How do you know what you should be building? Are your customers requests actually what they need? Do they know what they want? … and more importantly, what’s the real cost of getting it wrong? Lean Product Discovery is an easy way to help answer these questions and validate (or define) what you’re about to build. Reconsider your ever growing backlog of epics and stories into a validated list of customer value. Transform your team from being a “feature factory” to becoming a squad of strategic feature ninjas. In this session we will overview Lean Product Discovery, go over strategies, tactics and tips to establish an environment of testing and validation. Although I’m categorizing this under “Product Strategy,” this topic crosses into half of the categories offered. Nobody puts Lean Product Discovery in a corner.
Presenter: Dan Katz Dan Katz is a user-centric technologist who creates products that people want to use. He’s passionate about lean product discovery and user psychology, mixed metaphors, craft coffee and ice cream. Dan is a Director of Product Management at CA Technologies. When not focused on his users, he can be found masquerading as an Agile coach preaching the philosophy of kaizen.
So the purpose of product discovery is to make sure we have some evidence that when we ask the engineers to build production-quality software, it won’t be a wasted effort.
A talk I gave at Google on Strategy and Product Discovery
We discussed:
Discovering Features and Products (Product Strategy)
Discovering Products and Product Lines (Product Line / Company Strategy)
Marty Cagan: Using High Fidelity Prototypes for Product Discovery
Would you like to be able to increase the adoption rate of your product? In this session, we will introduce you to cutting edge concepts and techniques to shift your product development process from output to outcome driven. We will combine elements of Lean Startup, Product Discovery, and Experiment Driven Development to accelerate learning to quickly build products customer love.
Discovering the right product is a vital part of a product development process. To do that effectively best product teams use a Product Discovery process. It answers the question of what product to build. Done right it helps you build products customers would love.
Blending Product Discovery and Product DeliveryJosiah Renaudin
More and more organizations are realizing that while they are getting more done, they are not necessarily getting more value. More code does not mean more product and more product does not mean more market share. According to David Hussman, we need to shift our focus toward a balanced investment in discovery and delivery without going back to gathering big requirements up front. To accomplish this, we need to embrace new discovery metaphors and practices. David draws on his years of experience working with product managers, heads of product, and product owners as he introduces ideas like mapping teams to product, product discovery cadence that feeds a product delivery cadence, how to learn outside the code, and when it is essential to learn in the code. If you are looking for a post-agile gem, drop in and be ready to move on, building on the past success of agile methods while looking toward a future where product learning is valued over process worship.
So the purpose of product discovery is to make sure we have some evidence that when we ask the engineers to build production-quality software, it won’t be a wasted effort.
A talk I gave at Google on Strategy and Product Discovery
We discussed:
Discovering Features and Products (Product Strategy)
Discovering Products and Product Lines (Product Line / Company Strategy)
Marty Cagan: Using High Fidelity Prototypes for Product Discovery
Would you like to be able to increase the adoption rate of your product? In this session, we will introduce you to cutting edge concepts and techniques to shift your product development process from output to outcome driven. We will combine elements of Lean Startup, Product Discovery, and Experiment Driven Development to accelerate learning to quickly build products customer love.
Discovering the right product is a vital part of a product development process. To do that effectively best product teams use a Product Discovery process. It answers the question of what product to build. Done right it helps you build products customers would love.
Blending Product Discovery and Product DeliveryJosiah Renaudin
More and more organizations are realizing that while they are getting more done, they are not necessarily getting more value. More code does not mean more product and more product does not mean more market share. According to David Hussman, we need to shift our focus toward a balanced investment in discovery and delivery without going back to gathering big requirements up front. To accomplish this, we need to embrace new discovery metaphors and practices. David draws on his years of experience working with product managers, heads of product, and product owners as he introduces ideas like mapping teams to product, product discovery cadence that feeds a product delivery cadence, how to learn outside the code, and when it is essential to learn in the code. If you are looking for a post-agile gem, drop in and be ready to move on, building on the past success of agile methods while looking toward a future where product learning is valued over process worship.
