Agile Project Management with Kanban (4 Nov 2015)Mai Quay
Agile Project Management with Lean & Kanban, given at Lean Kanban Singapore on 3 November 2015 and the Institute of Systems Science of the National University of Singapore on 4 November 2015
A short, 1-hour, introduction to the theory of Kanban. I cover the following points:
• Quick history of Kanban
• 2 meanings of Kanban
• Kanban principles
• Kanban practices
• Example Kanban boards
How Atlassian Uses Analytics to Build Better ProductsAtlassian
It's generally understood that data, when used correctly, can be used to build great products that grow like bamboo; but it's never obvious how to do so. Over the last 3 years, Atlassian has grown its Product Analytics team from 1 analyst to 12 (a 1200% increase!) and 0kb of data to over 6TB (infinite % increase). Come find out how we've built a team, metrics, and a culture of data within engineering at Atlassian. Most importantly, learn how to unlock the power of data in your company and set a growth trajectory for your product.
Why combining methodologies may be the Agile marketing magic bullet. These slides from MarTech San Francisco 2017 include a walkthrough of a 4-part Scrumban Kickstart event, along with stats about Agile marketing methodologies and their uses.
Building Software Fast with Freelancers & JIRAAtlassian
In the modern workforce your team needs to scale up and down just as fast as your servers and technology demands do. Learn from Upwork how to add people with specific skill sets to your team on demand. The new Upwork Job Post for JIRA add-on lets you easily hire the skilled freelancers you need to get those JIRA tickets resolved faster than ever.
Products covered:
JIRA Software
What words come to mind when you think about Lean? Toyota? Six Sigma? Manufacturing? Waste? What about Leadership? Does that factor in your thinking? Leadership is often depicted as the foundation of lean, but what does this mean in practise? Is there a place for Lean Leadership in IT? There absolutely is.
In this session we will explore what it means to be a Lean Leader and the role of Leadership in supporting the house of Lean. This presentation extends well beyond theory, peppered with numerous practical real world examples of how Lean Leadership has been applied in IT. Attendees will leave this session armed with proven tools and techniques the help them on their journey to Lean Leadership.
Presented at itSMF Australia Service Management Conference 2016
Impact Mapping: Making an Impact over Shipping SoftwareEm Campbell-Pretty
Are you lost in a sea of business requirements? Are you struggling to articulate the business value of your technology project? Do your user stories lack context? Is there a lack of alignment between your delivery teams and business stakeholders? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions then this session is for you!
Impact Mapping is a facilitation technique that brings technologists and senior stakeholders together meaningfully to explore options. It exposes assumptions and helps shape a path from “We want everything” to “We want to to make these impacts in this order” avoiding the trap of solutions looking for problems.
This session provides an overview of how to create an Impact Map, share some real world examples of how impact mapping has helped support the delivery of software products and even provide an opportunity for you to start using the tool!
Presented at Agile Australia 2014.
You can access a video of the presentation at: http://bit.ly/ImpactMapping_InfoQ
Agile Project Management with Kanban (4 Nov 2015)Mai Quay
Agile Project Management with Lean & Kanban, given at Lean Kanban Singapore on 3 November 2015 and the Institute of Systems Science of the National University of Singapore on 4 November 2015
A short, 1-hour, introduction to the theory of Kanban. I cover the following points:
• Quick history of Kanban
• 2 meanings of Kanban
• Kanban principles
• Kanban practices
• Example Kanban boards
How Atlassian Uses Analytics to Build Better ProductsAtlassian
It's generally understood that data, when used correctly, can be used to build great products that grow like bamboo; but it's never obvious how to do so. Over the last 3 years, Atlassian has grown its Product Analytics team from 1 analyst to 12 (a 1200% increase!) and 0kb of data to over 6TB (infinite % increase). Come find out how we've built a team, metrics, and a culture of data within engineering at Atlassian. Most importantly, learn how to unlock the power of data in your company and set a growth trajectory for your product.
Why combining methodologies may be the Agile marketing magic bullet. These slides from MarTech San Francisco 2017 include a walkthrough of a 4-part Scrumban Kickstart event, along with stats about Agile marketing methodologies and their uses.
Building Software Fast with Freelancers & JIRAAtlassian
In the modern workforce your team needs to scale up and down just as fast as your servers and technology demands do. Learn from Upwork how to add people with specific skill sets to your team on demand. The new Upwork Job Post for JIRA add-on lets you easily hire the skilled freelancers you need to get those JIRA tickets resolved faster than ever.
