The document discusses agile inception techniques that can be used at the beginning of a project to align stakeholders, understand user needs, establish relationships, and mitigate risk. It describes common techniques like assumption mapping, vision/product box creation, impact mapping, and user journey mapping. The goal is to give customers permission not to have all the answers at the start, ensure alignment, and provide outputs to safely start the project.
A Minimum Testable Product (MTP) is doing the smallest possible thing in order to learn and test. You'll make the least amount of effort to get the maximum amount of validated customer learning. The road to launching a web or mobile application usually starts with the creation of a minimum viable product (MTP).
A MTP is more than a prototype but less than a fully-featured app and can help you engage a particular audience, such as potential investors, strategic partners, hires, or test users.
Determining what features should be included in or excluded from your MTP is a critical task with major ramifications.
Are you ready to build an MVP? Where do you start? How do you know what features to build? How do you know how many people you need to build it? How do you know that they are building a right thing in a right way? This presentation and conversation will explore strategies for assembling effective teams for building and deploying an MVP while incurring minimal Product and Technical Debt. We will also discuss implementing an effective process to make sure that your MVP will be built on time and on target.
[UserTesting Webinar] Tackling B2B and B2C challenges: User Research at HomeA...UserTesting
HomeAdvisor connects more than 30 million homeowners with trusted home improvement professionals in their area. So how does the company manage to tackle usability issues from the home improvement professionals’ perspective (B2B) and from the homeowners’ perspective (B2C) at the same time?
Leah Russell, Vice President of User Experience at HomeAdvisor, joins us to share her insights on how her team incorporates regular user research to address the unique challenges facing both the B2B and B2C sides of the business.
Working as an agile Experience DesignerThoughtworks
This talk discusses,in detail, the design process that our teams follow within the agile development of products, in-depth process details for how to build new products, and how to build up an innovation pipeline. Throughout the talk diverse techniques that can be applied in an innovation lifecycle such as contextual inquiries, diary studies, expert reviews, affinity mapping and personas, are discussed.
Some teams think they can be agile by using a defined process or set of practices as defined by one of the agile approaches. This is just “doing Agile.” Other teams are agile in name only – the team says it’s “doing Agile” but ends up using the same old practices and achieving the same results. Teams adopt agile for a variety of reasons, but it’s not the process or set of practices they select that produces the results they seek. Teams are most successful when they adopt a particular mindset in order to “be agile”. Join Kent McDonald as he describes this mindset through 7 key ideas based on how people and organizations work best. We’ll discuss some specific techniques you can use to adopt the mindset on your project, how the project manager role changes along with the mindset, and how to help your team move from “doing Agile” to actually “being agile”.
A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is doing the smallest possible thing in order to learn. You'll make the least amount of effort to get the maximum amount of validated customer learning. The road to launching a web or mobile application usually starts with the creation of a minimum viable product (MVP).
A MVP is more than a prototype but less than a fully-featured app and can help you engage a particular audience, such as potential investors, strategic partners, hires, or test users.
Determining what features should be included in or excluded from your MVP is a critical task with major ramifications.
A Minimum Testable Product (MTP) is doing the smallest possible thing in order to learn and test. You'll make the least amount of effort to get the maximum amount of validated customer learning. The road to launching a web or mobile application usually starts with the creation of a minimum viable product (MTP).
A MTP is more than a prototype but less than a fully-featured app and can help you engage a particular audience, such as potential investors, strategic partners, hires, or test users.
Determining what features should be included in or excluded from your MTP is a critical task with major ramifications.
Are you ready to build an MVP? Where do you start? How do you know what features to build? How do you know how many people you need to build it? How do you know that they are building a right thing in a right way? This presentation and conversation will explore strategies for assembling effective teams for building and deploying an MVP while incurring minimal Product and Technical Debt. We will also discuss implementing an effective process to make sure that your MVP will be built on time and on target.
[UserTesting Webinar] Tackling B2B and B2C challenges: User Research at HomeA...UserTesting
HomeAdvisor connects more than 30 million homeowners with trusted home improvement professionals in their area. So how does the company manage to tackle usability issues from the home improvement professionals’ perspective (B2B) and from the homeowners’ perspective (B2C) at the same time?
Leah Russell, Vice President of User Experience at HomeAdvisor, joins us to share her insights on how her team incorporates regular user research to address the unique challenges facing both the B2B and B2C sides of the business.