Game Product Discovery: Validation & IterationMartyn Jones
Slides & notes from a recent Product Tank presentation. I talk through Product Management and how I think it relates to Game Design, in particular how to apply the Discovery process
(Last change, July 2: Removed as beyond most teams' scope Eyetracking Study, Clickstream Analysis, Usability Benchmarking; Added Live-Data Prototypes, Demand Validation Test, Wizard of Oz Tests)
For our teams tasked with building products and features for The New York Times, we face a common challenge with many: how do we figure out what’s worth spending our time on?
The answer seems straightforward: test your ideas with real customers, leveraging the expertise of your product, UX, and engineering talent. Figure out the smallest test that you can come up with to test a specific hypothesis, gather data and insights, and keep iterating on it until you know whether the problem is real and your solution will prove valuable, usable, and feasible.
As part of our efforts to adopt such a data-driven, experimental approach to product development, we recently kicked off a product discovery pilot program. Small, cross-functional teams were paired with coaches and facilitators over a six week period to demonstrate how product discovery and Lean Startup techniques could work for real-world customer opportunities at The New York Times.
One of the first things that we learned about the process from our participants was that they wanted a "toolkit" - something to help them figure out what they should be doing, asking or making to get as quickly as possible towards the validated learning, prototypes and user tests that would have the most impact.
To help the facilitate the learning process for our dual-track Agile teams, the Product Architecture team here at The Times (Christine Yom, Jim Lamiell, Josh Turk, Priya Ollapally, and Al Ming) built a "Product Discovery Activity Guide" that rolled up activities, exercises, and testing techniques from all our favorite thought leaders.
This included brainstorming exercises from Gamestorming and Innovation Games, testing techniques from traditional user research, and rapid test-and-learn tactics from Google Ventures, Eric Ries (The Lean Startup), Jeff Gothelf (Lean UX), Steve Blank (Customer Development) and our spirit guide, Marty Cagan (Inspired), among others.
Our goal was to make it a tool not just for learning how to get started, but to be a living document for teams to share knowledge about the process itself. What techniques worked and didn't work? What tactics did they learn elsewhere that might be worth sharing with the rest of the company?
We hope you find it useful, and whether you’d like to share with us what you’re doing with it, or you have suggestions (big or small) to improve it for future product generations, please let us know! (nyt.tech.productarchitecture@nytimes.com)
Al Ming
July 2015
I talk I gave recently to the Stockholm Development department. I presented a model of 'Discovery/Delivery Loop' that incorporates UX Discovery into the software development process.
The video for this talk from a CEO Tales event run by Business of Software is now available here: http://businessofsoftware.org/2016/07/all-talks-from-business-of-software-conferences-in-one-place-saas-software-talks/
Marty Cagan on why customers aren't the source of innovation, and how to make the most of your engineering teams.
Marty talks about the hard parts of Product Management - People, Process, Product and Culture. For more detail about the talk, see our Meetup page here:
https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Auckland/events/248013722/
Want to sharpen your Product Management Skills and network with awesome people from the Auckland Product Management Community? Then join us at ProductTank Auckland:
https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Auckland/
Agile Product Development Playbook - Popular Tools and TechniquesAndy Birds
This Playbook provides an overview of some popular agile product development tools and techniques that Andy has found useful when building products. The Playbook focuses on Product Roadmaps as a keystone tool and provides a very high-level overview of other tools including; Product Vision Canvas, Product Canvas, Business Model Canvas, and Lean Canvas.
The Playbook is ideal for Product Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, User Experience Designers and anyone who works on an agile team or squad.
Presented at Ford's 2017 Global IT Learning Summit (GLITS)Ron Lazaro
Presentation Details: The best way to think about product discovery is to think about it in relation to product delivery. It's not possible to build a product without doing both discovery and delivery. Discovery encompasses all the activities that we do to decide what to build. It includes all the decisions we make to decide what to build next, whereas delivery is all the activities we do to write code, package releases, ship products. It's how we deliver value to our customers.
Key takeaway for the participants will be to help them understand the difference between Product Discovery and Product Delivery and how to apply techniques in doing both.
Product Strategy - How to figure out a plan for your product?Julie Knibbe
- What is product strategy?
- How do you evaluate your current position and performance (KPIs, metrics, Kano..)
- Can you be agile and have a vision?
