One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of Agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver, at the right time, for the right customer.
Many teams rely on user stories to discover and define Agile product requirements. But user stories often lead to confusion, bloated backlogs, ineffective or inconsistent planning, and erratic sprint flow. This thrashing is not how user stories are intended to work!
Join Ellen Gottesdiener in this fast-paced dive into a common-sense, tested approach to user stories. You’ll follow a story as it’s sliced across the seven product dimensions, based on value. You’ll learn how structured conversations enable you to quickly explore, evaluate, and confirm stories. See how making your user stories “ready” is key for incremental delivery of your “done” product.
Learn to effectively and efficiently explore, evaluate, and confirm a shared understanding of refined backlog items using Structured conversations with the 7 Product Dimensions so they are ready for implementation.
(Presented at Agile Day New York City September 2018)
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of Agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time, for the right customer, and refining them for delivery. This session will share a commonsense, tested approach for defining and refining backlog items so they are “ready” to get to “done.” Explore how refinement is crucial to smooth Scrum flow, shared understanding, and healthy product development team.
(Ellen's slides presented at April 2018 Global Scrum Gathering).
Validating Delivered Business Value – Going Beyond “Actual Business Value”Yuval Yeret
Actual is a relative term when it comes to business value delivered by a SAFe PI Objective. In this talk we will explore techniques for validating the actual value delivered by SAFe Teams and ARTs based on real-world outcomes that can be evaluated post-release. RTEs, Product Management and Lean/Agile Leaders will be able to assess their current ability to validate value and learn specific practices they could add to their artifacts and events. Finally, we will take a deeper look at optionality and hypothesis-driven thinking in SAFe and challenge the comfort zone on how to properly use some of SAFe’s essential elements in this context.
Learning Objectives:
Assess their competency level of their ART/Program when it comes to ability to validate value
Evolve their Inspect and Adapt events to enable validation value based on real outcomes
Extend their Program and Portfolio Kanbans to help manage the flow of learning and validation.
Product Backlog Refinement with Structured Conversations - Big Apple Scrum DayEBG Consulting, Inc.
Slides from Ellen's session at Big Apple Scrum Day, 11 May 2018.
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time, for the right customer, and refining them for delivery. This session will share a fast-paced introduction of a common sense, tested approach for defining and refining user stories—or any other method you use to represent backlog items. This enables backlog items to get “ready” to get to “done”.
You will learn how refining backlog items using Structured Conversations with the 7 Product Dimensions enables you to slice backlog items while deeply enhancing teams’ domain knowledge. You identify its usefulness for initial, multi-team and single team product backlog refinement.
We explore how the concept of refinement—making backlog items “ready”—is a corollary to “done”. You’ll participate in a card-based exercise to more deeply understand each of the 7 Product Dimensions. You discover how the dimensions can enlighten and deepen your refinement conversations. Scenes from real Structured Conversations help you visualize making refinement come alive. Join us as you learn to effectively and efficiently explore, evaluate, and confirm a shared understanding of refined backlog items so they are ready for implementation.
Writing Good User Stories (Hint: It's not about writing)one80
User stories are typically the foundation of the Product Backlog. However, the original purpose has been lost. This is from a presentation that was given to help remind everyone of what User Stories are, and what they aren't. The purpose of User Stories is to drive conversations, not to hand "requirements" from one group to the next.
Learn to effectively and efficiently explore, evaluate, and confirm a shared understanding of refined backlog items using Structured conversations with the 7 Product Dimensions so they are ready for implementation.
(Presented at Agile Day New York City September 2018)
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of Agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time, for the right customer, and refining them for delivery. This session will share a commonsense, tested approach for defining and refining backlog items so they are “ready” to get to “done.” Explore how refinement is crucial to smooth Scrum flow, shared understanding, and healthy product development team.
(Ellen's slides presented at April 2018 Global Scrum Gathering).
Validating Delivered Business Value – Going Beyond “Actual Business Value”Yuval Yeret
Actual is a relative term when it comes to business value delivered by a SAFe PI Objective. In this talk we will explore techniques for validating the actual value delivered by SAFe Teams and ARTs based on real-world outcomes that can be evaluated post-release. RTEs, Product Management and Lean/Agile Leaders will be able to assess their current ability to validate value and learn specific practices they could add to their artifacts and events. Finally, we will take a deeper look at optionality and hypothesis-driven thinking in SAFe and challenge the comfort zone on how to properly use some of SAFe’s essential elements in this context.
Learning Objectives:
Assess their competency level of their ART/Program when it comes to ability to validate value
Evolve their Inspect and Adapt events to enable validation value based on real outcomes
Extend their Program and Portfolio Kanbans to help manage the flow of learning and validation.
Product Backlog Refinement with Structured Conversations - Big Apple Scrum DayEBG Consulting, Inc.
Slides from Ellen's session at Big Apple Scrum Day, 11 May 2018.
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time, for the right customer, and refining them for delivery. This session will share a fast-paced introduction of a common sense, tested approach for defining and refining user stories—or any other method you use to represent backlog items. This enables backlog items to get “ready” to get to “done”.
You will learn how refining backlog items using Structured Conversations with the 7 Product Dimensions enables you to slice backlog items while deeply enhancing teams’ domain knowledge. You identify its usefulness for initial, multi-team and single team product backlog refinement.