Products covered:
JIRA Software
What words come to mind when you think about Lean? Toyota? Six Sigma? Manufacturing? Waste? What about Leadership? Does that factor in your thinking? Leadership is often depicted as the foundation of lean, but what does this mean in practise? Is there a place for Lean Leadership in IT? There absolutely is.
In this session we will explore what it means to be a Lean Leader and the role of Leadership in supporting the house of Lean. This presentation extends well beyond theory, peppered with numerous practical real world examples of how Lean Leadership has been applied in IT. Attendees will leave this session armed with proven tools and techniques the help them on their journey to Lean Leadership.
Presented at itSMF Australia Service Management Conference 2016
Impact Mapping: Making an Impact over Shipping SoftwareEm Campbell-Pretty
Are you lost in a sea of business requirements? Are you struggling to articulate the business value of your technology project? Do your user stories lack context? Is there a lack of alignment between your delivery teams and business stakeholders? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions then this session is for you!
Impact Mapping is a facilitation technique that brings technologists and senior stakeholders together meaningfully to explore options. It exposes assumptions and helps shape a path from “We want everything” to “We want to to make these impacts in this order” avoiding the trap of solutions looking for problems.
This session provides an overview of how to create an Impact Map, share some real world examples of how impact mapping has helped support the delivery of software products and even provide an opportunity for you to start using the tool!
Presented at Agile Australia 2014.
You can access a video of the presentation at: http://bit.ly/ImpactMapping_InfoQ
From Go to Whoa: How to Make a Difference with JIRA Service DeskAtlassian
In 2015 BAE Systems implemented JIRA Service Desk for 4,700 staff and 250 agents across IT, human resources and business improvement. But a successful project isn't just about technology – that's actually the easy part! Since this affected every employee at every level, they had to nail the people, process, and internal marketing, too. JIRA Service Desk is saving BAE Systems $600,000 this year and $1.62m over 5 years. Join Greg Warner as he takes you through the journey from the initial pitch to ongoing support, and highlights what your team needs to know for a successful implementation.
Presentation by Em Campbell-Pretty and Adrienne Wilson at the Global SAFe Summit 2020.
Patterns for preparing a Feature Backlog for PI Planning for an Agile Release Train.
Presentation given at Agile 2014.
Are you working with multiple agile teams on a single software application? Are you looking for help with making agile work for you at the program level? Have you considered leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) but been scared off by its prescriptive nature? Are you confused about how program level SAFe applies in your context?
Every organisation is different and what works for one organisation may not work for another. One of the benefits of a framework, is that they can and should be adapted to your context. Based on learnings derived from practical experience, this session will illustrate how focusing on values and principles over practice and processes, can help you design a pragmatic approach to program level SAFe suitable for your unique situation.
By contrasting principles and practises this session will:
* draw out the principles behind SAFe and the standard SAFe practises that apply to them,
* show how practises from other scaling models align to SAFe principles and compliment program level SAFe; and,
* share real word examples of how adapting SAFe practises, while remaining aligned to the principles, can help you create a working model applicable to your program
How to Take a Business Team from Waterfall to AgileAtlassian
Think agile is just for software shops? Think again. NetApp will show you how they helped a digital marketing department at a Fortune 500 company move from waterfall to agile – with Atlassian tools, of course. The result? The department pulled off a complete overhaul of their website in just seven weeks (a project that was originally forecasted at 3-6 months)! Jim and Samuel will share how they built a case for agile, and how the transition provided a more efficient workflow for the rank n' file while giving management more visibility in to projects.
Agile Mindset for Your Startup: From Vision to ViabilityAbby Fichtner
This is the presentation Jeffrey Beir & I gave at Harvard Innovation Lab on 7/23/2013.
You’ve got a big idea addressing a huge market opportunity - should be no problem getting financed and building a successful company. But that’s not how real companies get built. In the engineering world, agile has replaced traditional waterfall methodologies because it lowers risk, improves predictability and allows for mid-course correction. The same applies when thinking about how you build your business.
Abby and Jeffrey will present a framework for building your business with an agile mindset and explain why most companies should be built this way...
