Slide deck from my talk on Lean at Cisco: Lessons Learned from Lean Product Development and Lean Startup.
The 3 lessons I talk about are:
1. Reduce Batch Sizes and Manage WIP Limits
2. Customer Development
3. Learn to see Waste
I gave this talk at the Clayton Hotel on June 21 2012, at a Lean Startup Event organized by Enterprise Ireland and ITAG.
Research on Impediments to Product Development FlowKen Power
Presentation on my PhD research that I gave at Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, on Monday October 14, 2013.
http://systemagility.com
http://lero.ie/event/leroindustryresearchday
Understanding the Impact of Technical Debt on the Capacity and Velocity of Te...Ken Power
Slide deck from my talk at the 4th International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt (MTD 2013), part of the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013). There is an accompanying paper in the conference proceedings.
http://SystemAgility.com/
https://twitter.com/ken_power
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kenpower
Lean Startup: It's Not Just Technology, Lives are at StakeKen Power
This is the slide deck from my keynote talk at the first Serbian ICT conference on Technology and Entrepreneurship, held Thursday November 22, 2012 in Belgrade.
For more notes, please see my corresponding Blog entry at http://systemagility.com/2012/11/22/lean-startup-and-lives/
I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
Identifying and managing waste in software product developmentKen Power
This is the slide deck from my talk at LESS 2012, the Lean Enterprise Software and Systems conference in Tallinn, Estonia.
http://SystemAgility.com/events
Identifying and Managing Waste in Complex Product Development EnvironmentsKen Power
Product Development can be viewed as a Complex Adaptive System. Different people, groups, organizations and systems collaborate in a complex network of relationships and dependencies to produce something of value - generally a product or service. Identifying waste in this value network is a critical step towards creating a truly lean organization.
These slides are from an interactive, hands-on workshop that I ran at the Agile India 2012 conference in Bengaluru, India.
There is a corresponding Blog entry here:
http://wp.me/pSOIL-fE
Value Stream Manager concept applied to Software Product DevelopmentKen Power
his is the slide deck from my talk at LESS 2012, the Lean Enterprise Software and Systems conference in Tallinn, Estonia.
http://SystemAgility.com/events
The Secret, Yet Obvious, Ingredient to Sustainable AgilityAhmed Sidky
This was a presentation I gave at Ciklum in Kiev, Ukraine and at ScrumTrek in Moscow, Russia. The presentation discuss the notion of Agile and agility and then talks about what people should do to have sustainable agile. They key to sustainable agile is education. By educated, and changing the mindset of everyone in the company, then you will have sustainable agility. However, if you just focus on strategy, structure, and processes, but don't change the mindset and culture and habits of people it will not be sustainable. The presentation introduces the learning roadmap developed by the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) as a path organizations should pursue to engage their people in a common educational journey about agile and agility not Scrum or any particular process.
The International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) accredits training organizations, corporations, academic institutes and government entities, thereby providing their members with over 20 knowledge-based and competency-based certifications to pursue, based on the ICAgile Learning Roadmap created by experts from around the world.
ICAgile is the only certification and accreditation body to offer knowledge-based and competency-based certifications in every discipline needed to sustain agility in an organization. ICAgile has engaged over 40 International Agile gurus and experts to create the most comprehensive agile learning roadmap.
ICAgile's Learning Roadmap is intentionally designed to focus on the education of agile not on any particular flavor or methodology of agile to ensure that every organization, can utilize the educational roadmap as it matures and customizes it agile processes and practices. ICAgile’s Learning Roadmap includes over 20 different certifications covering the disciplines of Agile Executive Leadership, Agile Coaching and Facilitation, Agile Enterprise Coaching, Agile Project Management and Governance, Agile Value Management and Business Analysis, Agile Software Design and Programming, and Agile Testing.
