Great User Experience is critical to product success. Can you get great user experience at startup speed? Pathfinder Software's Bob Moll and Bernhard Kappe share how design methods can be applied to the hypthesize-test-learn processes of a lean startup, and the benefits of doing so before product development begins.
This talk was presented at the Chicago Lean Startup Circle.
Lean Startup for Healthcare: Workshop at Healthbox Orthogonal
A workshop on how the Lean Startup approach to innovation applies in a healthcare setting, delivered by Pathfinder Software CEO Bernhard Kappe to the inaugural class at the Healthbox startup accelerator
Lean + UX + Agile: Putting It All TogetherOrthogonal
Lean Startup, Pragmatic Marketing, User Experience Design and Agile Development are all approaches to improve your odds of creating successful products.
Are they mutually exclusive, or can you assemble them together to make a lean, mean product success machine?
Pathfinder Software's Amy Willis (UX) Bernhard Kappe (Products Strategy) and Reid MacTavish (Agile Development) share their lessons learned in making lean+ux+agile work.
How to use agile for roadmapping and be successful at itAnupam Kundu
This was my presentation at Agile 2010.
As agile practices become more prevalent, Product Management divisions face increasing challenges to adapt agile techniques. Most Agile project teams prefer direct collaboration with the strategy makers for decision making over reporting metrics; the reality is that only a few product/portfolio managers are actually capable of paradigm shifts to accommodate this drift. What is needed to make this shift? The paper outlines an experience report - adoption of agile-enabled framework by the digital division of a publishing house to charter their product road-map and enable their project team with the “big picture”.
Agile product owners-what ails them (philly_dayofagile)Anupam Kundu
Presentation I used at Philadelphia Day of Agile (#dayofagile) http://dayofagile.org/agenda.
It was received well within the audience. Any comments are welcome...
Offshore development model in 10 steps sap yardSAPYard
Recently while discussing with one of my onsite client, I
came to know that clients here are not completely aware
of how offshore functions. They believe that after they
give the business requirement, their responsibilities are
over. In short, offshore model is a Black Box to them.
They are only interested in the final deliverables and not
in how offshore get the things done.
Lean Startup for Healthcare: Workshop at Healthbox Orthogonal
A workshop on how the Lean Startup approach to innovation applies in a healthcare setting, delivered by Pathfinder Software CEO Bernhard Kappe to the inaugural class at the Healthbox startup accelerator
Lean + UX + Agile: Putting It All TogetherOrthogonal
Lean Startup, Pragmatic Marketing, User Experience Design and Agile Development are all approaches to improve your odds of creating successful products.
Are they mutually exclusive, or can you assemble them together to make a lean, mean product success machine?
Pathfinder Software's Amy Willis (UX) Bernhard Kappe (Products Strategy) and Reid MacTavish (Agile Development) share their lessons learned in making lean+ux+agile work.
How to use agile for roadmapping and be successful at itAnupam Kundu
This was my presentation at Agile 2010.
As agile practices become more prevalent, Product Management divisions face increasing challenges to adapt agile techniques. Most Agile project teams prefer direct collaboration with the strategy makers for decision making over reporting metrics; the reality is that only a few product/portfolio managers are actually capable of paradigm shifts to accommodate this drift. What is needed to make this shift? The paper outlines an experience report - adoption of agile-enabled framework by the digital division of a publishing house to charter their product road-map and enable their project team with the “big picture”.
Agile product owners-what ails them (philly_dayofagile)Anupam Kundu
Presentation I used at Philadelphia Day of Agile (#dayofagile) http://dayofagile.org/agenda.
It was received well within the audience. Any comments are welcome...
Offshore development model in 10 steps sap yardSAPYard
Recently while discussing with one of my onsite client, I
came to know that clients here are not completely aware
of how offshore functions. They believe that after they
give the business requirement, their responsibilities are
over. In short, offshore model is a Black Box to them.
They are only interested in the final deliverables and not
in how offshore get the things done.
Right on the heels of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, a new movement with the moniker DevOps has further advanced software delivery. Although the Agile software development movement brought iterative and incremental concepts to our industry, in many organizations its reach was relegated to only the application development teams. In many cases, this moved the bottlenecks in organizations from application development to release management, IT operations and business program and portfolio management decision making. This local optimization leads to real world application of Agile software development being perceived as unsuccessful and increased probability of being thrown away for the comfort in the illusions of control of plan-driven approaches.