- How to master the art of roadmapping when you have to juggle short term gains and longer term projects?
Working Smarter: Integrating lean startup practices into your companyNatalie Hollier
Case study & afternoon keynote presented at the Mobile + Web Developer Conference in San Francisco, 2015.
http://mobilewebdevconference.com/san-francisco-july-2015/agenda/day-two/300pm.html
"Innovate or die” is the mantra of successful companies. So how can we build innovation into our product development process? More and more teams are adopting lean startup techniques to discover customer needs, focus on building what is valuable, and ultimately deliver great products.
This talk will share how a small education technology startup I worked with in NY scaled from a handful of people to multiple products and teams across 3 countries using lean startup practices. At various stages of growth we faced different challenges in keeping our processes lean, but throughout the journey we tried, failed and learned how to move fast and innovate.
Learn hands-on tools & techniques for applying lean that any team can start small and quickly see results, such as:
* How to move faster using collaborative, cross-functional teams
* Lightweight dev tools for scaling design across many teams
* Building a lean mindset in larger organizations
With real examples and artifacts you will learn how to manage - and thrive - using lean to create awesome products.
How to Build a Product Vision by Spotify Product ManagerProduct School
In this episode, Matt Williams talks about building a product vision and getting stakeholder buy in. He also covers 'managing up' and how to navigate within your organization, whilst fostering an understanding of vision and user empathy with engineers.
Product Development, a PM Perspective by Microsoft Product LeaderProduct School
Main takeaways:
-In this introductory session we will cover concepts related to building MVPs, performing hypothesis testing, accelerating the build-measure-learn loop, and basic product design principles.
-We will briefly touch upon certain frameworks and the common challenges involved in building new products.
-This is meant to cater to folks who are starting their PM journey fresh.
The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. Developed at GV, it’s a “greatest hits” of business strategy, innovation, behavior science, design thinking, and more—packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use.
20 things I wish I had known about Lean-Agile Delivery when I startedAndy Birds
Agile – Lean, Scrum, Kanban, Nexus, SAFe, DSDM, XP and the list goes on. The world of Agile delivery and Lean product development has come a long way over the past few years and we’ve seen a huge uptake across Europe and globally. We’ve watched companies transform their ways of working and create amazing new product experiences through iterative development and Agile delivery. Not only this, but the engineering, product and delivery culture Agile promotes has revolutionised places of work.
During TechEdge we’ll hear from the evangelists who have transformed businesses and faced the many challenges that come with scaling Agile whilst staying true to the Lean-Agile principles, particularly as businesses mature and grow. We’ll explore the different Agile methodologies, tools and how to scale these and implement them across different teams and businesses.
In this talk, Andy will run through 20 things he wishes he had known about Lean product development and Agile delivery before he started. Andy will be sharing things that he has found useful when building products in the hope that you will be able to pick up a few tips that you can apply.
You'll learn:
- How to create a roadmap for current, near-term, and future projects
- How to communicate priorities clearly with your team
- How to present your roadmap to executives
Product Management Class for Digital StartupsMiet Claes
Practical tips and inspiration for how to manage your digital product, for the selected startups at Idealabs 2016.
Course Material:
Creating Personas + Template
http://miet.be/why-personas-haunt-your-company-and-how-to-ghost-bust-their-ass-free-template/
Feature Spec Template
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nNDnzc4c3LWz5Dlh8jFCMApY6CQ_s8I23c3ej11E2mg/edit?usp=sharing
Big Bertha Template
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fwm4segHofoPzzG5BYzJOAb2gfpggCNx4rZWzwA7iO4/edit?usp=sharing
Bug Reporting Checklist
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1of8cpDEC4sZMr3FK3O-OaBemppqi55IGS2Qus3n-H9c/edit?usp=sharing
Game Product Discovery: Validation & IterationMartyn Jones
Slides & notes from a recent Product Tank presentation. I talk through Product Management and how I think it relates to Game Design, in particular how to apply the Discovery process
(Last change, July 2: Removed as beyond most teams' scope Eyetracking Study, Clickstream Analysis, Usability Benchmarking; Added Live-Data Prototypes, Demand Validation Test, Wizard of Oz Tests)
For our teams tasked with building products and features for The New York Times, we face a common challenge with many: how do we figure out what’s worth spending our time on?