A PM and a developer walk into a bar... That's a joke all on it's own! Creating a team dynamic where engineering and product management compliment each other can feel like a pipe dream. Confluence's Sherif Mansour (Principal Product Manager) will share and explore the familiar anti-patterns faced when product and engineering collaborate. Come for the practical tips about how to improve your team's most important relationship.
How Atlassian's User Research Went Agile (and So Can Yours)Atlassian
In late 2015, we set up Atlassian Atlab: a low-budget customer research space that tightly integrates into the Agile sprint process. What began as an experiment quickly became an indispensable part of our company’s design process. Atlab is now international, run in all of our offices, gathering input from about 200 customers every month.
In this talk, we will teach you why agile research is a crucial part of building great customer experiences, how to create stakeholder buy-in for your efforts, best practices for conducting research, and what to do with your findings. We will also teach you how to set up your very own Atlab. Warning: it’s very cheap, and easier than you may expect!
Products covered:
JIRA Software, JIRA Core, JIRA Service Desk, Confluence, HipChat, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Fisheye / Crucible, Portfolio for JIRA
Lean Scaling – From Lean Startup to Lean Enterprise - Itamar GoldminzAtlassian
Congratulations! You've found the right product-market fit, and it's now time to scale your business. But growing your organization often means slower decision making, increased complexity, and higher chance for misalignments. How can you grow your business while staying lean? Learn five key lessons on how to use smart integration and process to grow with your Atlassian tools.
Machine Learning is all the craze in the tech industry. But guess what: algorithms on their own don't deliver value to customers. So how do you go from algorithms to delighting customers?
Learn how Atlassian has been building and experimenting with machine learning to build smarter experiences in our products and supporting systems.
Products covered:
JIRA Service Desk, Confluence, JIRA Core, HipChat
The Inside Story of how Atlassian Makes SoftwareAtlassian
Join ten-year Atlassian veteran Chris Mountford as he takes you behind the scenes for an inside look at how we make software. You'll get a sneak peek into the culture, methods and techniques that Atlassian uses to develop software across three continents and more than a dozen products. Ask your toughest questions and get tips and tricks to take back to your team.
Presentation at Mastering SAP 21st May 2017
Struggling with agile at scale? Thinking about scaling agile beyond the team? Want to learn from others’ mistakes? There is a lot to be learnt from those who have successfully hitchhiked their way through the galaxy of scaled agile. This session celebrates the scaled agile hitchhiker, the people who bravely tried ideas that were occasionally brilliant but often plain stupid. You will laugh, you will cry but you will also walk away with a nice long list of ideas not to try when scaling agile!
• Seven failure patterns in scaling agile
• An understanding of why these patterns lead to less than optimal results
• Tips on how to avoid falling into these failure patterns
How to Build What Customers Want: the Story of Atlassian's Growth TeamAtlassian
Move fast and learn quickly (but let's not break things!). That is the mission of Atlassian's Product Growth team. Using a continuous program of experimentation and measurement, they are able quickly find out which ideas resonate with customers and which ideas don't. Graeme Smith (Development Manager – Product Growth) will share how Atlassian has successfully built its Product Growth team. Come and hear about some of the mistakes we have made along the way and how the culture has now shifted towards continual optimisation and more informed decision making when building product. At the end of the session, you’ll be armed with practical techniques that you can apply to your own organisation to start your own Product Growth team and get it firing on all cylinders.
Products covered:
JIRA Software, HipChat, Confluence
Getting to the Heart of Agile
with Jamie Strachan
Presented on September 18 2014 at
FITC's Web Unleashed Toronto 2014 Conference
Agile is dead! Long live Agile! There is no shortage of people who want to tell you how to do Agile or how not to do Agile; some people will tell you that Agile saved their business while others think Agile is broken and must be abandoned. Jamie Strachan both agrees and disagrees with all of these things. If you can handle a few contradictions, he will tell you about how the CBC went Agile, how it helped them, and why you should absolutely not do the same (along with the one important thing you should do instead).
