How to integrate BAs and UX in a Agile/Lean environment to create an MVP to learn while reducing potential waste. Presented at Lviv IT Arena, 2015 in Lviv, Ukraine by Natalie Warnert, October 3, 2015
www.nataliewarnert.com
The Product Backlog drives the work of Scrum teams, but keeping the backlog fresh and useful is often a continuing challenge. Is your product backlog healthy, and what are some ways to keep it that way that you can use right away?
Дмитро Бузоверя
Директор Cloud Computing департаменту в компанії AMC Bridge
Agile підхід до управління проектами існує вже більше 15 років, він досі є об’єктом багатьох дискусій та вважається інноваційним у деяких областях.
Дмитро Бузоверя, зробить огляд методології Agile у розробці програмного забезпечення. Він розкаже про історію Agile, його принципи та більш детально зупиниться на різних методиках: Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, Lean та Kanban.
Ця лекція допоможе зібрати пазл з Agile термінології в єдину картинку.
The Product Backlog drives the work of Scrum teams, but keeping the backlog fresh and useful is often a continuing challenge. Is your product backlog healthy, and what are some ways to keep it that way that you can use right away?
Дмитро Бузоверя
Директор Cloud Computing департаменту в компанії AMC Bridge
Agile підхід до управління проектами існує вже більше 15 років, він досі є об’єктом багатьох дискусій та вважається інноваційним у деяких областях.
Дмитро Бузоверя, зробить огляд методології Agile у розробці програмного забезпечення. Він розкаже про історію Agile, його принципи та більш детально зупиниться на різних методиках: Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, Lean та Kanban.
Ця лекція допоможе зібрати пазл з Agile термінології в єдину картинку.
You'll learn:
- How to transition through through inspiration, ideation, and implementation with a global team
- How to turn “statements of intent” into prioritized user stories.
- How to increase team velocity without sacrificing usability
In this session presented at Tools4AgileTeams 2-12-2021, we discussed some necessary building blocks to make the critical changes associated with an agile transformation helping to de-risk the organization's agile journey.
I gave this to the Melbourne Scrum Users Group. It was an interesting group with a few experience scrum users and many inexperienced people via the ACS, so the talk had to accommodate some Scrum 101 stuff, and went longer than planned with me talking for a bit over an hour.
In the end it went well, and I hope I get some feedback from the audience via the meetup site and ACS website.
Personal customer experiences are and will be more and more vital. People to people, but also people to machine. Today, there are several providers of the same services, and the new ones are faster, more flexible, and more personalized in their communications with their customers & users. How do we ensure that we provide the right information to our employees as well as to our customers so they can better serve and increase customer satisfaction?
This webinar will focus on how you as an organization will have to restructure, rethink and redesign your technological platform to support increasing employee- and customer demands.
Key takeaways:
Holistic understanding of how to make a successful cloud transition
Learn why modern organizations excel in customer treatment, productivity, flexibility, and agility
High-level architecture and how and why DevOps changes organizations
These slides supported the session I ran at The Mobile Academy London. The session was to introduce Agile and Lean practices. The session was based on principles which should have set the scene for the attendees to use in their workplaces or understand Agile some more. We discussed Scrum as an example framework and the value of inspect and adapt processes to support startups and enterprises.
I was considering to record myself speaking over these slides to give it more context. If you would be interested, let me know and if I get more that 5 requests, I'll do it.
The agile manifesto says directly that "We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it." If this continual improvement is true, what new topics are currently being discussed and talked about at agile conferences? What are teams across the world struggling and experimenting with? What topics are the most heated? In this session, I'll give an overview of some of the new and hot agile topics.
Lean Concepts & Agile Software MethodologiesBrad Smith
Presentation introducing the core concepts of Lean in manufacturing and an exploration of the various Agile software engineering approaches which apply these principles to increase the responsiveness of product development.
Download and reference notes for full detail.
Capturing Lessons Learned Information – Making your current and future projec...ProjectCon
PROJECTCON | AGILECON Midwest 2019 in Indianapolis on May 10, 2019
Presenter: Bill Dow
Most Project Managers struggle collecting Lessons learned on their projects. Most make the terrible mistake of capturing lessons learned information at the end of the project when most team members are long gone and want no part of giving you feedback. This presentation takes project managers through the process of capturing Lessons Learned information on their projects. Learn tricks, tips and the top five best practices in collecting this critical project information.