Working as an agile Experience DesignerThoughtworks
This talk discusses,in detail, the design process that our teams follow within the agile development of products, in-depth process details for how to build new products, and how to build up an innovation pipeline. Throughout the talk diverse techniques that can be applied in an innovation lifecycle such as contextual inquiries, diary studies, expert reviews, affinity mapping and personas, are discussed.
Some teams think they can be agile by using a defined process or set of practices as defined by one of the agile approaches. This is just “doing Agile.” Other teams are agile in name only – the team says it’s “doing Agile” but ends up using the same old practices and achieving the same results. Teams adopt agile for a variety of reasons, but it’s not the process or set of practices they select that produces the results they seek. Teams are most successful when they adopt a particular mindset in order to “be agile”. Join Kent McDonald as he describes this mindset through 7 key ideas based on how people and organizations work best. We’ll discuss some specific techniques you can use to adopt the mindset on your project, how the project manager role changes along with the mindset, and how to help your team move from “doing Agile” to actually “being agile”.
A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is doing the smallest possible thing in order to learn. You'll make the least amount of effort to get the maximum amount of validated customer learning. The road to launching a web or mobile application usually starts with the creation of a minimum viable product (MVP).
A MVP is more than a prototype but less than a fully-featured app and can help you engage a particular audience, such as potential investors, strategic partners, hires, or test users.
Determining what features should be included in or excluded from your MVP is a critical task with major ramifications.
Calculating the ROI of UX with Standard Financial Modelsuxpin
You'll learn:
- How to create a UX ROI model with decision trees and expected values
- How to forecast the effect of UX on sales
- How to use SUS and NPS to measure the effect of UX
Learn more about UserTesting’s recently launched product release, My Recruit. With My Recruit, you can seamlessly run tests with your own employees, partners, customers, and people from other panels.
You'll learn how to:
- Set up tests on-demand with anyone outside of UserTesting’s panel on your own
- Create a testing experience with web landing page for recruits, which can be customized with your branding
- Leverage best practices and use cases from other organizations who are using My Recruit to gain insights from their existing customers
Implementing Dual-Track Agile :: Lessons from the trenches @ITSpring.by May 2019Pedro Teixeira
Evermore people are talking about Discovery and Hypothesis-driven approaches. But where do you start? What do they really mean?
Pedro will share with us how he moved away from a 2-year delivery roadmap by enabling his Engineering teams to do a Dual Track Agile. A real case-study!
Key Learning Points:
- Understand what Dual Track Agile is
- Learn why Pedro and his team decided to use it at OutSystems
- Know what was the strategy in place for the Change Management
- Understand their failures and what they have learned with it
- Identify some Common Pitfalls
- Understand the importance of cadence for alignment and trust
- Understand the importance of building (truly) autonomous teams
In this talk, Suze explores a case study from her recent work in a London agency, where, working for a large retail client, the programme of work moved from a project-based delivery model incorporating Scrum to a more product-based model. Drawing on aspects of Kanban, Design Thinking and Lean Startup, and implementing a dual-track agile approach, the team is now ‘thinking more product’.
Suze will delve into how the organisation has shifted to this model and how it coped with the change. She will talk through some of the difficulties that she experienced along the way and how these issues were mitigated, and provide take away techniques to help in your organisations.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8036/thinking-more-product-moving-from-scrum-to-a-dual-track-agile-approach
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
2016 talk from Lean Product Innovation event at The HUB in Singapore. Stories from the trenches about building successful products: product design & testing, pivoting the product strategy, and building an org culture of continuous testing & learning.
Reverse Chaos Method of Requirements Prioritisation Gena Drahun
Practical method of requirements prioritisation based on the Statistics of Product Success from Chaos Manifesto from Standish Group.
+ As bonus some thoughts and clarification of the definition of Minimum Viable Product and Minimum Viable Feature.
Presentation for UX Camp Amsterdam 2015, 9 September 2015.
You'll learn:
A framework for deconstructing and validating product hypotheses
How to guide product strategy without overprescribing details
How to develop assumption backlogs
Retail UX in 2020: How to stay on top of changing customer behaviorsUserZoom
The Retail landscape is changing. Customer needs and behaviors have shifted at a pace and scale we’ve never seen before, and continue to shape the way we respond.
Due to the pandemic, Retailers have had to rethink operations, supply chains and the entire digital experience.