We explore how the concept of refinement—making backlog items “ready”—is a corollary to “done”. You’ll participate in a card-based exercise to more deeply understand each of the 7 Product Dimensions. You discover how the dimensions can enlighten and deepen your refinement conversations. Scenes from real Structured Conversations help you visualize making refinement come alive. Join us as you learn to effectively and efficiently explore, evaluate, and confirm a shared understanding of refined backlog items so they are ready for implementation.
Writing Good User Stories (Hint: It's not about writing)one80
User stories are typically the foundation of the Product Backlog. However, the original purpose has been lost. This is from a presentation that was given to help remind everyone of what User Stories are, and what they aren't. The purpose of User Stories is to drive conversations, not to hand "requirements" from one group to the next.
Evidenced based management - Presentation at Scrum Australia 24 oct 2018Mia Horrigan
Evidence-Based Management (EBM) is an empirical approach that provides organizations with the ability to measure the value they deliver to customers and the means by which they deliver that value, and to use those measures to guide improvements in both
User Story Mapping, Discover the whole storyJeff Patton
Variations of these slides have been used in a variety of talks.
These slides support discussions on why stories work, and when they don't. And, on story mapping, how and why it works.
The Product Backlog drives the work of Scrum teams, but keeping the backlog fresh and useful is often a continuing challenge. Is your product backlog healthy, and what are some ways to keep it that way that you can use right away?
Introduction:
Struggling to estimate your user stories?
Agenda:
What is agile estimation
Relative versus absolute estimation
Various techniques of estimation
Short introduction to Planning poker technique
Estimate in Story points or ideal days?
When not to re estimate?
Common challenges while estimating
[TDCPOA2019] Upstream Kanban: exercitando a eficácia criativa do seu fluxo de...Vinicius Campos Silva
O que é Upstream Kanban e como podemos nos beneficiar dele para o meu fluxo de trabalho? O que é mais importante, eficiência ou eficácia? Em 2017, Patrick Steyaert publicou o livro "Essential Upstream Kanban" e desde então as discussões sobre o assunto estão ganhando espaço na comunidade. Nessa talk será instigado um pouco mais os conceitos por trás dessa abordagem e como podemos praticá-lo no nosso dia a dia.
Scrum is certainly not a foolproof framework as it does have its own set
of limitations; which is the reason why it may not be the best fit for
every team or product. There are other Agile and Lean approaches too,
like Kanban or XP.
Therefore, what is crucial is for us to comprehend that these current
shifts call for a dynamic and progressive outlook from developers and managers. The need of the hour is to utilize the benefits that a Scrum Master brings to the table, in terms of opening up team communication and problem solving techniques.
An Agile approach for estimating epics, incorporating affinity sizing, t-shirt sizing, relative estimation, and yesterday's weather. Instead of estimating epics based on relative story points, estimate epics based on relative story count.
Working with frog's UX experts, Melinda curated, collated and edited the GE User Experience Playbook for all those charged with designing GE products and services.
Talk consists of 3 parts. Part 1 gives answer to topic's question from "theory" which is actually from the Scrum Guide + little insight into Agile Coaching. Part 2 presents my research across the world about what people say is a Scrum Master. Part 3 presents my path to this role and experience in it. At the end, I give tips to current or future Scrum Masters from my own experience.
This August Scrum Breakfast, we have a new speaker - Mr. Pedro Gonzalez - Scrum Master at TINYpulse.
He will bring us an interesting topic about Agile estimation using story points, giving some tips on why relative estimations are far better than absolutes, why we shouldn't spend too long in details, and other issues he has experienced himself with his team.
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of Agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time for the right customer.
Many teams rely on user stories to discover and define Agile product requirements. In reality, user stories often lead to a confusing array of struggles and puzzles, such as bloated backlogs, ineffective or inconsistent planning, and erratic sprint flow. This thrashing is not how user stories are intended to work
EBG’s Ellen Gottesdiener in this fast-paced introduction of a common sense, tested approach to user stories. With a laser-like focus on delivering value, you follow a story as it’s sliced across the 7 Product Dimensions. You learn how the Structured Conversation framework enables you to quickly explore, evaluate, and confirm stories. See how making your user stories “ready” is the key for incremental delivery of your “Done” product.
(Note: you have the option of viewing the video from the start, or continuing to view the slide deck)
On the surface, user stories seem pretty straightforward: Just write “As a...I need to...So that...” on an index card. But in reality, user stories often lead to a confusing array of struggles and puzzles, such as losing precious engineering time during iterations with analysis; delivering the wrong product slice—or delivering it with errors; delivering late; and more. Surely this chaos is not how user stories are intended to work!
In this AIPMM webinar, Ellen Gottesdiener shares practical ways for agile product managers and product owners to mitigate the troubles of user stories while amplifying their advantages.
Learn the power of collaboratively uncovering user stories, when and how to engage with engineering and product stakeholders, and guidelines for effective user stories. Leave with a straightforward, holistic approach to stories that will smooth the way for a successful iterative delivery effort.
Evidenced based management - Presentation at Scrum Australia 24 oct 2018Mia Horrigan
Evidence-Based Management (EBM) is an empirical approach that provides organizations with the ability to measure the value they deliver to customers and the means by which they deliver that value, and to use those measures to guide improvements in both
User Story Mapping, Discover the whole storyJeff Patton
Variations of these slides have been used in a variety of talks.
These slides support discussions on why stories work, and when they don't. And, on story mapping, how and why it works.
The Product Backlog drives the work of Scrum teams, but keeping the backlog fresh and useful is often a continuing challenge. Is your product backlog healthy, and what are some ways to keep it that way that you can use right away?
Introduction:
Struggling to estimate your user stories?
