Connecting Product Vision to Everyday Agile Work.
Kelly R. Looney, Principal Process Engineer, Valtech US
Kelly.Looney@valtech.com
Agile Day 2012
Valtech
What does it take to be a Product Manager? The skills needed to be a successful Product Manager.
- Passion to build products!
- Product Design skills:
Understanding what the user needs
Building Roadmaps
Defining requirements
- Product Building skills:
Making sense of lots of data
Prioritizing
Saying No
- Business skills:
Building a business case
Managing Stake holders
Communicating
- Be the glue!
About Amisha Thakkar
Product Manager at UpToDate.
Before that I was a Product Lead at PatientKeeper.
I’ve done pretty much everything in the software business - written code, been a scrum master, brought back “down” systems to life, talked to customers.
I have been building things since I was a kid Legos, circuits, software!
Inspirational Exercises for Your Career and Personal BrandFahri Karakas
In this seminar, we have a couple of activities aimed at improving your employability and personal brand.
First, we discuss your job application portfolio.
Second, we prepare our benchmarking table. In this exercise, you learn about brands at multiple levels (country brands, company brands, and individual brands). You choose 3 countries, 4 companies, and 4 individuals. You reflect on their success stories and brand power: What can you learn from these brands? How can you learn further? You create lessons and inspiration from these brands for your career.
Third, you create a business model canvas to create your own creative assets. You might use this activity to plan your asset creation strategies, such as creating your own YouTube channel, podcast, or Medium blog.
Fourth, you create a personal branding canvas to improve your employability. We go over a sample personal branding canvas exercise to illustrate how you can position yourself and your brand for the companies that you are applying for.
Best luck in your job applications.
Design thinking workshop at VODW BrusselsVODW Brussels
These are the slides from our Design Thinking workshop at VODW Brussels. You find an introduction about VODW Brussels, the set-up for the workshop, as well as a real VODW case, Mobly.
This book will provide you with new tools, skills,
and a mindset to harness opportunities born of
uncertainty in order to design a better business.
We’ve included tons of real-world examples of
people who have mastered the fundamentals of
design, as well as case studies of companies that
have created change using design as the under-
lying foundation for decision making. And, just as
design is a repeatable process, this book is meant
not only to guide you on your design journey, but
also to provide an ongoing reference to help you
scale the design beyond one project or product
to an entire company.
Bruce McCarthy "Product culture eats Execution Culture" Productized19Productized
What is it that Dollar Shave Club has that Gillette has lost? Serial Entrepreneur Bruce McCarthy will lead an interactive discussion on how successful product-focused organizations think and act differently every day in the networked age.
Product culture is fundamentally different than execution culture. Product Culture is not a process or a tool. It is a shared mindset about why we are in business and how we go about things. Rather than focus on design thinking, agile methodologies, DevOps, or Lean, product-focused organizations focus on continuously developing, testing, and delivering products of value to customers using whatever tools work best for them.
Competitors and employees alike are leaving companies with weak product cultures behind. Bruce will tell some horror stories and also some hopeful ones that show change is possible. He’ll ask you for your stories, too. Let’s stop talking about process and tools and start talking about culture.
Here is a video of me delivering this talk at the Business of Software conference in London in September 2018.
Design studio: A team alignment secret weapon - Modev MVP ConferenceJohn Whalen
Design studio: A team alignment secret weapon - Modev MVP Conference
We all want the best user experience, but often other priorities get in the way: “Bob from Marketing wants it to…”, “The developers don’t like that approach...”, “That feature is a ‘nice to have’”.
What if you had a tool that can help folks sharpen their UX skills, get them prioritizing the users and their goals, and align everyone on a common vision that revolves around a great user experience?
This hands-on tutorial will walk you through a design studio and how it can be a great tool to align product owners, developers and UX teams on an approach that balances user and business needs. We’ll also show you how to conduct a “mini design studio” before an agile sprint.
You’ll gain hands-on experience with different aspects of running a design studio through individual and group exercises throughout the tutorial.
John Whalen (CEO at Brilliant Experience):
John Whalen has a PhD in Cognitive Science with over 15 years of User-Centered Design experience. He currently leads Brilliant Experience – a consultancy that supports intra- and entrepreneurs to ensure the success of mission-critical innovation projects by using our unique blend of user-centered design, psychology, design thinking and lean startup techniques.
John’s specialty is to provide businesses with competitive advantages using a mix of user research insights and expert knowledge of human vision, attention and memory. He has experience (and great stories to tell from) working with Fortune 500 clients in the ecommerce, financial, healthcare and government verticals. John’s currently focusing on helping large enterprises integrate brain science into agile, design thinking, and UCD projects.
Design Thinking vs. Lean Startup: Friends or Foes?Tathagat Varma
My talk at #AgileIndia2017 on what are the similarities and strengths of Design Thinking and Lean Startup, and where and how we could use them more effectively.
Finding Innovation in the 500lbs GorillaKevin Cheng
Presentation at IA Summit 2007 on how we overcame fear, built trust and made believers out of the team to get time and support for dedicating time for innovation. Updated 2008 for AOL presentation.
What does it take to be a Product Manager? The skills needed to be a successful Product Manager.
- Passion to build products!
- Product Design skills:
Understanding what the user needs
Building Roadmaps
Defining requirements
- Product Building skills:
Making sense of lots of data
Prioritizing
Saying No
- Business skills:
Building a business case
Managing Stake holders
Communicating
- Be the glue!
About Amisha Thakkar
Product Manager at UpToDate.
Before that I was a Product Lead at PatientKeeper.
I’ve done pretty much everything in the software business - written code, been a scrum master, brought back “down” systems to life, talked to customers.