The answer seems straightforward: test your ideas with real customers, leveraging the expertise of your product, UX, and engineering talent. Figure out the smallest test that you can come up with to test a specific hypothesis, gather data and insights, and keep iterating on it until you know whether the problem is real and your solution will prove valuable, usable, and feasible.
As part of our efforts to adopt such a data-driven, experimental approach to product development, we recently kicked off a product discovery pilot program. Small, cross-functional teams were paired with coaches and facilitators over a six week period to demonstrate how product discovery and Lean Startup techniques could work for real-world customer opportunities at The New York Times.
One of the first things that we learned about the process from our participants was that they wanted a "toolkit" - something to help them figure out what they should be doing, asking or making to get as quickly as possible towards the validated learning, prototypes and user tests that would have the most impact.
To help the facilitate the learning process for our dual-track Agile teams, the Product Architecture team here at The Times (Christine Yom, Jim Lamiell, Josh Turk, Priya Ollapally, and Al Ming) built a "Product Discovery Activity Guide" that rolled up activities, exercises, and testing techniques from all our favorite thought leaders.
This included brainstorming exercises from Gamestorming and Innovation Games, testing techniques from traditional user research, and rapid test-and-learn tactics from Google Ventures, Eric Ries (The Lean Startup), Jeff Gothelf (Lean UX), Steve Blank (Customer Development) and our spirit guide, Marty Cagan (Inspired), among others.
Our goal was to make it a tool not just for learning how to get started, but to be a living document for teams to share knowledge about the process itself. What techniques worked and didn't work? What tactics did they learn elsewhere that might be worth sharing with the rest of the company?
We hope you find it useful, and whether you’d like to share with us what you’re doing with it, or you have suggestions (big or small) to improve it for future product generations, please let us know! (nyt.tech.productarchitecture@nytimes.com)
Al Ming
July 2015
I talk I gave recently to the Stockholm Development department. I presented a model of 'Discovery/Delivery Loop' that incorporates UX Discovery into the software development process.
The video for this talk from a CEO Tales event run by Business of Software is now available here: http://businessofsoftware.org/2016/07/all-talks-from-business-of-software-conferences-in-one-place-saas-software-talks/
Marty Cagan on why customers aren't the source of innovation, and how to make the most of your engineering teams.
Marty talks about the hard parts of Product Management - People, Process, Product and Culture. For more detail about the talk, see our Meetup page here:
https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Auckland/events/248013722/
Want to sharpen your Product Management Skills and network with awesome people from the Auckland Product Management Community? Then join us at ProductTank Auckland:
https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Auckland/
Agile Product Development Playbook - Popular Tools and TechniquesAndy Birds
This Playbook provides an overview of some popular agile product development tools and techniques that Andy has found useful when building products. The Playbook focuses on Product Roadmaps as a keystone tool and provides a very high-level overview of other tools including; Product Vision Canvas, Product Canvas, Business Model Canvas, and Lean Canvas.
The Playbook is ideal for Product Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, User Experience Designers and anyone who works on an agile team or squad.
Presented at Ford's 2017 Global IT Learning Summit (GLITS)Ron Lazaro
Presentation Details: The best way to think about product discovery is to think about it in relation to product delivery. It's not possible to build a product without doing both discovery and delivery. Discovery encompasses all the activities that we do to decide what to build. It includes all the decisions we make to decide what to build next, whereas delivery is all the activities we do to write code, package releases, ship products. It's how we deliver value to our customers.
Key takeaway for the participants will be to help them understand the difference between Product Discovery and Product Delivery and how to apply techniques in doing both.
Product Strategy - How to figure out a plan for your product?Julie Knibbe
- What is product strategy?
- How do you evaluate your current position and performance (KPIs, metrics, Kano..)
- Can you be agile and have a vision?
- How to master the art of roadmapping when you have to juggle short term gains and longer term projects?