Key Takeaways:
Learn the value of Lessons Learned information on the project
Discover industry leading Tips and Best Practices
Uncover how this process can be applied throughout the project
Event Website: https://projectconevent.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/projectcon-llc
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ProjectConEvent
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/projectconevent
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLLG1SGPs1L5YLoFndvGGhQ
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/projectconevent
Presentation Slides: https://slideshare.com/projectcon
Post Event Trailer: https://youtu.be/1_RzFBnZ7bo
Presentation given at Mile High Agile 2016 about how to modernize the portfolio planning and road mapping process to better fit with software product development planning.
Customer experience and product instructionsSharon Burton
Product instructions are part of the Use cycle of the customer experience but how do you know if they are meeting the needs of your customers?
How do you know if your product instructions are meeting your customers needs?
How to Deliver Great Customer Service in Enterprise SoftwareBob Dahlberg
This presentation is a humorous course I wrote for engineers, SEs, in enterprise software customer facing situations. By applying these lessons that I learned the hard way, your organization too can deliver great customer service.
7 Dimensions of Agile Analytics by Ken Collier Thoughtworks
We are in the midst of an exciting time. There is an explosion of very interesting data, and emergence of powerful new technologies for harnessing data, and devices that enable humans to receive tremendous benefits from it. What is required are innovative processes that enable the creation and delivery of value from all of that data. More often than not, it is the predictive (what will happen?) and prescriptive (how to make it happen!) analytics that produces this value, not the raw data itself. Agile software teams are continuously involved in projects that involve rich, complex, and messy data. Often this data represents innovative analytics opportunities. Being analytics-aware gives these teams the opportunity to collaborate with stakeholders to innovate by creating additional value from the data. This session is aimed at making Agile software teams more analytics-aware so that they will recognize these innovation opportunities. The trouble with conventional analytics (like conventional software development) is that it involves long, phased, sequential steps that take too long and fail to deliver actionable results. This deck will examine the convergence of the following elements of an exciting emerging field called Agile Analytics:
sophisticated analytics techniques, plus
lean learning principles, plus
agile delivery methods, plus
so-called "big data" technologies
Learn:
The analytical modeling process and techniques
How analytical models are deployed using modern technologies
The complexities of data discovery, harvesting, and preparation
How to apply agile techniques to shorten the analytics development cycle
How to apply lean learning principles to develop actionable and valuable analytics.
In this talk, Suze explores a case study from her recent work in a London agency, where, working for a large retail client, the programme of work moved from a project-based delivery model incorporating Scrum to a more product-based model. Drawing on aspects of Kanban, Design Thinking and Lean Startup, and implementing a dual-track agile approach, the team is now ‘thinking more product’.
Suze will delve into how the organisation has shifted to this model and how it coped with the change. She will talk through some of the difficulties that she experienced along the way and how these issues were mitigated, and provide take away techniques to help in your organisations.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8036/thinking-more-product-moving-from-scrum-to-a-dual-track-agile-approach
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Implementing Dual-Track Agile :: Lessons from the trenches @ITSpring.by May 2019Pedro Teixeira
Evermore people are talking about Discovery and Hypothesis-driven approaches. But where do you start? What do they really mean?
Pedro will share with us how he moved away from a 2-year delivery roadmap by enabling his Engineering teams to do a Dual Track Agile. A real case-study!
Key Learning Points:
- Understand what Dual Track Agile is
- Learn why Pedro and his team decided to use it at OutSystems
- Know what was the strategy in place for the Change Management
- Understand their failures and what they have learned with it
- Identify some Common Pitfalls
- Understand the importance of cadence for alignment and trust
- Understand the importance of building (truly) autonomous teams
Agile In Transition and In Business World | Mick ChungAgileTour@TW
Agile Contract and Kanban in Business Operation
1. Agile is good, but …
2. Communication Starts Within.
3. Documentation is not evil.
4. Contract can be a great help not constraints.
5. Let’s Build Ourselves and The Future a Perfect World.
Keywords are an important part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) internet marketing. This is a presentation that I gave at a local community college in Michigan.