Research on Impediments to Product Development FlowKen Power
Presentation on my PhD research that I gave at Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, on Monday October 14, 2013.
http://systemagility.com
http://lero.ie/event/leroindustryresearchday
Understanding the Impact of Technical Debt on the Capacity and Velocity of Te...Ken Power
Slide deck from my talk at the 4th International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt (MTD 2013), part of the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013). There is an accompanying paper in the conference proceedings.
http://SystemAgility.com/
https://twitter.com/ken_power
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kenpower
Lean Startup: It's Not Just Technology, Lives are at StakeKen Power
This is the slide deck from my keynote talk at the first Serbian ICT conference on Technology and Entrepreneurship, held Thursday November 22, 2012 in Belgrade.
For more notes, please see my corresponding Blog entry at http://systemagility.com/2012/11/22/lean-startup-and-lives/
I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
Identifying and managing waste in software product developmentKen Power
This is the slide deck from my talk at LESS 2012, the Lean Enterprise Software and Systems conference in Tallinn, Estonia.
http://SystemAgility.com/events
Identifying and Managing Waste in Complex Product Development EnvironmentsKen Power
Product Development can be viewed as a Complex Adaptive System. Different people, groups, organizations and systems collaborate in a complex network of relationships and dependencies to produce something of value - generally a product or service. Identifying waste in this value network is a critical step towards creating a truly lean organization.
These slides are from an interactive, hands-on workshop that I ran at the Agile India 2012 conference in Bengaluru, India.
There is a corresponding Blog entry here:
http://wp.me/pSOIL-fE
Value Stream Manager concept applied to Software Product DevelopmentKen Power
his is the slide deck from my talk at LESS 2012, the Lean Enterprise Software and Systems conference in Tallinn, Estonia.
http://SystemAgility.com/events
The Secret, Yet Obvious, Ingredient to Sustainable AgilityAhmed Sidky
This was a presentation I gave at Ciklum in Kiev, Ukraine and at ScrumTrek in Moscow, Russia. The presentation discuss the notion of Agile and agility and then talks about what people should do to have sustainable agile. They key to sustainable agile is education. By educated, and changing the mindset of everyone in the company, then you will have sustainable agility. However, if you just focus on strategy, structure, and processes, but don't change the mindset and culture and habits of people it will not be sustainable. The presentation introduces the learning roadmap developed by the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) as a path organizations should pursue to engage their people in a common educational journey about agile and agility not Scrum or any particular process.
The International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) accredits training organizations, corporations, academic institutes and government entities, thereby providing their members with over 20 knowledge-based and competency-based certifications to pursue, based on the ICAgile Learning Roadmap created by experts from around the world.
ICAgile is the only certification and accreditation body to offer knowledge-based and competency-based certifications in every discipline needed to sustain agility in an organization. ICAgile has engaged over 40 International Agile gurus and experts to create the most comprehensive agile learning roadmap.
ICAgile's Learning Roadmap is intentionally designed to focus on the education of agile not on any particular flavor or methodology of agile to ensure that every organization, can utilize the educational roadmap as it matures and customizes it agile processes and practices. ICAgile’s Learning Roadmap includes over 20 different certifications covering the disciplines of Agile Executive Leadership, Agile Coaching and Facilitation, Agile Enterprise Coaching, Agile Project Management and Governance, Agile Value Management and Business Analysis, Agile Software Design and Programming, and Agile Testing.
Introduction to the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile)Ahmed Sidky
The International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) accredits training organizations, corporations, academic institutes and government entities, thereby providing their members with over 20 knowledge-based and competency-based certifications to pursue, based on the ICAgile Learning Roadmap created by experts from around the world.
ICAgile is the only certification and accreditation body to offer knowledge-based and competency-based certifications in every discipline needed to sustain agility in an organization. ICAgile has engaged over 40 International Agile gurus and experts to create the most comprehensive agile learning roadmap.
The roadmap is intentionally designed to focus on the education of agile not on any particular flavor or methodology of agile to ensure that every organization, can utilize the educational roadmap as it matures and customizes it agile processes and practices. ICAgile’s Learning Roadmap includes over 20 different certifications covering the disciplines of Agile Executive Leadership, Agile Coaching and Facilitation, Agile Enterprise Coaching, Agile Project Management and Governance, Agile Value Management and Business Analysis, Agile Software Design and Programming, and Agile Testing.
