To be product-aligned and customer-focused, everyone in your product development ecosystem needs to agree on the answer to the question, “What is Your Product?” Many organizations don’t have clarity on what their product or products are. Ambiguity and disagreement on the answer contribute to slow response to changing customer and market needs and less than satisfying product outcomes. It thwarts your efforts to scale agile product development and causes a plethora of organizational and communication woes.
Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) rightly states that this question—and the imperative to answer it—is one of your most important decisions for successful product development. A clear answer to “What is Your Product” powers all aspects of product development, including product management roles, team organization, and product activities. The implications are vast and deep, especially in large enterprises. Product definition is one of the paramount steps in LeSS adoption. Depending on how a product is defined (how widely) an organization may consider simple LeSS or LeSS Huge. Based on the ladder, team structure and alignment is defined, product owner team is created, etc. Product definition has a significant impact on organisational design.
Based on ongoing work with a variety of organizations, Ellen shares with the NYC Large Scale Scrum (Less) Meetup techniques for enabling product development leaders and communities to define their product using a cohesive set of product definition principles. Ellen explains why this question is so vital to your product success and ways she’s helped organizations co-discover the answer to the question, “What is Your Product?”
Whether your organization’s product or products are a primary source of revenue or are essential for your business operations, you will learn techniques that help instill product-thinking and shared understanding.
To be product-aligned and customer-focused, everyone in your product development ecosystem needs to agree on the answer to the question, “What is Your Product?”
Many organizations don’t have clarity on what their product or products are. Ambiguity and disagreement on the answer contribute to slow response to changing customer and market needs and less than satisfying product outcomes. It thwarts your efforts to scale agile product development and causes a plethora of organizational and communication woes.
In this keynote, Ellen shares share why this question is so vital to your product success and ways she’s helped organizations co-discover the answer to the question, “What is Your Product?”
Power Up Your Agile Planning and Analysis: Deliver Value Via Structured Conve...EBG Consulting, Inc.
For continual value delivery, stakeholders must partner to develop a shared understanding of product needs. How does this partnership gain a focused yet holistic understanding of the highest‐value requirements? How do they effectively plan the project so that the delivery team builds the right product, at the right time? Learn how to go beyond user stories and engage in “structured conversations” to explore and evaluate product needs and clearly identify what to build and when. You’ll use these conversations to fuel your daily work, refine your product backlog, and efficiently plan, analyze, and allocate product needs to allocate them to delivery cycles.
Keynote by Ellen Gottesdiener, EBG Consulting
Agile Development Practices ~ 05 March 2013 ~ Potsdam, Germany
Agile Product Management: Do the Right Things, Not EverythingEBG Consulting, Inc.
Learn to lighten the load of product management and ownership while strengthening your product ecosystem, making space for the right things amidst the clutter of everything.
Presented at Big Apple Scrum Day, May 2019
For more, read:
https://www.ebgconsulting.com/blog/product-manager-product-owner/
https://www.ebgconsulting.com/blog/product-manager-product-owner-part-2/
https://www.ebgconsulting.com/blog/right-things-not-everything-product-management-ownership/
Intro to Agile Requirements: User Stories, Backlogs and BeyondEBG Consulting, Inc.
Ellen Gottesdiener's Agile 2015 session (invited session in the Agile Bootcamp track, August 2015).
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One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time—and for the right customer. User stories and product backlogs are useful tools, but they aren't the only elements you'll need.
In this fast-paced introductory session, Ellen shares a common-sense approach to agile requirements that will help you reduce risk and deliver value. She surveys powerful ways to have colorful and collaborative requirements conversations. Discover how acceptance tests, prototypes, and models articulate important details. Understand the characteristics of a healthy backlog and review the methods that agile teams use when mining the backlog for business value.
This session debunks commonly held agile requirements myths and misconceptions. These include: “user stories are requirements”; “agile teams don’t do planning”; “requirements documentation goes away in agile”; and “agile teams don’t do analysis”. Come and see how a holistic approach to agile requirements can take you beyond user stories to a place where stakeholders can converse, collaborate, and co-create a shared understanding of ever-evolving product needs.
Session learning objectives include:
* Understand how agile requirements can reduce risk and deliver value, faster
* Learn common myths and misconceptions of agile requirements
* Recognize the utility—and limitations of user stories
* Outline ways agile teams supplement user stories
* Understand characteristics of a healthy backlog
Products Not Projects: Delivering Value with Product RoadmapsEBG Consulting, Inc.