Big organizations have a reputation as stifling and lonely places where design careers sputter. The structure required to become successful on a large scale traditionally left little room for creative exploration. These places are awakening to the value of design. They are looking to designers to transform their cubicled caverns into design led enterprises. Changing culture is hard, especially when you bring people who think differently together. But we already have the skills to get this done. Using the same user centered tactics that we use to design products and services, designers are creating change. Gail will show how to extend design thinking, empathy, and collaboration to thrive as a designer and be a happy part of something big.
You'll learn:
- How to transition through through inspiration, ideation, and implementation with a global team
- How to turn “statements of intent” into prioritized user stories.
- How to increase team velocity without sacrificing usability
In this session presented at Tools4AgileTeams 2-12-2021, we discussed some necessary building blocks to make the critical changes associated with an agile transformation helping to de-risk the organization's agile journey.
I gave this to the Melbourne Scrum Users Group. It was an interesting group with a few experience scrum users and many inexperienced people via the ACS, so the talk had to accommodate some Scrum 101 stuff, and went longer than planned with me talking for a bit over an hour.
In the end it went well, and I hope I get some feedback from the audience via the meetup site and ACS website.
Personal customer experiences are and will be more and more vital. People to people, but also people to machine. Today, there are several providers of the same services, and the new ones are faster, more flexible, and more personalized in their communications with their customers & users. How do we ensure that we provide the right information to our employees as well as to our customers so they can better serve and increase customer satisfaction?
This webinar will focus on how you as an organization will have to restructure, rethink and redesign your technological platform to support increasing employee- and customer demands.
Key takeaways:
Holistic understanding of how to make a successful cloud transition
Learn why modern organizations excel in customer treatment, productivity, flexibility, and agility
High-level architecture and how and why DevOps changes organizations
These slides supported the session I ran at The Mobile Academy London. The session was to introduce Agile and Lean practices. The session was based on principles which should have set the scene for the attendees to use in their workplaces or understand Agile some more. We discussed Scrum as an example framework and the value of inspect and adapt processes to support startups and enterprises.
I was considering to record myself speaking over these slides to give it more context. If you would be interested, let me know and if I get more that 5 requests, I'll do it.
The agile manifesto says directly that "We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it." If this continual improvement is true, what new topics are currently being discussed and talked about at agile conferences? What are teams across the world struggling and experimenting with? What topics are the most heated? In this session, I'll give an overview of some of the new and hot agile topics.
Lean Concepts & Agile Software MethodologiesBrad Smith
Presentation introducing the core concepts of Lean in manufacturing and an exploration of the various Agile software engineering approaches which apply these principles to increase the responsiveness of product development.
Download and reference notes for full detail.
Capturing Lessons Learned Information – Making your current and future projec...ProjectCon
PROJECTCON | AGILECON Midwest 2019 in Indianapolis on May 10, 2019
Presenter: Bill Dow
Most Project Managers struggle collecting Lessons learned on their projects. Most make the terrible mistake of capturing lessons learned information at the end of the project when most team members are long gone and want no part of giving you feedback. This presentation takes project managers through the process of capturing Lessons Learned information on their projects. Learn tricks, tips and the top five best practices in collecting this critical project information.
Key Takeaways:
Learn the value of Lessons Learned information on the project
Discover industry leading Tips and Best Practices
Uncover how this process can be applied throughout the project
Event Website: https://projectconevent.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/projectcon-llc
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ProjectConEvent
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/projectconevent
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLLG1SGPs1L5YLoFndvGGhQ
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/projectconevent
Presentation Slides: https://slideshare.com/projectcon
Post Event Trailer: https://youtu.be/1_RzFBnZ7bo
Presentation given at Mile High Agile 2016 about how to modernize the portfolio planning and road mapping process to better fit with software product development planning.
Customer experience and product instructionsSharon Burton
Product instructions are part of the Use cycle of the customer experience but how do you know if they are meeting the needs of your customers?
How do you know if your product instructions are meeting your customers needs?
How to Deliver Great Customer Service in Enterprise SoftwareBob Dahlberg
This presentation is a humorous course I wrote for engineers, SEs, in enterprise software customer facing situations. By applying these lessons that I learned the hard way, your organization too can deliver great customer service.