A presentation I did for the Agile Profesionals Network (APN) Wellington branch. Even if we have a recipe the context of the situation can mean we can\’t replicate a successful dish in a different environment. The key are Principles. Know your system, know your customer and desired output. Like a good chef have practices but understand the base principles of why things work.
This is a session on Lean Principles for Agile Teams presented at ERUC in October 2013. This is the deck used with the LEGO building block exercise PDF.
The process of adopting Agile in any organization is challenging in many ways. It is especially challenging in larger organizations because of complex infrastructures, numerous legacy systems and mature organizational cultures. These larger organizations often underestimate the difficulty of getting Agile right.
This presentation will focus on the common challenges of Agile adoption. Tips are provided to help improve the chances of Agile adoption success.
by Scott Ambler, Chief Methodologist for Agile, IBM and Mark Lines, Agile Mentor and cofounder of UPMentors
Once considered viable only for small, co-located teams, agile software development practices have caught the attention of larger teams seeking improvements in product quality, team efficiency, and on-time delivery. This paper introduces an approach to agile that incorporates the added discipline larger teams need for success in software and systems delivery.
IIT Academy: Agile. What is Lean? Isn't it a manufacturing thing? How do we apply it to software engineering practices?
Understand Lean in the context of modern Agile practices. Harness lean thinking and an updated look at the Toyota Production System (TPS). Designed for operational teams, maintenance teams, high availability teams, sales teams, management teams, project and portfolio management.
A 40 minute introduction to DevOps for the Wellington DevOps Meetup, March 2021.
Rob forgot to talk about DevSecOps, which was a fundamental topic, and the general concept of "Shift left". Only so much you can fit in an hour, but they are good topics to research further.
Rob also mentioned some books
IT Revolution DevOps Forum is the best sources of free ebooks about Devops. It costs you an email signup, but it is worth it.
Team of Teams, Stanley McChrystal - good for business agility.
(See also Brave New Work, by Aaron Dignan, as Rob's favourite primer on new ways of working)
The Phoenix Project, by Gene Kim et al. - KoolAid intro to Devops, convinces most people.
Devops Handbook, gene Kim at al - good general refence
Continuous Delivery, Humble and Farley - still the definitive textbook
The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande - in praise of checklists
Field Guide to Human Error, Sidney Dekker - safety culture influences Devops
(see also Dekker's two Youtube videos on Safety Differently and Just Culture)
Rob England consults and trains in IT locally in Welly tealunicorn.com/nwomit
Or see the work Rob and Cherry do together at enterprise level tealunicorn.com/clients
Introducing the Enterprise Transformation Meta ModelRenee Troughton
Finally there is a meta model out there to be able to simply and easily compare and contrast not only Agile methods but any type of change that you may be introducing into an organisation.
This presentation lightly covers the model, but importantly goes through over fifty Agile and edgy Agile related methods and movements, highlighting where they sit in the model.
For more information about the Enterprise Transformation Meta Model refer to:
http://www.enterprisetransformationmetamodel.com
Антон Семенченко, опыт в IT более 10 лет, работает в компании ISSoft, специализируется в разработке и автоматизированном тестировании ПО плюс менеджмент\продажи. C++ Architect, Automation Practice Lead, PM, Group Manager
«Agile ValueTeam, учимся понимать Scrum». IT секция. Agile отделение. Для всех уровней подготовки.
«Как эффективно продавать Automation Service». IT секция. Продажи.
«Как эффективно организовать Автоматизацию, если у вас недостаточно времени, ресурсов и денег». Development секция. Отделение тестирования.
Agile2014 conference presentation on "Smart Scaling" - how to compare scaling approaches. Our Agile Scaling Knowledgebase (ASK) and Decision Matrix help provide an objective way to compare approaches.
Agile Washington 2015 Creating a Learning CultureRenee Troughton
Presented in August 2015 at Agile 2015 in Washington DC this is a presentation about a structured 10 week program to grow your own Agile champions and coaches through a series of activities and collaborate learning. This presentation highlights the activities and the learning problem.