The promise of DevOps is to further improve our ability to make holistic optimizations from business to software delivery to operations and ultimately increase feedback into our business decision making processes. This promise involves the application of The Three Ways as described by Gene Kim: Flow, Feedback and Continuous Experimentation and Learning. Even for those that were able to take advantage of Agile software development we can not sit on our laurels. We must embrace continuous improvement in order to fend off the effects of “Software is Eating the World” as Marc Andreessen pronounced. DevOps provides a view on the culture, practices, tools and processes for how valuable software is delivered, operated and evolved to enable competitive advantage.
Take the next step with mobile testing accelerate your mobile testing draft 3Michael Deady
This Discover 2014 DF-3176 session This Session will help you bridge the gap from setting up your mobile testing environment to the creation of a mobile testing Center of Excellence. Those few companies that get a jumpstart on their mobile development and testing, will define next year market leaders. We will discuss how to build a mobile testing framework that is cost effective, flexible and provides the highest level of quality that can be achieved in a lean development environment. This session will demo the new Mobile Testing Accelerator 2.8
Project Management Nightmares For Startups By Rahul SudameFaichi Solutions
Most startup organizations and small projects/business units face some teething issues. Lack of clearly spelled out requirements, constantly changing business dynamics impacting the project plans and pressure of time to market drive the entire product implementation lifecycle. In such pressure, project Management processes (Waterfall or Agile) are easily skipped. This presentation would cover such project management challenges, their impact and the ways to overcome them in product startup environments. It would also touch upon experience of Faichi Solutions about what works and what does not work in managing such projects. The presentation would provide a unique opportunity to the participants to learn the best practices of applying Project Management in startup, product ideation environments.
Integrating User Centered Design with Agile DevelopmentJulia Borkenhagen
The Agile Manifesto emphasizes the importance of individuals and interactions over processes and tools, and that's precisely where the User Centered Design approach comes in. UCD always focuses on the users first, keeps them involved during the entire project and emphasizes the need for iterations and team collaboration.
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
Hundreds of organizations have now realized the benefit of Rapid Release Planning! Compared to traditional release planning, this increases your estimation and sizing accuracy from 34% to over 85%! Rapid Release Planning is one of the CORE Components for getting teams engaged early and using their Rapid Sizing to better forecast which candidates will successfully be a part of the release. The keys to making this work successfully revolve around making gut decisions about size and relative complexity of the items being estimated and validated.
Building a Product? the knowledge you will acquire will help with product management and the use of agile scrum to build products. The training provides fundamental guide to building the best solution in the world with some of the best tips, templates and guides in terms of leading trends. This will bring your IDEAS to Live.
Agility and planning : tools and processesJérôme Kehrli
In this presentation, I intend to present the fundamentals, the roles, the processes, the rituals and the values that I believe a team would need to embrace to achieve success down the line in Agile Software Development Management - Product Management, Team Management and Project Management - with the ultimate goal of making planning and forecasting as simple and efficient as it can be.
Los Angeles User Experience Meetup March 5, 2013. "Lean UX with Lane Halley, Jaime Levy and Chris Chandler" at Cross Campus, Santa Monica CA
http://www.meetup.com/ia-55/events/98595432/
Putting personas to work - University of Edinburgh Website ProgrammeNeil Allison
I use personas to support the development of the University of Edinburgh's corporate Content Management System and associated services.
A significant challenge is to try to ensure that all members of the team understand and empathise with the personas that represent our CMS user group.
This session (first presented February 2014 at a Web Publishing Community session) outlines activities I use to help foster shared understanding within the team and wider group of stakeholders.
Right on the heels of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, a new movement with the moniker DevOps has further advanced software delivery. Although the Agile software development movement brought iterative and incremental concepts to our industry, in many organizations its reach was relegated to only the application development teams. In many cases, this moved the bottlenecks in organizations from application development to release management, IT operations and business program and portfolio management decision making. This local optimization leads to real world application of Agile software development being perceived as unsuccessful and increased probability of being thrown away for the comfort in the illusions of control of plan-driven approaches.