In this webinar, UX leaders from IKEA Retail, Ingka Group (one of the world’s largest furniture retailers) and Sainsbury's (one of the UK’s biggest supermarkets) will offer insight into how UX research is helping them to stay on top of changing customer habits and behaviors.
You’ll also discover:
-How the current pandemic is changing Retail and the digital experiences and expectations of its customers
-How UX leaders from Retailers like IKEA and Sainsbury’s leverage UX research to adapt to these changes and what we can learn from them
-What you can do to improve UX research delivery and efficiency in a time of economic uncertainty
Agil8 Agile Story Writing - Impact Mapping - David Hicks - 30 Oct 2014agil8 Ltd
David Hicks, founder and CEO of agil8, introduced the concept of Impact Mapping to support effective Product Backlog creation at agil8's recent informal Agile evening Community Event on 30th October 2014.
Agile at Enterprise Scale: The Tricky BitsBernie Maloney
Agile thrives with individual teams, yet even Ken Schwaber asserts 75% of organizations using scrum won't succeed in getting the benefits they hope for from it. Many such organizations have been structured by default along hierarchical lines, rather than by design for iterative work. A set of established and emerging ideas to address organizational impediments point to a future where Agile introductions Go Big, rather than Go Home.
Much of the thought around Lean UX focuses on design groups within product organizations (startups and enterprises). What happens when you try to use Lean design methodologies inside of an agency.
This presentation was given at the Lean UX Meetup in San Francisco on May 30, 2012.
SpringOne Platform 2016
Speakers: Jim Thomson; Product Manager, Pivotal. Alex Basson; iOS Developer, Pivotal. Josh Franklin; Product Designer, Pivotal
Have you been the engineer blocked on shipping a feature because you were waiting on Design to "figure it out"? Or wondered why you’re building a particular feature, or have your own ideas for the product vision? Have you been the designer who spent days designing an interaction only to find out it couldn't be built, or the PM trying to bridge the divide? It's time to take down those silo walls! Josh Franklin, Alex Basson, and Jim Thomson – a designer, an engineer, and a PM, respectively, will give a "Balanced Talk" on their successes and failures building the Small Token iOS app, and share the tactics they used to stay aligned as an Agile team and continuously learn from each other. Extended Description On traditional product teams, engineering, business, and design often sit in their own, walled-off silos.The “business” (usually a product owner) generally defines large swaths of requirements, chucks them over a wall to designers, who chuck designs back to the business, who package it up and chuck it over to the developers and ask how long it’ll take to deliver. They request features and designs with no regard to implementation, and engineers don’t have any input or view into the “what” or “why” of product and design decisions. There’s a better way! At Pivotal, we form “Balanced Teams,” made up of developers, a product manager, and a designer. For many reasons, a Balanced Team leads to better products and happier team members. In this talk, a balanced team of Engineer, Designer, and PM use real-world examples from our work on Small Token, a charitable giving iOS app, to illustrate specific advantages of working as a balanced team. We show how our practice here at Pivotal contrasts to a “traditional” product development cycle - and why it works. We expect the audience to learn techniques they can take home to their own product teams. They will be better empowered to evangelize for, and fully take advantage of, Agile principles. Specifically, engineers in the audience will learn that they can have an important voice in the direction of a product.
This presentation is a continuation of a "What To Do Once You Have an Idea". It explores a process of defining and building an MVP. It emphasizes building an MVP in a sustainable way while avoiding taking on unnecessary Product, Technical, Infrastructure and Process Debt. It also looks at the options of utilizing tools for effective Debt management.
Are you ready to build an MVP? Where do you start? How do you know what features to build? How do you know how many people you need to build it? How do you know that they are building a right thing in a right way? This presentation and conversation will explore strategies for assembling effective teams for building and deploying an MVP while incurring minimal Product and Technical Debt. We will also discuss implementing an effective process to make sure that your MVP will be built on time and on target.
Resumo da teoria de organizações exponenciais, do livro com o mesmo nome, apresentado no ciclo de Palestras CuboNetwork. www.inovaconsulting.com.br/downloads
Calculating the ROI of UX with Standard Financial Modelsuxpin
You'll learn:
- How to create a UX ROI model with decision trees and expected values
- How to forecast the effect of UX on sales
- How to use SUS and NPS to measure the effect of UX
Learn more about UserTesting’s recently launched product release, My Recruit. With My Recruit, you can seamlessly run tests with your own employees, partners, customers, and people from other panels.