7 Dimensions of Agile Analytics by Ken Collier Thoughtworks
We are in the midst of an exciting time. There is an explosion of very interesting data, and emergence of powerful new technologies for harnessing data, and devices that enable humans to receive tremendous benefits from it. What is required are innovative processes that enable the creation and delivery of value from all of that data. More often than not, it is the predictive (what will happen?) and prescriptive (how to make it happen!) analytics that produces this value, not the raw data itself. Agile software teams are continuously involved in projects that involve rich, complex, and messy data. Often this data represents innovative analytics opportunities. Being analytics-aware gives these teams the opportunity to collaborate with stakeholders to innovate by creating additional value from the data. This session is aimed at making Agile software teams more analytics-aware so that they will recognize these innovation opportunities. The trouble with conventional analytics (like conventional software development) is that it involves long, phased, sequential steps that take too long and fail to deliver actionable results. This deck will examine the convergence of the following elements of an exciting emerging field called Agile Analytics:
sophisticated analytics techniques, plus
lean learning principles, plus
agile delivery methods, plus
so-called "big data" technologies
Learn:
The analytical modeling process and techniques
How analytical models are deployed using modern technologies
The complexities of data discovery, harvesting, and preparation
How to apply agile techniques to shorten the analytics development cycle
How to apply lean learning principles to develop actionable and valuable analytics.
In this talk, Suze explores a case study from her recent work in a London agency, where, working for a large retail client, the programme of work moved from a project-based delivery model incorporating Scrum to a more product-based model. Drawing on aspects of Kanban, Design Thinking and Lean Startup, and implementing a dual-track agile approach, the team is now ‘thinking more product’.
Suze will delve into how the organisation has shifted to this model and how it coped with the change. She will talk through some of the difficulties that she experienced along the way and how these issues were mitigated, and provide take away techniques to help in your organisations.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8036/thinking-more-product-moving-from-scrum-to-a-dual-track-agile-approach
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Implementing Dual-Track Agile :: Lessons from the trenches @ITSpring.by May 2019Pedro Teixeira
Evermore people are talking about Discovery and Hypothesis-driven approaches. But where do you start? What do they really mean?
Pedro will share with us how he moved away from a 2-year delivery roadmap by enabling his Engineering teams to do a Dual Track Agile. A real case-study!
Key Learning Points:
- Understand what Dual Track Agile is
- Learn why Pedro and his team decided to use it at OutSystems
- Know what was the strategy in place for the Change Management
- Understand their failures and what they have learned with it
- Identify some Common Pitfalls
- Understand the importance of cadence for alignment and trust
- Understand the importance of building (truly) autonomous teams
Agile In Transition and In Business World | Mick ChungAgileTour@TW
Agile Contract and Kanban in Business Operation
1. Agile is good, but …
2. Communication Starts Within.
3. Documentation is not evil.
4. Contract can be a great help not constraints.
5. Let’s Build Ourselves and The Future a Perfect World.
Keywords are an important part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) internet marketing. This is a presentation that I gave at a local community college in Michigan.
Big organizations have a reputation as stifling and lonely places where design careers sputter. The structure required to become successful on a large scale traditionally left little room for creative exploration. These places are awakening to the value of design. They are looking to designers to transform their cubicled caverns into design led enterprises. Changing culture is hard, especially when you bring people who think differently together. But we already have the skills to get this done. Using the same user centered tactics that we use to design products and services, designers are creating change. Gail will show how to extend design thinking, empathy, and collaboration to thrive as a designer and be a happy part of something big.
Rubedo CMS : designing content and user layouts.
For each of your content types, you can create your own custom content layout by selecting the fields (title, summary, date, image…) you want to be displayed. To go any further, you can decide whether each element will be displayed or not for each device (desktop, tablet or smartphone).
For each of your content types, you can create your own custom content layout by selecting the fields (title, summary, date, image…) you want to be displayed. To go any further, you can decide whether each element will be displayed or not for each device (desktop, tablet or smartphone).
Marcelo Paiva - Who has the time to design, learn and grow? (UXDEV Summit 2017)Marcelo Paiva
From working as a freelancer to collaborating in teams, managing a group and becoming an Executive. The career path for a product designers - and developers - is maturing. But how do you grow on your career without losing touch with the creative passion that lead you to this field in the first place?
