suggestions and opinions while contemplating to start their DevOps journey. This webinar helped its attendees in getting rid of all kinds of apprehensions related to the topic.
Topics Covered
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Addressing the Delivery Challenges.
Why Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery is so relevant?
DevOps vs Release Management.
Best Practices.
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How to combine scaled frameworks with distributed teamsHugo Messer
This is a proposed talk for Agile India 2017. Ebin John and Hugo Messer will discuss how to scale scrum and agile in large enterprises, across different geographies. Distributed teams, safe, LeSS, DAD, distributed agile, those are the topics we will address, in combination with practical cases.
Talk at Agile Jakarta, July 2016. I discussed the top 5 problems I see with distributed teams:
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2. Three Waves of Agile
Charlie Rudd, 2016
● Also “viral spread” of agile into other
disciplines and areas
● DevOps extending agile into production and
deployment
3. Why is Agile spreading to non-tech areas?
● Widespread adoption by IT, and hype and marketing efforts, LinkedIn,
promotion of certifications
● Other teams/areas exposed to agile through working with IT teams and
want to adopt agile
● Business Agility - senior managers and executives think “we must do/be
agile” (often without really knowing why)
● Synergies with other well-known approaches (6 Sigma, Lean, innovation,
lean startups)
● This “viral spread” of Agile is good for agile coaches looking for work but has
disadvantages - fragmentation of approach, adoption of agile for the wrong
reasons, poor understanding, lack of true cross-functionality
4. What non-tech areas are using agile?
● Marketing
● Sales
● Human Resources/People and Culture
● Construction
● Executives trying to implement change
● Call centres
● Risk management
● Strategy
● Change management
5. Most non-technical teams try Scrum first, but this
is sometimes wrong
● Scrum is widely known and (kind of) understood so often teams try this
first - also many consultants will sell Scrum as the “solution”
● Many people think Scrum = Agile
● Scrum is great for product development, but sometimes not so good for
other business contexts
6. Case Study - Marketing at National Australia Bank
● Already doing “Scrum”, but not really understanding why
● Agile broadly supported by teams and management
● Teams produce marketing campaigns ATL and BTL - could be brand or
product-focused
● Creative work outsourced to external agencies
● Work is then collated and moved through a (complex) approval process
● Output is “assets” - eg TVC, social media posts, billboards, Google Ads -
content is reused through these assets but there are no real
dependencies
● Very big budgets, but most money is spent on creative agencies and to
buy media time
10. State of Agile at NAB (when I started)
• “Scrum” rituals but poor understanding
• Focus on tasks not deliverables
• Many tasks per worker in one day
• No/limited backlogs
• Long term planning disconnected from sprint
planning
• Specialised teams not cross-functional teams
• Desire to improve practices
• Open to change
• Ceremonies did help their productivity
• Visualisation of work (scrum boards, marketing
targets
• Daily scrums useful
10
13. State of Agile at NAB (continued)
• Agile coaches were also scrum masters for 2-4
teams at once
• Coaches placed into “Performance Units” and
reported to a mid/senior level manager
• Over time this led to overwork and a reduced
ability to change practices, process and culture
• Silo-ing of coaches led to fragmentation of
approach
• Culture of unhealthy competition between PUs
13
16. Challenges
● Complex, non-linear value stream (therefore inefficient)
● Teams highly specialised, not cross-functional - therefore many handoffs
● Work is outsourced to creative agencies who work at a different cadence -
so waste, waiting, re-work
● Teams then manage work through a complex approval process - waste,
waiting, re-work
● Teams then pass on work to Analytics and Deployment teams - waste,
waiting, rework
● Poor/no backlogs exacerbate these problems
● Weak/no Product Owners
17. What we did
● 90 day plans to assist with product backlogs
● Kanban and scrumban boards to suit BAU type work
● Tribes and squads to break down silos and encourage cross functionality
● Portfolio views of work
● Scaled scrum (scrum of scrums) to encourage collaboration and better
handover
● MoSCoW prioritisation of work with campaigns
18.
19.
20. (Eduardo Nosfuentes, Agile Eleven,available on Slideshare
)
Seven Steps to
Coaching Agile in
Non-Software
Development
Teams
21. Lessons for Agile Coaches
“As experienced agile practitioners and as people
responsible for agile change and transformation,
we should recognise the importance of being
agnostic with agility at any level. This means one
size does not fit all, one framework is not the
answer, and the ‘what’ and ‘how’ should be suited
to customer context and to a wider strategic
vision.”
http://agnosticagile.org