You'll learn how to:
- Set up tests on-demand with anyone outside of UserTesting’s panel on your own
- Create a testing experience with web landing page for recruits, which can be customized with your branding
- Leverage best practices and use cases from other organizations who are using My Recruit to gain insights from their existing customers
Implementing Dual-Track Agile :: Lessons from the trenches @ITSpring.by May 2019Pedro Teixeira
Evermore people are talking about Discovery and Hypothesis-driven approaches. But where do you start? What do they really mean?
Pedro will share with us how he moved away from a 2-year delivery roadmap by enabling his Engineering teams to do a Dual Track Agile. A real case-study!
Key Learning Points:
- Understand what Dual Track Agile is
- Learn why Pedro and his team decided to use it at OutSystems
- Know what was the strategy in place for the Change Management
- Understand their failures and what they have learned with it
- Identify some Common Pitfalls
- Understand the importance of cadence for alignment and trust
- Understand the importance of building (truly) autonomous teams
In this talk, Suze explores a case study from her recent work in a London agency, where, working for a large retail client, the programme of work moved from a project-based delivery model incorporating Scrum to a more product-based model. Drawing on aspects of Kanban, Design Thinking and Lean Startup, and implementing a dual-track agile approach, the team is now ‘thinking more product’.
Suze will delve into how the organisation has shifted to this model and how it coped with the change. She will talk through some of the difficulties that she experienced along the way and how these issues were mitigated, and provide take away techniques to help in your organisations.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8036/thinking-more-product-moving-from-scrum-to-a-dual-track-agile-approach
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
2016 talk from Lean Product Innovation event at The HUB in Singapore. Stories from the trenches about building successful products: product design & testing, pivoting the product strategy, and building an org culture of continuous testing & learning.
Reverse Chaos Method of Requirements Prioritisation Gena Drahun
Practical method of requirements prioritisation based on the Statistics of Product Success from Chaos Manifesto from Standish Group.
+ As bonus some thoughts and clarification of the definition of Minimum Viable Product and Minimum Viable Feature.
Presentation for UX Camp Amsterdam 2015, 9 September 2015.
You'll learn:
A framework for deconstructing and validating product hypotheses
How to guide product strategy without overprescribing details
How to develop assumption backlogs
Retail UX in 2020: How to stay on top of changing customer behaviorsUserZoom
The Retail landscape is changing. Customer needs and behaviors have shifted at a pace and scale we’ve never seen before, and continue to shape the way we respond.
Due to the pandemic, Retailers have had to rethink operations, supply chains and the entire digital experience.
In this webinar, UX leaders from IKEA Retail, Ingka Group (one of the world’s largest furniture retailers) and Sainsbury's (one of the UK’s biggest supermarkets) will offer insight into how UX research is helping them to stay on top of changing customer habits and behaviors.
You’ll also discover:
-How the current pandemic is changing Retail and the digital experiences and expectations of its customers
-How UX leaders from Retailers like IKEA and Sainsbury’s leverage UX research to adapt to these changes and what we can learn from them
-What you can do to improve UX research delivery and efficiency in a time of economic uncertainty
Agil8 Agile Story Writing - Impact Mapping - David Hicks - 30 Oct 2014agil8 Ltd
David Hicks, founder and CEO of agil8, introduced the concept of Impact Mapping to support effective Product Backlog creation at agil8's recent informal Agile evening Community Event on 30th October 2014.
Agile at Enterprise Scale: The Tricky BitsBernie Maloney
Agile thrives with individual teams, yet even Ken Schwaber asserts 75% of organizations using scrum won't succeed in getting the benefits they hope for from it. Many such organizations have been structured by default along hierarchical lines, rather than by design for iterative work. A set of established and emerging ideas to address organizational impediments point to a future where Agile introductions Go Big, rather than Go Home.
Much of the thought around Lean UX focuses on design groups within product organizations (startups and enterprises). What happens when you try to use Lean design methodologies inside of an agency.
This presentation was given at the Lean UX Meetup in San Francisco on May 30, 2012.