Agenda:
What is agile estimation
Relative versus absolute estimation
Various techniques of estimation
Short introduction to Planning poker technique
Estimate in Story points or ideal days?
When not to re estimate?
Common challenges while estimating
[TDCPOA2019] Upstream Kanban: exercitando a eficácia criativa do seu fluxo de...Vinicius Campos Silva
O que é Upstream Kanban e como podemos nos beneficiar dele para o meu fluxo de trabalho? O que é mais importante, eficiência ou eficácia? Em 2017, Patrick Steyaert publicou o livro "Essential Upstream Kanban" e desde então as discussões sobre o assunto estão ganhando espaço na comunidade. Nessa talk será instigado um pouco mais os conceitos por trás dessa abordagem e como podemos praticá-lo no nosso dia a dia.
Scrum is certainly not a foolproof framework as it does have its own set
of limitations; which is the reason why it may not be the best fit for
every team or product. There are other Agile and Lean approaches too,
like Kanban or XP.
Therefore, what is crucial is for us to comprehend that these current
shifts call for a dynamic and progressive outlook from developers and managers. The need of the hour is to utilize the benefits that a Scrum Master brings to the table, in terms of opening up team communication and problem solving techniques.
An Agile approach for estimating epics, incorporating affinity sizing, t-shirt sizing, relative estimation, and yesterday's weather. Instead of estimating epics based on relative story points, estimate epics based on relative story count.
Working with frog's UX experts, Melinda curated, collated and edited the GE User Experience Playbook for all those charged with designing GE products and services.
Talk consists of 3 parts. Part 1 gives answer to topic's question from "theory" which is actually from the Scrum Guide + little insight into Agile Coaching. Part 2 presents my research across the world about what people say is a Scrum Master. Part 3 presents my path to this role and experience in it. At the end, I give tips to current or future Scrum Masters from my own experience.
This August Scrum Breakfast, we have a new speaker - Mr. Pedro Gonzalez - Scrum Master at TINYpulse.
He will bring us an interesting topic about Agile estimation using story points, giving some tips on why relative estimations are far better than absolutes, why we shouldn't spend too long in details, and other issues he has experienced himself with his team.
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of Agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time for the right customer.
Many teams rely on user stories to discover and define Agile product requirements. In reality, user stories often lead to a confusing array of struggles and puzzles, such as bloated backlogs, ineffective or inconsistent planning, and erratic sprint flow. This thrashing is not how user stories are intended to work
EBG’s Ellen Gottesdiener in this fast-paced introduction of a common sense, tested approach to user stories. With a laser-like focus on delivering value, you follow a story as it’s sliced across the 7 Product Dimensions. You learn how the Structured Conversation framework enables you to quickly explore, evaluate, and confirm stories. See how making your user stories “ready” is the key for incremental delivery of your “Done” product.
(Note: you have the option of viewing the video from the start, or continuing to view the slide deck)
On the surface, user stories seem pretty straightforward: Just write “As a...I need to...So that...” on an index card. But in reality, user stories often lead to a confusing array of struggles and puzzles, such as losing precious engineering time during iterations with analysis; delivering the wrong product slice—or delivering it with errors; delivering late; and more. Surely this chaos is not how user stories are intended to work!
In this AIPMM webinar, Ellen Gottesdiener shares practical ways for agile product managers and product owners to mitigate the troubles of user stories while amplifying their advantages.
Learn the power of collaboratively uncovering user stories, when and how to engage with engineering and product stakeholders, and guidelines for effective user stories. Leave with a straightforward, holistic approach to stories that will smooth the way for a successful iterative delivery effort.
Agile product managers and product owners are challenged to engage with a wide range of stakeholders. They need a way to collaboratively and transparently discover the value your product can deliver. In this #DiscoveryDojo, you experience engaging stakeholders in Structured Conversations to explore product options using the 7 Product Dimensions to define valuable and actionable backlog items ready for delivery. You experience how these conversations are essential for ongoing backlog refinement. This interactive evening weaves lightning quick presentation moments with hands-on practice in coaching dojo circles.
To be product-aligned and customer-focused, everyone in your product development ecosystem needs to agree on the answer to the question, “What is Your Product?” Many organizations don’t have clarity on what their product or products are. Ambiguity and disagreement on the answer contribute to slow response to changing customer and market needs and less than satisfying product outcomes. It thwarts your efforts to scale agile product development and causes a plethora of organizational and communication woes.
Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) rightly states that this question—and the imperative to answer it—is one of your most important decisions for successful product development. A clear answer to “What is Your Product” powers all aspects of product development, including product management roles, team organization, and product activities. The implications are vast and deep, especially in large enterprises. Product definition is one of the paramount steps in LeSS adoption. Depending on how a product is defined (how widely) an organization may consider simple LeSS or LeSS Huge. Based on the ladder, team structure and alignment is defined, product owner team is created, etc. Product definition has a significant impact on organisational design.
Based on ongoing work with a variety of organizations, Ellen shares with the NYC Large Scale Scrum (Less) Meetup techniques for enabling product development leaders and communities to define their product using a cohesive set of product definition principles. Ellen explains why this question is so vital to your product success and ways she’s helped organizations co-discover the answer to the question, “What is Your Product?”
Whether your organization’s product or products are a primary source of revenue or are essential for your business operations, you will learn techniques that help instill product-thinking and shared understanding.
Success with User Stories: Cut Through User Story Chaos (Toronto Agile Commun...EBG Consulting, Inc.