This presentation will show you how to grow and lead teams by staying ahead of the curve on new tools, efficient workflows and latest design trends while having fun and enabling others.
Learning to share with Powerful Work PresentationsGail Swanson
Presenting work is essential to getting things done. It’s the gateway to collaboration, getting buy-in and sharing knowledge. Building shared understanding of the abstract concepts, and complex decisions of information architecture is as important as the quality of the work. Unfortunately, these meetings frequently trigger opinionated debate and fail to move things in a productive direction.
Hear about insights gathered from years of observation and experimentation in a wide array of situations. You will learn how to create a presentation strategy, select the right level of detail, and handle difficult moments. Use work presentations as an opportunity to connect and make progress.
Not sure how well this presentation stands on it's own, so you might want to check out the accompanying blog post http://www.springbox.com/insight/post/Getting-Started-with-Mobile-UX-Design.aspx
UXVision - 20 things you need to know about UX for Content - Tal Florentin | ...TAL FLORENTIN
A double case study showing 2 success stories of UX design for leading content websites MaVeZe.co.il and UXVToday.co.il, together with a practical set of tips that everyone who's designing UX for content should think about during the process. Taking you behind the scenes of UX design.
This is a introduction part, at the UX Seminar in my ex-working place.
Actually i mixed all materials and Pictures at here, slideshare. i feel i am really sorry not to say the sources.(i forgot and can't find the site of sources)
Find out why and how working working your UX process from the content is a strategy that can lead to becoming a strategic design influencer with a seat at the decision table. It can also reduce UX churn in design due to lack of content at the start of design. Maybe most important, it can drive significant improvements in key metrics including end-user satisfaction.
Accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies...Eduards Cauna
Preparations in Latvia for the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies presented by Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development.
User-Centered Public Services: UX and Academic LibrariesRose Petralia
Libraries have always been libraries. What has changed is the whole world. There is something that has always been at the core of a library -- service -- and a truly brilliant library will keep its core while evolving with the world.
Get best practices based on trial and error from 50+ design sprints.
You'll learn:
- A scalable framework for 5, 7, or 10+ day design sprints.
- How to unpack assumptions, prototype quickly, and validate designs in days.
- Step-by-step instructions for each day of a design sprint.
Day 2 slides from a two-day workshop on UX Foundations by Meg Kurdziolek and Karen Tang. Day 2 covered research methods that can be used throughout the design process to evaluate and validate design.
Design To Make a Difference: Beyond UX Unicorns to the 5 Layers of Service Ar...Jess McMullin
UXCamp Ottawa 2013 talk sharing how to do design that makes a difference, especially in government and the public sector. Introduces service architecture framework to help designers and public servants think about larger service delivery system beyond the direct service experience.
You keep using the word agile, i do not think it means what you think it meansNathan Gloyn
Slides for the talk about what people think agile is, what agile is about and how you can get back to the idea of agile.
A recording of the talk from NDC London 2016 should be available here https://vimeo.com/158164783
How To Build A Mobile App - From Ideation to LaunchCarlos S. Aquino
This presentation is meant to be a 40k-Foot view of the mobile application development process. Overall this guide does not meant delve into the iOS or Android programming language instead it is a guide on how to take an idea and develop it into a mobile app.
Proven Strategies for increasing Adoption and EngagementChristian Buckley
While Office 365 continues to grow at a rapid rate, adoption can be slow and difficult without a strategy in place. This presentation covers a number of different topics that all have an impact on end user adoption and engagement. This presentation shares: a "go to market" strategy for a successful Office 365 deployment; productivity features that will enhance adoption; strategies for keeping end users engaged; how to track usage and activity so you can measure your success; and touches on many of the productivity features (Groups, Delve, Yammer, co-editing, etc). The primary focus, however, is on the management/ongoing educational aspects of a successful deployment.
MX: Managing Experience | Day 2 - Designing Delivery: A Unified Approach to D...Adaptive Path
The digital service economy demands the ability to create coherent user experiences while achieving end-to-end agility and efficiency. The ability to deliver them together requires seamless system, process, and organizational design. Companies need a unified approach to design and operations that centers the entire organization around helping customers achieve their goals.