SpringOne Platform 2016
Speakers: Jim Thomson; Product Manager, Pivotal. Alex Basson; iOS Developer, Pivotal. Josh Franklin; Product Designer, Pivotal
Have you been the engineer blocked on shipping a feature because you were waiting on Design to "figure it out"? Or wondered why you’re building a particular feature, or have your own ideas for the product vision? Have you been the designer who spent days designing an interaction only to find out it couldn't be built, or the PM trying to bridge the divide? It's time to take down those silo walls! Josh Franklin, Alex Basson, and Jim Thomson – a designer, an engineer, and a PM, respectively, will give a "Balanced Talk" on their successes and failures building the Small Token iOS app, and share the tactics they used to stay aligned as an Agile team and continuously learn from each other. Extended Description On traditional product teams, engineering, business, and design often sit in their own, walled-off silos.The “business” (usually a product owner) generally defines large swaths of requirements, chucks them over a wall to designers, who chuck designs back to the business, who package it up and chuck it over to the developers and ask how long it’ll take to deliver. They request features and designs with no regard to implementation, and engineers don’t have any input or view into the “what” or “why” of product and design decisions. There’s a better way! At Pivotal, we form “Balanced Teams,” made up of developers, a product manager, and a designer. For many reasons, a Balanced Team leads to better products and happier team members. In this talk, a balanced team of Engineer, Designer, and PM use real-world examples from our work on Small Token, a charitable giving iOS app, to illustrate specific advantages of working as a balanced team. We show how our practice here at Pivotal contrasts to a “traditional” product development cycle - and why it works. We expect the audience to learn techniques they can take home to their own product teams. They will be better empowered to evangelize for, and fully take advantage of, Agile principles. Specifically, engineers in the audience will learn that they can have an important voice in the direction of a product.
This presentation is a continuation of a "What To Do Once You Have an Idea". It explores a process of defining and building an MVP. It emphasizes building an MVP in a sustainable way while avoiding taking on unnecessary Product, Technical, Infrastructure and Process Debt. It also looks at the options of utilizing tools for effective Debt management.
Are you ready to build an MVP? Where do you start? How do you know what features to build? How do you know how many people you need to build it? How do you know that they are building a right thing in a right way? This presentation and conversation will explore strategies for assembling effective teams for building and deploying an MVP while incurring minimal Product and Technical Debt. We will also discuss implementing an effective process to make sure that your MVP will be built on time and on target.
Resumo da teoria de organizações exponenciais, do livro com o mesmo nome, apresentado no ciclo de Palestras CuboNetwork. www.inovaconsulting.com.br/downloads
Fully Explore the Design Space: Patterns and tools for Whole Team Design Coll...Balanced Team
Mike Long, Thoughtworks
I will share what I have learned through my research with cross-functional teams (startups, enterprise, and in-between) on effective patterns for design collaboration. The group will learn about what people are doing to get cross-functional engagement in the design process when the design is continuous, sustained, and co-located, or remote. I would also like to do a quick fishbowl afterwards to hear what other people have experienced.
. Discuss – challenges of collaborating with people online, project approaches, engaging with outside communities, tools
. Using – project experiences of working in virtual worlds and being a graduate of IOLE
. Able to address with regard to your own career:
+ Team working tips
+ Team presentation tips
+ Community engagement tips
+ Virtual tool tips
Live it - or leave it! Returning your investment into AgileChristian Hassa
Keynote at Agile Testing Days Berlin 2013
If you’re involved with software development, there is probably no way you can ignore it anymore: the agile approach. With everyone talking about it, there is a certain pressure to adopt agile methods. This brings with it the danger of introducing a bunch of practices without placing enough emphasis on the two main success factors: continuously improving software and continuously improving teams.
The latter is usually driven more or less automatically by the self-interest of the directly affected individuals – after all, nobody deliberately wants to be inefficient. "Continuously improving software" on the other hand will almost certainly go wrong at first, because trust and feedback are much harder to establish between stakeholders (customers, team) than within a team. This often leads to efficient teams building the wrong product, or, even worse, just investing into iterative delivery without enjoying any of its benefits.
Efficiency is therefore just one component for ensuring a good return on investment when adopting Agile. In this talk, I want to focus on the other part – effectiveness – and how it impacts on the way teams collaborate with their customers. I'll introduce a few techniques (Story Mapping, Specification-By-Example) that support this change and present examples from past projects in the financial and public sector where they proved successful.
