Tom Walton, Gary Green and Clement Pickering of Infinity Works spoke about techniques to guide your organisation to deliver value quicker and more closely aligned to your business strategies.
Many businesses focus upon improvement to their technical capability harnessing DevOps practices such as Continuous Deployment to "Build The Thing Right", but in the drive to deliver more rapidly, repeatedly and predictably have business units evolved and integrated effectively? Essentially, are we "Building The Right Thing"?
This document contains a collection of slides on various topics including:
1. A slide on PowerPoint Karaoke and driving innovation through social media and transparency.
2. A slide on loss functions and continuous improvement in reducing deviations from normal.
3. A slide on customer relationship management and identifying the most valuable versus marginal customers.
The document provides snippets of information on diverse topics in an assortment of slide formats and without any clear overarching theme or narrative to connect them.
This document provides an overview of TAMx Studio, an innovation and design studio focused on improving human experiences, especially in the public sector. Some key points:
- TAMx uses human-centered design, service design, and other approaches to help public sectors design better policies and services.
- They have a framework called the TAMx 360 Citizen Experience Innovation Wheel that covers all aspects of designing, managing, and delivering citizen experiences from culture to delivery.
- TAMx believes citizen experience (CX) innovation requires different approaches than customer experience and involves co-design, living labs, and activating citizens.
- They describe how governments can support innovation through various roles like funding, partnerships, and
Future of Design in Start-Ups Survey 2017 Albert Lee
We launched the Future of Design in Start-Ups survey last year to set a baseline for how design operates in the tech ecosystem and also to begin to track what value is created by design in fast growing companies.
This year, we asked some of the same questions from 2016 to create a trailing data set. We also wanted to dig into the nitty gritty of design teams (structures, salaries, etc.) and squint at where design might be going within start-ups in the future (new skills, new mediums, etc.).
We heard responses from over 350+ companies and this is a summary of what was shared. A sincere thank you to all those that responded!
Keynote at Digital Workplace Conference 2016 on Change Management for Digital Transformation. I looked at examples of transformation around the world, and explored the direct and indirect effects across work practice, organisational structure, corporate culture, and business model.
This document discusses cultures of prototyping and how different corporate cultures approach the process of prototyping new products. It describes how some companies are more specification-driven, focusing on detailed requirements before prototyping, while others are more prototype-driven, using iterative prototyping to help shape specifications. The medium used for prototyping, the questions prototypes aim to answer, the speed of the prototyping cycle, and who is involved in the process all contribute to a company's unique prototyping culture. Understanding these cultural differences is important for transforming product development practices.
The main goal of this study is to understand how companies use the concept of Digital Analytics and how to leverage their results from Digital Analytics implementation.
Many businesses focus upon improvement to their technical capability harnessing DevOps practices such as Continuous Deployment to "Build The Thing Right", but in the drive to deliver more rapidly, repeatedly and predictably have business units evolved and integrated effectively? Essentially, are we "Building The Right Thing"?
This document contains a collection of slides on various topics including:
1. A slide on PowerPoint Karaoke and driving innovation through social media and transparency.
2. A slide on loss functions and continuous improvement in reducing deviations from normal.
3. A slide on customer relationship management and identifying the most valuable versus marginal customers.
The document provides snippets of information on diverse topics in an assortment of slide formats and without any clear overarching theme or narrative to connect them.
This document provides an overview of TAMx Studio, an innovation and design studio focused on improving human experiences, especially in the public sector. Some key points:
- TAMx uses human-centered design, service design, and other approaches to help public sectors design better policies and services.
- They have a framework called the TAMx 360 Citizen Experience Innovation Wheel that covers all aspects of designing, managing, and delivering citizen experiences from culture to delivery.
- TAMx believes citizen experience (CX) innovation requires different approaches than customer experience and involves co-design, living labs, and activating citizens.
- They describe how governments can support innovation through various roles like funding, partnerships, and
Future of Design in Start-Ups Survey 2017 Albert Lee
We launched the Future of Design in Start-Ups survey last year to set a baseline for how design operates in the tech ecosystem and also to begin to track what value is created by design in fast growing companies.
This year, we asked some of the same questions from 2016 to create a trailing data set. We also wanted to dig into the nitty gritty of design teams (structures, salaries, etc.) and squint at where design might be going within start-ups in the future (new skills, new mediums, etc.).
We heard responses from over 350+ companies and this is a summary of what was shared. A sincere thank you to all those that responded!
Keynote at Digital Workplace Conference 2016 on Change Management for Digital Transformation. I looked at examples of transformation around the world, and explored the direct and indirect effects across work practice, organisational structure, corporate culture, and business model.
This document discusses cultures of prototyping and how different corporate cultures approach the process of prototyping new products. It describes how some companies are more specification-driven, focusing on detailed requirements before prototyping, while others are more prototype-driven, using iterative prototyping to help shape specifications. The medium used for prototyping, the questions prototypes aim to answer, the speed of the prototyping cycle, and who is involved in the process all contribute to a company's unique prototyping culture. Understanding these cultural differences is important for transforming product development practices.
The main goal of this study is to understand how companies use the concept of Digital Analytics and how to leverage their results from Digital Analytics implementation.
Adobe Marketer Outlook Survey Japan 2020AdobeJapanPR
The document provides results from a survey of 302 marketers in Japan regarding their outlook during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some key findings include:
- Currently two-thirds of people are working from home, less than in other countries, and about half feel they cannot work as effectively from home. Faster internet and access to files/servers are needed to work more effectively remotely.
- Organizations have shifted brand messaging and imagery during the pandemic, with most addressing COVID-19 responses for customers. Nearly half have increased marketing spending due to COVID-19.
- Most expect changes to long-term strategy and marketing approaches as a result of the pandemic, including more long-term remote work. Compared to other countries,
The document discusses ERP systems and the challenges conglomerates face in selecting and deploying new technology solutions. It notes that 55-75% of ERP projects fail to meet their objectives. It then discusses Company S's opportunity to establish itself as the leading consultant partner for conglomerates seeking to improve efficiency across functions through technology like cloud-based ERP systems. The document analyzes the stakeholders in the decision making process and identifies clarity, collaboration and convenience as key pillars to address different audiences. It proposes positioning Company S as providing a "personal technology consultant" named Mr. Earp who embodies those pillars and can help conglomerates make the world run better.
BT Connect achieved financial targets and improved customer satisfaction in 2008/2009. They delivered new capabilities, transformed the business, and strengthened relationships. BT also invested in employees through expanded e-learning and leadership development. In 2009/2010, BT must raise performance standards to succeed in challenging conditions. BT teams have proven their ability to innovate and support customers through difficult times. The newsletter provides updates on various BT projects and initiatives across different business units.
Cloud Computing Technology: A Mechanism for Achieving Sustainable IT GoalsBooz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton, has long recognized the significant impact Cloud Computing will have on organizations providing services and products to costumers. This article focuses on Booz Allen's approach to using Computing as a mechanism for achieving sustainable IT goals.
How to Bring About Finance Transformation on Your Own TermsWorkday, Inc.
In this deck, experts from PwC and Workday explain how finance leaders can use automation, artificial intelligence, and analytical skills to help their teams adapt to rapid change.
Digital transformation roadmap 16th july 2018 v1.1Chandresh Adhiya
Most companies embark on Digital Transformation Journey without really thinking about end to end picture.
Based on our Consulting Experience across various industries and geographies , we have compiled Digital Transformation Roadmap.