Working Smarter: Integrating lean startup practices into your companyNatalie Hollier
Case study & afternoon keynote presented at the Mobile + Web Developer Conference in San Francisco, 2015.
http://mobilewebdevconference.com/san-francisco-july-2015/agenda/day-two/300pm.html
"Innovate or die” is the mantra of successful companies. So how can we build innovation into our product development process? More and more teams are adopting lean startup techniques to discover customer needs, focus on building what is valuable, and ultimately deliver great products.
This talk will share how a small education technology startup I worked with in NY scaled from a handful of people to multiple products and teams across 3 countries using lean startup practices. At various stages of growth we faced different challenges in keeping our processes lean, but throughout the journey we tried, failed and learned how to move fast and innovate.
Learn hands-on tools & techniques for applying lean that any team can start small and quickly see results, such as:
* How to move faster using collaborative, cross-functional teams
* Lightweight dev tools for scaling design across many teams
* Building a lean mindset in larger organizations
With real examples and artifacts you will learn how to manage - and thrive - using lean to create awesome products.
How to Build a Product Vision by Spotify Product ManagerProduct School
In this episode, Matt Williams talks about building a product vision and getting stakeholder buy in. He also covers 'managing up' and how to navigate within your organization, whilst fostering an understanding of vision and user empathy with engineers.
Product Development, a PM Perspective by Microsoft Product LeaderProduct School
Main takeaways:
-In this introductory session we will cover concepts related to building MVPs, performing hypothesis testing, accelerating the build-measure-learn loop, and basic product design principles.
-We will briefly touch upon certain frameworks and the common challenges involved in building new products.
-This is meant to cater to folks who are starting their PM journey fresh.
The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. Developed at GV, it’s a “greatest hits” of business strategy, innovation, behavior science, design thinking, and more—packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use.
20 things I wish I had known about Lean-Agile Delivery when I startedAndy Birds
Agile – Lean, Scrum, Kanban, Nexus, SAFe, DSDM, XP and the list goes on. The world of Agile delivery and Lean product development has come a long way over the past few years and we’ve seen a huge uptake across Europe and globally. We’ve watched companies transform their ways of working and create amazing new product experiences through iterative development and Agile delivery. Not only this, but the engineering, product and delivery culture Agile promotes has revolutionised places of work.
During TechEdge we’ll hear from the evangelists who have transformed businesses and faced the many challenges that come with scaling Agile whilst staying true to the Lean-Agile principles, particularly as businesses mature and grow. We’ll explore the different Agile methodologies, tools and how to scale these and implement them across different teams and businesses.
In this talk, Andy will run through 20 things he wishes he had known about Lean product development and Agile delivery before he started. Andy will be sharing things that he has found useful when building products in the hope that you will be able to pick up a few tips that you can apply.
You'll learn:
- How to create a roadmap for current, near-term, and future projects
- How to communicate priorities clearly with your team
- How to present your roadmap to executives
Product Management Class for Digital StartupsMiet Claes
Practical tips and inspiration for how to manage your digital product, for the selected startups at Idealabs 2016.
Course Material:
Creating Personas + Template
http://miet.be/why-personas-haunt-your-company-and-how-to-ghost-bust-their-ass-free-template/
Feature Spec Template
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nNDnzc4c3LWz5Dlh8jFCMApY6CQ_s8I23c3ej11E2mg/edit?usp=sharing
Big Bertha Template
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fwm4segHofoPzzG5BYzJOAb2gfpggCNx4rZWzwA7iO4/edit?usp=sharing
Bug Reporting Checklist
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1of8cpDEC4sZMr3FK3O-OaBemppqi55IGS2Qus3n-H9c/edit?usp=sharing
What Sucks About Product Management by Salesforce Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Being a PM is a hard job, but there’s ways to navigate.
- Building relationships is crucial to getting into product and staying there.
- Determine if the bad parts outweigh the good parts before you switch to Product.
CDI Founder Workshop Session 4 - Lean Startup Methodologies - Kayla Trautwein- EvoNexus (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayla-trautwein-b3bbb621)
Time/ Date- Nov 8th, 6p-8p
Description- Founders often fall into a trap: building a solution for a problem they aren’t sure that their customer really has. With so many options available to consumers, it’s difficult for businesses to stay above the noise. No longer can we ask “Can we build this?” Rather, the question has become “Should we build this?” In other words, “Are we building something that customers really want/need?” After all, the customer is always right.