Presentation for Boston SPIN, Nov 2013 by Ellen Gottesdiener, EBG Consulting.
If you're managing your portfolio using projects—and not products—you may be missing the point. After all, the product-to-be is the basis for the vision, goals, and expected outcome.
A product roadmap articulates how you will continually deliver a valued product over a long time horizon and provides a framework for decision-making, focusing all stakeholders on the strategic view, guiding changes in the near-term plans.
Ellen Gottesdiener explains how product roadmaps give you a framework for ongoing decision making. Find out how using collaborative processes to create and evolve your roadmap allows you to re-envision and adapt your product to maximize each release.
Agile product managers and product owners are challenged to engage with a wide range of stakeholders. They need a way to collaboratively and transparently discover the value your product can deliver. In this #DiscoveryDojo, you experience engaging stakeholders in Structured Conversations to explore product options using the 7 Product Dimensions to define valuable and actionable backlog items ready for delivery. You experience how these conversations are essential for ongoing backlog refinement. This interactive evening weaves lightning quick presentation moments with hands-on practice in coaching dojo circles.
What is Your Product? Making Large-Scale Product Development WorkEBG Consulting, Inc.
These are slides from the workshop presented by Ellen Gottesdiener and Andy Repton on August 8, 2019, at Agile Development 2019:
The first step for large enterprises transitioning toward a product-aligned and customer-focused operating model is to get shared agreement on this simple yet challenging question: "What is our product?"
Your answer is one of the most important ones you make. It powers all aspects of product development including product management roles, team organization, and product activities. The implications are vast and deep, especially in a large enterprise.
Based on ongoing work inside a large global technology infrastructure organization, Andy and Ellen provide techniques for enabling product development leaders and communities to define their product using an “outside-in”, customer-focused perspective—and do so with a product management mindset.
You will find the techniques we share useful, even for products that are mid-size or even smaller, because they help instill product-thinking and shared understanding.
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the workshop, the learner will be able to
• Describe key principles—and their rationale—for defining your product
• Identify practical techniques to use in a product definition facilitated workshop
• Explain the mindsets and points of view that thwart product thinking, and ways to overcome them.
• Implement a collaborative process for helping people reflect, repeal, and reveal what their product is
Keynote by Mary Gorman at Agile Testing Days 2013.
If your agile team wants to deliver a high-quality product, testing is essential. But some teams see testing as a “dependent” activity—dependent on requirements and dependent on development. If this perspective implies putting groups’ needs before your own or being controlled or manipulated by others, it’s unhealthy.
In successful agile teams, the members are neither dependent nor independent. Instead they’re interdependent—mutually reliant on and responsible to each other. Healthy interdependence can take many forms. Do you know which one your team operates under? Mary Gorman explores how test activities can enable and strengthen interdependencies among people and practices, and within the product itself to enhance the quality of your products and process.
To be product-aligned and customer-focused, everyone in your product development ecosystem needs to agree on the answer to the question, “What is Your Product?”
Many organizations don’t have clarity on what their product or products are. Ambiguity and disagreement on the answer contribute to slow response to changing customer and market needs and less than satisfying product outcomes. It thwarts your efforts to scale agile product development and causes a plethora of organizational and communication woes.
In this keynote, Ellen shares share why this question is so vital to your product success and ways she’s helped organizations co-discover the answer to the question, “What is Your Product?”
Power Up Your Agile Planning and Analysis: Deliver Value Via Structured Conve...EBG Consulting, Inc.
For continual value delivery, stakeholders must partner to develop a shared understanding of product needs. How does this partnership gain a focused yet holistic understanding of the highest‐value requirements? How do they effectively plan the project so that the delivery team builds the right product, at the right time? Learn how to go beyond user stories and engage in “structured conversations” to explore and evaluate product needs and clearly identify what to build and when. You’ll use these conversations to fuel your daily work, refine your product backlog, and efficiently plan, analyze, and allocate product needs to allocate them to delivery cycles.
Keynote by Ellen Gottesdiener, EBG Consulting
Agile Development Practices ~ 05 March 2013 ~ Potsdam, Germany
Agile Product Management: Do the Right Things, Not EverythingEBG Consulting, Inc.