During the Agile Austria Conference 2017.
Speaker: Wolfgang Richter
This case study reflects on the Scrum journey of an Austrian insurance company. For the audience it illustrates how to apply Large Scale Scrum in a stalled environment which is not used to change quickly. Challenges and incidents typical for adopting the agile mindset in such an environment at larger scale are addressed. It shows, that the journey continues and the difficulties when setting expected dates or milestones for the adoption.
Being Agile, Doing Agile and Agile in Crisis: We have the Agile Industrial Complex, Dark Agile, Faux/Fake Agile, Zombie Scrum, Flaccid Scrum, CrAgile, FrAgile, WAgile, and more. What do they all mean, and how do we know if we are doing them instead of "Being Agile"
Opportunities for Project Managers in the Lean-Agile Enterprise with SAFeRichard Knaster
The shift towards Lean-Agile approaches for software and systems development continues to grow at an accelerated rate. As a result, the opportunities for Project Managers in the midst of this transition have never been greater. Over 70% of the Fortune 100 are using the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) to implement Lean-Agile practices. In this webinar, SAFe Fellow Richard Knaster (PMP, PMI-ACP) and SAFe Senior Program Consultant Trainer Dr. Steve Mayner (PMP, PMI-ACP) will outline the opportunities for Project Managers within the context of SAFe, as well as how SAFe addresses core PMI knowledge areas such as: - Scope management - Time management - Cost management - Quality management - Risk management There will be an opportunity for Q&A at the end of the presentation.
Agile India 2016 Keynote - The Lean-Agile Enterprise Awakens- Scalable and Mo...Richard Knaster
New competitive threats often require organizations to build increasingly complex, interconnected and sophisticated software and systems, faster, better and cheaper. Most organizations are not equipped to meet this new challenge! Meanwhile small, nimble competitors, like Airbnb and Uber are taking a big bite on the profits of the giants.
So what’s the answer? What have we learned in the past decade from our adventures in agile and our attempts at scaling? What does the future hold?
In this talk, Richard Knaster, Principal Consultant and SAFe Fellow, discusses a more scalable and modular lean-agile approach that enables even the largest enterprises to compete with smaller and nimbler competitors that are disrupting companies in all industries. Richard is a Principal Contributor to the Scaled Agile Framework and previously worked at IBM where his roles included Chief Agile Methodologist. World Wide Agile Practice Manager and various product management roles in the Rational Brand.
Introduction to the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile)Ahmed Sidky
The International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) accredits training organizations, corporations, academic institutes and government entities, thereby providing their members with over 20 knowledge-based and competency-based certifications to pursue, based on the ICAgile Learning Roadmap created by experts from around the world.
ICAgile is the only certification and accreditation body to offer knowledge-based and competency-based certifications in every discipline needed to sustain agility in an organization. ICAgile has engaged over 40 International Agile gurus and experts to create the most comprehensive agile learning roadmap.
The roadmap is intentionally designed to focus on the education of agile not on any particular flavor or methodology of agile to ensure that every organization, can utilize the educational roadmap as it matures and customizes it agile processes and practices. ICAgile’s Learning Roadmap includes over 20 different certifications covering the disciplines of Agile Executive Leadership, Agile Coaching and Facilitation, Agile Enterprise Coaching, Agile Project Management and Governance, Agile Value Management and Business Analysis, Agile Software Design and Programming, and Agile Testing.
A presentation I did for the Agile Profesionals Network (APN) Wellington branch. Even if we have a recipe the context of the situation can mean we can\’t replicate a successful dish in a different environment. The key are Principles. Know your system, know your customer and desired output. Like a good chef have practices but understand the base principles of why things work.
This is a session on Lean Principles for Agile Teams presented at ERUC in October 2013. This is the deck used with the LEGO building block exercise PDF.
The process of adopting Agile in any organization is challenging in many ways. It is especially challenging in larger organizations because of complex infrastructures, numerous legacy systems and mature organizational cultures. These larger organizations often underestimate the difficulty of getting Agile right.