The resources listed here are the starting point for anyone interested in applying the principles developed in this briefing for integrating Agile with Earned Value Management projects
We’ve all sat through painful requirements, planning, and brainstorming sessions that provide little useful output, are painfully long, and where the outcome was already decided by the loudest few before the meeting even started. Learn how silence can increase collaboration *and* help your agile project be more productive. Silent brainstorming allows everyone to have a voice – the loud people can’t dominate the conversation, the quiet people are provided with a way to contribute, and cognitive fixation is reduced. We’ll discuss the science of brainstorming, walk through many agile practices that use silence, and then practice a few silent brainstorming techniques such as User Story Writing, Retrospectives, and UX Design Studio.
It is possible for a product to pass quality assurance tests and acceptance testing without being user-friendly. It is also too easy for those of us who build digital products to make assumptions about what our users need. As a design thinker, I strive to bring the authentic voices of complex audiences into the product lifecycle through pragmatic research.
A sound design research process not only shapes digital products to be more usable, it also adds value to drive engagement.
Full-day pre-conference workshop given at the IA Summit 2007. This is the slide deck we used during the workshop. See the "after" deck with participants' comments, discussions, work products, etc.
Full-day pre-conference workshop given at the IA Summit 2007. This is the slide deck we ended up with after the workshop. This version contains participants' comments, discussions, work products, etc. The "Before" version has blank slides that anticipate workshop products.
Lean Business Analysis and UX Runway: Managing Value by Reducing Waste (Natal...IT Arena
Lviv IT Arena is a conference specially designed for programmers, designers, developers, top managers, inverstors, entrepreneur and startuppers. Annually it takes place on 2-4 of October in Lviv at the Arena Lviv stadium. In 2015 conference gathered more than 1400 participants and over 100 speakers from companies like Facebook. FitBit, Mail.ru, HP, Epson and IBM. More details about conference at itarene.lviv.ua.
Lean Business Analysis and UX Runway - Natalie WarnertNatalie Warnert
How to integrate BAs and UX in a Agile/Lean environment to create an MVP to learn while reducing potential waste. Presented at Lviv IT Arena, 2015 in Lviv, Ukraine by Natalie Warnert, October 3, 2015
www.nataliewarnert.com
Whether you are a team of one, or in a big UX team, at some point in your career, you will find yourself having to demonstrate and explain the value of UX in a project or even in a company, if you haven’t already.
As part of a UX conference on the theme, "how do you UX", I explore ways we can have these dialogues with varying audiences. The discussion can vary from explaining what UX is and hosting/ facilitating workshops internally to show the process to your peers, to the ROI of UX to senior management in order to resource additional budgeting, or even to clients as new business pitches.
This presentation will discuss barriers that might come up and techniques on how to sell UX to different audiences.
Business requirements gathering and analysisMena M. Eissa
Business analysis and requirements management are a key to project success.
This workshop helps candidates perform better based on sharing real life experience with them.
Innovation at scale doesn’t happen by accident. And it isn’t magic, either. How can we encourage innovation and at all levels, ensuring that insights and findings are incorporated into organizational strategy so that we can react and adjust quickly — enabling true business agility? Discovery Kanban and Human Centered Design provide the keys to understanding our customers and managing R&D efforts to ensure we build the right things. In turn, Kanban flight levels provides a rich and robust framework to align these activities across the organization—connecting organizational strategy (at flight level three) down to the efforts of individual teams of knowledge workers (at flight level one).
In this session we will explore how the combination of Discovery Kanban, HCD, and Kanban Flight Levels give us a vocabulary and a rich set of tools to visualize and manage customer-centered innovation efforts at scale. We will start out by reviewing Kanban boards that are used by individual teams to manage their work—at flight level one. We will see how each team’s discovery or delivery efforts are beautifully visualized by Kanban so that they can be integrated and managed effectively. We will then proceed up to flight level two and see how Kanban boards at this level help coordinate multiple inter-dependent discovery and delivery teams. Finally, we will see how a flight level three board captures organizational strategy, tying strategic objectives to both current and future initiatives—that are in turn tracked on flight level one and two boards.
Kanban provides the alternative path to agility: a humane, evolutionary approach that works both within and outside of IT. The combination of HCD, Discovery Kanban, and Kanban flight levels provides a powerful, effective and low-overhead method for achieving true business agility.