OBJECTIVE
To inspire you and your team to be more agile
FIVE THINGS AUDIENCE MEMBERS WILL LEARN
The origin of Agile
Current thinking about the usefulness of Agile
What Agile practices he put in place
Why those practices worked for them but may not work for you
The one thing you need to do to start being agile
Quest 2017 Agile Workshop: Getting your agile team unstuckAngela Dugan
Whether you’ve been working in an agile team for 6 months, or 6 years, the same obstacles tend to arise and trip us up over and over. Maybe your retrospectives feel more like a funeral and no one is participating anymore or your daily stand-ups have bloated into 25 team member status meetings. Perhaps your QA team is falling farther and farther behind the agile developers and feel like they’ll never catch up with their testing backlog. These issues lower team morale, lead to abandoned agile transformation initiatives, and ultimately your product and customers suffer. But there’s a better way! Stop the bleeding, mature your process, and grow into a high functioning agile machine. Join Angela, to learn from her mistakes, what worked and what failed and get your team “unstuck”. Learn some techniques and games to reinvigorate your agile teams! This tutorial is for individuals with some agile experience and will focus on the real issues that participants are struggling with today.
Integrate Confluence and JIRA Agile for Collaborative Agile Program Managemen...Atlassian
Scaling agile beyond small development teams is hard. Larger teams usually fall victim to misaligned chaos and bureaucratic waste. Learn how Surescripts uses their home-grown collaboration approach, "Possible/Valuable/Viable", to ensure the right conversations are happening at the right time with help from integrations between Confluence and JIRA Agile.
Bringing Execs to the Collaboration Table with Impact MappingEm Campbell-Pretty
Presentation to 10Stories Meetup in Melbourne on 22nd May 2014.
When scaling agile within the enterprise, managing the competing priorities of senior stakeholders is often a challenge. Each stakeholder has their own agenda and determining the right thing for the organisation can be near impossible.
The thought of using many of our classic “agile facilitation techniques” with a room full of executives is enough to send many running for the hills. But the reality is, in the enterprise we need tools that inspire a collaborative mindset at all levels - it’s just not enough for the “teams to work differently”
Impact Mapping is a facilitation technique that brings technologists and senior stakeholders together to meaningfully to explore options. It exposes assumptions and helps shape a path from "We want everything" to "We want to to make these impacts in this order" avoiding the trap of "solutions looking for problems”. Impact Maps visualise “delivery scope in a way that is easy to evolve, reprioritise, grow and shrink as necessary to react to changed market opportunities or new knowledge.” (Gojko Adzic)
In particular, it engages the real decision makers in a collaborative style in short workshops that shape the path, providing the direction and validation required to then transition into the more low-level story based inception work.
In this session Em Campbell-Pretty and Mark Richards from Context Matters will provide an overview of how to create an Impact Map, share some real world examples of how impact mapping has helped support the delivery of software products and provide an opportunity for the audience to start using the tool!
About the talk
Ever thought about what scaling agile really means, how to go about it, do you need to, and indeed should you even try?
In this talk "Why Scale...?", David will be talking through Scaling Agile and what it really means for an organisation looking to do this. Cover topics such as scaling values, teams, frameworks, methodologies and what this also means for teams outside of IT.
Lean Startup: How Development Looks Different When You're Changing the World ...Abby Fichtner
I updated my Lean Startup presentation for Agile 2011 to share what is happening in the startup community with the agile community and to show how Lean Startup is pushing Agile to the next level.
Session Description:
How does development look different when you're creating things that no one has ever created before? Lean Startup is about creating from a BIG VISION, where we want to change the world & do something really significant. It combines Agile Development with _Customer_ Development so we can be disciplined about how we create our startups. Learning (rather than working software) becomes our most important measure of progress and agile practices are pushed to the next level. Come get a glimpse of the next level of agile and discover how development looks different when you're changing the world.
From Go to Whoa: How to Make a Difference with JIRA Service DeskAtlassian
In 2015 BAE Systems implemented JIRA Service Desk for 4,700 staff and 250 agents across IT, human resources and business improvement. But a successful project isn't just about technology – that's actually the easy part! Since this affected every employee at every level, they had to nail the people, process, and internal marketing, too. JIRA Service Desk is saving BAE Systems $600,000 this year and $1.62m over 5 years. Join Greg Warner as he takes you through the journey from the initial pitch to ongoing support, and highlights what your team needs to know for a successful implementation.
Presentation by Em Campbell-Pretty and Adrienne Wilson at the Global SAFe Summit 2020.
Patterns for preparing a Feature Backlog for PI Planning for an Agile Release Train.
Presentation given at Agile 2014.
Are you working with multiple agile teams on a single software application? Are you looking for help with making agile work for you at the program level? Have you considered leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) but been scared off by its prescriptive nature? Are you confused about how program level SAFe applies in your context?