I have been building things since I was a kid Legos, circuits, software!
Inspirational Exercises for Your Career and Personal BrandFahri Karakas
In this seminar, we have a couple of activities aimed at improving your employability and personal brand.
First, we discuss your job application portfolio.
Second, we prepare our benchmarking table. In this exercise, you learn about brands at multiple levels (country brands, company brands, and individual brands). You choose 3 countries, 4 companies, and 4 individuals. You reflect on their success stories and brand power: What can you learn from these brands? How can you learn further? You create lessons and inspiration from these brands for your career.
Third, you create a business model canvas to create your own creative assets. You might use this activity to plan your asset creation strategies, such as creating your own YouTube channel, podcast, or Medium blog.
Fourth, you create a personal branding canvas to improve your employability. We go over a sample personal branding canvas exercise to illustrate how you can position yourself and your brand for the companies that you are applying for.
Best luck in your job applications.
Design thinking workshop at VODW BrusselsVODW Brussels
These are the slides from our Design Thinking workshop at VODW Brussels. You find an introduction about VODW Brussels, the set-up for the workshop, as well as a real VODW case, Mobly.
This book will provide you with new tools, skills,
and a mindset to harness opportunities born of
uncertainty in order to design a better business.
We’ve included tons of real-world examples of
people who have mastered the fundamentals of
design, as well as case studies of companies that
have created change using design as the under-
lying foundation for decision making. And, just as
design is a repeatable process, this book is meant
not only to guide you on your design journey, but
also to provide an ongoing reference to help you
scale the design beyond one project or product
to an entire company.
Bruce McCarthy "Product culture eats Execution Culture" Productized19Productized
What is it that Dollar Shave Club has that Gillette has lost? Serial Entrepreneur Bruce McCarthy will lead an interactive discussion on how successful product-focused organizations think and act differently every day in the networked age.
Product culture is fundamentally different than execution culture. Product Culture is not a process or a tool. It is a shared mindset about why we are in business and how we go about things. Rather than focus on design thinking, agile methodologies, DevOps, or Lean, product-focused organizations focus on continuously developing, testing, and delivering products of value to customers using whatever tools work best for them.
Competitors and employees alike are leaving companies with weak product cultures behind. Bruce will tell some horror stories and also some hopeful ones that show change is possible. He’ll ask you for your stories, too. Let’s stop talking about process and tools and start talking about culture.
Here is a video of me delivering this talk at the Business of Software conference in London in September 2018.
Design studio: A team alignment secret weapon - Modev MVP ConferenceJohn Whalen
Design studio: A team alignment secret weapon - Modev MVP Conference
We all want the best user experience, but often other priorities get in the way: “Bob from Marketing wants it to…”, “The developers don’t like that approach...”, “That feature is a ‘nice to have’”.
What if you had a tool that can help folks sharpen their UX skills, get them prioritizing the users and their goals, and align everyone on a common vision that revolves around a great user experience?
This hands-on tutorial will walk you through a design studio and how it can be a great tool to align product owners, developers and UX teams on an approach that balances user and business needs. We’ll also show you how to conduct a “mini design studio” before an agile sprint.
You’ll gain hands-on experience with different aspects of running a design studio through individual and group exercises throughout the tutorial.
John Whalen (CEO at Brilliant Experience):
John Whalen has a PhD in Cognitive Science with over 15 years of User-Centered Design experience. He currently leads Brilliant Experience – a consultancy that supports intra- and entrepreneurs to ensure the success of mission-critical innovation projects by using our unique blend of user-centered design, psychology, design thinking and lean startup techniques.
John’s specialty is to provide businesses with competitive advantages using a mix of user research insights and expert knowledge of human vision, attention and memory. He has experience (and great stories to tell from) working with Fortune 500 clients in the ecommerce, financial, healthcare and government verticals. John’s currently focusing on helping large enterprises integrate brain science into agile, design thinking, and UCD projects.
Design Thinking vs. Lean Startup: Friends or Foes?Tathagat Varma
My talk at #AgileIndia2017 on what are the similarities and strengths of Design Thinking and Lean Startup, and where and how we could use them more effectively.
Finding Innovation in the 500lbs GorillaKevin Cheng
Presentation at IA Summit 2007 on how we overcame fear, built trust and made believers out of the team to get time and support for dedicating time for innovation. Updated 2008 for AOL presentation.
How to build a startup SLASSSCOM Talk Aug 2015Raomal Perera
An introduction on how to build a startup using lean techniques. The talk was hosted by SLASSCOM and sponsored by Virtusa, Regus Sri Lanka and Pick Me.
The Business of Design Bootcamp - Session 1 of 2Lima Z
This deck narrates the creative agile process of turning creative ideas into businesses. In today's economy, creating a business is mostly dependent on having a strong team, a valid business problem, and the right tools to research, create, test, and iterate for market validation and user-centered design.
This lecture focuses on providing an overview of the design thinking process. Students will apply this concept to building a business model around their entrepreneurial idea.
http://www.socialentrepreneurship.ca/aps1015h/
Slides from the 'Essentials of Product Management' workshop at General Assembly in London, June 2013
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
The first step in making an idea reality is to understand product management. There is a huge amount of work between the idea stage and the coding stage, and this Saturday workshop will help you understand what needs to be accomplished.
We will start the day off by learning what the product management role encompasses and what the managing process is like. We'll also cover a product's feasibility and the various stages of—and ways to approach—the product development process. Through group work and hands-on practice, we'll look at the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) philosophy to test and validate your plans, and move on to identify the other more technical tools needed to start and evaluate the building process.