This workshop teaches participants how to connect user-centered design to the entire service delivery lifecycle. It introduces a holistic approach that interconnects marketing, design, development, and operations into a circular design/operations loop. Through talks, discussions, and guided exercises, participants learn how to improve both customer satisfaction and operational effectiveness by:
-designing for service, not just software
-minimizing latency and maximizing feedback throughout the organization
-designing for failure and operating to learn
-using operations as input to design
#WomenInAgile Workshop: The Changing Face of Agile - Agile2016 Atlanta, GANatalie Warnert
The slides from the kickoff of the #WomenInAgile workshop with facilitator Natalie Warnert and keynote speaker Cindy Morse of Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Agile2016, Atlanta, GA
Value Mapping with Fewer Dollars and more Sense - Natalie Warnert Agile2016Natalie Warnert
Prioritization of work is hard across all levels of the organization. When we focus on feature value, often the first indicator of value is dollars versus effort expended. But what about value that is not realized through dollars? Our customers do not only think in dollars.
By expanding the definition of what value can truly mean, we can normalize, rationalize, and quantify value in new and different ways that make sense to all of our customers. We can assess value across programs as well as engage team members and stakeholders through interactive activities. In a way, it’s like relative sizing to drive values that appeal to many different consumers of your product.
Natalie first demonstrates traditional value estimation (dollars) and the resulting feature map/prioritization. Then, we look at other types of value realization through a team or program level activity using common customer sense. The activity provides participants with hands-on experience estimating and mapping feature value sans dollars on a level playing field. This gives Product Owners and teams a better baseline to align enterprise and program roadmaps with their own team or product priorities - and most importantly what the customer actually values - dollars aside!
Objectivity or Subjectivity - Owning your bias and interactions - Natalie War...Natalie Warnert
Teams are diverse entities with different backgrounds, experiences, and opinions. This diversity leads to bias-influenced interactions among team members, whether they realize the influence or not. The behaviors and resulting decisions made because of implicit or explicit bias have their own consequences to teams and projects alike. These consequences and biases are more visible retrospectively, but how do we encourage and empower people to understand how the judgments they make wholly affect their behavioral interactions?
This session will discuss the the idea of cognitive bias, both implicit and explicit, using several examples from well known studies, smaller research observations, and individual experiences. A facilitated discussion will be conducted to discuss how the example perceptions and situations, as well as participant's own experiences, influence behaviors and interactions with others. By talking openly about bias, participants will learn approaches to dissect their rationale and motivations in order to make decisions which are less emotionally charged and more objective. Participants will leave with a self-defined plan to help interpret their judgments and realizations to continue practicing mindful bias exploration in their lives.
A value mapping activity that compares "business" value to "user" value using financial measurements and kano analysis to help prioritize and value features. SGBLR
Houston - We Have a Priority - Natalie Warnert Scrum Gathering Orlando 2016Natalie Warnert
Presentation from Scrum Gathering Orlando (April 2016) about value mapping and prioritizing from a customer and business perspective using both Kano and ROI analysis using Agile and Scrum principles - Natalie Warnert
www.nataliewarnert.com
Women In Agile Thesis Research - Natalie Warnert, St. Catherine UniversityNatalie Warnert
Summary of findings for Women in Agile thesis defense presentation. Increasing women's involvement in the Agile community. by Natalie Warnert #WomenInAgile
May 2015
www.nataliewarnert.com
www.womeninagile.com
Explore our comprehensive data analysis project presentation on predicting product ad campaign performance. Learn how data-driven insights can optimize your marketing strategies and enhance campaign effectiveness. Perfect for professionals and students looking to understand the power of data analysis in advertising. for more details visit: https://bostoninstituteofanalytics.org/data-science-and-artificial-intelligence/
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
Quantitative Data AnalysisReliability Analysis (Cronbach Alpha) Common Method...2023240532
Quantitative data Analysis
Overview
Reliability Analysis (Cronbach Alpha)
Common Method Bias (Harman Single Factor Test)
Frequency Analysis (Demographic)
Descriptive Analysis
06-04-2024 - NYC Tech Week - Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
https://www.meetup.com/unstructured-data-meetup-new-york/
This meetup is for people working in unstructured data. Speakers will come present about related topics such as vector databases, LLMs, and managing data at scale. The intended audience of this group includes roles like machine learning engineers, data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, and PMs.This meetup was formerly Milvus Meetup, and is sponsored by Zilliz maintainers of Milvus.