(if you need editable ppt please read last slide)
Following are broad steps as described in this presentation:
1. IT Diagnostics (People, Process & Technology)
2. Digital Transformation Gap Assessment
3. IT Strategy & Governance Framework
4. Enterprise Architecture & IT Services Roadmap
5. Business Case & Benefit Realization Roadmap
6. Systems Evaluation & Selection
7. System Integrator Evaluation & Selection
8.Program Governance & Management (Enterprise & Satellite PMOs)
8.1 PMO for IT Projects Portfolio
9. IT Services Value & Risk Assessment
10. IT Service Management Maturity Improvement
11. Virtual CIO Office Support Services
12. Tailored Specialized Solutions & Services
Business transformation trends and smart methodologyParticipium
The document discusses business transformation trends for 2020 and beyond, focusing on three dimensions: the business environment, time horizon, and key business themes. It examines the challenge of balancing exploration and exploitation through ambidexterity at both the leadership and organizational structure levels. The document also provides questions and considerations for organizations undergoing transformation to help scope needs, model approaches, activate plans, review progress, and tweak strategies over time.
What can you achieve by socializing your corporate intranet?
In this presentation, social business experts Gia Lyons and Kathryn Everest will examine how a social intranet enables more employees to find and engage in corporate communications and strategic messages, thus driving greater alignment and buy-in.
Jive is the world's #1 social business platform. We help employees, customers and partners connect, collaborate and communicate to achieve breakthrough results in sales, marketing, customer service and workforce productivity.
Learn more at http://bit.ly/1aTo6Vq
What and how to develop digital or transformation strategy right from top to ...Sandeep Singh
This document discusses developing a digital or transformation strategy from top to bottom. It outlines three key areas: 1) Insight, Strategy & Design which focuses on business transformation, strategy, and experience design; 2) Digital Transformation Strategy which focuses on processes, people, organizational design, and change management; and 3) IT Level Transformation which focuses on adopting new technologies like cloud, data analytics, and DevOps. It then provides examples of tasks within each area such as developing a business case for change, maturity assessments, technology adoption roadmaps, and architecture designs.
TechnoVision 2014: Technology Building Blocks for Digital TransformationCapgemini
Our TechnoVision 2014 introduces a fresh, provocative and innovative approach to today's business technology landscape. Here's a platform business and technology leaders can use to create a new, different dialogue on how these disruptions will affect the near- and long-term business environment, and how you can leverage them to exploit market opportunities for sustainable competitive advantage. TechnoVision 2014 is a strategic asset that can help drive Digital Transformation across your entire enterprise.
http://www.capgemini.com/technovision
#1NLab15: Creating Digital Harmony – The Marketing Technology EcosystemOne North
The document discusses creating digital harmony within a marketing technology ecosystem. It begins by acknowledging that complexity is outpacing resources over time. It then provides steps to demystify and simplify, including discovery, mapping out current integrations, identifying hubs and spokes, and setting measurable goals. Hubs are described as complex systems that aggregate and syndicate data across the enterprise, while spokes are more nimble and domain-specific technologies. The document uses a hypothetical company and goals as an example, mapping out potential ways to integrate tools like AWeber, Google Analytics, and Salesforce to meet goals like tracking newsletter signups. It concludes by advising readers to choose an approach that works for their team and organization.
SAFe Dependency Board Widget V3 for IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC)Markus Giacomuzzi
Globally distributed teams can easily get into the situation where sticky notes, tape and string no longer fit your needs concerning a virtual dependency board. The current Rational Team Concert (RTC) Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) template provides a plain table for showing dependencies. So we decided to upgrade the RTC Timebox Planning Widget with a new visualization feature that supports SAFe's Dependency Board. Especially in a distributed environment, this will simplify and speed up your SAFe Program Increment (PI) planning substantially. Team member absences reduce not only the team's velocity automatically, but can also be visualized in an additional Absence Widget. Both widgets will be demoed and are freeware.
Reinertsen Agile Day Atlanta Intro to SGLPD 5-8-2015Donald Reinertsen
A 60 min summary of the big ideas behind Second Generation Lean Product Development. A video of a similar, but shorter, presentation can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyEtKpqqx_s
These ideas come from my book, The Principles of Product Development FLOW.
Given a desire to improve our software development endeavours, we tend to apply models and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, SAFe, even a custom implementation of Agile itself, without really understanding what our current model is, or what we value.
This approach leads us to do things and reject things in an ad-hoc way; not knowing whether the change will actually result in improvements in the areas where we need it most.
At an organisational level, we often don’t even want or value “agility”. We default to notions of “making the organisation agile” or “scaling agile” without confirming if that is what is actually desired.
This talk will take the audience (minus an agenda) through three simple steps to improvement, by:
1) Understanding goals;
2) Understanding desired cultural values on key dichotomy scales; and
3) Synchronising in iterations.
At a small company/single product level, following these steps might result in a group of people synchronising to product goals as a Scrum team. At a larger company/multiple product level (aka “at scale”), it might result in teams across departments being synchronised to organisational goals via organisational sprints/iterations.
The audience will come away with practical steps to effecting team, multi-team or full organisational change, in the area of product development. Underpinning these steps will be the key message that Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Lean Principles can aid the improvement journey: but none of these things should be a goal in itself.
Given a desire to improve our software development endeavours, we tend to apply models and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, SAFe, even a custom implementation of Agile itself, without really understanding what our current model is, or what we value.
This approach leads us to do things and reject things in an ad-hoc way; not knowing whether the change will actually result in improvements in the areas where we need it most.
At an organisational level, we often don’t even want or value “agility”. We default to notions of “making the organisation agile” or “scaling agile” without confirming if that is what is actually desired.
This talk will take the audience (minus an agenda) through three simple steps to improvement, by:
1) Understanding goals;
2) Understanding desired cultural values on key dichotomy scales; and
3) Synchronising in iterations.
At a small company/single product level, following these steps might result in a group of people synchronising to product goals as a Scrum team. At a larger company/multiple product level (aka “at scale”), it might result in teams across departments being synchronised to organisational goals via organisational sprints/iterations.
The audience will come away with practical steps to effecting team, multi-team or full organisational change, in the area of product development. Underpinning these steps will be the key message that Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Lean Principles can aid the improvement journey: but none of these things should be a goal in itself.
Adobe Marketer Outlook Survey Japan 2020AdobeJapanPR
The document provides results from a survey of 302 marketers in Japan regarding their outlook during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some key findings include:
- Currently two-thirds of people are working from home, less than in other countries, and about half feel they cannot work as effectively from home. Faster internet and access to files/servers are needed to work more effectively remotely.
- Organizations have shifted brand messaging and imagery during the pandemic, with most addressing COVID-19 responses for customers. Nearly half have increased marketing spending due to COVID-19.
- Most expect changes to long-term strategy and marketing approaches as a result of the pandemic, including more long-term remote work. Compared to other countries,
The document discusses ERP systems and the challenges conglomerates face in selecting and deploying new technology solutions. It notes that 55-75% of ERP projects fail to meet their objectives. It then discusses Company S's opportunity to establish itself as the leading consultant partner for conglomerates seeking to improve efficiency across functions through technology like cloud-based ERP systems. The document analyzes the stakeholders in the decision making process and identifies clarity, collaboration and convenience as key pillars to address different audiences. It proposes positioning Company S as providing a "personal technology consultant" named Mr. Earp who embodies those pillars and can help conglomerates make the world run better.
BT Connect achieved financial targets and improved customer satisfaction in 2008/2009. They delivered new capabilities, transformed the business, and strengthened relationships. BT also invested in employees through expanded e-learning and leadership development. In 2009/2010, BT must raise performance standards to succeed in challenging conditions. BT teams have proven their ability to innovate and support customers through difficult times. The newsletter provides updates on various BT projects and initiatives across different business units.
Cloud Computing Technology: A Mechanism for Achieving Sustainable IT GoalsBooz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton, has long recognized the significant impact Cloud Computing will have on organizations providing services and products to costumers. This article focuses on Booz Allen's approach to using Computing as a mechanism for achieving sustainable IT goals.
How to Bring About Finance Transformation on Your Own TermsWorkday, Inc.