The promise of DevOps is to further improve our ability to make holistic optimizations from business to software delivery to operations and ultimately increase feedback into our business decision making processes. This promise involves the application of The Three Ways as described by Gene Kim: Flow, Feedback and Continuous Experimentation and Learning. Even for those that were able to take advantage of Agile software development we can not sit on our laurels. We must embrace continuous improvement in order to fend off the effects of “Software is Eating the World” as Marc Andreessen pronounced. DevOps provides a view on the culture, practices, tools and processes for how valuable software is delivered, operated and evolved to enable competitive advantage.
Take the next step with mobile testing accelerate your mobile testing draft 3Michael Deady
This Discover 2014 DF-3176 session This Session will help you bridge the gap from setting up your mobile testing environment to the creation of a mobile testing Center of Excellence. Those few companies that get a jumpstart on their mobile development and testing, will define next year market leaders. We will discuss how to build a mobile testing framework that is cost effective, flexible and provides the highest level of quality that can be achieved in a lean development environment. This session will demo the new Mobile Testing Accelerator 2.8
Project Management Nightmares For Startups By Rahul SudameFaichi Solutions
Most startup organizations and small projects/business units face some teething issues. Lack of clearly spelled out requirements, constantly changing business dynamics impacting the project plans and pressure of time to market drive the entire product implementation lifecycle. In such pressure, project Management processes (Waterfall or Agile) are easily skipped. This presentation would cover such project management challenges, their impact and the ways to overcome them in product startup environments. It would also touch upon experience of Faichi Solutions about what works and what does not work in managing such projects. The presentation would provide a unique opportunity to the participants to learn the best practices of applying Project Management in startup, product ideation environments.
Integrating User Centered Design with Agile DevelopmentJulia Borkenhagen
The Agile Manifesto emphasizes the importance of individuals and interactions over processes and tools, and that's precisely where the User Centered Design approach comes in. UCD always focuses on the users first, keeps them involved during the entire project and emphasizes the need for iterations and team collaboration.
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
Hundreds of organizations have now realized the benefit of Rapid Release Planning! Compared to traditional release planning, this increases your estimation and sizing accuracy from 34% to over 85%! Rapid Release Planning is one of the CORE Components for getting teams engaged early and using their Rapid Sizing to better forecast which candidates will successfully be a part of the release. The keys to making this work successfully revolve around making gut decisions about size and relative complexity of the items being estimated and validated.
Building a Product? the knowledge you will acquire will help with product management and the use of agile scrum to build products. The training provides fundamental guide to building the best solution in the world with some of the best tips, templates and guides in terms of leading trends. This will bring your IDEAS to Live.
Agility and planning : tools and processesJérôme Kehrli
In this presentation, I intend to present the fundamentals, the roles, the processes, the rituals and the values that I believe a team would need to embrace to achieve success down the line in Agile Software Development Management - Product Management, Team Management and Project Management - with the ultimate goal of making planning and forecasting as simple and efficient as it can be.
Los Angeles User Experience Meetup March 5, 2013. "Lean UX with Lane Halley, Jaime Levy and Chris Chandler" at Cross Campus, Santa Monica CA
http://www.meetup.com/ia-55/events/98595432/
Putting personas to work - University of Edinburgh Website ProgrammeNeil Allison
I use personas to support the development of the University of Edinburgh's corporate Content Management System and associated services.
A significant challenge is to try to ensure that all members of the team understand and empathise with the personas that represent our CMS user group.
This session (first presented February 2014 at a Web Publishing Community session) outlines activities I use to help foster shared understanding within the team and wider group of stakeholders.
This is part one of the Lean UX workshops outlining in a practical way, the Lean UX processes. These workshops are run as part of the Lean UX Labs experiment.
This is part two of the Lean UX workshops outlining in a practical way, the Lean UX processes. These workshops are run as part of the Lean UX Labs experiment.