This presentation will focus on the common challenges of Agile adoption. Tips are provided to help improve the chances of Agile adoption success.
by Scott Ambler, Chief Methodologist for Agile, IBM and Mark Lines, Agile Mentor and cofounder of UPMentors
Once considered viable only for small, co-located teams, agile software development practices have caught the attention of larger teams seeking improvements in product quality, team efficiency, and on-time delivery. This paper introduces an approach to agile that incorporates the added discipline larger teams need for success in software and systems delivery.
IIT Academy: Agile. What is Lean? Isn't it a manufacturing thing? How do we apply it to software engineering practices?
Understand Lean in the context of modern Agile practices. Harness lean thinking and an updated look at the Toyota Production System (TPS). Designed for operational teams, maintenance teams, high availability teams, sales teams, management teams, project and portfolio management.
A 40 minute introduction to DevOps for the Wellington DevOps Meetup, March 2021.
Rob forgot to talk about DevSecOps, which was a fundamental topic, and the general concept of "Shift left". Only so much you can fit in an hour, but they are good topics to research further.
Rob also mentioned some books
IT Revolution DevOps Forum is the best sources of free ebooks about Devops. It costs you an email signup, but it is worth it.
Team of Teams, Stanley McChrystal - good for business agility.
(See also Brave New Work, by Aaron Dignan, as Rob's favourite primer on new ways of working)
The Phoenix Project, by Gene Kim et al. - KoolAid intro to Devops, convinces most people.
Devops Handbook, gene Kim at al - good general refence
Continuous Delivery, Humble and Farley - still the definitive textbook
The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande - in praise of checklists
Field Guide to Human Error, Sidney Dekker - safety culture influences Devops
(see also Dekker's two Youtube videos on Safety Differently and Just Culture)
Rob England consults and trains in IT locally in Welly tealunicorn.com/nwomit
Or see the work Rob and Cherry do together at enterprise level tealunicorn.com/clients
Introducing the Enterprise Transformation Meta ModelRenee Troughton
Finally there is a meta model out there to be able to simply and easily compare and contrast not only Agile methods but any type of change that you may be introducing into an organisation.
This presentation lightly covers the model, but importantly goes through over fifty Agile and edgy Agile related methods and movements, highlighting where they sit in the model.
For more information about the Enterprise Transformation Meta Model refer to:
http://www.enterprisetransformationmetamodel.com
Антон Семенченко, опыт в IT более 10 лет, работает в компании ISSoft, специализируется в разработке и автоматизированном тестировании ПО плюс менеджмент\продажи. C++ Architect, Automation Practice Lead, PM, Group Manager
«Agile ValueTeam, учимся понимать Scrum». IT секция. Agile отделение. Для всех уровней подготовки.
«Как эффективно продавать Automation Service». IT секция. Продажи.
«Как эффективно организовать Автоматизацию, если у вас недостаточно времени, ресурсов и денег». Development секция. Отделение тестирования.
Agile2014 conference presentation on "Smart Scaling" - how to compare scaling approaches. Our Agile Scaling Knowledgebase (ASK) and Decision Matrix help provide an objective way to compare approaches.
Agile Washington 2015 Creating a Learning CultureRenee Troughton
Presented in August 2015 at Agile 2015 in Washington DC this is a presentation about a structured 10 week program to grow your own Agile champions and coaches through a series of activities and collaborate learning. This presentation highlights the activities and the learning problem.
During the Agile Austria Conference 2017.
Speaker: Wolfgang Richter
This case study reflects on the Scrum journey of an Austrian insurance company. For the audience it illustrates how to apply Large Scale Scrum in a stalled environment which is not used to change quickly. Challenges and incidents typical for adopting the agile mindset in such an environment at larger scale are addressed. It shows, that the journey continues and the difficulties when setting expected dates or milestones for the adoption.