In this deck, experts from PwC and Workday explain how finance leaders can use automation, artificial intelligence, and analytical skills to help their teams adapt to rapid change.
Digital transformation roadmap 16th july 2018 v1.1Chandresh Adhiya
Most companies embark on Digital Transformation Journey without really thinking about end to end picture.
Based on our Consulting Experience across various industries and geographies , we have compiled Digital Transformation Roadmap.
(if you need editable ppt please read last slide)
Following are broad steps as described in this presentation:
1. IT Diagnostics (People, Process & Technology)
2. Digital Transformation Gap Assessment
3. IT Strategy & Governance Framework
4. Enterprise Architecture & IT Services Roadmap
5. Business Case & Benefit Realization Roadmap
6. Systems Evaluation & Selection
7. System Integrator Evaluation & Selection
8.Program Governance & Management (Enterprise & Satellite PMOs)
8.1 PMO for IT Projects Portfolio
9. IT Services Value & Risk Assessment
10. IT Service Management Maturity Improvement
11. Virtual CIO Office Support Services
12. Tailored Specialized Solutions & Services
Business transformation trends and smart methodologyParticipium
The document discusses business transformation trends for 2020 and beyond, focusing on three dimensions: the business environment, time horizon, and key business themes. It examines the challenge of balancing exploration and exploitation through ambidexterity at both the leadership and organizational structure levels. The document also provides questions and considerations for organizations undergoing transformation to help scope needs, model approaches, activate plans, review progress, and tweak strategies over time.
What can you achieve by socializing your corporate intranet?
In this presentation, social business experts Gia Lyons and Kathryn Everest will examine how a social intranet enables more employees to find and engage in corporate communications and strategic messages, thus driving greater alignment and buy-in.
Jive is the world's #1 social business platform. We help employees, customers and partners connect, collaborate and communicate to achieve breakthrough results in sales, marketing, customer service and workforce productivity.
Learn more at http://bit.ly/1aTo6Vq
What and how to develop digital or transformation strategy right from top to ...Sandeep Singh
This document discusses developing a digital or transformation strategy from top to bottom. It outlines three key areas: 1) Insight, Strategy & Design which focuses on business transformation, strategy, and experience design; 2) Digital Transformation Strategy which focuses on processes, people, organizational design, and change management; and 3) IT Level Transformation which focuses on adopting new technologies like cloud, data analytics, and DevOps. It then provides examples of tasks within each area such as developing a business case for change, maturity assessments, technology adoption roadmaps, and architecture designs.
TechnoVision 2014: Technology Building Blocks for Digital TransformationCapgemini
Our TechnoVision 2014 introduces a fresh, provocative and innovative approach to today's business technology landscape. Here's a platform business and technology leaders can use to create a new, different dialogue on how these disruptions will affect the near- and long-term business environment, and how you can leverage them to exploit market opportunities for sustainable competitive advantage. TechnoVision 2014 is a strategic asset that can help drive Digital Transformation across your entire enterprise.
http://www.capgemini.com/technovision
#1NLab15: Creating Digital Harmony – The Marketing Technology EcosystemOne North
The document discusses creating digital harmony within a marketing technology ecosystem. It begins by acknowledging that complexity is outpacing resources over time. It then provides steps to demystify and simplify, including discovery, mapping out current integrations, identifying hubs and spokes, and setting measurable goals. Hubs are described as complex systems that aggregate and syndicate data across the enterprise, while spokes are more nimble and domain-specific technologies. The document uses a hypothetical company and goals as an example, mapping out potential ways to integrate tools like AWeber, Google Analytics, and Salesforce to meet goals like tracking newsletter signups. It concludes by advising readers to choose an approach that works for their team and organization.
SAFe Dependency Board Widget V3 for IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC)Markus Giacomuzzi
Globally distributed teams can easily get into the situation where sticky notes, tape and string no longer fit your needs concerning a virtual dependency board. The current Rational Team Concert (RTC) Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) template provides a plain table for showing dependencies. So we decided to upgrade the RTC Timebox Planning Widget with a new visualization feature that supports SAFe's Dependency Board. Especially in a distributed environment, this will simplify and speed up your SAFe Program Increment (PI) planning substantially. Team member absences reduce not only the team's velocity automatically, but can also be visualized in an additional Absence Widget. Both widgets will be demoed and are freeware.
Reinertsen Agile Day Atlanta Intro to SGLPD 5-8-2015Donald Reinertsen
A 60 min summary of the big ideas behind Second Generation Lean Product Development. A video of a similar, but shorter, presentation can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyEtKpqqx_s
These ideas come from my book, The Principles of Product Development FLOW.
Given a desire to improve our software development endeavours, we tend to apply models and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, SAFe, even a custom implementation of Agile itself, without really understanding what our current model is, or what we value.
This approach leads us to do things and reject things in an ad-hoc way; not knowing whether the change will actually result in improvements in the areas where we need it most.
At an organisational level, we often don’t even want or value “agility”. We default to notions of “making the organisation agile” or “scaling agile” without confirming if that is what is actually desired.
This talk will take the audience (minus an agenda) through three simple steps to improvement, by:
1) Understanding goals;
2) Understanding desired cultural values on key dichotomy scales; and
3) Synchronising in iterations.
At a small company/single product level, following these steps might result in a group of people synchronising to product goals as a Scrum team. At a larger company/multiple product level (aka “at scale”), it might result in teams across departments being synchronised to organisational goals via organisational sprints/iterations.
The audience will come away with practical steps to effecting team, multi-team or full organisational change, in the area of product development. Underpinning these steps will be the key message that Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Lean Principles can aid the improvement journey: but none of these things should be a goal in itself.
Given a desire to improve our software development endeavours, we tend to apply models and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, SAFe, even a custom implementation of Agile itself, without really understanding what our current model is, or what we value.
This approach leads us to do things and reject things in an ad-hoc way; not knowing whether the change will actually result in improvements in the areas where we need it most.
At an organisational level, we often don’t even want or value “agility”. We default to notions of “making the organisation agile” or “scaling agile” without confirming if that is what is actually desired.
This talk will take the audience (minus an agenda) through three simple steps to improvement, by:
1) Understanding goals;
2) Understanding desired cultural values on key dichotomy scales; and
3) Synchronising in iterations.
At a small company/single product level, following these steps might result in a group of people synchronising to product goals as a Scrum team. At a larger company/multiple product level (aka “at scale”), it might result in teams across departments being synchronised to organisational goals via organisational sprints/iterations.
The audience will come away with practical steps to effecting team, multi-team or full organisational change, in the area of product development. Underpinning these steps will be the key message that Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Lean Principles can aid the improvement journey: but none of these things should be a goal in itself.
Introduction to SAFe, the Scaled Agile Frameworksrondal
Sans doute vous identifiez vous dans une ou plusieurs des situations suivantes:
- plusieurs équipes Scrum travaillent dans votre entreprise, parfois sur un même projet ou des projets connexes
- la coordination entre équipes Scrum n'est pas optimale
- vous-même, ou certains stakeholders, ont besoin d'une vue plus long terme sur vos projets Agile, plus que "juste le prochain sprint"
- sur base du succès de Scrum dans votre entreprise, vous voulez allez plus loin et vous voulez rendre plus agile l'entièreté de votre entreprise
Si c'est le cas, venez découvrir le framework SAFe.
Après une présentation du framework et de ses fondements, vous serez en mesure de mieux le comprendre, et de voir ce qu'il peut apporter ou non à votre entreprise.
This talk will address the flawed way in which we marry the Agile and traditional ways of doing things when trying to deliver in a timely fashion, particularly to deadlines. It will suggest an alternative approach which puts a greater emphasis on Agile and Lean principles. Ironically, by using genuine time constraints as a factor in the prioritisation of work rather than as a focus for its execution, the odds of meeting those "deadlines" are actually improved. This talk will show you how to do that. And then truly glean the benefits of Agile.