TAKEAWAYS
Part 1: The Product Manager role & the Product Management Process
Part 2: The Customer and MVP
- Learn to break an idea into its primary parts to assess product feasibility
- Explain the purpose and process of building an MVP
- Identify various ways to build and learn from an MVP
- Evolve an MVP to reach product/market fit
- Determine if product/market fit has been achieved for a product
Some slide content courtesy of Simon Cast, John Eikenberry, and General Assembly
A great look on designing startups from a designers' perspective based on the new book "Designing A Better Business" by Patrick van der Pluijm & Maarten van Lieshout.
Design Thinking and the Business Model Canvas for the Mobile EconomySerge Van Oudenhove
Présentation sur Le Design Thinking and the Business Model Canvas for the Mobile Economyréalisé dans le cadre de StartLab de Solvay Entrepreneurs. http://startlab.solvayentrepreneurs.be/
The Product Management X-Factor: How to be a Rock Star Product ManagerPaul Young
Product Management is a tough job: we need to be business oriented, tactical, strategic, and technical all at the same time. But some people have cracked the code about how to be more effective product managers than others. What is it about these rock star product managers that separates them from the rest of us?
Over the past 10 years in product management, Paul Young has observed what makes some people successful where others fail, and boiled it down to seven product management "x-factors," that turn good people into great.
Winner of "Best Session" at Rocky Mountain ProductCamp 2010.
NOTE: Because of the limitations of SlideShare, the formatting of this presentation does not match the original. Come to ProductCamp Austin in Jan 2011 to see this presentation live. productcampaustin.org
9 tips to boost your innovation project (by @nickdemey @boardofinno)Board of Innovation
Nine practical tips to consider before starting an innovation or ideation project. Based on LinkedIn discussions and our own experience in running innovation projects for our clients.
Application Lifecycle Management and Agile, friends... or foes? (Andrea Toma...Andrea Tomasini
The whole idea of ALM stems from the need to manage in an integrated manner the relationship between business processes and engineering processes. Attempting to integrate practices, information and tools for disciplines such as Requirement Engineering, Project Management, Configuration Management has long been a driver, with the important goal of achieving more transparency, and also more control. Centralization of information into a single authoritative repository moved many original ALM initiatives, but how does that fit with more modern Agile approaches? Is it really possible to have Agile ALM? What would we keep of ALM and what of Agile? Are ALM and Agile friends... or foes? This keynote will offer an agile and pragmatic perspective to Application Lifecycle Management, pinning down the needs, the trade-offs and the reasons to use, or not to use supporting tools
How to build a startup SLASSSCOM Talk Aug 2015Raomal Perera
An introduction on how to build a startup using lean techniques. The talk was hosted by SLASSCOM and sponsored by Virtusa, Regus Sri Lanka and Pick Me.
The Business of Design Bootcamp - Session 1 of 2Lima Z
This deck narrates the creative agile process of turning creative ideas into businesses. In today's economy, creating a business is mostly dependent on having a strong team, a valid business problem, and the right tools to research, create, test, and iterate for market validation and user-centered design.
This lecture focuses on providing an overview of the design thinking process. Students will apply this concept to building a business model around their entrepreneurial idea.
http://www.socialentrepreneurship.ca/aps1015h/
Slides from the 'Essentials of Product Management' workshop at General Assembly in London, June 2013
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
The first step in making an idea reality is to understand product management. There is a huge amount of work between the idea stage and the coding stage, and this Saturday workshop will help you understand what needs to be accomplished.
We will start the day off by learning what the product management role encompasses and what the managing process is like. We'll also cover a product's feasibility and the various stages of—and ways to approach—the product development process. Through group work and hands-on practice, we'll look at the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) philosophy to test and validate your plans, and move on to identify the other more technical tools needed to start and evaluate the building process.
TAKEAWAYS
Part 1: The Product Manager role & the Product Management Process
Part 2: The Customer and MVP
- Learn to break an idea into its primary parts to assess product feasibility
- Explain the purpose and process of building an MVP
- Identify various ways to build and learn from an MVP
- Evolve an MVP to reach product/market fit
- Determine if product/market fit has been achieved for a product
Some slide content courtesy of Simon Cast, John Eikenberry, and General Assembly
A great look on designing startups from a designers' perspective based on the new book "Designing A Better Business" by Patrick van der Pluijm & Maarten van Lieshout.
Design Thinking and the Business Model Canvas for the Mobile EconomySerge Van Oudenhove
Présentation sur Le Design Thinking and the Business Model Canvas for the Mobile Economyréalisé dans le cadre de StartLab de Solvay Entrepreneurs. http://startlab.solvayentrepreneurs.be/
The Product Management X-Factor: How to be a Rock Star Product ManagerPaul Young
Product Management is a tough job: we need to be business oriented, tactical, strategic, and technical all at the same time. But some people have cracked the code about how to be more effective product managers than others. What is it about these rock star product managers that separates them from the rest of us?
Over the past 10 years in product management, Paul Young has observed what makes some people successful where others fail, and boiled it down to seven product management "x-factors," that turn good people into great.
Winner of "Best Session" at Rocky Mountain ProductCamp 2010.
NOTE: Because of the limitations of SlideShare, the formatting of this presentation does not match the original. Come to ProductCamp Austin in Jan 2011 to see this presentation live. productcampaustin.org
9 tips to boost your innovation project (by @nickdemey @boardofinno)Board of Innovation
Nine practical tips to consider before starting an innovation or ideation project. Based on LinkedIn discussions and our own experience in running innovation projects for our clients.