Requirements are hypotheses: My experiences with Lean UXNeil Allison
Presented at the IWMW16 conference for UK Higher Education digital professionals, 21 June 2016 at Liverpool John Moores University (Twitter: #IWMW16 #P1)
(Use of Jeff Gothelf's materials and ideas gratefully acknowledged @jboogie)
Video footage: https://youtu.be/L_Cio53LoG0?t=32m22s
Prototyping - the what, why and how at the University of EdinburghNeil Allison
Edited highlights of my prototyping training session. These slides are essentially the intro to a 3 hour practical, collaborative learning experience using pencil/paper and Balsamiq. The slides cover:
- What is prototyping?
- Prototypes and the design process
- Example projects
- How to prototype
- Case study: Website search results page
- Balsamiq demo
Linking UX Ideas for an Aha Moment from Non-EmpathizersBalanced Team
Chris Nodder, Chris Nodder Consulting
I will describe a specific set of tools I've been using in a particular order that really helps all the members of a project (makers, monetizers and managers) understand user needs and build for those needs. None of the methods I use are new, but by focusing on the idea of empathizers and systemizers I ensure that there is sufficient continuity between the activities we perform that non-empathizers can still understand that they are not the user, and agree on a sensible user-centric way forward. This stops arguments and focuses everyone on the team towards customer based solutions.
There is always a paper trail back to observed user data. There is always enough information pinned to the wall that people can point and say "see, this is why we're doing what we are doing". There is always enough verification built in to the process that we know whether we're on track before we invest in code. I'll describe the concept of systemizers and empathizers, share the set of tools I use and show the flow of information between each tool.
Get hands-on advice for rapid Agile prototyping in a product team.
You'll learn:
- How to determine the right depth and breadth for MVP prototypes.
- How to prioritize use cases for prototyping.
- How to elicit the right stakeholder and user feedback.
- How to correctly annotate prototypes for dev and QA.
Lean UX + UX Strat, from UX Strat conference, September 2013Joshua Seiden
Slides from my talk at UX Strat, 2013. (www.uxstrat.com)
How to use Lean UX methods to execute on business, product, and design strategy.
I presented a slightly altered version a few days later at Fluxible 2013. (http://www.fluxible.ca)
Lean UX in the Enterprise: A Government Case Studyuxpin
You'll learn:
- How to quickly identify user groups despite vague assumptions.
- How to define clear features amidst complex requirements and business objectives.
- How to establish efficient UX processes across disjointed teams.
You'll learn:
- How to design better for complex users with team-based personas
- How to differentiate and segment personas
- How to create clear personas from user data
- How to increase accuracy with collaborative persona mapping
A non-technical design guide for development professionals.
Designing the old way was a bloated process that could involve four months of discovery, annotating scores of wireframes with review notes and the massive budget to match. Something had to give.
Born out of the necessity to create more value for the end users without increasing hour allocations or project spend, lean UX helps condense the process delivering working software in as little as 4 weeks. Particularly good for startups or innovation accelerators, lean UX uses an iterative approach to visualize and deliver. From time to investment dollars to sanity, lean UX saves big. Learn from our design and delivery teams.
Storytelling: Selling a brilliant idea like a rock starRicardo Luiz
Storytelling in User Experience and in Projects.
The 5 Magic Steps to tell the story you need to sell a project, a solution or an idea.
How to understand what you need to do in order to engage like a rock star
You'll learn:
- How to scope your UX strategy based on challenges and aspirations.
- How to focus your team on the right design principles and activities to achieve desired outcomes.
- How to measure the success of your strategy and tactics.
The development of software is planned in stages and steps that culminate in the construction of functional applications of software. As a start-up, you are a new bug in this competitive industry.
SharePoint is one of the technologies which will give the user a rich and highly integrated blend of deliverables. The technology which makes the user more comfortable does not mean that user will adopt so quickly, they need proper involvement, ownership, guidance and training.
Top seo company Best digital agency | 3foxdigital3fox Digital
Top seo company around the world offering marketing, ppc, web development and seo for internet marketing agencies, emarketing companies, web marketing firm.
http://3foxdigital.com
best seo company Best digital agency 3foxdigital3fox Digital
Top seo company around the world offering marketing, ppc, web development and seo for internet marketing agencies, emarketing companies, web marketing firm.
Top seo company Best digital agency | 3foxdigital3fox Digital
Top seo company around the world offering marketing, http://www.3foxdigital.com
ppc, web development and seo for internet marketing agencies, emarketing companies, web marketing firm.