Executives of software product and service companies always want stuff delivered faster, cheaper and better. Agile principles and methods are believed to be a way to achieve this. Unfortunately, the typical approach taken by software organisations is to use Agile as a local optimisation for development teams, creating a paradox where things actually take way longer than they need to, and are of a quality way lower than they should be. The "deadlines" emerging from the customer-facing parts of the business are consistently not met, causing conflict and confusion in why things never get done "on time", and why the quality of the software isn't better.
In short, the continued paradigm of deadline-driven development is killing the benefits that Agile Software Development can bring.
Introduction to product development flowYuval Yeret
This is the presentation for a pre-LSSC11 webinar on the topic of Lean Product Development flow. I’m going to introduce an approach to mixing Lean and Agile in order to achieve end to end agility. This is a major focus of my work in the recent 2 years with AgileSparks clients.
Register for the Webinar which is on 16/3 at http://www.netobjectives.com/free-seminar-schedule/lssc11-session-4-intro-lean-product-development-flow-mar-2011-webinar
This is also the topic I will talk about in my Agile Israel 2011 session “Techniques and experiences for managing end to end Releases/Projects/Programs using Kanban and Flow” http://agilesparks.com/KanbanandFlowLecture
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has a special event that is held for every Program Increment (5 sprints-ish). This is a large scale, collaborative event including everyone from the Agile Release Train (50 people plus). This workshop will be a highly interactive event where all participants will be involved in one of many teams collaborating together to plan a single Program Increment for a single product.
The schedule will roughly contain:
Overview of SAFe Program Increment Planning
(Fictional) Business Context
Product / Solution Vision
Architecture Vision And Development Practices
Planning Session 1
Draft Plan Review
Planning Session 2
Final Plan Review
Risk ROAMing
Confidence Vote
Retrospective
Many companies want to derive the benefits of an agile approach to software product development but struggle to do so, not least due to legacy processes and infrastructure which seem "too hard" to change.
Locomote is a small company on a growth path, and as such we have an opportunity to be principle-driven in how we grow success, avoiding mistakes other companies make as they look to "scale". What do we even mean when we talk about "growing" or "scaling"? What are we trying to achieve?
This presentation will invite discussion on some key questions we asked ourselves at Locomote in how we should grow our engineering team, such that we do not create overhead that slows us down and kills our startup culture.
Establishing principles for how you want to grow makes decision-making about process, practices and team structures far more straightforward, and aligned with a shared vision of what awesome looks like in your context. Hopefully the audience will come away with some food for thought and concrete ideas to try in their own workplace.
Benchmarking teams is tricky - it is too easy to amplify dysfunctional behaviour. It is also not easy to find a meaningful metric. This presentation describes an proven approach to concentrate on self assessment of capabilities.
The document discusses an agile maturity assessment process. It involves an agile expert reviewing teams once per sprint to assess their practices and provide ratings. The assessment analyzes sprint execution, identifies pain areas, and suggests improvements to help increase productivity. It evaluates factors like maintaining a well-prioritized product backlog, ensuring teams are positioned to deliver value each sprint through planning and tracking progress, using extreme programming practices during sprints, and continuously inspecting and adapting practices during retrospectives.
Timebox Planning with SAFe Support - presented@IBM's InterConnect 2016 Las VegasMarkus Giacomuzzi
With the Timebox Planning View you get an interactive Rational Team Concert (RTC) widget for your Sprint and Program Increment (SAFe) planning activities. It is perfectly suited for planning the team’s inter-dependencies across the two SAFe levels: TEAM and PROGRAM. Mike Cohn refers to this planning style as "rolling lookahead planning." Just double-click to show dependencies. Cross-hatching helps visualize scheduling conflicts. The widget is not only suitable for SAFe users, but also for any Scrum or Scrum of Scrum practitioners, especially in System Engineering Projects. So if you are in a situation where multiple teams work in parallel on ARTs (Agile Release Trains) or projects this widget will delight you. As a goodie we will provide it for free (just follow link on slide)
SAFe City Workshop: Portfolio & Program Prioritisation In PracticeMartin Burns
Don Reinertsen’s fully quantified Cost of Delay model for prioritising backlogs sourced from many stakeholders is inspired, but many organisations struggle with implementing it and abandon attempts to have a rational discussion about value because “it’s too hard to quantify in real money”. And often, it is hard to forecast real money, and other factors such as Risk really do play a part in understanding value.
This simulation provides a concrete model that enables exploration of a practical CoD prioritisation and sequencing model (based on the version used in SAFe) and an experience of operating it in a group setting.
How GetNinjas uses data to make smarter product decisionsBernardo Srulzon
GetNinjas is a platform that connects customers needing services with professional service providers. Business intelligence plays a key role in optimizing the customer experience by measuring metrics at each step of the customer lifecycle. GetNinjas implemented Snowplow, an open source product analytics platform, to gain more granular insights from their data compared to limitations of Google Analytics. They structure their data team within cross-functional squads and aim to empower other teams to create and validate hypotheses for smarter decision making.
Real Estate collapsed, Global Stock Market imploded, consumer confidence is waning, sales decline, and production slows. What were the warning signs? When will it end? What should do to get through it, and how will we know that the economy is coming back? A look at the domino effect and response as it applies to reverse logistics.
The BAD Toolkit brings together agile methods to solve problems under a community driven framework and we'd like to tell you a bit more about the thinking behind it.
Come along and join other Agile enthusiasts and talk about the BAD toolkit and speak to the founders in person.
Chuck Sharp, Right Intel CEO, discusses digital marketing from the perspective of a CMO. By using a predetermined performance framework to dictate the KPIs of a campaign, marketing team can better ensure they achieve the goals intended.
1) bizrec is accounting software designed for small businesses that want simplicity over complex functionality. It aims to provide core accounting needs like bank statement uploads, expense tracking, and reporting in a hassle-free way.
2) The target market is the 58 million small businesses globally, especially the 30.2 million one-person businesses that typically have straightforward accounting needs. bizrec sees an opportunity to offer affordable, easy-to-use software to these customers.
3) The document outlines bizrec's product, team, traction to date, design principles, customer research, pricing plan, and commercial launch roadmap. It is seeking funding to support ongoing development and marketing efforts.
This document discusses achieving alignment between the CIO and CMO roles at an audio/video company called D+M Group. Originally, marketing and IT had different reporting structures, objectives, and approaches. This led to issues like shadow IT spending by marketing without IT involvement. The document proposes several strategies to better align the roles, including building relationships, jointly developing a technology roadmap, defining responsibilities clearly, and creating a shared digital platform and iterative "bimodal" IT model to serve both foundational and differentiating needs. Stopping projects with shadow IT issues is also suggested to demonstrate the importance of IT engagement.
UX STRAT USA, Ben Judy, "Mission-Based Experience Design Strategy"UX STRAT
The document outlines Intuit's approach to experience design, centered around three missions: Save Time, Grow My Practice, and Make a Difference to Taxpayers. It discusses challenges like limited resources and ambiguity, methods like applying missions to customers and tracking progress, and results like driving clarity and cross-team collaboration. Key principles establish that every designer is a strategist and that experience design aligns with business strategy through a focus on missions over products.
Mobile Marketing Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
Develop an attractive and user-friendly mobile strategy by utilizing a Mobile Marketing Strategy PowerPoint Presentation Slides. The presentation contains various templates such as product/service overview, statements, project description, goals and objectives, scope, inclusions, and exclusions, etc. You can showcase the key statistics of mobile app users worldwide. Display information on establishing value propositions, strategic objectives to be achieved, understanding the competitive landscape, product feature comparison, current customer journey, etc with these readily available PPT templates. Describe the concept of mobile touchpoints by discussing channel interactions in our ready-to-use mobile marketing plan PPT layouts. Our content-ready PPT slides allow you to represent present elevator pitch ideas that will help to drive mobile strategy. Highlight the budget required for implementing strategy, enterprise mobility stack, product/service positioning, key business metrics dashboard, etc. Demonstrate mobile strategy roadmap, resources needed for execution, etc, by downloading smartphone marketing strategy PPT visuals. https://bit.ly/3vOPJu6
We’re in the Second Machine Age, demand for software is rocketing. Large enterprises and governments are adopting cloud, open source, SaaS platforms and bespoke agile apps. They’re trying to re-engineer processes, transform service quality and costs. There has never been a better time to grow a software business and sell to large organisations.