Application Lifecycle Management and Agile, friends... or foes? (Andrea Toma...Andrea Tomasini
The whole idea of ALM stems from the need to manage in an integrated manner the relationship between business processes and engineering processes. Attempting to integrate practices, information and tools for disciplines such as Requirement Engineering, Project Management, Configuration Management has long been a driver, with the important goal of achieving more transparency, and also more control. Centralization of information into a single authoritative repository moved many original ALM initiatives, but how does that fit with more modern Agile approaches? Is it really possible to have Agile ALM? What would we keep of ALM and what of Agile? Are ALM and Agile friends... or foes? This keynote will offer an agile and pragmatic perspective to Application Lifecycle Management, pinning down the needs, the trade-offs and the reasons to use, or not to use supporting tools
How to get everything right... by doing everything wrong? (Andrea Tomasini, a...Andrea Tomasini
a critical view on business changes in our age, and the impact they are having on structures and organizations which were defined in another century and are not anymore suited for today purposes. Who has the courage to challenge those structure and fully embrace change and uncertainty? How can an agile approach help to better support those changes?
Adopting Scrum: an enterprise transformation (Andrea Tomasini, agile42)Andrea Tomasini
Using Scrum as a Pattern Language for Enterprise Transformation
How Scrum Patterns can be used also to introduce Scrum itself into a company. After many years of experience and many attempts to systematically make Scrum introduction into medium and large Enterprises, agile42 shares with you tools and methods used in some of the most successful agile transition.
Agility and Compliance (Andrea Tomasini, agile42)Andrea Tomasini
Implementing agility in a strongly Regulated environment is sometimes a challenge. Many teams and company do find ways, but most of these are against the agile principles or are turning out to be big impediments. Mostly the problem being that from compliance authorities we get told HOW to do things and not WHAT they will measure to prove quality and compliance. Can we do better? Sure we can, transparency is the key...
How to grow your organization resilience and anti-fragilityAndrea Tomasini
Bringing agility to an organizational level requires a set of new skills and practices to emerge. While we have plenty of example on how agility can impact teams performance, by adopting well proven practices, there is still a lot of uncertainty in what to bring to an organizational level. Inspecting and adapting as an organization requires different structures and a more strategic approach, if we want to maximize the learning effect. Chaotic and uncontrolled experimentation and local adaptations can rapidly tear an organization apart. Focus on value and customers are important to set a common direction, but to roll out a shared strategy we need a solid and coherent cultural context, or the strategy will fail. Explicitly measuring and designing culture is a key enabler towards agility and can provide incredible advantages to an organization development. Understanding how to lead such change and enabling people to participate in creating rapid value, is the one thing that might save your company in the rough waters of today's market... Are you ready for the challenge?
Why Scrum can\'t fail? A very challenging question that I have been asked to answer at the House of Open Scrum in Munich, a free and open event to propagate Scrum to the masses :-) That\'s my answer... I hope you enjoy it ;-)
The agile reading glasses: foundation principles and history being agile appr...Andrea Tomasini
A quick journey through the foundation of agile and the history behind it. Starting from the process control theory, moving forward through iterative and incremental approach, and the pull principle. Moving on to the continuous improvement focus, stemming from the Lean Thinking and the work done by the fore runners of the Toyota Production System (TPS). Finally discussing how agile thinking can help establishing self-organization and focus on customer value, motivating both the workers and the clients, by establishing healthier short-feedback cycle, with collaboration focused on learning faster together.
Keynote stop scaling... start growing an agile organization!Andrea Tomasini
Companies of all sizes need to grow their own agile way of working, becoming more agile is a journey, not a destination. Unfortunately, though, most of the time agile success is left in the hands of unlikely heroes, people who are passionate about agile, but likely lack the type of power and decision making required to move to the next level. Because becoming agile requires a radical mind-shift, it takes time, and time is what most organizations seem unwilling to invest. This is where our unlikely heroes come into play, pulling the “Agile Initiative” forward with their passion. Even more unfortunately, despite the great efforts of these individuals, the organization is not willing to wait, and instead, falls into the “implement that model” in a couple of months mindset. Does this work? Well, if it does, we still need to hear that it was fast and painless… On the other hand, more and more organizations are beginning to understand that becoming more agile is an individual journey, and has to be tightly coupled with the company business goals and culture, it can’t be standardized, or the company will likely lose their business advantage and uniqueness. In this keynote I am going to share stories about some of these companies, that having tried unsuccessfully to find more heroes, understood that becoming agile is a cultural shift that needs to be supported by the whole organization, and agreed to follow a growing approach rather than an implementing approach. Principles and tools which helped these organizations to grow their agility as well as stories of their journey will be shared as an example of how change can happen without heroic actions or old style “Change Initiatives”.
"SCRUM allows us to create better products, more suited to the users' needs. ...Anna Zarudzka
General approach and widely available knowledge make us think that Scrum allows us to create better products. We can make better ones than while using Waterfall approach. It's hard to argue with that.
The question is: Does the iterativeness itself guarantee products that are better for the users?
Is a good Scrum team, presence of the Product Owner and more intense contact with stakeholders enough to form a theoretically better path for the product?
Do we remember about Product Vision? Do we emphasise it enough?
Product Vision is not something additional, it’s not only one high-level sentence of one person. It’s the package of crucial knowledge and THE TOOL OF COMMUNICATION: Target User, Values, Competitors and more.