Top seo company around the world offering marketing, ppc, web development and seo for internet marketing agencies, emarketing companies, web marketing firm.
[url]http://3foxdigital.com[/url]
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I am Anoop "Business Development Executive" at India based professional Company "Brief Soft Technologies Pvt. Ltd."We are offering high quality and affordable mobile application development solutions.
My Skype : andrew_briefsoft
Managing the SharePoint disruption : Ensuring the business gain exceeds the b...garthluke
In many organisations, SharePoint is a disruptive technology: it’s no longer business-as-usual for managers, for users or for IT. SharePoint shines a spotlight on everything that’s good and bad about your company’s business processes, project management, change management, information management policies, and IT service delivery. In this presentation, AvePoint’s Vice President, Garth Luke, shares the lessons learned and common themes from thousands of organisations, large and small - from IT Professionals, Managers, Developers, End - users and CIOs around the globe. This comprehensive discussion will highlight the business, cultural and technical impact of SharePoint on an organisation - the business values and the “gotchas.” You’ll learn the steps you can take to plan for and implement SharePoint as a platform that will support a dynamic enterprise. You will take away a framework within which to understand and communicate the role of SharePoint in your organisation, a punch list of issues to consider in your planning and deployment and an understanding of the business, technical, cultural and procedural components of a successful SharePoint implementation.
Top seo company Best digital agency | 3foxdigital3fox Digital
Top seo company around the world offering marketing, ppc, web development and seo for internet marketing agencies, emarketing companies, web marketing firm.
Comprehensive Guide on Software Development Process.pdfSmith Daniel
This is a comprehensive guide to the software development process. You’ll learn how to choose a technology stack, the best development models, and more.
Presentation on the promises and pitfalls of applying Agile in a Quality Management System. How do you get the benefits of agile while maintaining quality and regulatory compliance?
Earlyvangelists and the Metrics that Matter in HealthcareOrthogonal
Earlyvangelists are a special breed of customer that are a combination of early adopter and internal evangelist. They are critical to a startup success because they first buy the vision and then the product, and spread the news of the product. They are even more important in healthcare, a complex and risk averse sector of the economy where change and innovation can be very challenging.
Learn how to identify and find earlyvangelists and how to engage with them, what metrics they care about and how they can help you get the metrics that you need for the rest of the market.
The medical device industry is facing unprecedented challenges due to emerging technologies and increased regulatory scrutiny.
Current “waterfall” product development methods are ill-suited to dealing with the pace of change and uncertainty that product development organizations are facing. This eBook addresses:
* The shortcomings of waterfall development specifically in regulatory environments.
* How agile development meets the safety, reliability and regulatory needs of the medical device and diagnostics industry.
* How agile development can help ensure delivery of successful software.
The Other Side of Wireless - Connecting Medical Devices with Mobile, Cloud Co...Orthogonal
Discussion of the market opportunities, engineering and regulatory challenges, as well as approaches for building systems that incorporate medical devices, diagnostics and sensors with mobile, cloud computing and analytics to deliver solutions for improved health outcomes. Areas of opportunity include remote patient monitoring, early detection and prevention, extending therapies outside of a clinical environment, adherence for medication and other therapies, as well as management of chronic conditions and perioperative management.
Presentation by Bernhard Kappe at MD&M East 2014 in New York on June 9th, 2014
Lean Innovation within UnitedHealth GroupOrthogonal
UnitedHealth Group's Kunjorn Chambundabongse and Pathfinder's Todd Wyder share lessons learned from their collaboration on applying the lean startup approach to a large innovation portfolio.
Topics include:
* How a lean innovation approach provides a more efficient way to determine which ideas merit further development and to rapidly bring the right ones to product/market fit.
* How business model analysis, rapid cycles of hypothesis testing using minimal experiments and feedback from real customers can help you decide when to pivot, when to persevere, and when to allocate your innovation budget to other ideas.
* How to manage an innovation portfolio to maximize returns
The biggest challenges they faced and how they attacked them
* Changing Culture and Mindset
* What's Next.
Hacking n’ Healthcare is a comic strip created by Pathfinder Software that provides a funny look inside some of the biggest challenges in healthcare technology. In this comic strip we feature the likely future scenario of helicopter parents over-sensoring their children with all parties overwhelmed and not happy.