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Empowering the Data Analytics Ecosystem: A Laser Focus on Value
The data analytics ecosystem thrives when every component functions at its peak, unlocking the true potential of data. Here's a laser focus on key areas for an empowered ecosystem:
1. Democratize Access, Not Data:
Granular Access Controls: Provide users with self-service tools tailored to their specific needs, preventing data overload and misuse.
Data Catalogs: Implement robust data catalogs for easy discovery and understanding of available data sources.
2. Foster Collaboration with Clear Roles:
Data Mesh Architecture: Break down data silos by creating a distributed data ownership model with clear ownership and responsibilities.
Collaborative Workspaces: Utilize interactive platforms where data scientists, analysts, and domain experts can work seamlessly together.
3. Leverage Advanced Analytics Strategically:
AI-powered Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like data cleaning and feature engineering, freeing up data talent for higher-level analysis.
Right-Tool Selection: Strategically choose the most effective advanced analytics techniques (e.g., AI, ML) based on specific business problems.
4. Prioritize Data Quality with Automation:
Automated Data Validation: Implement automated data quality checks to identify and rectify errors at the source, minimizing downstream issues.
Data Lineage Tracking: Track the flow of data throughout the ecosystem, ensuring transparency and facilitating root cause analysis for errors.
5. Cultivate a Data-Driven Mindset:
Metrics-Driven Performance Management: Align KPIs and performance metrics with data-driven insights to ensure actionable decision making.
Data Storytelling Workshops: Equip stakeholders with the skills to translate complex data findings into compelling narratives that drive action.
Benefits of a Precise Ecosystem:
Sharpened Focus: Precise access and clear roles ensure everyone works with the most relevant data, maximizing efficiency.
Actionable Insights: Strategic analytics and automated quality checks lead to more reliable and actionable data insights.
Continuous Improvement: Data-driven performance management fosters a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
Sustainable Growth: Empowered by data, organizations can make informed decisions to drive sustainable growth and innovation.
By focusing on these precise actions, organizations can create an empowered data analytics ecosystem that delivers real value by driving data-driven decisions and maximizing the return on their data investment.
Lean Business Analysis and UX Runway - Natalie Warnert
1. Lean Business Analysis and UX
Runway
Managing value by reducing waste
Natalie Warnert
IT Arena – Lviv, Ukraine
October 3, 2015
2. Agenda
• Natalie’s background
• Define roles of BA and UX in Agile
• Understand Agile role integration
• Show example of how this can be done via
Runway process (Best Buy example)
• Benefits and risks
You will leave knowing how to help BAs and
UX collaborate to learn quickly
6. What is a BA?
Business Analysts
Act as a liaison between
Business and IT
Work on requirements for
projects
Solve problems
Build specifications for how
solutions will work
Define As-Is and To-Be
states of the business
User Experience Professionals
• User Researcher
• Information Architect
• Visual Designer
• Accessibility Specialist
• [insert verb here] how a person
interacts with a system
– Flow
– Perception
– Ease of use
– Understanding
What is UX?
*Content from Leslie J. Morse
7. Why is it so hard for UX, analysts and
Agile to play nicely?
Image source: http://static.comicvine.com/
8. Agile Manifesto
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more
Source: agilemanifesto.org
9. Agile Manifesto
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more
But comprehensive
documentation is my JOB!
10. Agile Manifesto
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more
Both of these are important
11. Agile Manifesto
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more
We can’t just keep changing things
ALL THE TIME! Change request?
That big design up front
is an important plan!
12. But what about Lean?
Eliminate waste
Small batch sizes
Only deliver value
Shorten the feedback loop
Build > Measure > Learn
15. I do not understand…
Eliminate waste
Small batch sizes
Only deliver value
Shorten the feedback loop
What is not value? All of this is
valuable!
16. I do not understand…
Eliminate waste
Small batch sizes
Only deliver value
Shorten the feedback loop
Does that mean I have to work
faster? Quality takes time!
17. It’s a balance!
Key integration and engagement at all levels of
planning, development, implementation, and
feedback to understand and respond to
customer desires
Image source: worldofDTCmarketing.com
18. But how?
• Shorten development lifecycles
• Business hypothesis driven experimentation
• Validated learning
Source: The Lean Startup – Eric Ries
19. BA’s can analyze and
create
But how?