Being Agile, Doing Agile and Agile in Crisis: We have the Agile Industrial Complex, Dark Agile, Faux/Fake Agile, Zombie Scrum, Flaccid Scrum, CrAgile, FrAgile, WAgile, and more. What do they all mean, and how do we know if we are doing them instead of "Being Agile"
Opportunities for Project Managers in the Lean-Agile Enterprise with SAFeRichard Knaster
The shift towards Lean-Agile approaches for software and systems development continues to grow at an accelerated rate. As a result, the opportunities for Project Managers in the midst of this transition have never been greater. Over 70% of the Fortune 100 are using the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) to implement Lean-Agile practices. In this webinar, SAFe Fellow Richard Knaster (PMP, PMI-ACP) and SAFe Senior Program Consultant Trainer Dr. Steve Mayner (PMP, PMI-ACP) will outline the opportunities for Project Managers within the context of SAFe, as well as how SAFe addresses core PMI knowledge areas such as: - Scope management - Time management - Cost management - Quality management - Risk management There will be an opportunity for Q&A at the end of the presentation.
Agile India 2016 Keynote - The Lean-Agile Enterprise Awakens- Scalable and Mo...Richard Knaster
New competitive threats often require organizations to build increasingly complex, interconnected and sophisticated software and systems, faster, better and cheaper. Most organizations are not equipped to meet this new challenge! Meanwhile small, nimble competitors, like Airbnb and Uber are taking a big bite on the profits of the giants.
So what’s the answer? What have we learned in the past decade from our adventures in agile and our attempts at scaling? What does the future hold?
In this talk, Richard Knaster, Principal Consultant and SAFe Fellow, discusses a more scalable and modular lean-agile approach that enables even the largest enterprises to compete with smaller and nimbler competitors that are disrupting companies in all industries. Richard is a Principal Contributor to the Scaled Agile Framework and previously worked at IBM where his roles included Chief Agile Methodologist. World Wide Agile Practice Manager and various product management roles in the Rational Brand.
Thoughts on Lean Product Development at CAMUG, YYC Nov 2014Dave Sharrock
The rise of the Lean Startup has led to a deeper understanding of the importance of validating business ideas, from new features to new business models. But many tools available to the Product Owner aren't adapted to rapid validation. Starting from the principles and practices of agile product management, from defining the product vision to creating story maps and refining the product backlog, you will learn about key practices that incorporate the lean startup principles, allowing a Product Owner to bring the build-measure-learn cycle alive and ultimately earn more value more quickly.
SF Lean Startup Circle: The New Science of Product DevelopmentJames Birchler
IMVU is referred to as the first "Lean Startup", and was the proving ground for applying Build-Measure-Learn (the Scientific Method) to rapidly iterate and continuously improve its product development process, resulting in a valuable strategic advantage and highly productive, happy, and motivated teams.
This lecture focuses on IMVU's continuous improvement to product development process through experimentation. Success factors are reviewed, including a culture that values and supports experimentation and learning, Agile and XP engineering practices (which support iterative development), and strong product vision and user experience design. Recent product development process experiments will be shared.
Takeaway: Attendees will learn how IMVU continuously improves product development using the Scientific Method, Agile, XP, and Scrum supported by strong user experience design. Strategies to support experimental learning (retrospectives, postmortems, and 5 Whys) will be reviewed along with practical examples.
Using Silent Grouping to Size User Stories (XP2011)Ken Power
User stories are used to describe the functionality delivered in a product or system. Planning Poker is a common technique for sizing user stories, however it has challenges. It can be time consuming and teams can get bogged down in unnecessary discussion. The talk and paper accompanying this presentation describes a technique called Silent Grouping that can be used to compliment Planning Poker, explaining how to apply it so that large sets of user stories can be sized in minutes.
These are slides from a talk I gave at XP2011 in Madrid. However, at the talk I did not actually use slides. Instead, I got participants to play the Silent Grouping game and we had a discussion about it.
Silent Grouping has several advantages. It is fast, which in turn leads to significant time and cost savings. It also has more subtle benefits. The paper, available in the XP2011 conference proceedings, discusses the techniques, challenges, cost savings and benefits of Silent Grouping.