Why self-organization might not work, and what has that to do with the compan...Andrea Tomasini
On the way toward becoming more agile, we often stumble on issues which are sometimes simple in hindsight, but when we are at it, they seem impossible challenges. We might start with an agile team, probably following the Scrum framework and having quite some fun while learning and delivering more value with our colleagues. At a certain point though the expected “hyper productivity” that some folks in the agile world are talking about doesn’t seem to be something achievable at all, and we comfortably think, that must be just marketing, or even the effect of the Chinese Whispers. But if we reflect ourselves on it, and have the courage to look deep and understand why things aren’t going the way they should, we often come to learn a lot. Question such as: “By the way, why do we still have Team Leader in a self-organizing team?” or “What is the role of a Tech Lead in a Scrum team?” up to “Why are we still estimating and planning upfront if we are doing agile development?” inevitably pop up. Is it a trust issue? is it a cultural problem? or is it an organizational design issue? Maybe the answer, as many times happen in complex situation is a mixture or neither of those.
Explore together with me what implications these dimensions have on the way teams will develop further or not develop. Also how do other companies around the world relate to this challenges, and maybe you can learn something from that…
K8 2014 - Product Vision and Client Success Kenshoo
Presentation from Kenshoo CRO, Ted Krantz, SVP of Product, Will Martin-Gill, and MD of Client Excellence, Susane Berger, shared at Kenshoo's K8 Summit on September 16th, 2014.
Agile Testing is nonsense, because Agile is about testing!Andrea Tomasini
Testing is an attitude which brings us to trust results based on the fact that we can validate them. Testing is an approach which allows us to think about how to verify we did the right thing even before starting. Testing is a practice which allows us to write effective tests that can be repeated indefinitely while systematically producing consistent results.
Agile is built around the idea of managing complex projects, recognizing the importance of emerging results and verifying in a very disciplined way the assumptions and hypothesis we make as often and as thoroughly as possible. This means testing everything we do, every day ... So if you are truly Agile, you are living testing in every second of your life!
Mike acaba de completar un entrenamiento de Scrum y siente que ha entendido las bases de Scrum así que está convencido que será beneficioso aplicarlo en su próximo proyecto.
Semanas más tarde, le dan luz verde al proyecto y Mike, entusiasmado, convoca a la primer Sprint Planning. Dado que ha pasado un poco de tiempo desde que revisó por última vez los conceptos de Scrum, Mike revisas sus apuntes, y recuerda que tiene que tener un Product Backlog granulado, una visión compartida, un roadmap, etc.
Mike entra en pánico, puesto que no tiene estas cosas listas, y siente que le ha faltado hacer cosas antes del sprint 1.
La presente charla será una explicación para Mike, de qué cosas podría hacer (un workflow y unas prácticas) antes del primer sprint para iniciarlo de la mejor forma.
Why practices are not as important as principles?Andrea Tomasini
You might wonder why is not that easy to adopt agile engineering practices and achieve technical excellence. When we think at practices we tend to think at simple things: pinning on the fridge with a magnet the list of shopping items to buy, having a clear prioritised list of things to do, and work that in order… why is then that with Agile practices is not working that easy? What is that Teams are not getting right? Is it that we don’t have the right Software tools? Or we are not collocated? The Agile dilemma is: “To effectively apply practices, you need to understand the principle, to understand the principles you need to practice!”, simply… complicated!
From an Idea to a Vision you can implement - Vision workshopVasco Duarte
You've been there. You are tasked with implementing a product that someone else cooked up. What do do next? Follow the spec you say? Wrong!
Developing a product without this Vision is not just waste, it is bad business for you and for your customer.
Before we start implementing any product we must explore it's reason to exist, what customers it benefits and ultimately how it can help your customers (not you!) make money.
In this workshop we will take an example and go through a simple process that helps us explore a product idea to the point that a spec is just a reference, but the product comes alive in the minds of the team members.
Social Business Manifest that describes how Social Media and Social Networking is changing business rapidly. Change & Transition Management. Reset and rethink business. How to embrace the social revolution.
How to think like an entrepreneur involves a ton of stuff...way too much stuff! Welcome to my brain dump of skills and traits and all kinds of magic that make an entrepreneur successful.
One of the secrets to being successful in business, regardless of whether you want to be an intrapreneur or an entrepreneur, is design thinking. We must empathize with our audience, listen to them, gain insights from them, develop our product roadmaps around their feedback & continuing to rinse & repeat.
In addition to design thinking, we must understand the blueprint of our business, and that is capturing the high level points in the form of a business model canvas. It may seem academic, but it is truly helpful to make sure you understand & can describe your business to others in a succinct fashion. Love it or hate it...it's helpful!
Lastly, we must all understand the buyer of our products and services so we know how to paint a picture around who to talk to when it comes to gaining audience insights, capturing the insights & keeping them fresh in our mind when we go to market.
Is this deck messy and jumping around a bit? Maybe, but I swear there's a method to the madness.
Radical Product: The global movement that’s building vision-driven productsFresh Tilled Soil
UX Fest 2018
Radhika Dutt, Co-Founder at Radical Product
Building vision-driven products means having a clear vision, a compelling product strategy to achieve that vision, and translating the vision and strategy into an execution plan. While this is easily said, it is incredibly hard to do. What is a “good” vision? What does product strategy really mean? What is Enlightenment? Wait, that a different talk.
Radical Product is a movement that provides a methodology for strategic product thinking, in a similar way that Lean and Agile provided a methodology for feedback-driven execution. We’ll use the free and open-source Radical Product toolkit to talk about how you can create a powerful, far-reaching vision for your product, make smarter decisions, and build products with purpose.
Where do we hope to end up? Have you ever asked yourself this question after coming up with a concept for a brand-new item? Well, a product vision accomplishes this. The product's core message, which discusses the future, assists you in producing a fantastic product that unites your team and ignites interest in your construction-related offering. Make a vision statement that everyone can buy into, can agree with and can support. Are you unsure about where to begin with yours? Create your company's vision statement with Prodeasy's vision board, then share it with your team in one location.