Presented for the Toronto Agile Community, 13 June 2016:
On the surface, user stories seem pretty straightforward: Just write “As a...I need to...So that...” on an index card. But in reality user stories often lead to a confusing array of struggles and puzzles, such as losing precious engineering time during iterations with analysis; delivering the wrong product slice—or delivering it with errors; delivering late; and more. Surely this chaos is not how user stories are intended to work!
Join Ellen Gottesdiener as she shares practical ways for agile product managers and product owners to mitigate the troubles of user stories while amplifying their advantages. Learn the power of collaboratively uncovering user stories, when and how to engage with engineering and product stakeholders, and guidelines for effective user stories. Leave with a straightforward, holistic approach to stories that will smooth the way for a successful iterative delivery effort.
To be product-aligned and customer-focused, everyone in your product development ecosystem needs to agree on the answer to the question, “What is Your Product?”
Many organizations don’t have clarity on what their product or products are. Ambiguity and disagreement on the answer contribute to slow response to changing customer and market needs and less than satisfying product outcomes. It thwarts your efforts to scale agile product development and causes a plethora of organizational and communication woes.
In this keynote, Ellen shares share why this question is so vital to your product success and ways she’s helped organizations co-discover the answer to the question, “What is Your Product?”
[Presented at Product Management Festival 2014 | 17 September 2014 | Zurich, Switzerland]
Problems that result from an unclear, ambiguous, or inaccurate understanding of product scope can permeate and threaten your entire product development effort. This is known as “scope creep”—the unrestrained expansion of requirements as the project proceeds. Scope creep is often cited as a cause of excess costs, late delivery, and dissatisfied customers. Yet discovering requirements is about gaining an ever-growing understanding of them. So isn’t scope creep to be expected? Can—and should—you identify and limit the scope of a product’s requirements?
Join Ellen Gottesdiener as she shares tools and techniques for efficiently and effectively identifying and managing product scope. Learn how you can provide real value to your projects by reducing the risks of scope creep while establishing clear project focus.
Products Not Projects: Delivering Value with Product RoadmapsEBG Consulting, Inc.
Presentation for Boston SPIN, Nov 2013 by Ellen Gottesdiener, EBG Consulting.
If you're managing your portfolio using projects—and not products—you may be missing the point. After all, the product-to-be is the basis for the vision, goals, and expected outcome.
A product roadmap articulates how you will continually deliver a valued product over a long time horizon and provides a framework for decision-making, focusing all stakeholders on the strategic view, guiding changes in the near-term plans.
Ellen Gottesdiener explains how product roadmaps give you a framework for ongoing decision making. Find out how using collaborative processes to create and evolve your roadmap allows you to re-envision and adapt your product to maximize each release.
Intro to Agile Requirements: User Stories, Backlogs and BeyondEBG Consulting, Inc.
Ellen Gottesdiener's Agile 2015 session (invited session in the Agile Bootcamp track, August 2015).
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One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time—and for the right customer. User stories and product backlogs are useful tools, but they aren't the only elements you'll need.
In this fast-paced introductory session, Ellen shares a common-sense approach to agile requirements that will help you reduce risk and deliver value. She surveys powerful ways to have colorful and collaborative requirements conversations. Discover how acceptance tests, prototypes, and models articulate important details. Understand the characteristics of a healthy backlog and review the methods that agile teams use when mining the backlog for business value.
This session debunks commonly held agile requirements myths and misconceptions. These include: “user stories are requirements”; “agile teams don’t do planning”; “requirements documentation goes away in agile”; and “agile teams don’t do analysis”. Come and see how a holistic approach to agile requirements can take you beyond user stories to a place where stakeholders can converse, collaborate, and co-create a shared understanding of ever-evolving product needs.
Session learning objectives include:
* Understand how agile requirements can reduce risk and deliver value, faster
* Learn common myths and misconceptions of agile requirements
* Recognize the utility—and limitations of user stories
* Outline ways agile teams supplement user stories
* Understand characteristics of a healthy backlog
Power Up Your Agile Planning and Analysis: Deliver Value Via Structured Conve...EBG Consulting, Inc.
For continual value delivery, stakeholders must partner to develop a shared understanding of product needs. How does this partnership gain a focused yet holistic understanding of the highest‐value requirements? How do they effectively plan the project so that the delivery team builds the right product, at the right time? Learn how to go beyond user stories and engage in “structured conversations” to explore and evaluate product needs and clearly identify what to build and when. You’ll use these conversations to fuel your daily work, refine your product backlog, and efficiently plan, analyze, and allocate product needs to allocate them to delivery cycles.
Keynote by Ellen Gottesdiener, EBG Consulting
Agile Development Practices ~ 05 March 2013 ~ Potsdam, Germany
Misconceptions abound about the way requirements fit—or don’t fit—into agile projects. Is “agile requirements” an oxymoron—two contradictory terms joined together? How is it possible for requirements to be agile? Do agile projects even need requirements? In reality, requirements are the basis for planning, analyzing, developing, and delivering agile projects. Paul Reed shares the value of requirements analysis on agile projects, the ways requirements form the basis for agile planning, and explains how effective agile teams collaborate to develop requirements. Drawing on what we know about chaos theory, complex adaptive systems, metrics on software projects, and practical application on numerous agile projects, discover how agile and requirements are congruent. Learn how agile and requirements combine to form a sound and sensible union that drives successful delivery of business value. Leave with a clear understanding of how requirements done right leverage agile practices and how agile projects depend on requirements to deliver business value.