Visual Work Management in Product DevelopmentPlaybook
Visual work management in product development. What are the benefits of visual work management and why it's essential for accelerating project delivery.
Detox your team: a low-conflict language for discussin and managing toxic beh...Ken Power
Slide deck from my Agile 2015 session in Washington DC, exploring toxic behaviours. The session takes people through four specific toxins that show up in teams and organisations, and goes on to discuss some ways to detox your team.
Benefits of Visual Project Management SoftwarePlaybook
Lean presentation: The benefits of Visual Project Management Software for Lean product development and project management described in plain English.
Interested in learning more about Visual project management software? Visit us at http://playbookhq.co. You can also view a product demonstration http://www.playbookhq.co/playbook-on-demand-webinar-demonstration .
Many agile teams are familiar with Definition of Done as a set of agreements that let everyone know when a user story (or a sprint or a release) is really done, and all necessary activities are complete.
Definition of Ready is a set of agreements that lets everyone know when something is ready to begin, e.g., when a user story is ready to be taken into a sprint, or when all necessary conditions are right for a team to start a sprint.
These are the slides from a talk I gave at XP2011 in Madrid, Spain.
Agile Software Engineering and Design Thinking: Efficiency and Innovation in ...Tobias Schimmer
Presentation shown at the 2012 Institute for Enterprise Systems Symposium in Mannheim, Germany: http://www.institute-for-enterprise-systems.de/ines-symposium-2012.html
Delivered to MBA students at Imperial College London. This session covered what Lean Product Development and Management entails, whilst covering the facets of lean including Agile, Lean Startup, Customer Development and more.
Findings from a 10-year retrospective of Agile held by the BCS Agile Methods SG on 24 Jan 2012 on London(UK) with 100 attendees and over 500 years of Agile experience
Pro Action Case Studies Diligence Through Exitproactionman
Many Private Equity firms recognize the impact of focusing on operations in their due diligence and hold processes. Finding, quantifying and mining value hidden in operations can impact the ability to successfully win a deal and can accelerate the path to a fruitful exit.
The ProAction Group has been providing operational (manufacturing, logistics, sourcing, process development, etc.) support to our private equity clients for over 15 years.
The three Enterprise Innovation Networks The Irish Software Association (ISIN), Industry Research & Development Group (IRDG) and the Construction IT Alliance (CITA) EIN, all funded by Enterprise Ireland hosted a joint seminar on Tuesday 23rd October 2012 in the Dublin City Council offices on Wood Quay from 08.00am - 11.00am. There were 80 delegates in attendance and an additional 20 viewing the event online. The intention of this event was to focus on the need to Collaborate to Innovate for a successful future.
The Opening address was given by Mr Greg Treston from Enterprise Ireland. Greg is Head of Research & Innovation. There was then a short Introduction to each of the Enterprise Innovation Networks. Speakers included Paul Sweetman of ISIN, Denis Hayes of IRDG and Suzanne Purcell of CITA EIN. This was followed by presentation on Collaborating with Third Level Research Institutes by John Whelan, Trinity College Technology Transfer Office and Tom Flanagan, DIT Hothouse. Three case Studies followed. Case Study 1: Dr. Yvonne Traynor, Henkel Case. Study 2: Sean Giblin, Cylon Controls. Case Study 3: Anthony McCauley, Fujitsu
Developing and Delivering Products in an Agile World (.75 PMI PDU)DCsteve
Customers expect delivery of your new products quicker and easier than ever before. Whether your customers are internal or external, they expect you to develop new products with increased frequency and to put those products in their hands seamlessly and automatically.
Learn how you can take advantage of Agile development methods to develop and ship quicker while maintaining the project and financial management your business requires. And, learn ways to automate your product delivery to get these products to your customers immediately upon completion. Bring automation and Agile development together to deliver new products to your customers more often and easier than ever before.
