For nearly every client, when asked if they have a launch date in mind the answer is always ASAP. What clients do not understand is the cause and effect of ASAP. During this session we will have an open discussion surrounding the following topics:
- How to set client expectations around deadlines
- The cause and effect of missed dates
- The benefits of planning and working in a cushion
- How to become focused on quality not on hours
- Removing the term hours from your vocabulary
- Lessons learned from past experiences
The Innovation Recipe: Six steps to turn your ideas into resultsJenny Vandyke
An overview of the six-step Innovation Recipe.
For more information on the book, or to download a free chapter sampler, go to:
http://www.zumbara.com.au/the-innovation-recipe.html
How to use software house to get the most out of it?Piotr Biegun
If you are a tech company — and you’re creating business value on top of an IT system of some sort, you (or your team) should always know how is your product working, how to run it and how to fix it if needed.
Therefore, the general rule says: you shall not outsource any part of you core.
But as always — it depends:
You want to build your product fast but don’t have resources.
Building your MVP without a team, technical knowledge or budget is hard or even impossible. It’s your core. You can outsource MVP development and it will work as a TEMPORARILY solution — just to move things forward. In long therm you want to do this in-house and maybe outsource development only to speed up things.
You don’t know the technology.
Learning new technologies is hard and takes time. As Boris Wertz wrote, you could bring someone to help you with specific problem, but you should remember to learn during that time to understand what’s going on.
You want to build own IT department.
Yup, I don’t mean poaching here. In the beginning of the process of building software, often you don’t really have time to waste. But hiring takes time and maybe you could use it to build some features already. If you can afford it, outsource development and keep on hiring at the same time. Make you freshly recruited staff work hand to hand with outsourcers for a while and should be able to take over whole process after the delivered assignment.
You want to learn new processes.
Software houses are delivering more projects in a month than most of small teams will complete in a year. They’ve seen it all; good coding and bad, efficient and inefficient processes — they know the drill. Piggyback on that. Use the experience they already have to speed up.
Outsourcing has its upsides & downsides (who would have guessed that!). You could make a good use of it and succeed. Or fail miserably to ship a single feature and burn your tiny budget up in no time. The difference lies in management. If you have right processes in place (and some operational experience), you could go for the cheapest offer out there and still hit it big.
This is a PowerPoint template for the Validation Board, as designed by the www.validationboard.com. The Validation Board can be used to manage hypothesis creation and testing when building and experimenting with new business models. We used validationboard's pdf template to create a PowerPoint template and added animations and post-it notes so it can be better used for educational purposes (e.g., in entrepreneurship classes). Please feel free to adopt for class use, but also remember to check www.validationboard.com for usage rights. They say that everyone is free to use and make money with their template, but if you plan to convert it into software (e.g., web page or app) then you need to buy a license for them.
The Innovation Recipe: Six steps to turn your ideas into resultsJenny Vandyke
An overview of the six-step Innovation Recipe.
For more information on the book, or to download a free chapter sampler, go to:
http://www.zumbara.com.au/the-innovation-recipe.html
How to use software house to get the most out of it?Piotr Biegun
If you are a tech company — and you’re creating business value on top of an IT system of some sort, you (or your team) should always know how is your product working, how to run it and how to fix it if needed.
Therefore, the general rule says: you shall not outsource any part of you core.
But as always — it depends:
You want to build your product fast but don’t have resources.
Building your MVP without a team, technical knowledge or budget is hard or even impossible. It’s your core. You can outsource MVP development and it will work as a TEMPORARILY solution — just to move things forward. In long therm you want to do this in-house and maybe outsource development only to speed up things.
You don’t know the technology.
Learning new technologies is hard and takes time. As Boris Wertz wrote, you could bring someone to help you with specific problem, but you should remember to learn during that time to understand what’s going on.
You want to build own IT department.
Yup, I don’t mean poaching here. In the beginning of the process of building software, often you don’t really have time to waste. But hiring takes time and maybe you could use it to build some features already. If you can afford it, outsource development and keep on hiring at the same time. Make you freshly recruited staff work hand to hand with outsourcers for a while and should be able to take over whole process after the delivered assignment.
You want to learn new processes.
Software houses are delivering more projects in a month than most of small teams will complete in a year. They’ve seen it all; good coding and bad, efficient and inefficient processes — they know the drill. Piggyback on that. Use the experience they already have to speed up.
Outsourcing has its upsides & downsides (who would have guessed that!). You could make a good use of it and succeed. Or fail miserably to ship a single feature and burn your tiny budget up in no time. The difference lies in management. If you have right processes in place (and some operational experience), you could go for the cheapest offer out there and still hit it big.