Hacking N' Healthcare -- Patient Alerts? Orthogonal
Hacking n’ Healthcare is a comic strip created by Pathfinder Software that provides a funny look inside some of the biggest challenges in healthcare technology. This comic features ePrescribing alerts and what should be a quick doctor visit.
Hacking N' Healthcare: Mobile App DesignOrthogonal
Hacking N’ Healthcare is a comic strip that takes a humorous look at the challenges often associated with implementing health information technology. In this case Mobile App User Experience Design.
Is it self-tracking? We are only beginning to understand the power of self-tracking be it due to the quantified self movement or because of the increasing number of connected medical devices. A real opportunity is in understanding how mobile devices will play a key role in the future of our personal health. Medical Devices, sensors, big data, cloud computing are and will continue to enable continuous monitoring of people and patients.
Amy Willis - World Usability Day Chicago 2013Orthogonal
Trends in Healthcare Usability Reviewed:
- Will see increase in personal care apps
- Balance usability with requests of health care providers
- Even though app with users all the time, still difficult to enter data frequently
- Even on iOS, “basic” functionality not well understood by non-tech users
- Balancing regulatory compliance - HIPAA, FDA, EU - with usability
Maintaining one's health greatly relies on the gathering and analyzing of health indicators like weight, diet, exercise routine or symptoms. Many U.S. adults or 'Trackers' already track many of these indicators. What follows is a look at the who, how, and why of being a 'Tracker'.
Are You Ready For Sensors In Healthcare?Orthogonal
Wether wearable, investable, or on device, sensors in healthcare are poised to enable interventions and predictive capabilities delivering billions in savings and a truer sense of personal care. The next logical step in this evolution is for sensors to help manage chronic disease, which affect more than 140 million individuals in the United States, and account for more than 75% of our healthcare expenditures.
Agile Development for FDA Regulated Medical SoftwareOrthogonal
The FDA regulates software for medical devices, and may in future regulate mobile medical software as well. Can you speed up time to market with Agile development in an FDA regulated medical environment?
Pathfinder Software shares their experience developing software using lean ux and agile software development best practices for medical devices and mobile medical software.
Inception is critical to get a project started down the right path. Get it right and you accelerate your product development. Get it wrong and you end up in analysis paralysis. Pathfinder's Bob Moll and Glenn Bernsohn illustrate the how and why of Inception in 5 slides.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
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.
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.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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/
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.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Organizer of the Chicago Lean Startup Circle. How many are new here? How many are lean startup practitioners? How many are designers or IAs?\n
Bob Moll is our Lead User Experience Designer\nMention Pathfinder, the company Bob and I work for. \nWe work with both startups and established companies to launch successful products. We launch more products in a year than the average product manager does in a career.\n\n\n
The Lean Startup approach is integral to how we work with customers: Advise them on Customer development, practice lean ux, agile development, lean marketing and metrics. We help our customers accelerate, and build capacity so they can do it themselves. \n\n
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It’s a way for lean startup and ux to work together. \n\n
Coined and championed by Janice Fraser of LUXR, person x, y, z etc. Pathfinder is practicing and championing this approach here in Chicago.\n
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Models for building software: \n\nClassic Waterfall: Write Specs, Build Software, Roll it Out and See What Happens.\nModified: Add a lot of testing to deal with bugs at the end. \n\nResult: Crappy software that cost too much to build and took too much time. \n\nLots of failure: Late, Over Budget, Buggy, Hard to Use, Missing Features.\n\n
\nIt’s because you have bad, incomplete, faulty requirements. Business requirements.\nThat’s why we invented agile, that’s why we added UXD. But we never added the feedback loop on the business side! \n
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It’s not unusual for new products to fail. In fact, 9 out of 10 do.\n
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So this is where the lean startup comes in.\n
Lean Startup does not equal cheap and bootstrapped, although some are. Companies like Groupon, Zynga, etc. have lots of capital to apply, and use lean startup methods. \n
Instead it comes from lean manufacturing\n
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The question is, how do you figure out what’s valuable?\n
Both Lean Manufacturing and Agile come from Toyota Production System. The key concept here for us is Genchi Genbutsu (go and see.) \n
In a lean startup, Genchi Genbutsu is turned into Get Out of the Building!\n