Every organisation is different and what works for one organisation may not work for another. One of the benefits of a framework, is that they can and should be adapted to your context. Based on learnings derived from practical experience, this session will illustrate how focusing on values and principles over practice and processes, can help you design a pragmatic approach to program level SAFe suitable for your unique situation.
By contrasting principles and practises this session will:
* draw out the principles behind SAFe and the standard SAFe practises that apply to them,
* show how practises from other scaling models align to SAFe principles and compliment program level SAFe; and,
* share real word examples of how adapting SAFe practises, while remaining aligned to the principles, can help you create a working model applicable to your program
How to Take a Business Team from Waterfall to AgileAtlassian
Think agile is just for software shops? Think again. NetApp will show you how they helped a digital marketing department at a Fortune 500 company move from waterfall to agile – with Atlassian tools, of course. The result? The department pulled off a complete overhaul of their website in just seven weeks (a project that was originally forecasted at 3-6 months)! Jim and Samuel will share how they built a case for agile, and how the transition provided a more efficient workflow for the rank n' file while giving management more visibility in to projects.
Agile Mindset for Your Startup: From Vision to ViabilityAbby Fichtner
This is the presentation Jeffrey Beir & I gave at Harvard Innovation Lab on 7/23/2013.
You’ve got a big idea addressing a huge market opportunity - should be no problem getting financed and building a successful company. But that’s not how real companies get built. In the engineering world, agile has replaced traditional waterfall methodologies because it lowers risk, improves predictability and allows for mid-course correction. The same applies when thinking about how you build your business.
Abby and Jeffrey will present a framework for building your business with an agile mindset and explain why most companies should be built this way...
A PM and a developer walk into a bar... That's a joke all on it's own! Creating a team dynamic where engineering and product management compliment each other can feel like a pipe dream. Confluence's Sherif Mansour (Principal Product Manager) will share and explore the familiar anti-patterns faced when product and engineering collaborate. Come for the practical tips about how to improve your team's most important relationship.
How Atlassian's User Research Went Agile (and So Can Yours)Atlassian
In late 2015, we set up Atlassian Atlab: a low-budget customer research space that tightly integrates into the Agile sprint process. What began as an experiment quickly became an indispensable part of our company’s design process. Atlab is now international, run in all of our offices, gathering input from about 200 customers every month.
In this talk, we will teach you why agile research is a crucial part of building great customer experiences, how to create stakeholder buy-in for your efforts, best practices for conducting research, and what to do with your findings. We will also teach you how to set up your very own Atlab. Warning: it’s very cheap, and easier than you may expect!
Products covered:
JIRA Software, JIRA Core, JIRA Service Desk, Confluence, HipChat, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Fisheye / Crucible, Portfolio for JIRA
Lean Scaling – From Lean Startup to Lean Enterprise - Itamar GoldminzAtlassian
Congratulations! You've found the right product-market fit, and it's now time to scale your business. But growing your organization often means slower decision making, increased complexity, and higher chance for misalignments. How can you grow your business while staying lean? Learn five key lessons on how to use smart integration and process to grow with your Atlassian tools.
Machine Learning is all the craze in the tech industry. But guess what: algorithms on their own don't deliver value to customers. So how do you go from algorithms to delighting customers?
Learn how Atlassian has been building and experimenting with machine learning to build smarter experiences in our products and supporting systems.
Products covered:
JIRA Service Desk, Confluence, JIRA Core, HipChat
The Inside Story of how Atlassian Makes SoftwareAtlassian
Join ten-year Atlassian veteran Chris Mountford as he takes you behind the scenes for an inside look at how we make software. You'll get a sneak peek into the culture, methods and techniques that Atlassian uses to develop software across three continents and more than a dozen products. Ask your toughest questions and get tips and tricks to take back to your team.
Presentation at Mastering SAP 21st May 2017
Struggling with agile at scale? Thinking about scaling agile beyond the team? Want to learn from others’ mistakes? There is a lot to be learnt from those who have successfully hitchhiked their way through the galaxy of scaled agile. This session celebrates the scaled agile hitchhiker, the people who bravely tried ideas that were occasionally brilliant but often plain stupid. You will laugh, you will cry but you will also walk away with a nice long list of ideas not to try when scaling agile!