Product Leadership IRL: Things I wish I'd known a decade agoEsteban Contreras
Product leaders guide product strategy, empower teams, and ease go-to-market strategies. They have to be customer-obsessed. And data-informed. Definitely outcomes-oriented. Plus, they need to know who knows what. And be credible and sufficiently likeable. All while ensuring the product doesn’t go off a cliff and the team doesn’t quit for greener pastures. In this talk, Esteban will share candid insights and advice he would give his younger self - if only he could. Like being mission-driven, understanding ideas, and taking the time to lead well. His tips and stories may help you watch out for mistakes and identify areas to double down on.
This is Esteban Contreras' talk at INDUSTRY Virtual conference for software product managers on September 22, 2020. http://www.industryconference.com
Esteban is a Sr Director of Product at Hootsuite. http://www.hootsuite.com
vivaldigroup.com The world needs one more agency about as much as it needs just another consulting firm. We are the best of both. But don't call us either. We are Company Builders. Together we draw on decades of business and brand strategy experience while seeking beauty {+} inspiration in all things. We are strategy-first. We live and we breathe the life of the customer. We are customer-first. People. Humans. And their journeys. We are digital-first. The life of a brand in the hands of who it was meant for. These things drive us. We use them to Consult, Create & Ignite Commerce. We are focused, agile and inclusive. We are many things. We are Vivaldi.
Building new products - sundar rajan - introduction (part 1)Sundar Rajan
In this talk, we will understand the challenges & risks associated with new product development. We will also learn the concept of a discovery process to minimize these risks in a systematic way.
During the talk we will build a fictious product using the discovery process to understand this methodology.
My keynote from the UX South Africa 2014 conference in Cape Town, South Africa
It's a look at the state of play including:
- It's still easy to find poor website UX in South Africa
- Informing digital strategy by making and launching things
- Problems that executives of traditionally non-digital companies face as software slowly eats the word - and some solutions: Proactive research, digital product management, agile...
- Some of the skills and talents that unicorn UX designers need to have
Outside In - Innovation and Insights Consultancy CredentialsMat Shore
At outside InTM we believe passionately that you can teach the core language and skills of disciplined insight and value proposition creation to commercial teams and R&D folks alike. Glowing testimonials from a roster of global clients suggest that we are able to build competency in even the most complex markets and organisations.
Unlike other training consultancies we don’t teach anything else but value proposition creation,so we are the experts. Watch our video to find out exactly what we cover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVcBcwnO1cQ
Here is an edited view of a Keynote presentation I have given to a variety of Ad Agency senior management. The focus really to question their current model in the holding companies and to be a catalyst for discussion about changes required to better address the changing consumer landscape and their demands for us all to be "Customer Obsessed".
Similar to Valtech - Connecting Product Vision to Everyday Agile Work (20)
- En quoi la réalité virtuelle est-elle un nouveau vecteur de conversation avec notre consommateur ?
- Quels sont ses réels impacts aujourd’hui ?
- Quelles sont les industries qui ont osé sauter le pas ?
La réalité virtuelle est désormais un atout dans le portfolio marketing et devient un outil incontestable pour créer de l’engagement.
Damien Lefebvre
Co-president, Canada
damien.lefebvre@valtech.ca
CES 2016 - Décryptage et revue des tendancesValtech
Valtech - Consumer Electronics Show 2016
Cette année, la réalité virtuelle a été en tête d’affiche du CES. Nouvelle technologie à la portée du grand public, sera-t-elle adoptée pour autant ?
Par ailleurs, les objets connectés, les nouvelles expériences de conduite, la renaissance de la réalité augmentée, la santé et la maison connectées, la disruption visuelle et sonore et les robots ont été les autres grandes tendances qui ont animé cette édition 2016.
Découvrez le décryptage de Valtech !
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Pour en savoir plus
Directeur Conseil
Pascal Malotti / pascal.malotti@valtech.fr
Planning Stratégique
Arthur Sotto / arthur.sotto@valtech.fr
Johanna Cohen-Jonathan / Johanna.cohen-jonathan@valtech.com
Retrouvez-nous sur @Valtech_FR sur Twitter !
Et nos revues de tendances sur watf.fr
Stéphane Roche - Agilité en milieu multiculturelValtech
Mener à bien un projet en milieu multiculturel, c’est faire collaborer à distance des personnes de langues, de connaissances et de cultures différentes, qui travaillent dans des organisations différentes, avec des objectifs, des contextes et des priorités différents. C’est s’engager dans un monde complexe et incertain.
La seule réponse à la complexité, c’est l’agilité ou la capacité à s’aligner rapidement face à des situations ambigües et des problèmes non anticipables.
Quelle est la teneur de cette culture agile et y a t-il des cultures dans le monde qui pourraient nous aider à mieux l’appréhender ?
Stéphane Roche accompagne depuis 10 ans les dirigeants, managers et équipes sur les défis liés à la complexité des marchés et des organisations.
Contact : stephane.roche@netcourrier.com
Valtech - Internet of Things & Big Data : un mariage de raisonValtech
Nous assistons aujourd'hui à une explosion du marché des objets connectés (Internet of Things). Gartner annonce potentiellement 25 milliards d’objets connectés en 2020.
Devant le tsunami de données que les IoT vont générer, il devient donc impératif que l’entreprise puisse mettre en place un écosystème Big Data complet pour faire face à cette avalanche.
Hervé Desaunois - Directeur technique, Valtech Toulouse
herve.desaunois@valtech.fr
Tendances digitales et créatives // Cannes Lions 2015Valtech
Le Festival International de la Créativité, ou Cannes Lions, se tenait cette année du 21 au 27 juin. Découvrez la sélection et le décryptage de Valtech pour y voir plus clair sur les tendances digitales.