This is a PowerPoint template for the Validation Board, as designed by the www.validationboard.com. The Validation Board can be used to manage hypothesis creation and testing when building and experimenting with new business models. We used validationboard's pdf template to create a PowerPoint template and added animations and post-it notes so it can be better used for educational purposes (e.g., in entrepreneurship classes). Please feel free to adopt for class use, but also remember to check www.validationboard.com for usage rights. They say that everyone is free to use and make money with their template, but if you plan to convert it into software (e.g., web page or app) then you need to buy a license for them.
Grace Ng | SearchLove San Diego, 'Designing Effective Experiments for Product...Distilled
Every product decision is an experiment. If we can reframe our thinking from launching campaigns and building features to challenging assumptions and running experiments, then we can increase our productivity and get better results with less effort. Grace will share a structured process for designing effective experiments, and talk about some of the common pitfalls and challenges teams face when running experiments in their companies. Using examples from her work helping product teams within large companies, Grace will reveal a few ways to overcome these challenges.
10+ Testing Pitfalls and How to Avoid them PractiTest
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Speech Overview:
Product managers are under pressure to drive results, but cannot wield direct power or authority to achieve their objectives. If you don’t know how to influence people at all levels of the organization, how will you create the best possible product? In this interactive “cliff-notes” talk, I introduce ten techniques from The Influential Product Manager that product managers can immediately apply at each stage of the product life cycle to achieve the best outcome for the customer and their organization.
The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau has caught my eyes these past months. This is kind of #WhatIWishIKnew book. Knowing that Growth Mindset is one of Cermati Engineering principles, I decided to present the second chapter on the Cermati's biweekly techtalk
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Are you thinking of starting your own business in New Zealand? Looking for the best business for sale opportunities available here? Before that, you need to understand various things related to this industry first. Also, you should consider your basic business requirements like business location, team, equipment, etc. Here in this presentation, you will find some points that you will help you to manage your small business and the issues come your way to success. You can also consult professional business advisers for better understanding. For further detailed information, you can explore the website: https://www.business2sell.co.nz/blogs/strategy/how-to-turn-obstacles-into-opportunities-in-business
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Decision making is fundamental to any professional activity. The study of “decision bias” is a fascinating subject. These studies show that the root cause of most faulty decision making is a wrong assumption.
One of the most common faulty assumptions in the product development world is that the development budget and time is an obvious thing. This assumption leads to a world of trouble
DPM Summit 2016 - Betty Chan - Living with ImperfectionBetty Chan
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Grace Ng | SearchLove San Diego, 'Designing Effective Experiments for Product...Distilled
Every product decision is an experiment. If we can reframe our thinking from launching campaigns and building features to challenging assumptions and running experiments, then we can increase our productivity and get better results with less effort. Grace will share a structured process for designing effective experiments, and talk about some of the common pitfalls and challenges teams face when running experiments in their companies. Using examples from her work helping product teams within large companies, Grace will reveal a few ways to overcome these challenges.
10+ Testing Pitfalls and How to Avoid them PractiTest
Join Joel Montvelisky, PractiTest's chief solution architect in this webinar as he takes you through the common pitfalls of testing you need to be aware of and how to avoid them.
Ken Sandy, UC Berkeley. 10 Steps to Lead Through InfluenceIT Arena
Ken’s a senior technology Product Management exec from the SF Bay Area including online education companies, MasterClass and lynda.com (Linkedin Learning). He pioneered the first Product Management course offered in the Engineering school at UC Berkeley, which has over 400 PM alumni practicing in industry, and recently released “The Influential Product Manager – How to Lead and Launch Successful Technology Products” a guide to navigating the challenging collaborative aspects of the product manager’s role.
Speech Overview:
Product managers are under pressure to drive results, but cannot wield direct power or authority to achieve their objectives. If you don’t know how to influence people at all levels of the organization, how will you create the best possible product? In this interactive “cliff-notes” talk, I introduce ten techniques from The Influential Product Manager that product managers can immediately apply at each stage of the product life cycle to achieve the best outcome for the customer and their organization.