One of the biggest challenges for entrepreneurs is finding product-market fit, and this journey all begins with customer development. The Lean Startup Methodology will teach you best practices in customer development which will lead you to determine whether to 1) improve the solution you have built, 2) change direction (pivot) or 3) abandon your product or service and try something new. With the odds of failure so high for today’s startups, the Lean Startup Methodology offers an essential regimen for failing fast and iterating so that you have a better chance for success.
Homework-
Watch “The Lean Approach: The Lean Method” with Steve Blank by the Kauffman Founders School.
Watch “The Lean Approach: Getting Out of the Building: Customer Development” with Steve Blank by the Kauffman Founders School.
Read “Customer Development: What Questions Do You Ask Potential Customers?”
Watch “Good and Bad Examples of Customer Interview Questions.”
Engagement
From the video and blog content, you’ve learned that in order to keep driving your product/service in its current direction you should have some validation from potential customers. In the Lean Startup Methodologies Session we’re going to walk through some sample customer interview exercises to help you think about ways to get closer to product/market fit and give you tools to help determine when it’s necessary to make a pivot. If you don’t currently have a startup you’re working on, no problem. This session will still be beneficial as you think about other applications for customer interviews, whether it’s in your current job or in a networking scenario.
How can you help new product managers hit the ground running? Here is product management advice we share at HubSpot when onboarding new product leaders to the team. Check out the blog post here: http://product.hubspot.com/blog/9-lessons-from-onboarding-new-product-managers
Getting to Product Market Fit - An Overview of Customer Discovery & ValidationJason Evanish
An overview of the first two stages of Steve Blank's Four Steps to the Epiphany: Customer Discovery and Customer Validation. Includes in depth advice on the customer development interview as well.
I'm writing a book on How to Build Customer Driven Products based on tactics like the ones in this presentation. You can sign up to learn more here: http://eepurl.com/RZoO9
Product Sense (also called Product Intuition or Product Judgement) is the ability to understand what makes a product great. In other words, product sense is very important skill to all product managers. While the name sounds like you’re either born with it or you’re not, Product Sense is just a skill, and like any skill it can get better with practice. I will share my framework and learnings that has helped in improving my product sense in last two years.
Main takeaways:
- Framework of learning and improving your product sense
- Learn how to do your skill gap analysis and ideas to level up
- How to build it as a muscle and create successful products
Intro to Lean Startup and Customer Discovery for AgilistsShashi Jain
This is a short presentation I made to the Portland Agile and Scrum group giving a light introduction to Lean Startup, Customer Discovery, and how you use them together to create a product-market fit.
Tips for Building a Compelling Product Vision by Amazon Sr PMProduct School
- The key elements of a compelling product vision, what’s important and what’s not
- How to come up with a compelling product vision without relying on luck or magic
- How to use a product vision as a mechanism to guide your team
Similar to Lean product discovery: Build the right sh*t - ProductCamp Austin - PCA19 (20)
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
7. Product Strategy
Who is setting the product strategy and defining the roadmap for your product?
Executives
“You will build this! I know
best. I didn’t get to be
senior chief executive
board director of Whoosits
because I was just some
jane bump on the log.”
Sales Customers
“If we only had feature x
then I can sell 20 more
units.”
“I already sold feature x --
so you guys should
probably start buildling it.”
“Oh hello! We need a very
specific feature for our very
specific process. I have a
very detailed spec sheet.
… When will it be ready?”
Product
“Innovation distinguishes
between a leader and a
follower.
I am the next Steve Jobs”
8. Lean Product Discovery
can help you determine
what problems your
customers really have and
build products that will not
only help solve those
problems, but will drive
adoption of your product.
9. What is lean product discovery?
Simply put...
Lean Product Discovery is applying
Lean Principles to product discovery.
By doing so you can reduce
● product uncertainty
● development cost
... and ultimately deliver more value to your
customers.
“In a startup
both the
problem
and the
solution
are unknown”
10. A quick plug: Lean Bookshelf
Eric Ries, Ash Maurya, Jeff Gothelf + Friends
14. Falsifiable Hypotheses
What makes for a good hypothesis?