Ever feel like your manager, development manager, product manager, product owner, or (you fill in the blank) is not listening to you or your team? Are you struggling to make an impact with your messages? Are you “pushing a wet rope uphill” in championing product quality? Are you talking, but no one is listening? Mike Sowers shares practical examples of how to more effectively speak like a test manager and offers concrete advice based on his experiences in the technology, financial, transportation, and professional services sectors. Mike discusses communication and relationship styles that work—and some that have failed—and shares key principles (e.g., seeking to understand), approaches (e.g., using facts), and attributes (e.g., being proactive) to help you grow and prosper as a test manager. Leave with practical ideas to boost your communications skills and influence to become a trusted advisor to your team and your management.
Slides from the session "Why Usability Should Never Come First and the Importance of Front-End Design" by David Rondeau and Traci Lepore from InContext Enterprises.
Continuous Design in Agile Delivery - ThoughtWorksBen Kappler
ThoughtWorks Turkey 2014 Summit - Continuous Delivery & Design with Martin Fowler. It is story of Experience Design in an Agile delivery project for TW client Hepsiburada
This deck comprises of different tools and methods startups can use to identify the problem, brainstorm solutions, prototype concepts and validate them.
ThoughtWorks Turkey 2014 Summit - Continuous Delivery & Design with Martin Fowler. It is story of Experience Design in an Agile delivery project for TW client Hepsiburada
Similar to Agile Inception Techniques - DeliverConf 17 Workshop (20)
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
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.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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2. • Have you learned the specific inception
techniques?
• Have you learned facilitation techniques?
• Will you use them next week?
• Did you have fun?
WORKSHOP GOALS
3. Gives the customer permission not to know everything at start
Ensures stakeholder alignment and a shared vision of success
Provides an understand user of needs and business goals
Mitigates risk
Creates outputs to safely start a project
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF INCEPTION?
4. WHY INCEPTION?
Smaller commitment
Quickly kills unnecessary projects
Demonstrates stand alone value
Who really starts coding on day 1?
Establishes relationships
It works!
9. The ProblemWhen we were small we
all chatted in the pub
We could scale through
pub of pub conversations
Most of our projects are
on our customers sites
As we grow, consultants
feel further from
management
As we grow, management
feel further from
the projects
As a consultant I want to
influence management
decisions
Management
decisions affect
consultants and
their projects
We need a bridge for continuous
lightweight interaction
11. THE (name of project/service)
FOR (users of the product/service)
WHO WANT (key features/needs of the product/service)
THIS SERVICE(S) WILL (sub key features)
UNLIKE (existing product/service)
THIS SERVICE WILL (key differentiators / advantages of product/service)
VISION
12. The Tool is a Practical / Simple / Vital / Responsive
For Small traders / Sole traders / Construction and maintenance
workers / Vulnerable
Who want to Practical / Easy to understand / Simple / Safety
Information / Guidance
This product Achieves / Inspires / Encourages / Motivates to work more
safely / change in behaviour
Unlike Tabloid newspapers / Current practice / Work advice / Guesses /
HSE guidance / YouTube
This is Accurate / Easy to comprehend / Easy to take advice / Easy to
access / Trusted / Used by my peers / Specific / Relevant
VISION (BAD EXAMPLE)
15. THE (name of project/service)
FOR (users of the product/service)
WHO WANT (key features/needs of the product/service)
THIS SERVICE(S) WILL (sub key features)
UNLIKE (existing product/service)
THIS SERVICE WILL (key differentiators / advantages of product/service)
VISION
23. Defer evaluation of non-urgent assumptions
uncertainty
urgency
Reduceuncertaintythroughanalysisoruserengagement
Ready for investment
Requires validating
24. 24
Assumptions Hypotheses Test Data Insight
User Needs
Business Goals
Hunches
Assumption Mapping
Research
Qual / Quant
Personas
Questions
Wireframes
Prototypes
Creative
User testing
Guerilla
testing
Lab testing
Affinity
Sorting
LeanUX
30. • Have you learned the specific inception
techniques?
• Have you learned facilitation techniques?
• Will you use them next week?
• Did you have fun?
WORKSHOP GOALS
31. INSPIRATION
Lean UX - Jeff Gothelf
Crossing the Chasm - Geoff Moore
Radical project Management - Rob Thomsett
Bad idea killer - Melissa Perri
Product Box - Innovation Games
Dave Draper - @david_draper
Alastair Brown - @AlBrownCTO
Lydia Livingston - @lydiar
Imran Younis - @ImranYounis
Carolyn Warburton - @affrontedux
Naomi Williams - @teapotdrama
Dave Clark - @DVC752003