• Seven failure patterns in scaling agile
• An understanding of why these patterns lead to less than optimal results
• Tips on how to avoid falling into these failure patterns
How to Build What Customers Want: the Story of Atlassian's Growth TeamAtlassian
Move fast and learn quickly (but let's not break things!). That is the mission of Atlassian's Product Growth team. Using a continuous program of experimentation and measurement, they are able quickly find out which ideas resonate with customers and which ideas don't. Graeme Smith (Development Manager – Product Growth) will share how Atlassian has successfully built its Product Growth team. Come and hear about some of the mistakes we have made along the way and how the culture has now shifted towards continual optimisation and more informed decision making when building product. At the end of the session, you’ll be armed with practical techniques that you can apply to your own organisation to start your own Product Growth team and get it firing on all cylinders.
Products covered:
JIRA Software, HipChat, Confluence
Getting to the Heart of Agile
with Jamie Strachan
Presented on September 18 2014 at
FITC's Web Unleashed Toronto 2014 Conference
Agile is dead! Long live Agile! There is no shortage of people who want to tell you how to do Agile or how not to do Agile; some people will tell you that Agile saved their business while others think Agile is broken and must be abandoned. Jamie Strachan both agrees and disagrees with all of these things. If you can handle a few contradictions, he will tell you about how the CBC went Agile, how it helped them, and why you should absolutely not do the same (along with the one important thing you should do instead).
OBJECTIVE
To inspire you and your team to be more agile
FIVE THINGS AUDIENCE MEMBERS WILL LEARN
The origin of Agile
Current thinking about the usefulness of Agile
What Agile practices he put in place
Why those practices worked for them but may not work for you
The one thing you need to do to start being agile
Quest 2017 Agile Workshop: Getting your agile team unstuckAngela Dugan
Whether you’ve been working in an agile team for 6 months, or 6 years, the same obstacles tend to arise and trip us up over and over. Maybe your retrospectives feel more like a funeral and no one is participating anymore or your daily stand-ups have bloated into 25 team member status meetings. Perhaps your QA team is falling farther and farther behind the agile developers and feel like they’ll never catch up with their testing backlog. These issues lower team morale, lead to abandoned agile transformation initiatives, and ultimately your product and customers suffer. But there’s a better way! Stop the bleeding, mature your process, and grow into a high functioning agile machine. Join Angela, to learn from her mistakes, what worked and what failed and get your team “unstuck”. Learn some techniques and games to reinvigorate your agile teams! This tutorial is for individuals with some agile experience and will focus on the real issues that participants are struggling with today.
Integrate Confluence and JIRA Agile for Collaborative Agile Program Managemen...Atlassian
Scaling agile beyond small development teams is hard. Larger teams usually fall victim to misaligned chaos and bureaucratic waste. Learn how Surescripts uses their home-grown collaboration approach, "Possible/Valuable/Viable", to ensure the right conversations are happening at the right time with help from integrations between Confluence and JIRA Agile.
Bringing Execs to the Collaboration Table with Impact MappingEm Campbell-Pretty
Presentation to 10Stories Meetup in Melbourne on 22nd May 2014.
When scaling agile within the enterprise, managing the competing priorities of senior stakeholders is often a challenge. Each stakeholder has their own agenda and determining the right thing for the organisation can be near impossible.
The thought of using many of our classic “agile facilitation techniques” with a room full of executives is enough to send many running for the hills. But the reality is, in the enterprise we need tools that inspire a collaborative mindset at all levels - it’s just not enough for the “teams to work differently”
Impact Mapping is a facilitation technique that brings technologists and senior stakeholders together to meaningfully to explore options. It exposes assumptions and helps shape a path from "We want everything" to "We want to to make these impacts in this order" avoiding the trap of "solutions looking for problems”. Impact Maps visualise “delivery scope in a way that is easy to evolve, reprioritise, grow and shrink as necessary to react to changed market opportunities or new knowledge.” (Gojko Adzic)
In particular, it engages the real decision makers in a collaborative style in short workshops that shape the path, providing the direction and validation required to then transition into the more low-level story based inception work.
In this session Em Campbell-Pretty and Mark Richards from Context Matters will provide an overview of how to create an Impact Map, share some real world examples of how impact mapping has helped support the delivery of software products and provide an opportunity for the audience to start using the tool!
About the talk
Ever thought about what scaling agile really means, how to go about it, do you need to, and indeed should you even try?