● It’s Falsifiable - Your hypothesis
should be able to be proven false
● It’s Testable - You should have a
way of setting up controlled tests or
experiments
● It’s Measureable - Your tests or
experiments should be quantitative
Example:
If we take down the paywall until the
10th article read
Then
● Engagement with our
advertisements will go up by
15%
● Weekly subscriber signups will
remain unchanged
16. Split Testing
Split testing, also called “A/B
testing” or “Multivariate
testing” is where you expose
some customers to one
version of your test and the
rest to the original product or
control and see how they
respond differently.
17. Split Testing
Split testing, also called “A/B testing” or
“Multivariate testing” is where you expose
some customers to one version of your
test and the rest to the original product or
control and see how they respond
differently.
Tools:
18. Funnel Analysis
Define what customer
journeys are and what you
want your sales funnel to be.
Unknown visits (website)
Reads second article
Signs up for account
100%
11.2k
48%
5376
8%
896
20. Activity:
Create Hypotheses
5 minutes x2:
Partner with the person next to you.
Create a hypothesis based on your
existing product or one that you’d
like to develop.
Demonstrate that it’s
● Falsifiable
● Testable
● Measureable
24. You need direct
access to your
customers
Often times sales,
marketing and executives
are hyper-protective of
their “accounts.”
The only way to get the
knowledge you need is to
break through that barrier
25. Customer Development
Develop personas or
archetypes.
By developing personas, you
narrow the focus of what
you’re trying to do and who
you’re trying to do it for.
You will also build empathy
for you and your team which
will pay dividends.
Know your customers
Kathryn Messner, Usability.gov, digitalgov.gov, personas 101
26. Customer Development
Invite your customers to be part
of a Customer Advisory Board.
They will get to shape the
product that they use!
Your customers will jump at the
opportunity.
When customers get in groups,
they not only interact with you
but also have empathy for each
other.
Customer Advisory Board
27. Customer Development
Group activities aren’t just
roundtable discussions.
Ask your customers to “buy”
features.
Play “speedboat.”
Have them draw what they want
together with a design studio.
Customer Advisory Board
28. Activity:
Design Studio
Fold a sheet of paper into sections
2 minutes silent drawing of features
you’d like in your ideal car
Partner with the person next to you.
2 minutes each to discuss your
drawings - be descriptive!
2 minutes to collaborate together on
two features
Share
29. Customer Development
Who uses your product?
How do they use it?
Ask and you WILL receive.
Your users can (and will!) give
you direct feedback via 1:1
interviews, surveys and
requests for feedback.
Listen to your customers
30. Customer Development
Your customers are often
smarter than you give them
credit for.
They have needs but they
don’t necessarily know what
they are. Their environment
has trained them to do things
in a certain way.
The best way to learn is to
observe.
Get out of the office!
32. Prototyping + Usability Testing
Prototyping is an easy way to prove
that you are not only building the right
thing, but also the right way.
Often times just sitting down with a
piece of paper and a pencil can yield
incredible results.
33. 1:1 Interviews
Are you trying to discover
something or prove yourself
right?
Pose questions in the
negative as a way to help
bias.
Talk about topics adjacent to
what you really want to
address.
Ask the right questions
34. 1:1 Interview tips
Come prepared with what you
want to know.
● Allow for an hour but aim for fifty minutes
● Make a script and then loosely follow it
● Record it (and get permission)
● Disarm your subject
● Write down interesting things to go back to,
don’t dig in right away
● Ask questions in the negative, try to avoid
bias.
● Dedicate a day to have interviews with
breaks in between
● Always send an email reminder earlier in the
week
● Incentives (contests? gift cards?)
● Always end with a cool down exercise and
(potentially) an invitation back
35. Learn by being
part of a study!
Tammadge Market Research -
http://www.tammadgemrx.com/
Lone Star Market Research -
http://lonestarmarketresearch.com/
ATI Research -
http://www.atiresearch.com/home.shtml
Think Group Austin -
http://www.thinkgroupaustin.com/
URIUX -
http://uriux.com/
QUESTION: Who defines your product roadmap currently? Who determines what you will build? Product Management? Customers? Engineering? Executives? Sales?