Companies in all industries want a ‘digital transformation’ but also have to overcome the internal barriers within their own organisations to change. Stephen, draws on his experiences working with the UK’s Government Digital Service to share lessons learnt in attempting to transform one of the largest, most IT intensive behemoths into an organisation that is, ‘Digital by Default’ How can you profit from this shift?
www.businessofsoftware.org
Investor Pitch Deck For A Start Up Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
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Creating a pitch deck that attracts investment for new business is not a child’s play. To help you with this daunting task, we have provided content-ready investor pitch deck for a start up PowerPoint presentation slides. It will provide a brief overview of your business start up to the investors and persuade them to invest. These investment management PPT templates include slides on company overview, product service, business model, revenue model, growth strategy, marketing strategy, SWOT analysis, financial projection, and exit strategy of the investors. You can make use of this presentation to know about related topics as well, including angel funder, seed investor, private investor, investment capital, venture capital, and elevator pitch. Download pitch deck for a start up PowerPoint visuals right now. It will prove to be an essential fundraising tool for your new company. Display hard facts with our Investor Pitch Deck For A Start Up Powerpoint Presentation Slides. Put actual deeds in correct focus. https://bit.ly/3BzDAeY
To succeed in the Digital Era, organizations turn to Microsoft Digital Advisory Services. Digital Advisors like myself work with organizations to reimagine and transform customer
engagement, employee experiences, business models and operations, to empower organizations to reach their digital aspirations.
Welcome to learn more about our Advisory Services.
The Internal And External And Media Relations...Melissa Moore
The document discusses analyzing and reviewing the internal/external communications processes at John Holland Pty Ltd using business process mapping and analysis techniques. It will assess measures like bottlenecks, service blueprinting, and quality/speed of delivery. The analysis will identify issues with external communications and provide recommendations to improve John Holland's communications processes and foster effective information sharing within the company.
The document summarizes VisibleThread's 2019 user conference. It discusses VisibleThread's progress in 2018, including 56% revenue growth and becoming profitable. It outlines their positioning of providing solutions for plain language in the enterprise to increase trust, engagement, and compliance. The document also previews VisibleThread's product roadmap, including expanding their insights platform to measure tone of voice across organizations in real-time and enhancements to their readability tools. Finally, it encourages conference attendees to provide reviews on third-party sites to help with marketing and positioning.
InSync10 Implement JDE Financial Analytics and Make Better DecisionsInSync Conference
This document discusses Thiess' implementation of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) and its financial analytics capabilities. It describes Thiess' journey with OBIEE, including implementation of accounts receivable, accounts payable and general ledger analytics. It also discusses Thiess' partnership with Analytics8 for support and real-time data integration. The goal of their BI implementation was to make better business decisions through a common data source and standardized reporting.
Presentation by Nirvesh Sooful on the topic of “The Emerging Role of the CIO: Leader or Technologist, Visionary or Implementer, Maverick or Collaborator” at the 2nd Annual CIO Challenge 2007 on 14&15 November 2007 at The Park Hyatt in Johannesburg. The conference was co-hosted with Deloitte.
First Principles - Using Design Thinking to Transform People StrategiesAJ Thomas
The document discusses using design thinking to transform people strategies. It advocates anchoring people strategies in a clear mission and vision to build great teams. High performance is said to live at the intersection of relationships and results. The presentation covers defining the optimal employee experience through journey mapping, prioritizing ideas, prototyping and iterating products employees love, and establishing metrics to measure what matters and move the needle.
Delight 2013 | Digital Experience WorkshopDelight Summit
Slides from the Delight 2013 Digital Strategy workshop with Colin O'Neill, Dave Wieneke, and Barbara Holmes.
Originally presented at Delight 2013, Oct. 7-8, 2013. http://delight.us/conference
Investor Pitch Deck For A Start Up PowerPoint Presentation Slides SlideTeam
The document is a pitch deck for a startup company seeking investor funding. It includes sections on the company overview, problem and solution, product details, team, growth strategy, financial projections, and more. The deck is fully customizable and provides templates and suggestions for typical content to include in each section to help the startup effectively pitch their business plan and ask for funding.
Sales Plays to Exceed Quota and Close Out This Year StrongSales Hacker
What You'll Learn:
- Deliver a compelling highly, interactive demo
- Design the ultimate sales presentation
- Avoid discounting by presenting proposals (instead of sending)
- Craft arresting use case stories
- Control meetings with simple meeting management principles
How to move to the cloud, get it right, stay secure and not cost a fortuneCorecom Consulting
This document outlines the schedule and agenda for an evening event hosted by Corecom Consulting. The event will include networking, presentations on moving businesses to the cloud while maintaining security and avoiding high costs, and group discussions. Scott Riley from Cloud Nexus will give a presentation on "How to move your business to the cloud, get it right and stay secure (without costing a fortune!)". The agenda also includes time for buffet, refreshments, and networking.
TestBoss Manchester Nov 2019 - What's Wrong with AccessibilityCorecom Consulting
The document outlines the agenda for an evening event on accessibility testing hosted by Corecom Consulting. The schedule includes an introduction, presentation on accessibility by Adrian Stokes, an accessibility quiz, and discussions. Stokes will discuss his background in accessibility auditing and testing. In his presentation, he covers common accessibility issues, tools for testing, and how to start conversations around accessibility. The document provides resources for learning more about inclusive design and accessibility testing.
TestBoss Manchester Nov 2019 - What's Wrong with AccessibilityCorecom Consulting
Key Learning:
Understanding that accessibility helps everyone
Is more than compliance (which is important on its own)
Accessibility grows your reputation
Earns and saves you money
Makes your customers/users like your application
Hyper Group’s Director and Co-Founder, Damon Bryan, will be presenting: ‘The Data Science behind Data Personalisation’.
BIBoss is an award-winning networking event for leaders in Business Intelligence and Data Science. Hyper Group’s Director and Co-Founder, Damon Bryan, presented: ‘The Data Science behind Data Personalisation’ and Infinity Works' Technical Director, Neil Dunlop, presented: ‘AI, where are we now?’, including a discussion around demystifying the preconceptions of AI.
Keith Williams, Development Manager at IRIS Software was the Keynote Speaker at DevBoss, an exclusive networking event for leaders in Software Development. DevBoss welcomed delegates from the likes of Shelby Finance, Sky Bet and Tunstall Healthcare. Fore more information visit www.corecomconsulting.co.uk/events or register your interest at devboss@corecomconsulting.co.uk
TestBoss is an exclusive invitation-only networking event for leaders in Software Testing in Yorkshire.
The event sparked debates around onboarding new starters, creating a cohesive team, avoiding mini-waterfall and more.
If you're a Test Lead or Manager and are wanting to find out more about TestBoss, the next event is in October - please register at www.corecomconsulting.co.uk/events/
TestBoss Manchester March 2019 - Automation in Testing: The missing pieceCorecom Consulting
This document outlines the agenda for an evening event on automation in testing hosted by Corecom Consulting. The schedule includes networking, welcome and introduction, a presentation on automation, group discussions on continuous deployment, managing slipped timescales, and motivating employees, and networking. Throughout the document are tweets and references to automation in testing resources from @FriendlyTester.