Valtech - Du BI au Big Data, une révolution dans l’entrepriseValtech
La Business Intelligence, dans l’entreprise, est actuellement en train de se métamorphoser.
Le Big Data permet d’explorer de nouvelles possibilités qui révolutionnent l’informatique décisionnelle.
Hervé Desaunois - Directeur technique, Valtech Toulouse
herve.desaunois@valtech.fr
Lionel Molas - Consultant Senior - Coach Agile, Valtech Toulouse
Valtech / Adobe - Résultats du Baromètre Marketing Digital 2015Valtech
Cette étude, réalisée auprès de 300 directeurs et responsables marketing, dresse un état des lieux des logiques d’investissements et des grands enjeux du marketing digital en 2015 :
Comment optimiser vos campagnes digitales ?
Comment améliorer vos initiatives marketing mobile ?
Comment mesurer l’efficacité de vos actions cross-canal ?
Comment réussir votre transformation digitale ?
Les enjeux stratégiques auxquels les Systèmes d'Information doivent aujourd'hui répondre (mobilité, time-to-market, connaissance et usages client/consommateur, personnalisation, cross-canal) nécessitent de penser autrement la façon de concevoir le SI.
Valtech vous proposera un aperçu des pratiques d'architecture qui permettent d'insuffler de l'agilité dans votre SI.
Yann Le Tanou, Directeur Architecture & Urbanisme, Valtech
yann.letanou@valtech.fr
Le buzz est à son comble, tout le monde en parle, mais avez-vous déjà eu l'occasion de voir un Data Scientist travailler en temps réel sur des données Big Data ? Découvrez un cas d’utilisation basé sur des données Open Data et sur un modèle predictif.
Geraud Duge De Bernonville - Architecte Big Data, Valtech
geraud.dugedebernonville@valtech.fr
Pierre-Yves Koenig - Data Scientist, Valtech
pierre-yves.koenig@valtech.fr
Tendances mobiles et digitales du MWC 2015
Quel bilan pour le MWC ? Découvrez le décryptage de Valtech pour y voir plus clair.
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Pour en savoir plus
Directeur Conseil
Pascal Malotti / pascal.malotti@valtech.fr
Planning Stratégique
Arthur Sotto / arthur.sotto@valtech.fr
Sarah Fouque / sarah.fouque@valtech.com
Retrouvez-nous sur @Valtech_FR sur Twitter !
Et nos revues de tendances sur watf.fr
CES 2015 : Décryptage et tendances / Objets connectésValtech
Valtech - Consumer Electronics Show 2015
Comme l’an dernier, les objets connectés ont été la star du CES. Mais cet engouement est-il justifié ? Peuvent-ils apporter une réelle utilité aux utilisateurs ou bien sont-ils condamnés à leur statut de gadget ?
Par ailleurs, la voiture du futur, la bataille pour les écosystèmes digitaux, les drones intelligents ou encore la disruption visuelle sont autant de tendances qui ont émergé du salon.
Découvrez le décryptage de Valtech pour y voir plus clair dans ce capharnaüm d’objets !
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Pour en savoir plus
Directeur Conseil
Pascal Malotti / pascal.malotti@valtech.fr
Planning Stratégique
Arthur Sotto / arthur.sotto@valtech.fr
Sarah Fouque / sarah.fouque@valtech.com
Retrouvez-nous sur @Valtech_FR sur Twitter !
Et nos revues de tendances sur watf.fr
Le buzz est à son comble, tout le monde en parle, mais avez-vous vu un Data Scientist travailler en temps réel sur des données Big Data ? Découvrez un cas d’utilisation basé sur des données Open Data et sur un modèle predictif.
Hervé Desaunois - Directeur technique, Valtech Toulouse
herve.desaunois@valtech.fr
Pierre-Yves Koenig – Data Scientist, Valtech Toulouse
pierre-yves.koenig@valtech.fr
L’économiste Jeremy Rifkin prédit, qu’à terme, l’économie collaborative va supplanter l’économie de marché, et la notion d’accès va remplacer celle de propriété.
Mais qu’est-ce que l’économie collaborative ?
Pourquoi les consommateurs en sont-ils de plus en plus friands ? En quoi répond-elle aux nouvelles valeurs de consommation de la société ?
Et surtout, quel nouveau rôle doivent adopter les marques devant ce phénomène en vogue ?
Découvrez-le à travers ce bref panorama sur l’économie collaborative !
Pascal Malotti
Directeur Conseil, Valtech
pascal.malotti@valtech.fr
Arthur Sotto
Planneur Stratégique
arthur.sotto@valtech.fr
Valtech - Adobe - Résultats du Baromètre Digital Marketing 2014Valtech
Résultats du Baromètre Digital Marketing 2014
Nous vous invitons à découvrir les résultats du 3ème baromètre réalisé par Valtech et Adobe. Cette étude, réalisée auprès de 250 directeurs et responsables marketing, dresse le bilan des priorités et des réflexions des entreprises autour de leur transformation digitale :
- Quelles sont les dernières tendances en matière d'investissement dans le digital ?
- Comment évaluer la maturité digitale des marques ?
- Le digital rend-il les marques plus centrées sur le consommateur ?
- La culture de la donnée devient-elle incontournable pour les marques et les entreprises ?