Continuously Innovate: GitLab's Approach to PM by GitLab Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Create a foundation to empower teams - Vision, values, strategy, and structure
- Reward outcomes over output - Framework, principles, OKRs, and performance indicators
- Optimize the value exchange - Sensing mechanisms, customer discovery, jobs to be done, iteration, and continuous delivery
Continuously Innovate: GitLab's Approach to PM by GitLab Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Create a foundation to empower teams - Vision, values, strategy, and structure
- Reward outcomes over output - Framework, principles, OKRs, and performance indicators
- Optimize the value exchange - Sensing mechanisms, customer discovery, jobs to be done, iteration, and continuous delivery
Closing Keynote for IIBA D.C. BusinessAnalysis Development Day (DCBADD)
Agile product discovery is essential for continuous delivery of high-quality solutions. At the same time, discovery is also one of the most challenging aspects of any project. A wide range of stakeholders must collaboratively explore and agree on inventive and valuable product requirements. To do this, many agile teams rely on user stories, and perhaps a few other techniques, such as story maps and personas.
While these are a good start, they are not sufficient for the complex products most teams wrestle with today.
Ellen reaches beyond discovery-as-usual to highlight creative ways to enlighten and energize your agile product discovery.
Nonfunctional requirements-forgotten-negleted-misunderstood-agile devpractice...EBG Consulting, Inc.
Implementing nonfunctional requirements is essential to build the right product. Yet teams often struggle with when and how to discover, specify, and test these requirements. Many teams neglect nonfunctional requirements up front, considering them less important or unrelated to user requirements; other teams specify them incompletely or with untestable and non-measurable attributes. EBG's Paul Reed introduces three types of nonfunctional requirements: interfaces; attributes including performance, usability, security, and robustness; and the environment for the product’s design and implementation. Paul helps you explore ways to visualize interfaces and value their options, examine techniques to specify quality attributes and their acceptance criteria, and consider environmental requirements. Leave with a better understanding of how these dimensions intertwine with functional requirements, and the challenges of incorporating nonfunctional requirements in your product backlog. Ellen shared a fast-paced survey of key practices and an exercise designed to help you discover and define holistic nonfunctional requirements for your agile project.
Adobe Summit 2017: More Gain, Less Pain - Optimize your content for a better ...Yuliana Kronrod
Adobe Summit is the premier event for digital marketers to learn about and share key strategies for making the most of every marketing opportunity.
Session description: Content fuels the success of your digital marketing across the customer journey. Yet in the world of content overload, quality trumps quantity. Understanding your competitive landscape is important to know how you stack up and where the opportunities for improvement lie. Smart marketers are using search optimization and digital performance marketing to develop the right content for the best channels, improve the user experience, convert prospects and consumers at higher rates, and measure the impact to optimize cross-channel experiences.
In this session, learn how to:
Create optimized and better-performing content
Beat your competition at every stage of the customer journey
Measure your results and drive continuous improvement to get more from your budget and increase bottom-line impact
Optimize Content for a Better Customer JourneyKirill Kronrod
In this session Yuliana Kronrod and I explored how to create appealing content, deliver effectively and provide ultimate user experience - for a better customer journey.
In this talk, Toon will take you through the most impactful ways different teams in your organisation can collaborate with SEO experts to deliver outstanding results. Throughout the talk, Toon will share his latest insights and success stories on cross-departmental collaboration as the Regional SEO Manager at Electrolux. From the product team to sales and marketing, all departments within an organisation can greatly benefit from enhanced organic visibility!
Our speaker will guide you on:
⭐️ SEO & Product Teams: Building ‘discoverability’ into every feature launch
⭐️ SEO & Sales Teams: Turning Google’s search results into your sales assistant
⭐️ SEO & Marketing Teams: Cannibalisations vs Incrementality
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SPEAKERS DETAILS
🏆 Phuwit (Toon) Limviphuwat - SEO Manager (APAC-MEA) at Electrolux
Toon is an SEO expert with over 5 years of experience. In his current role as Regional SEO Manager for Electrolux, he strives to facilitate cross-departmental collaboration across 18 countries, with the goal of driving organic growth for more than 30 websites throughout the APAC & MEA region.
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DATE & TIME
5th April 2023, 6P.M
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LOCATION
Seven Peaks Software
88 Ratchadaphisek Road The PARQ (West Wing Unit 8-13, 7th Floor Khlong Toei, Bangkok 10110
Maps: https://g.page/sevenpeakssoftware?share
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Register for FREE 👉🏻 https://www.eventbrite.com/.../bkk-web-working-with-seo...
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SPONSORS
This event is sponsored by Morphosis and Seven Peaks Software
Product Camp Boston 2015 | 2 May 2015
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On the surface, user stories seem pretty straightforward: Just write “As a...I need to...So that...” on an index card.
But in reality user stories often lead to a confusing array of struggles and puzzles, such as losing precious engineering time during iterations with analysis; delivering the wrong product slice—or delivering it with errors; delivering late; and more. Surely this chaos is not how user stories are intended to work!
Ellen Gottesdiener shares practical ways for product managers and product owners to mitigate the troubles of user stories while amplifying their advantages. Learn the power of collaboratively uncovering user stories, when and how to engage with engineering and product stakeholders, and guidelines for effective user stories. Leave with a straightforward, holistic approach to stories that will smooth the way for a successful iterative delivery effort.
What is Your Product? Making Large-Scale Product Development WorkEBG Consulting, Inc.