Jonathan Sanderson, Managing Director of award-winning recruitment consultancy Corecom Consulting, delivered a presentation to the University of Leeds students about what networking is, and why it’s important. For more information about Jonathan, visit https://www.corecomconsulting.co.uk/staff/jonathan-sanderson/
This document outlines Jonathan Sanderson's presentation on professional networking. It discusses what networking is, why it is important for career and business development, and how to develop a professional network. Some key strategies covered include using LinkedIn to connect with contacts, attending networking events, and following up on connections in a respectful and ethical manner. The overall message is that a person's success now relies on the strength of their professional network as much as their individual skills and abilities.
Adam is one of our newest recruits and has already done extremely well within his first three weeks! Keep up the good work, we look forward to working with you and helping you reach your goals.
Welcome to the team Natteleigh! She is currently on a placement year with us as a Marketing Executive as part of her course- Marketing and Advertising Management at Leeds Beckett University.
We’re all looking forward to seeing you contribute to our marketing department.
WITBoss June 2018 - Confidence - if you can't make it, fake itCorecom Consulting
WITBoss creates a community for female leaders to network, discuss hot topics and learn from reputable speakers in the industry.
The Keynote Speaker for this presentation was Jo Graham, Technology Director at Morrisons. Her presentation, titled 'Confidence - if you can't make it, fake it' delves into the meaning of confidence and showcases five confidence tips.
If you're a female leader in the IT industry in Yorkshire and would like to find out more about WITBoss, get in touch. Email us at witboss@corecomconsulting.co.uk
TestBoss May 2018 - 'How to win with automation and influence people'Corecom Consulting
TestBoss creates a unique platform for Test Managers through to Head of Tests across Yorkshire, to debate and discuss hot topics, learn from reputable and established speakers whilst networking with like-minded individuals in an intimate but friendly environment.
The Guest Speaker for this presentation was Gwen Diagram, Principal Test Engineer at Sky. The presentation, titled 'How to win with automation and influence people' explains the different layers of testing – and how to sell that idea to not only within the team but outside to senior management as well.
If you're a leader within Software Test Management in Yorkshire and would like to find out more about TestBoss, get in touch. Email us at testboss@corecomconsulting.co.uk
TestBoss Manchester March 2018 - 'GDPR: The battles in store for Test Bosses'Corecom Consulting
TestBoss creates a unique platform for Test Managers through to Head of Tests across Yorkshire, to debate and discuss hot topics, learn from reputable and established speakers whilst networking with likeminded individuals in an intimate but friendly environment.
The Guest Speaker for this presentation was Simon Jones, Senior Programme Test Manager at Astra Zeneca. The presentation, titled 'GDPR: The battles in store for Test Bosses' gives an insight into what some of these challenges are likely to be and offer some practical solutions on how to address them.
If you're a leader within Software Test Management in Yorkshire and would like to find out more about TestBoss, get in touch. Email us on testboss@corecomconsulting.co.uk
Emma Herron, BA Professional Lead at Hippo Digital, Tammy Kennedy, Solution Design Manager at EE and Jonathan Pain Business Analysis Manager at Sky deliver three exciting presentations on hot Business Analysis topics.
The company supported charity partners and filled 20 shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. They had a favorite staff engagement initiative and were shortlisted for a national award. An employee increased his employment prospects by graduating from the University of Leeds. The document wishes everyone a Merry Christmas from the company.
Leaders in Software Testing discussed, retaining permanent resources/skills, how to approach a mid-project that has aggressive deadlines and no test strategy or testing processes and the future of a Test Manager within an Agile environment.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
11. “The Business”
Finance, Marketing, Product, Customer Service and IT
The solution can be the problem!
The End Goal!
Product CProduct A Product B
Product D Product E Product F
Most companies will
not achieve this
(and probably don’t
want to)
12. So How Can “The solution be the problem”?
To embrace DevOps practices and patterns IT will have made major
organisational, process, technology, people and financial changes.
• Have business functions evolved at the same pace?
• Have you reached the “real” goal yet?
• Do you know your users?
• What makes them happy?
14. Do you know your users?
Product Owner
Product Team
Customer
Services
Marketing Finance
Users aren’t your
stakeholders….
What do your users
need?
Communication Communication Communication
Communication
(by proxy)
Users
Commun
15. Do you know your users?
What internal data have you been collecting to
understand your users? What do they like, what fell
flat, why?
Competitors and partners – What they doing? And
Why?
What’s the happening in the wider marketplace and
within your specific industry?
What Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal
and Environmental factors which need to be
considered?
All of the above help to define the competitive
landscape for your company which helps to
visualise the opportunities available
Do you know your current position?
Competitive Landscape
16. Interlude: A Quiz!
• Born 1948; grew up in England
• Married twice
• 2 children
• Successful in business
• Wealthy
• Spends the winter in the
Alps
• Likes dogs
17. Do you know your users?
Have you met your users? Virtual or
real-life!
Example taken from HSCIC - Identity Access Management
Personas
18. Do you know your users?
• Key Partners
• Key Activities
• Key resources
• Value Propositions
• Relationships
• Channels
• Customer Segments
• Cost Structure
• Revenue Streams
Business Model Canvas
Do you have a business model canvas?
19. Do you know your users?
Extended Product Team
PersonasCompetitive Landscape Business Model Canvas
An extended team should
include Marketing, Finance,
CS etc
You have the
information, so what’s
next?
Help to build the right
thing!
21. Help to build the right thing
Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies and Tactics (VMOST)
Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)
2 techniques:
A strategic framework to visual business change
A method to quickly prioritise your backlog (by value)
22. Help to build the right thing - VMOST
VMOST Framework
I want to work in a place where….
We will reach that place by….
We will measure our success by…
We will focus on…
We will do…
.
.
.
.
.
A cyclical
process
23. Help to build the right thing - VMOST
VisionMissionObjectivesStrategies
Tactics
(inscope)
Tactics
(descoped)
Aplacewherewewant tobe...
Howweregoingtoget there(anumber of missions)
Howweknowwegot there(KPIs)
Areas of focus
Changes
Points
Changes
Points
Changes
Points
Changes
Points
Changes
Points
Changes
Points
Changes
Points
Changes
Points
Changes
Points
Changes
Points
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Points
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Points
Changes
Points
Changes
Points
Changes
Points
Changes
Points
Changes
Points
Cost: xx
Benefit: xx
Cost: xx
Benefit: xx
nd
Change
Marketing /
Comm.
Change
Process /
Org Change
Product
Change
Technology
Change
30
Estimated
cost of
Change
(Points)
s
e
24. Help to build the right thing - VMOST
Belief:
Tactics:
Blogger
Tactics:
Google+
Tactics:
Google
Docs
Vision:
Our visionisaplacewheretheworldhasaccesstoclearlysortedandrelevant information.
Dataisalreadycollatedandtransformedintoinformationreadyfor consumptioninnewandexcitingwaysaroundtheworld
–not just therichcountries. Informationisalsonolonger drivenbyhistorical occurrences.Whilst dataobtainedfrompast
eventsisstill important,it istransformedandutilisedtoassist current andfuturehumanneeds.
Thenext periodof
worldchangewill be
built onorganisedand
availableinformation
Tactics:
Google
Drive
Tactics:
You
Tube
Mission:
Changehow
organisationsinteract
withinformation.
Mission:
Useinformationto
facilitatecommunication
andideasharingbetween
people
Mission:
IntegrateInformation&
Knowledgeintoeveryday
life
Strategy:
Focuson traditional
e-communication
methods
Tactics:
GMail
Tactics:
Android
Phones
Tactics:
Google
Translate
Objective:
1:3adultstoassociateonline
sharing&collaborationwith
Googlebrandsby2015
Objective:
Handle40%of theworlds
personalcommunications
within3years
Strategy:
Focuson
Broadcast
capabilities
Strategy:
FocusonPeer to
Peer Sharing
ExampleVMOST
for Google
25. Help to build the right thing - VMOST
VisionMissionObjectivesStrategies
Tactics
(inscope)
Tactics
(descoped)
Our vision is a place where the world has access to clearly sorted and relevant information.