In this talk "Why Scale...?", David will be talking through Scaling Agile and what it really means for an organisation looking to do this. Cover topics such as scaling values, teams, frameworks, methodologies and what this also means for teams outside of IT.
Lean Startup: How Development Looks Different When You're Changing the World ...Abby Fichtner
I updated my Lean Startup presentation for Agile 2011 to share what is happening in the startup community with the agile community and to show how Lean Startup is pushing Agile to the next level.
Session Description:
How does development look different when you're creating things that no one has ever created before? Lean Startup is about creating from a BIG VISION, where we want to change the world & do something really significant. It combines Agile Development with _Customer_ Development so we can be disciplined about how we create our startups. Learning (rather than working software) becomes our most important measure of progress and agile practices are pushed to the next level. Come get a glimpse of the next level of agile and discover how development looks different when you're changing the world.
A product manager in start-up land. Paul takes us through the journey of creating a Starttup using the Brainmates product management methodology. He then provides 5 important lessons for any product manager in start-up land.
Learn how to leverage your client’s media exposure for increased search engine visibility. This includes insight on the importance of targeted keywords and website content, as well as how earned media influences search engine rankings.
The killer path to successful CRO - by PRWD's Paul RoukeOptimizely
In this fast paced webinar, Paul Rouke (Founder PRWD) shares a wide range of tips, techniques and real world stories on developing a business defining optimisation strategy and culture. Sharing the four pillars for growth, see where you’re weakest and what you can do to accelerate the impact you are getting through data and research driven optimisation.
Key learnings:
+ Understand the four critical areas to get right for long term growth through CRO
+ Understand how company culture influences the impact of CRO - and the power of being open minded
+ The what, why and when of iterative versus innovative testing for your business
+ 3 case studies of tests which have changed a client’s proposition or approach to testing
Paul Rouke is an international speaker, writer and trainer on CRO and UX, as well as Founder & Director of Optimisation at PRWD, a specialist Conversion Rate Optimisation agency based in the UK.
Feature Prioritization Frameworks by Spotify Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-Why Feature Prioritization is Important?
-Overview of the popular prioritization frameworks: Rice, Value vs. ---Effort, The MoSCoW Method, Kano, Opportunities
-How to use frameworks?
-Tips and Tricks
Roles of Product Owners in Agile TeamsAaron Medina
Roles of Product Owner in Agile Teams
Product Owner in a Nutshell
Superpowers of a Product Owner
Challenges of a Product Owner
How to be the Unbreakable Product Owner
A look at the 4 Ps (People, Process, Programs and Performance) that every org should be developing as they grow. Your PEOPLE should develop & re-develop your PROCESSES & PROGRAMS to improve PERFORMANCE.
Stakeholder Management for Product Managers - ProductTank ParisJean-Yves SIMON
How to manage your Stakeholders, mainly internally when you're a Product Manager working in a medium to large organization. Tips on how to be efficient and recognized within your organization.
Numerous facets of digital marketing are often underused and misunderstood, resulting in fragmented, incomplete, and ultimately suboptimal campaigns that dish out far more money than they should.
In this talk, you’ll learn:
Product marketing and branding strategies to help your business stand out, without needing to spend millions on advertising.
How to hyper-personalize your campaigns to touch people at every point in the buyer’s journey.
A go-to-market framework that you can apply right away.
B2B Content Marketing: Overcoming Challenges and Avoiding Common Pitfallscircle S studio
Content marketing continues to grow in popularity and play a bigger role in B2B marketing strategies. But while adoption of content marketing is on the rise and confidence in its effectiveness is growing, B2B marketers still face ongoing challenges and common pitfalls.
On September 19th, Magnet 360's Director of Marketing, Jennifer Zick spoke about how to create a Rockin social business strategy for B2B businesses. In this presentation learn about techniques, platforms, and content you need to build a successful social marketing strategy.
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2. @arsagilis> Introduction To Product Management
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
‣ Get acquainted with key concepts in product management
‣ Gain an understanding of the product development cycle
‣ Learn key techniques for understanding the needs of your users to ensure
product / market fit
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SPEAKER INTRODUCTION
Michael Chik
Lean & Agile Coach for Startups & Enterprises
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitator
michael@arsagilis.com
@arsagilis
casmaron
linkedin.com/in/michaelchik
Moonpig
Photobox
Cathay Pacific
JP Morgan
Standard Chartered Bank
Ben & Jerry’s
Walt Disney Company
戚本錦 Previous:
I consult for startups, like:
Travolor
Work-space
Amnesty International
國際特赦組織
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WHY IS PRODUCT MANAGEMENT IMPORTANT?