Pascal Malotti
Directeur Branding, Valtech
pascal.malotti@valtech.fr
[Veille thématique et décryptage] Cannes Lions 2014Valtech
Le Festival International de la Créativité, ou Cannes Lions, se tenait cette année du 15 au 21 juin. L’objet de ce document n’est pas de retranscrire le palmarès en entier mais bien d’effectuer une sélection parmi la liste pléthorique des initiatives récompensées.
Arthur Sotto, Strategic Planner, Valtech
arthur.sotto@valtech.fr
Les solutions SaaS représentent le nouvel eldorado des éditeurs. Les leaders du Web comme Google, Salesforce, Microsoft se sont emparés de ces nouvelles architectures qui précèdent l’hégémonie future des tablettes et pc légers dans notre travail.
Hervé Desaunois - Directeur technique, Valtech Toulouse
herve.desaunois@valtech.fr
Paul-Emmanuel Faidherbe – Consultant, Valtech Toulouse
paul-emmanuel.faidherbe@valtech.fr
[ Revue Innovations ] Valtech - Mobile World CongressValtech
Valtech - Mobile World Congress 2014
Revue d'innovations : les principales nouveautés du MWC de Barcelone
Pascal Malotti, Directeur Communication & Branding, Valtech
pascal.malotti@valtech.fr
Stéphane Zibi, Business Development & Innovation Director, Valtech
stephane.zibi@valtech.fr
[ Veille de tendances ] Valtech : Objets connectésValtech
Valtech - Consumer Electronics Show 2014
Veille de tendances : Le triomphe des objets connectés
Julien Leterrier, Directeur conception et stratégie, Valtech
julien.leterrier@valtech.fr
Stéphane Zibi, Business Development & Innovation Director, Valtech
stephane.zibi@valtech.fr
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:
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.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
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.
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
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.
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.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
2. Introduction
! Who am I?
! What is my Vision?
! PO/PMs are overwhelmed with details
! Need = strategic AND practical
! Make vision a widespread iterative tool
! Lots of Examples...one constraint
3. Overview
! Developing a product vision
! Communicating your ideas and plans
! Using vision everyday
! When vision meets reality
5. Developing a Product Vision
! A vision should be an opinion.
! Should be expressible on an elevator ride
! If it is unique it separates you from the pack
! Examples:
! You should control your online Presence .
! Portability is the key to harness changing
technology - Oracle/Java/ParcPlace
6. How do you see the world?
! Worldview : What do you believe? Who else sees things
the way I do?
! What does the future look like?
! Given your worldview, what is
needed and most important?
7. Typical Visions
! Leading Provider...
= “I want to win”
! Increase ROI
= “... more money”
! Be a market leader
= “... be successful”
! To be recognized
= “...be important”
8. Thinking Different
! Not enough to have an opinion, it needs to
stand out.
! Sometimes be a contrarian!
! What makes you capable/
interesting?
! Partners rather than
competitors?
9. Cluetrain
! Companies attempting to position
themselves should take a position.
! Optimally it should relate to something
the market actually cares about.
! Bombastic boasts do not = a position
10.
11. What are you doing
about what you believe?
! Building a product that is needed
! Your Worldview builds the case
! prioritize vs ignore vs outsource
! Scholastic - What is changing about the
world of children s learning?
! How can we uniquely contribute?
! Parent AND Teacher relationships
12. Another Example
- Simple Sync
! Envisions a world with people
having many devices
! Solution: Seamless and effortless
syncing and backup across devices
13. Communicating
! Who and How
! You need several kinds of people: customers,
supporters, investors, partners
! Internet is great but it still takes looking to find
YOUR people
! Drawing your Worldview
! Statements, Papers, Talks, Screencasts, Demos
! Thought leaders, Communities, Reviews
14. Vision Examples
! DataHero Brings Analytics to Everyone
! Organize the world s information and make it
universally accessible and useful. - ??
! Our values reflect those of a business started by a
band of climbers and surfers, and the minimalist style
they promoted. The approach we take towards product
design demonstrates a bias for simplicity and utility.
- ??
! A place where incredibly talented individuals are
empowered to put their best work into the hands of
millions of people, with very little in their way. - ??
15. Vision as a Tool
! Motivation - Eyes on the prize
! Prioritization and evaluation
! Integration and Testing
! DevOps & Continuous Deployment
! Baby steps into the future
16. Motivation
! Vision needs to be reinforced!
! Every planning meeting
! Start with big picture -> current
sprint
! Other reminders - flags, posters, talks
17. Prioritization
! If this process is mysterious you have a problem
<- smell
! Test each story - perhaps do a rating
! Does it support your Worldview? - upgrade
! Is it beside YOUR points - downgrade
! Be creative about focusing on your vision!
! Minimizing effort on everything else
19. Integration and Test
! Q: Do your tests PROVE your vision?
! Example: The future of education is a custom
learning plan for every child.
! Tests (focus of testing your core assumptions)
! Practical for one teacher to create 20-30
plans?
! Assign and track?
! Schools managing hundreds of plans?
! Parent communication? Support?
20. DevOps, Continuous Deployment
! Presents its own vision of software development without
complex and risky releases
! Small incremental features delivered as they are built -
always integrating and testing
! Build your vision in small
steps rather than all at
once
! This is win since your
vision is likely to evolve
! Up front investment is
often wasted
22. Market Reactions
! Your own Sales force - help them tell the tale
! Customers, Partners, Upper Mgmt
! Press, Analysts
! They want a story , give them yours
! Wild-eyed supporters
and trolls
! Productive use of
feedback
23. Dealing with Events
! You won t always be the freshest idea out there
! Others will always make claims that they have
it all figured out
! Easy to panic...
! Go back to your Worldview
! Are your assumptions still valid?
! Do other products fit or conflict?
! Do you still believe in your story?
! Ok to change and evolve.