Data is already collated and transformed into Information ready for consumption in new and exciting ways around the world – not just the rich
countries. Information is also no longer driven by historical occurrences. Whilst data obtained from past events is still important it is transformed and
utilised to assist current and future human needs.
Use information to facilitate communication and idea
sharing between people
Change
Marketing /
Comm.
Change
Process /
Org Change
Product
Change
1:3 adults to associate online
sharing & collaboration with
Google brands by 2015
Technology
Change
Focus on Idea
Broadcast
capabilities
Focus on
traditional
e-communication
methods
TV
Superbowl
Ad
Google
Translate
Google +
Blogger
Youtube
Focus on
Peer to Peer
Sharing
Google
Docs
Google
Drive
30
Estimated
cost of
Change
(Points)
30
30
3050
25
10
We handle 40% of the
worlds personal
communications within 3
years
Integrate Information & Knowledge
into everyday life
Change how organisations
interact with information.
Gmail
30
Google
Earth
20
Google
Maps
Glass
Focus on
wearable
technology
Focus on the
world around
us
Google
Wear OS
Google
Weather
App
Google
Analytics
Street
view
Focus on
obtaining
information
Google
Keywords
Focus on
mobile
access
Nexus 5
Nexus 6P
Android
M
Google
Calendar
Google
Apps
Google
Keep
Focus on
office tools
& software
40
20
30
50
70
30
45
40
30
80
20
45
20
33% increase in
interactions outside of
the office
environment by 2020
Wifi
Partners
40% increase in
Hardware sales
by 2017
30
Blogger
10
Blogger
10
There’s a visualised
plan, so how do we
order the backlogs?
WSJF!
27. Help to build the right thing - WSJF
SizeBusiness
Value
Risk
Reduction
Time
Criticality
CoD - Cost of Delay
28. Help to build the right thing - WSJF
WSJF
Business Value Time Criticality RR/OE
Job Size
EPIC BV TC RR/OE CoD SIZE WSJF
Feature D
Feature B
Feature A
Feature E
Feature C
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WSJF
Business Value Time Criticality RR/OE
Job Size
EPIC BV TC RR/OE CoD SIZE WSJF
Feature D 5
Feature B 2
Feature A 1
Feature E 8
Feature C 3
30. Help to build the right thing - WSJF
WSJF
Business Value Time Criticality RR/OE
Job Size
EPIC BV TC RR/OE CoD SIZE WSJF
Feature D 5 3
Feature B 2 1
Feature A 1 2
Feature E 8 8
Feature C 3 5
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WSJF
Business Value Time Criticality RR/OE
Job Size
EPIC BV TC RR/OE CoD SIZE WSJF
Feature D 5 3 2
Feature B 2 1 5
Feature A 1 2 8
Feature E 8 8 1
Feature C 3 5 3
32. Help to build the right thing - WSJF
WSJF
Business Value Time Criticality RR/OE
Job Size
EPIC BV TC RR/OE CoD SIZE WSJF
Feature D 5 3 2 10
Feature B 2 1 5 8
Feature A 1 2 8 11
Feature E 8 8 1 17
Feature C 3 5 3 11
33. Help to build the right thing - WSJF
WSJF
Business Value Time Criticality RR/OE
Job Size
EPIC BV TC RR/OE CoD SIZE WSJF
Feature D 5 3 2 10 1
Feature B 2 1 5 8 2
Feature A 1 2 8 11 3
Feature E 8 8 1 17 5
Feature C 3 5 3 11 8
34. Help to build the right thing - WSJF
WSJF
Business Value Time Criticality RR/OE
Job Size
EPIC BV TC RR/OE CoD SIZE WSJF
Feature D 5 3 2 10 1 10.0
Feature B 2 1 5 8 2 4.0
Feature A 1 2 8 11 3 3.7
Feature E 8 8 1 17 5 3.4
Feature C 3 5 3 11 8 1.4
To understand that it’s not just delivery, it’s operations & evolution too:
The focus needs to turn to DevOps, which is the practice of operations and development engineers participating together in the entire service lifecycle, from design through the development process to production support.
DevOps is also characterised by operations staff making use many of the same techniques as developers for their systems work.
Essentially, what DevOps hopes to bring is the understanding and practice that software isn’t done until it’s successfully delivered to a user and meets their expectations around availability, performance, and pace of change.
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There are no users on this diagram
Corporate – What internal data have you been collecting to understand your users - analytics tools, multi-variant testing, a/b testing, propensity for x-sell, upsell etc. What have they done. What do they like, what fell flat, why?
Competitors and partners – What they doing? And Why?
Market Place – What’s the happening in the wider marketplace and within your specific industry? Also what’s are the Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental factors which need to be considered for any product?
All of the above help to define the competitive landscape for your company which helps to visualise the opportunities available.
Corporate – What internal data have you been collecting to understand your users - analytics tools, multi-variant testing, a/b testing, propensity for x-sell, upsell etc. What have they done. What do they like, what fell flat, why?
Competitors and partners – What they doing? And Why?
Market Place – What’s the happening in the wider marketplace and within your specific industry? Also what’s are the Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental factors which need to be considered for any product?
All of the above help to define the competitive landscape for your company which helps to visualise the opportunities available.
Corporate – What internal data have you been collecting to understand your users - analytics tools, multi-variant testing, a/b testing, propensity for x-sell, upsell etc. What have they done. What do they like, what fell flat, why?
Competitors and partners – What they doing? And Why?
Market Place – What’s the happening in the wider marketplace and within your specific industry? Also what’s are the Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental factors which need to be considered for any product?
All of the above help to define the competitive landscape for your company which helps to visualise the opportunities available.
It is a visual chart with elements describing a firm's or product's value proposition, infrastructure, customers, and finances.[3] It assists firms in aligning their activities by illustrating potential trade-offs.
Infrastructure
Key Activities: The most important activities in executing a company's value proposition. An example for Bic would be creating an efficient supply chain to drive down costs.
Key Resources: The resources that are necessary to create value for the customer. They are considered an asset to a company, which are needed in order to sustain and support the business. These resources could be human, financial, physical and intellectual.
Partner Network: In order to optimize operations and reduce risks of a business model, organization usually cultivate buyer-supplier relationships so they can focus on their core activity. Complementary business alliances also can be considered through joint ventures, strategic alliances between competitors or non-competitors.
Offering
Value Propositions: The collection of products and services a business offers to meet the needs of its customers. According to Osterwalder, (2004), a company's value proposition is what distinguishes itself from its competitors. The value proposition provides value through various elements such as newness, performance, customization, "getting the job done", design, brand/status, price, cost reduction, risk reduction, accessibility, and convenience/usability.
The value propositions may be:
Quantitative- price and efficiency
Qualitative- overall customer experience and outcome
Customers
Customer Segments: To build an effective business model, a company must identify which customers it tries to serve. Various sets of customers can be segmented based on the different needs and attributes to ensure appropriate implementation of corporate strategy meets the characteristics of selected group of clients. The different types of customer segments include:
Mass Market: There is no specific segmentation for a company that follows the Mass Market element as the organization displays a wide view of potential clients. e.g. Car
Niche Market: Customer segmentation based on specialized needs and characteristics of its clients. e.g. Rolex
Segmented: A company applies additional segmentation within existing customer segment. In the segmented situation, the business may further distinguish its clients based on gender, age, and/or income.
Diversify: A business serves multiple customer segments with different needs and characteristics.
Multi-Sided Platform / Market: For a smooth day-to-day business operation, some companies will serve mutually dependent customer segment. A credit card company will provide services to credit card holders while simultaneously assisting merchants who accept those credit cards.