These are slides from the workshop presented by Ellen Gottesdiener and Andy Repton on August 8, 2019, at Agile Development 2019:
The first step for large enterprises transitioning toward a product-aligned and customer-focused operating model is to get shared agreement on this simple yet challenging question: "What is our product?"
Your answer is one of the most important ones you make. It powers all aspects of product development including product management roles, team organization, and product activities. The implications are vast and deep, especially in a large enterprise.
Based on ongoing work inside a large global technology infrastructure organization, Andy and Ellen provide techniques for enabling product development leaders and communities to define their product using an “outside-in”, customer-focused perspective—and do so with a product management mindset.
You will find the techniques we share useful, even for products that are mid-size or even smaller, because they help instill product-thinking and shared understanding.
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the workshop, the learner will be able to
• Describe key principles—and their rationale—for defining your product
• Identify practical techniques to use in a product definition facilitated workshop
• Explain the mindsets and points of view that thwart product thinking, and ways to overcome them.
• Implement a collaborative process for helping people reflect, repeal, and reveal what their product is
Agile Product Management: Do the Right Things, Not EverythingEBG Consulting, Inc.
Learn to lighten the load of product management and ownership while strengthening your product ecosystem, making space for the right things amidst the clutter of everything.
Presented at Big Apple Scrum Day, May 2019
For more, read:
https://www.ebgconsulting.com/blog/product-manager-product-owner/
https://www.ebgconsulting.com/blog/product-manager-product-owner-part-2/
https://www.ebgconsulting.com/blog/right-things-not-everything-product-management-ownership/
The first step for large enterprises transitioning toward a product-aligned operating model is to get shared agreement on this simple yet challenging question: "What is our product?"
This session will share techniques we have - and are - using to scale lean/agile product development in a large organization.
Detailed Description:
One of the biggest strengths—and concurrent challenges—for scaling product development with LeSS is defining what the “product” is. LeSS encourages product development teams to take as wide a view as possible and to use a customer-focused definition.
Great.
So, how do you define what your product is? And, how do you define your product in a manner that is collaborative, engaging, and sticky? Based on ongoing work inside a very large global technology infrastructure organization, we share techniques we have and are using to answer this essential question: “What is our Product?”
In this session, Andy and Ellen share techniques for enabling product development leaders and communities to define their product using an “outside-in”, customer-focused perspective - and do so with a product management mindset. They also share “meta” learning points about using these techniques in facilitated sessions in ways that optimize mutual learning.
Presented at the LeSs Conference 2018 by Andy Repton and Ellen Gottesdiener, September 2018
The Agile Fluency™ model describes an agile team’s pathway for achieving a level of fluency that best fits business needs. It is a progression through four zones: Focusing on business value, Delivering on a market cadence, Optimizing to lead the market and Strengthening to make the organizations stronger.
How does this translate to product management?
In this session, you will actively participate in a structured discussion on how product management maps on to this model and what characteristics and skills are key at each step. We’ll explore the challenges PMs/POs face in each zone and how it this impact product decision-making. Join of for a lively and co-active session.
The Contracting Two-Step: Patterns & Actions for Successful CollaborationEBG Consulting, Inc.
~ Presented at Agile Games 2018, Boston, MA. ~
Do your agile team members optimize each other’s skills & capabilities? Share personal development needs? Trust each other? Experience the “contracting two-step”, a metaphor for ways to identify & monitor mutual working agreements. Learn 3 activities to build agreements that make people awesome.
Do your agile team members make optimum use of each other’s skills and capabilities? Do they share their personal development needs? Do they trust each other? If not, consider the “contracting two-step” - a metaphor for simple yet powerful ways to identify and monitor mutual working agreements. Like a dance, contracting partners take mutual responsibility to reach shared goals. While not legally binding, the contract represents public, explicit commitments essential for successful collaborations.
Learn 3 activities to implement the “Contracting Two Step” on your agile team. Leave with activities and worksheets you can use to make people awesome.
Note: you can upload the MatchUp Canvas here: https://www.ebgconsulting.com/MatchUpCanvas(EBG_Consulting)(Gottesdiener)(v1.1).pdf
That Settles It: Techniques for Transparent & Trusted Decision Making EBG Consulting, Inc.
Your team makes countless product and process decisions: vision, product value, requirements to deliver, acceptance criteria, validation tests, platforms and tools, requirements or backlog management, metrics, delivery cadence, risks to proactively mitigate, and more.
Ellen Gottesdiener explores how participatory decision making is essential for fostering collaboration. Learn practical techniques for deciding how to decide. Leave with a toolkit to align your choices with your team values.
Learn:
* How to identify types of product and process decisions made on projects, including their timing and stakeholders
* Recognize decision-making traps, risks, and blunders
* Discover a tried and true—and transparent—decision-making process you can use right away in your work
Many teams struggle with getting user stories small enough and sufficiently understood for planning and delivery. Slicing user stories so they are valuable and actionable is collaborative work - involving the Product Owner, Scrum Master and the team. See how slicing user stories accelerates ongoing backlog refinement, helps sprint and release planning, and increases delivered value.
These are slides from the webinar presented by the co-creator of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland, and the industry's leading expert on story-slicing, Ellen Gottesdiener, on February 24th 2016.
Contact ellen@ebgconsulting.com if you are interested listening to the recording.
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of agile product development is discovering the right product requirements, to deliver at the right time, for the right customer.
User stories and product backlogs are useful, even essentials tools, but wait – there’s more!