The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau has caught my eyes these past months. This is kind of #WhatIWishIKnew book. Knowing that Growth Mindset is one of Cermati Engineering principles, I decided to present the second chapter on the Cermati's biweekly techtalk
How to turn obstacles into opportunities in businessjackcalish3
Are you thinking of starting your own business in New Zealand? Looking for the best business for sale opportunities available here? Before that, you need to understand various things related to this industry first. Also, you should consider your basic business requirements like business location, team, equipment, etc. Here in this presentation, you will find some points that you will help you to manage your small business and the issues come your way to success. You can also consult professional business advisers for better understanding. For further detailed information, you can explore the website: https://www.business2sell.co.nz/blogs/strategy/how-to-turn-obstacles-into-opportunities-in-business
How to Get the Most Out of Your Product ManagerAdam Nash
This is a light-hearted walkthrough of product managers for designers, intended to help bridge the gap in understanding about the different roles and how to make the product manager / designer relationship stronger and more productive.
Decision making is fundamental to any professional activity. The study of “decision bias” is a fascinating subject. These studies show that the root cause of most faulty decision making is a wrong assumption.
One of the most common faulty assumptions in the product development world is that the development budget and time is an obvious thing. This assumption leads to a world of trouble
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There is a belief that great project managers should have contingency plans for every single potential risk. But let’s get real – if there’s ever an iron-clad guarantee on every project, it’s that something will go awry. Here are some concrete tips/tricks to lean back on in tough times.
Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit 2011 presentation on the value of paid discovery and requirements gathering at the start of Drupal development projects.
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This is why flawless cross departmental collaboration among stakeholders is paramount to develop successful product features and to productively manage your tasks as a product manager.
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Properly manage stakeholders and deliver winning features
Utilize organizational relationship management to support your product roadmap
Prioritize feature requests based on business objectives
Fine-tune critical communications across various departments
Align on metrics and develop realistic timelines
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This presentation was uploaded with the author’s consent.
Sharpen existing tools or get a new toolbox? Contemporary cluster initiatives...Orkestra
UIIN Conference, Madrid, 27-29 May 2024
James Wilson, Orkestra and Deusto Business School
Emily Wise, Lund University
Madeline Smith, The Glasgow School of Art
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f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
About the Speaker
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Diogo Sousa, Engineering Manager @ Canonical
An opinionated individual with an interest in cryptography and its intersection with secure software development.
1. A Date is a Date
Managing Internal and External Expectations
2. Failure is common
Nearly 70% of projects are
late, over budget, or don’t meet
expectations.
3. Never trust a salesman
● Sales team job: Bring in new
business. No matter what.
● DPM’s job: See past the story that
sales has painted and determine
from the very beginning a clearly
defined scope and timeline.
● Without clearly defined goals, how
do you know what to deliver and
when?
4. Define expectations from the start
● Separate the wants vs the
needs.
● Get the right info by asking
the right questions.
● Build a [Realistic] Timeline.
7. Plan with a cushion in mind
● Set an artificial soft deadline in advance of the stated deadline as a target date
for completion.
● Allow more cushion for the higher the degree of uncertainty and complexity of the
project.
THE 1.5 RULE
Client Estimate = Your Estimate X 1.5
8. Divide and Conquer
● List out your features
● Break the whole project into
smaller pieces
● Identify the problem child -
handle it first
● Take control
10. Over Communicate.
Over Communicate.
Over Communicate.
● Be a solid communicator.
● Call first, e-mail second.
● Raise risks and concerns to your
client.
● Don’t run a project base on
scope hope.
15. Where did it all go wrong?
❏ Poor Planning
❏ No time for design
❏ Unclear goals and objectives
❏ Lack of understanding
❏ Objectives changing during the
project
❏ Unrealistic time or resource
estimates
❏ Lack of executive support and
user involvement
❏ Failure to communicate
❏ Failure to act as a team
❏ Inappropriate skills
❏ Lack of Quality management
16. Learn from mistakes
● Band-Aids or major surgery?
● How did “it” happen and how can we keep it from
happening again?
● Poor planning or execution?
● Resist assigning blame.
18. Always remember ...
“There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something
and not really understand it.”
Charles Kettering
Editor's Notes
Determine the exact deadline for the project’s completion.
When is the project due?
Is this a firm or flexible deadline?
Are there several deadlines for aspects of the project or is there just one for the overall project?
Who from your team has final say?
Ask the client what is driving their deadline?
Is this a hard deadline?
Can you deliver in phases?
Is this an arbitrary date
Accepting a deadline is a commitment. It’s a promise.
Estimate a project completion date for the entire project.
Set an artificial soft deadline in advance of the stated deadline as a target date for completion.
Allow more cushion for the higher the degree of uncertainty and complexity of the project
Divide the project into several phases if necessary.
don’t miss the warning signs
if you over hear a team members talking about the project is failing, bring it up to them.