• Shorten development lifecycles
• Business hypothesis driven experimentation
• Validated learning
20. But how?
• Shorten development lifecycles
• Business hypothesis driven experimentation
• Validated learning
Research
Prototyping
A/B Tests
Etc.
21. But how?
• Shorten development lifecycles
• Business hypothesis driven experimentation
• Validated learning
At all levels: portfolio, product, team
22. Analyst and UX Runway
Continuously assessing what needs to be done
first
second
just in time (JIT)
or not at all (waste)
to find the Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
MVP = ‘just enough’ to learn
23. Analyst and UX Runway
Big Design up Front to Just in Time to
adjust to feedback and improve cycle time
Broad requirements to pieces of value and
function to learn
Focus and detail
Time to development and delivery
25. Analyst and UX Runway
+5 +4 +3 +2 +1 Dev Starts
User Research (A/B tests, BDUF,
Studies, hypothesis validation)
Focus to integrate learning and
investigate new hypotheses
26. Analyst and UX Runway
Information Architecture and
Visual Design (wireframes &
images)
Focus for
Grooming
+5 +4 +3 +2 +1 Dev Starts
User Research (A/B tests, BDUF,
Studies, hypothesis validation)
Focus to integrate learning and
investigate new hypotheses
27. Analyst and UX Runway
Information Architecture and
Visual Design (wireframes &
images)
Focus for
Grooming
+5 +4 +3 +2 +1 Dev Starts
User Research (A/B tests, BDUF,
Studies, hypothesis validation)
Focus to integrate learning and
investigate new hypotheses
Focus for
story
review
10% overlapIntegration capacity
Any last
details
29. How does it actually work?
• Story mapping
• Value mapping
• Backlog/requirements grooming
• Internal reviews and collaboration with
entire team (at multiple engagement levels)
• Demos of designs, results of research,
describing business hypotheses and value
learning
32. Backlog Grooming/Story Refinement
Connect to data feed
Data mine and
associate parent
products with child
products
Complete your
purchase
Wireframes
Visual Design
Output data to front
end
Organize and
display items
Write and display
text
33. Sprint Planning
Connect to data feed
Data mine and
associate parent
products with child
products
Customers who
bought also bought
Wireframes
Visual Design
Output data to front
end
Organize and
display items
Write and display
text
1
2
2
3
1
34. Execution and Review
• Sprint 1 = Spreadsheet of associations, data
flows/sources, system and user interactions
• Sprint 2 = Products associating in a list from
database, outputting in front end, visual
design (what it will look like)
• Sprint 3 = Fully functional prototype with a
few test products – enough to learn
36. Working TOGETHER
Instead of throwing things over the wall:
• What the system shall do
• How the customer shall interact with the
system
• How the system shall interact with itself and
other systems
Collaborate to make the most effective solution in
an efficient manner.
37. Benefits of Runway
• Increased quality
• Fewer fire drills or emergencies
• Less re-work
• Faster/effective delivery
• Flexibility in design
• Consistent product
• Predictability
38. Risks of Runway
• Analysis paralysis
• Bottleneck creation
• Can be manipulated
• “Just enough” is not the same for all teams,
features, products
39. What to remember:
Planning is not bad
Plans should allow for flexibility
Continuous learning and validation
Value is key – effectiveness over efficiency
Image Source: http://blog.thehigheredcio.com/2011/08/31/efficiency-vs-effectiveness/
Which eventually gets us to the minimum valuable product (Zappos example)
Which eventually gets us to the minimum valuable product (Zappos example)
Talk about how we cannot work in silos. The user does not see this as separate products or flows – it is all one flow to them.
Product is a means to an end – BestBuy.com experience is a means to get the user to purchase a product, accessories, protection plans etc.
All the way from PDP > Add to Cart – through Thank You Page
Add BBY.com homepage again to the end – drill, henry ford
Start with example of Accessories
Epic level > break down into experiences
Recommendations/Attach: Users who bough also bought, Complete your Purchase > How many to show, what product to show them on, how does the user interact with the items > Pull the feed from database, hydrate the data, show the data in the UI