This is a fast-paced introduction of a common sense, tested approach to agile requirements presented by Mary Gorman at Agile 2017. Agile Alliance members can watch the recording at this address:
http://agilealliance.cmail19.com/t/y-l-hriyydk-bdllkqik-iu/
With a laser-like focus on delivering value, you follow a story as it’s sliced across seven product dimensions. You realize the power of sketching analysis models to “see” agile requirements and the strength of using acceptance criteria to ideate and confirm agile requirements. You survey creative ways to engage in collaborative conversations that result in right and ready agile requirements. You appreciate how adaptive planning replaces change management with value management.
See how a holistic, adaptive approach to agile requirements provides a sound foundation for your product backlog through effective stakeholder conversations, collaboration, and co-creation of a shared understanding of ever-evolving product needs.
Agile Open Jam at Building Business Capability Conference 2015EBG Consulting, Inc.
Photos and outcomes from the first Agile Open Jam for the Building Business Capability (BBC) Conference which took place in Las Vegas, Nevada USA, November 2015.
Lead Host and Report by Mary Gorman, EBG Consulting
Read more about the why's and what's of this Agile Open Jam here: https://www.ebgconsulting.com/blog/timely-topics-deep-discussions-agile-open-jam-at-bbc-2015
Agile Open Jam at Building Business Capability Conference 2014EBG Consulting, Inc.
Photos and outcomes from the first Agile Open Jam for the Building Business Capability (BBC) Conference which took place in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA, November 2014.
Read more about the why's and what's of this Agile Open Jam here:
http://ebgconsulting.com/blog/agile-soul-mates-jamming-in-florida-by-mary-gorman/
Photos and outcomes from the first Product Management Agile Open Jam which took place in Zurich, Switzerland at Product Management Festival (PMF) 2014.
Read more about the why's and what's of this Agile Open Jam here:
http://ebgconsulting.com/blog/agile-product-management-open-jam/
Keynote by Mary Gorman at Agile Testing Days 2013.
If your agile team wants to deliver a high-quality product, testing is essential. But some teams see testing as a “dependent” activity—dependent on requirements and dependent on development. If this perspective implies putting groups’ needs before your own or being controlled or manipulated by others, it’s unhealthy.
In successful agile teams, the members are neither dependent nor independent. Instead they’re interdependent—mutually reliant on and responsible to each other. Healthy interdependence can take many forms. Do you know which one your team operates under? Mary Gorman explores how test activities can enable and strengthen interdependencies among people and practices, and within the product itself to enhance the quality of your products and process.
Code reviews are vital for ensuring good code quality. They serve as one of our last lines of defense against bugs and subpar code reaching production.
Yet, they often turn into annoying tasks riddled with frustration, hostility, unclear feedback and lack of standards. How can we improve this crucial process?
In this session we will cover:
- The Art of Effective Code Reviews
- Streamlining the Review Process
- Elevating Reviews with Automated Tools
By the end of this presentation, you'll have the knowledge on how to organize and improve your code review proces
Providing Globus Services to Users of JASMIN for Environmental Data AnalysisGlobus
JASMIN is the UK’s high-performance data analysis platform for environmental science, operated by STFC on behalf of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). In addition to its role in hosting the CEDA Archive (NERC’s long-term repository for climate, atmospheric science & Earth observation data in the UK), JASMIN provides a collaborative platform to a community of around 2,000 scientists in the UK and beyond, providing nearly 400 environmental science projects with working space, compute resources and tools to facilitate their work. High-performance data transfer into and out of JASMIN has always been a key feature, with many scientists bringing model outputs from supercomputers elsewhere in the UK, to analyse against observational or other model data in the CEDA Archive. A growing number of JASMIN users are now realising the benefits of using the Globus service to provide reliable and efficient data movement and other tasks in this and other contexts. Further use cases involve long-distance (intercontinental) transfers to and from JASMIN, and collecting results from a mobile atmospheric radar system, pushing data to JASMIN via a lightweight Globus deployment. We provide details of how Globus fits into our current infrastructure, our experience of the recent migration to GCSv5.4, and of our interest in developing use of the wider ecosystem of Globus services for the benefit of our user community.
May Marketo Masterclass, London MUG May 22 2024.pdfAdele Miller
Can't make Adobe Summit in Vegas? No sweat because the EMEA Marketo Engage Champions are coming to London to share their Summit sessions, insights and more!
This is a MUG with a twist you don't want to miss.
Gamify Your Mind; The Secret Sauce to Delivering Success, Continuously Improv...Shahin Sheidaei
Games are powerful teaching tools, fostering hands-on engagement and fun. But they require careful consideration to succeed. Join me to explore factors in running and selecting games, ensuring they serve as effective teaching tools. Learn to maintain focus on learning objectives while playing, and how to measure the ROI of gaming in education. Discover strategies for pitching gaming to leadership. This session offers insights, tips, and examples for coaches, team leads, and enterprise leaders seeking to teach from simple to complex concepts.
Globus Compute wth IRI Workflows - GlobusWorld 2024Globus
As part of the DOE Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) program, NERSC at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and ALCF at Argonne National Lab are working closely with General Atomics on accelerating the computing requirements of the DIII-D experiment. As part of the work the team is investigating ways to speedup the time to solution for many different parts of the DIII-D workflow including how they run jobs on HPC systems. One of these routes is looking at Globus Compute as a way to replace the current method for managing tasks and we describe a brief proof of concept showing how Globus Compute could help to schedule jobs and be a tool to connect compute at different facilities.