MOST STARTUPS DON’T
FAIL BECAUSE THEY
CAN’T BUILD A GREAT
PRODUCT, BUT BECAUSE
NO ONE WANTED THE
PRODUCT.
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WHY IS PRODUCT MANAGEMENT IMPORTANT?
LIFE IS TOO SHORT
TO BUILD SOMETHING
NOBODY WANTS - MICHAEL CHIK
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WHAT IS A PRODUCT?
A PHYSICAL THING?
A SERVICE?
A PROGRAMME?
A PROCESS?
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WHAT EXACTLY IS A PRODUCT MANAGER?
THE ROLE OF THE
PRODUCT MANAGER IS TO
DISCOVER A PRODUCT
THAT IS VALUABLE,
USEABLE AND FEASIBLE.
source: http://goo.gl/ZbvuQB
- MARTY CAGAN, AUTHOR OF “INSPIRED”
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WHAT EXACTLY IS A PRODUCT MANAGER?
LEGAL
OPERATIONS
DEVELOPMENT
FINANCE
SUPPORT
SALES
HUMAN RESOURCES
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KEY TO BEING A GOOD PRODUCT MANAGER #1: START WITH A VISION
CLEARLY
COMMUNICATE
YOUR VISION
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KEY TO BEING A GOOD PRODUCT MANAGER #2: UNDERSTAND YOUR CUSTOMER
YOU ARE THE
VOICE OF THE
CUSTOMER!
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KEY #2: YOU ARE NOT YOUR CUSTOMER
YOU ARE NOT
YOUR CUSTOMER
/ USER!
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KEY #2: UNDERSTAND YOUR CUSTOMER
WHO ARE MY USERS?
WHAT ARE THEIR
HABITS?
WHERE ARE THEY
ACCESSING FROM?
WHEN DO THEY NEED
YOUR PRODUCT?
WHY DO THEY NEED
YOUR PRODUCT?
HOW DO THEY ACCESS
YOUR PRODUCT?
17.
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KEY #2: VALUE PROPOSITION CANVAS
source: http://goo.gl/90W0Fk
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KEY #2: GET OUT OF THE BUILDING
source: https://goo.gl/mDppmV
NO FACTS EXIST
INSIDE THE BUILDING.
ONLY OPINIONS. GET
OUT OF THE BUILDING!
- STEVE BLANK”
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KEY TO BEING A GOOD PRODUCT MANAGER #2: INTERVIEWING PEOPLE
QUANTITATIVE
VS
QUALITATIVE
TELLS YOU THE WHAT
TELLS YOU THE WHY
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KEY TO BEING A GOOD PRODUCT MANAGER #3: TEST, VALIDATE & ITERATE
TODAY’S WORLD IS GETTING MORE COMPLEX
GLOBALIZATION GOES UP!
Innovation goes UP!
Democratization goes UP!
Diversification goes UP!
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KEY #3: BUILD, MEASURE, LEARN
MAXIMISE LEARNING.
MINIMISE RISK.
USE MINIMAL EFFORT
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KEY #3: HYPOTHESIS TEMPLATE
source: http://goo.gl/HCkvKA
We believe that people like
have a need for /
problem doing .
We will we have succeeded when
, or ,
which will contribute to
.
(customer type)
(need / action / behaviour)
(measurable outcome) (observable outcome)
(KPI)
from Janice Fraser
(aka @clevergirl)
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KEY TO BEING A GOOD PRODUCT MANAGER #4: DISCOVER YOUR MARKET
source: http://goo.gl/lexe3b
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KEY TO BEING A GOOD PRODUCT OWNER: WIREFRAMING & RAPID PROTOTYPING
source: https://goo.gl/vTjTXH
source: http://goo.gl/Wyeekk
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KEY TO BEING A GOOD PRODUCT OWNER #5: MEASURING SUCCESS
IF YOU DON’T
MEASURE IT, IT
DOESN’T EXIST
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Acquisition: users coming to the site
Activation: usersenjoy1st visit (UX)
Retention: users come back
Referral: existing users refer other users
Revenue: monetisation
source: https://goo.gl/BqEYve
KEY #5: METRICS FOR PIRATES
38. GO AND BE A ROCK STAR!
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