Channels: A company can deliver its value proposition to its targeted customers through different channels. Effective channels will distribute a company’s value proposition in ways that are fast, efficient and cost effective. An organization can reach its clients either through its own channels (store front), partner channels (major distributors), or a combination of both.
Customer Relationships: To ensure the survival and success of any businesses, companies must identify the type of relationship they want to create with their customer segments. Various forms of customer relationships include:
Personal Assistance: Assistance in a form of employee-customer interaction. Such assistance is performed either during sales, after sales, and/or both.
Dedicated Personal Assistance: The most intimate and hands on personal assistance where a sales representative is assigned to handle all the needs and questions of a special set of clients.
Self Service: The type of relationship that translates from the indirect interaction between the company and the clients. Here, an organization provides the tools needed for the customers to serve themselves easily and effectively.
Automated Services: A system similar to self-service but more personalized as it has the ability to identify individual customers and his/her preferences. An example of this would be Amazon.com making book suggestion based on the characteristics of the previous book purchased.
Communities: Creating a community allows for a direct interaction among different clients and the company. The community platform produces a scenario where knowledge can be shared and problems are solved between different clients.
Co-creation: A personal relationship is created through the customer’s direct input in the final outcome of the company’s products/services.
Finances
Cost Structure: This describes the most important monetary consequences while operating under different business models. A company's DOC.
Classes of Business Structures:
Cost-Driven - This business model focuses on minimizing all costs and having no frills. e.g. SouthWest
Value-Driven - Less concerned with cost, this business model focuses on creating value for their products and services. e.g. Louis Vuitton, Rolex
Characteristics of Cost Structures:
Fixed Costs - Costs are unchanged across different applications. e.g. salary, rent
Variable Costs - These costs vary depending on the amount of production of goods or services. e.g. music festivals
Economies of Scale - Costs go down as the amount of good are ordered or produced.
Economies of Scope - Costs go down due to incorporating other businesses which have a direct relation to the original product.
Revenue Streams: The way a company makes income from each customer segment. Several ways to generate a revenue stream:
Asset Sale - (the most common type) Selling ownership rights to a physical good. e.g. Wal-Mart
Usage Fee - Money generated from the use of a particular service e.g. UPS
Subscription Fees - Revenue generated by selling a continuous service. e.g. Netflix
Lending/Leasing/Renting - Giving exclusive right to an asset for a particular period of time. e.g. Leasing a Car
Licensing - Revenue generated from charging for the use of a protected intellectual property.
Brokerage Fees - Revenue generated from an intermediate service between 2 parties. e.g. Broker selling a house for commission
Advertising - Revenue generated from charging fees for product advertising.
New - Dosis
Beliefs - What we stand for. Why we exist and why the world needs another ‘X’.
Values - How we portray our beliefs to the outside world.
Destiny - Where our values will take us.
Vision - A physical description of what the future will look like.
Reference - Simon Sinek (2009, Start with Why) suggests that the most successful organizations use the “golden circles” in their planning. The inner and most important circle is “Why?” – this is the vision and mission of your board and the inspiration for your work. The second circle is “How?” and the third is “What?” These last two circles describe the operational, day to day aspects of the board’s work. As Sinek asserts, “The Golden Circle provides compelling evidence of how much more we can achieve if we remind ourselves to start everything we do by first asking why.”
Mission - A series of operations, using people and resources, to affect a change to the current scenario.
Objectives - Metrics that provide a definition of success in a given area.
Strategies - Areas to focus on in order to achieve one or more objectives.
Tactics – The specific changes = projects
Projects – A top level wrapper for a piece of work to deliver change. Comprised of:
Themes - A group of changes that map to a common outcome
Epics - Large pieces of work that have multiple functionality but a shared business benefit
Stories - A smaller self contained feature change that benefits a particular user. Different types – Spike / Bug / Tech Debt
Four Stage Mission Board Formation
Brainstorming of ideas – a skeleton outline of a number of visions, missions, strategies, and sporadic tactics
Refinement - Missions, Objectives, Strategies, Tactics are refined and clarified. (Board likely to be ‘too busy’ at this point)
Reflection – Vision condensed and agreed, usually to 1 statement (and 3-4 missions, 3-6 strategies per mission, 'n' number of tactics per strategy). Links formed between layers
Reality – Benefits and effort to complete Tactics estimated. Identify how many can be completed within an agreed period (usually 12 months).
It is important that business change activities and tactics are identified and estimated, not just IT delivery effort
Beliefs - What we stand for. Why we exist and why the world needs another ‘X’.
Values - How we portray our beliefs to the outside world.
Destiny - Where our values will take us.
Vision - A physical description of what the future will look like.
Reference - Simon Sinek (2009, Start with Why) suggests that the most successful organizations use the “golden circles” in their planning. The inner and most important circle is “Why?” – this is the vision and mission of your board and the inspiration for your work. The second circle is “How?” and the third is “What?” These last two circles describe the operational, day to day aspects of the board’s work. As Sinek asserts, “The Golden Circle provides compelling evidence of how much more we can achieve if we remind ourselves to start everything we do by first asking why.”
Mission - A series of operations, using people and resources, to affect a change to the current scenario.
Objectives - Metrics that provide a definition of success in a given area.
Strategies - Areas to focus on in order to achieve one or more objectives.
Tactics – The specific changes = projects
Projects – A top level wrapper for a piece of work to deliver change. Comprised of:
Themes - A group of changes that map to a common outcome
Epics - Large pieces of work that have multiple functionality but a shared business benefit
Stories - A smaller self contained feature change that benefits a particular user. Different types – Spike / Bug / Tech Debt
Beliefs - What we stand for. Why we exist and why the world needs another ‘X’.
Values - How we portray our beliefs to the outside world.
Destiny - Where our values will take us.
Vision - A physical description of what the future will look like.
Reference - Simon Sinek (2009, Start with Why) suggests that the most successful organizations use the “golden circles” in their planning. The inner and most important circle is “Why?” – this is the vision and mission of your board and the inspiration for your work. The second circle is “How?” and the third is “What?” These last two circles describe the operational, day to day aspects of the board’s work. As Sinek asserts, “The Golden Circle provides compelling evidence of how much more we can achieve if we remind ourselves to start everything we do by first asking why.”
Mission - A series of operations, using people and resources, to affect a change to the current scenario.
Objectives - Metrics that provide a definition of success in a given area.
Strategies - Areas to focus on in order to achieve one or more objectives.
Tactics – The specific changes = projects
Projects – A top level wrapper for a piece of work to deliver change. Comprised of:
Themes - A group of changes that map to a common outcome
Epics - Large pieces of work that have multiple functionality but a shared business benefit
Stories - A smaller self contained feature change that benefits a particular user. Different types – Spike / Bug / Tech Debt
Beliefs - What we stand for. Why we exist and why the world needs another ‘X’.
Values - How we portray our beliefs to the outside world.
Destiny - Where our values will take us.
Vision - A physical description of what the future will look like.
Reference - Simon Sinek (2009, Start with Why) suggests that the most successful organizations use the “golden circles” in their planning. The inner and most important circle is “Why?” – this is the vision and mission of your board and the inspiration for your work. The second circle is “How?” and the third is “What?” These last two circles describe the operational, day to day aspects of the board’s work. As Sinek asserts, “The Golden Circle provides compelling evidence of how much more we can achieve if we remind ourselves to start everything we do by first asking why.”
Mission - A series of operations, using people and resources, to affect a change to the current scenario.
Objectives - Metrics that provide a definition of success in a given area.
Strategies - Areas to focus on in order to achieve one or more objectives.
Tactics – The specific changes = projects
Projects – A top level wrapper for a piece of work to deliver change. Comprised of:
Themes - A group of changes that map to a common outcome
Epics - Large pieces of work that have multiple functionality but a shared business benefit
Stories - A smaller self contained feature change that benefits a particular user. Different types – Spike / Bug / Tech Debt