Unleash Unlimited Potential with One-Time Purchase
BoxLang is more than just a language; it's a community. By choosing a Visionary License, you're not just investing in your success, you're actively contributing to the ongoing development and support of BoxLang.
Innovating Inference - Remote Triggering of Large Language Models on HPC Clus...Globus
Large Language Models (LLMs) are currently the center of attention in the tech world, particularly for their potential to advance research. In this presentation, we'll explore a straightforward and effective method for quickly initiating inference runs on supercomputers using the vLLM tool with Globus Compute, specifically on the Polaris system at ALCF. We'll begin by briefly discussing the popularity and applications of LLMs in various fields. Following this, we will introduce the vLLM tool, and explain how it integrates with Globus Compute to efficiently manage LLM operations on Polaris. Attendees will learn the practical aspects of setting up and remotely triggering LLMs from local machines, focusing on ease of use and efficiency. This talk is ideal for researchers and practitioners looking to leverage the power of LLMs in their work, offering a clear guide to harnessing supercomputing resources for quick and effective LLM inference.
Custom Healthcare Software for Managing Chronic Conditions and Remote Patient...Mind IT Systems
Healthcare providers often struggle with the complexities of chronic conditions and remote patient monitoring, as each patient requires personalized care and ongoing monitoring. Off-the-shelf solutions may not meet these diverse needs, leading to inefficiencies and gaps in care. It’s here, custom healthcare software offers a tailored solution, ensuring improved care and effectiveness.
Quarkus Hidden and Forbidden ExtensionsMax Andersen
Quarkus has a vast extension ecosystem and is known for its subsonic and subatomic feature set. Some of these features are not as well known, and some extensions are less talked about, but that does not make them less interesting - quite the opposite.
Come join this talk to see some tips and tricks for using Quarkus and some of the lesser known features, extensions and development techniques.
Exploring Innovations in Data Repository Solutions - Insights from the U.S. G...Globus
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has made substantial investments in meeting evolving scientific, technical, and policy driven demands on storing, managing, and delivering data. As these demands continue to grow in complexity and scale, the USGS must continue to explore innovative solutions to improve its management, curation, sharing, delivering, and preservation approaches for large-scale research data. Supporting these needs, the USGS has partnered with the University of Chicago-Globus to research and develop advanced repository components and workflows leveraging its current investment in Globus. The primary outcome of this partnership includes the development of a prototype enterprise repository, driven by USGS Data Release requirements, through exploration and implementation of the entire suite of the Globus platform offerings, including Globus Flow, Globus Auth, Globus Transfer, and Globus Search. This presentation will provide insights into this research partnership, introduce the unique requirements and challenges being addressed and provide relevant project progress.
TROUBLESHOOTING 9 TYPES OF OUTOFMEMORYERRORTier1 app
Even though at surface level ‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError’ appears as one single error; underlyingly there are 9 types of OutOfMemoryError. Each type of OutOfMemoryError has different causes, diagnosis approaches and solutions. This session equips you with the knowledge, tools, and techniques needed to troubleshoot and conquer OutOfMemoryError in all its forms, ensuring smoother, more efficient Java applications.
Developing Distributed High-performance Computing Capabilities of an Open Sci...Globus
COVID-19 had an unprecedented impact on scientific collaboration. The pandemic and its broad response from the scientific community has forged new relationships among public health practitioners, mathematical modelers, and scientific computing specialists, while revealing critical gaps in exploiting advanced computing systems to support urgent decision making. Informed by our team’s work in applying high-performance computing in support of public health decision makers during the COVID-19 pandemic, we present how Globus technologies are enabling the development of an open science platform for robust epidemic analysis, with the goal of collaborative, secure, distributed, on-demand, and fast time-to-solution analyses to support public health.
Paketo Buildpacks : la meilleure façon de construire des images OCI? DevopsDa...Anthony Dahanne
Les Buildpacks existent depuis plus de 10 ans ! D’abord, ils étaient utilisés pour détecter et construire une application avant de la déployer sur certains PaaS. Ensuite, nous avons pu créer des images Docker (OCI) avec leur dernière génération, les Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNCF en incubation). Sont-ils une bonne alternative au Dockerfile ? Que sont les buildpacks Paketo ? Quelles communautés les soutiennent et comment ?
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We describe the deployment and use of Globus Compute for remote computation. This content is aimed at researchers who wish to compute on remote resources using a unified programming interface, as well as system administrators who will deploy and operate Globus Compute services on their research computing infrastructure.
Software Engineering, Software Consulting, Tech Lead.
Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Core, Spring JDBC, Spring Security,
Spring Transaction, Spring MVC,
Log4j, REST/SOAP WEB-SERVICES.
SOCRadar Research Team: Latest Activities of IntelBrokerSOCRadar
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) has suffered an alleged data breach after a notorious threat actor claimed to have exfiltrated data from its systems. Infamous data leaker IntelBroker posted on the even more infamous BreachForums hacking forum, saying that Europol suffered a data breach this month.
The alleged breach affected Europol agencies CCSE, EC3, Europol Platform for Experts, Law Enforcement Forum, and SIRIUS. Infiltration of these entities can disrupt ongoing investigations and compromise sensitive intelligence shared among international law enforcement agencies.
However, this is neither the first nor the last activity of IntekBroker. We have compiled for you what happened in the last few days. To track such hacker activities on dark web sources like hacker forums, private Telegram channels, and other hidden platforms where cyber threats often originate, you can check SOCRadar’s Dark Web News.
Stay Informed on Threat Actors’ Activity on the Dark Web with SOCRadar!