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We like to use the lean canvas for documenting business model assumptions.\n\nUse this to document your hypotheses about problems, customer segments, about solutions, unique value proposition, unfair advantages, channels, key activities costs and revenues.\n\nThe one lean ux principle: one team. Get all the heads in the room for this. Share it with the team. \n
Lean ux concept: You are all one team. Get the whole team in the room to brainstorm, timebox it. Put it on a wall. Update it and share with the group and with advisors when you change it.\n
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You use different channels to get earlyvangelists for customer interviews, but usually you drive them to a landing page where you can qualify them (are they in your assumed target market, and can/will they talk to you.) \n\nHere’s where you can start defining your brand and your tone, your visual design. Do it fast, don’t waste a ton of time here, but do it.\n
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If it’s not in their top problems, they’re not likely to take action, let alone pay.\n
UX folks are good at doing these interviews. If you have one, consider pairing with them on this. They understand how to dig out demographics and how to ask questions on how they currently solve problems. \n\n\n\n
\nCard Sorting - if you put the problems on cards, and add new problems that they mention, and put them on cards, you give them someting tactile that makes it much easier for them to perform a prioritization.\n
We think that card sorting makes for more accurate prioritization\n
Find out - through groupings on problems, solutions and demographics: Segments. These segments may have very different problems and solutions, you may need to sell to them in very different ways, and they may have very different revenue models. (Different canvases.)\n\nCapture these in personas - A way of visualizing the customers. A name, a face, their goals, etc. Really useful when you’re thinking about them, and designing for them.\n\n
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This is another great place to pair. UX folks are good at doing these interviews. Good ones know how to avoid the bias that you naturally will show - you want to avoid bias, and avoid selling.\n\n
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Here’s an example of an infographic that Todd Wyder has used for his company to describe his software. Much easier than a big description. Visualize it, save a thousand words.\n
Prototype - Our preference is towards hand sketched screenshots at the beginning. As low fi as possible at this stage, because you’ll be changing this rapidly and often.\n\nLow-fi prototypes - prototype using pencil, paper, post-its, physical objects\n\n\nbring to life a scenario, and have an experience. \n\nSome audiences don’t understand, some times there’s a need for more high fi. - but it’s rare. \n\nExample: A client we work with has a series of physical products around color calibration, color matching, etc. used by professional photographers, designers, etc. This was all about color, so you needed to have higher fidelity prototypes that involved and showed the color. \n\n\n\nStory Flows - In a fixed number of frames (say 8, give or take), show the key points of each of the workflows or business flow your design will address\nLow-fi prototypes - prototype using pencil, paper, post-its, physical objects\nStory video - turn a low-fi prototype or storyboard into a simple video that can be used to validate the idea with customers\nCustomer testing - using created artifacts (low-fi prototype or story video) to conduct customer interviews - can they understand the concept, would they buy it?\nPriority Diagram - what would your product look like if you could only implement 3 features? 5 features? etc.\n\n
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Minimum Viable Product is Not the Minimum Product to Make a Profit\n MVP is: the minimum to Validate a Hypothesis.\n MVP is not static: Interim MVPs\n\n
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Another example: Glif, a kickstarter project for an attachment that lets you mount an iphone on a tripod.\n
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So one of your big risks is that you won’t get to product/market fit. A rule of thumb we use is having customer acquisition costs being less than or equal to one third of lifetime value of the customer. You want to make profit, so you have cost of goods sold, general and administrative, sales and marketing, R&D. If your cost of customer acquisition is too high, you won’t make money. \nYou don’t know what the lifetime value is at the beginning, for a number of reasons - pricing model may not be defined, customer segments, channels, etc., churn, and how much control you have over it, etc. Same with customer acquisition costs. At the beginning, you’re testing a lot, and not everything will work. You get better over time. Some take time to kick in.\n \n
Changes to test might be things like layouts, calls to action, lazy vs. upfront registration, help, chat, button colors, sequencing of flows, how much functionality gets exposed for new users, etc. \n
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You now have real live customers. That means you have quantitative data you can work with to see what works and what doesn’t \nYou want to make small changes fast and a/b test according to your metrics (customer acquisition and retention) \n