All attendees are eligible for .75 PDU Credit from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Get the Transformational Story of Going Agile @ http://digitalcelerity.com/Pages.aspx/Agile-PPM
Are you thinking of implementing Microsoft® Project Server? Have you invested in Microsoft® Project Server, but are not getting the required results? This webinar will explain the critical success factors of implementation and optimization of Microsoft® Project Server 2010/13.
Il était une fois une planète remplie des dinosaures de L’IT dont la lenteur était proportionnelle à leur taille. Un jour, une météorite nommée Agilité frappa cette planète et entraîna la fin de ces IT dinosaures. Elle se peupla alors de nombreuses petites Tribus IT. Ces tribus réussirent à s’adapter à leur nouvel écosystème en faisant preuve de rapidité, de souplesse, d’esprit d’équipe et d’innovation permanente !
Cette planète c’est la Société Générale !!!! Venez découvrir cette aventure au travers du récit d’Aimery et de Nicolas
#Continuous Delivery #@Scale #SAFE #AGILITE
Normalizing agile and lean product development and aimRussell Pannone
The what, why, and how of agile and lean product (system-software) development and delivery is not one persons vision alone; to become reality it needs to be a "shared" vision through negotiation and compromise between individuals, the team and the organization.
The following is a set of norms for your agile and lean product (system-software) development teams to rally around and evolve.
Similar to Lean at Cisco: Lessons Learned from Lean Product Development and Lean Startup (20)
Making Sense of Organization Impediments @ LKCE2015Ken Power
Slide deck from my talk at Lean Kanban Central Europe 2015 in Munich. The talk covered sense making, complexity, deep democracy, the CDE model, and how to connect these to understand what is happening in your organization. Some of the analysis in this talk has a particular focus on using these approaches to understand strategy and organisation impediments.
Principles and dynamcis of scrum coachingKen Power
Slide deck from my workshop at the Global Scrum Gathering Berlin 2014. A framework for coaches and their clients to understand what role is appropriate for coach and needed by clients at different times in their relationship.
My slide deck for the Lean Kanban North America conference (LKNA 2013).
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Slide deck from my talk/workshop at Agile 2012 in Dallas Texas, Tuesday August 14 2012.
The title is "Working Effectively with User Stories"
The workshop and talk covered four main topics:
1. Silent Grouping: A technique for sizing large sets of user stories
2. Definition of Ready
3. Backlog Grooming
4. Tracking Progress as part of Daily Standups
These are the slides from my talk at the LESS 2011 conference in Stockholm, Sweden.
Product Ownership is a multi-faceted responsibility that demands a broad set of perspectives combined with deep product and domain knowledge. Effective product ownership requires both an internal and an external perspective. The challenges are amplified for large complex organizations developing large complex products and systems. In different organizations, engineering, product management, user experience and other functional groups can all lay claim to the role with some legitimacy.This talk will describe the challenges of understanding product ownership in large organizations, and of filling the product owner role effectively. We present different models for filling the product owner role, including single product owner, proxy product owner, and product owner teams.
Refactoring the Organization Design (LESS2010)Ken Power
These are the presentation slides from a presentation I gave at the Lean Enterprise Software and Systems Conference 2010 (LESS 2010, http://less2010.leanssc.org/). The presentation is based around the paper I submitted that is published in the proceedings.
From the paper abstract:
Every organization has a design. As an organization grows, that design evolves. A decision to embrace agile and lean methods can expose weaknesses in the design. The concept of refactoring as applied to software design helps to improve the overall structure of the product or system. Principles of refactoring can also be applied to organization design. As with software design, the design of our organization can benefit from deliberate improvement efforts, but those efforts must have a purpose, and must serve the broad community of stakeholders that affect, or are affected by, the organization. Refactoring to agile and lean organizations demands that we have a shared vision of what the refactoring needs to achieve, and that we optimize the organization around the people doing the work.
Metaphors for Software Development (XP2010)Ken Power
The presentation slides from a talk I gave at XP2010 in Trondheim, Norway. Here are some metaphors that I find useful when describing software product development. In particular, they are useful for describing the basic principles of agile development and the lifecycle of a typical agile project.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.