Learn to lighten the load of product management and ownership while strengthening your product ecosystem, making space for the right things amidst the clutter of everything.
Presented at Big Apple Scrum Day, May 2019
For more, read:
https://www.ebgconsulting.com/blog/product-manager-product-owner/
https://www.ebgconsulting.com/blog/product-manager-product-owner-part-2/
https://www.ebgconsulting.com/blog/right-things-not-everything-product-management-ownership/
Intro to Agile Requirements: User Stories, Backlogs and BeyondEBG Consulting, Inc.
Ellen Gottesdiener's Agile 2015 session (invited session in the Agile Bootcamp track, August 2015).
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One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time—and for the right customer. User stories and product backlogs are useful tools, but they aren't the only elements you'll need.
In this fast-paced introductory session, Ellen shares a common-sense approach to agile requirements that will help you reduce risk and deliver value. She surveys powerful ways to have colorful and collaborative requirements conversations. Discover how acceptance tests, prototypes, and models articulate important details. Understand the characteristics of a healthy backlog and review the methods that agile teams use when mining the backlog for business value.
This session debunks commonly held agile requirements myths and misconceptions. These include: “user stories are requirements”; “agile teams don’t do planning”; “requirements documentation goes away in agile”; and “agile teams don’t do analysis”. Come and see how a holistic approach to agile requirements can take you beyond user stories to a place where stakeholders can converse, collaborate, and co-create a shared understanding of ever-evolving product needs.
Session learning objectives include:
* Understand how agile requirements can reduce risk and deliver value, faster
* Learn common myths and misconceptions of agile requirements
* Recognize the utility—and limitations of user stories
* Outline ways agile teams supplement user stories
* Understand characteristics of a healthy backlog
Products Not Projects: Delivering Value with Product RoadmapsEBG Consulting, Inc.
Presentation for Boston SPIN, Nov 2013 by Ellen Gottesdiener, EBG Consulting.
If you're managing your portfolio using projects—and not products—you may be missing the point. After all, the product-to-be is the basis for the vision, goals, and expected outcome.
A product roadmap articulates how you will continually deliver a valued product over a long time horizon and provides a framework for decision-making, focusing all stakeholders on the strategic view, guiding changes in the near-term plans.
Ellen Gottesdiener explains how product roadmaps give you a framework for ongoing decision making. Find out how using collaborative processes to create and evolve your roadmap allows you to re-envision and adapt your product to maximize each release.
Agile product managers and product owners are challenged to engage with a wide range of stakeholders. They need a way to collaboratively and transparently discover the value your product can deliver. In this #DiscoveryDojo, you experience engaging stakeholders in Structured Conversations to explore product options using the 7 Product Dimensions to define valuable and actionable backlog items ready for delivery. You experience how these conversations are essential for ongoing backlog refinement. This interactive evening weaves lightning quick presentation moments with hands-on practice in coaching dojo circles.
What is Your Product? Making Large-Scale Product Development WorkEBG Consulting, Inc.
These are slides from the workshop presented by Ellen Gottesdiener and Andy Repton on August 8, 2019, at Agile Development 2019:
The first step for large enterprises transitioning toward a product-aligned and customer-focused operating model is to get shared agreement on this simple yet challenging question: "What is our product?"
Your answer is one of the most important ones you make. It powers all aspects of product development including product management roles, team organization, and product activities. The implications are vast and deep, especially in a large enterprise.
Based on ongoing work inside a large global technology infrastructure organization, Andy and Ellen provide techniques for enabling product development leaders and communities to define their product using an “outside-in”, customer-focused perspective—and do so with a product management mindset.
You will find the techniques we share useful, even for products that are mid-size or even smaller, because they help instill product-thinking and shared understanding.
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the workshop, the learner will be able to
• Describe key principles—and their rationale—for defining your product
• Identify practical techniques to use in a product definition facilitated workshop
• Explain the mindsets and points of view that thwart product thinking, and ways to overcome them.
• Implement a collaborative process for helping people reflect, repeal, and reveal what their product is
Keynote by Mary Gorman at Agile Testing Days 2013.
If your agile team wants to deliver a high-quality product, testing is essential. But some teams see testing as a “dependent” activity—dependent on requirements and dependent on development. If this perspective implies putting groups’ needs before your own or being controlled or manipulated by others, it’s unhealthy.
In successful agile teams, the members are neither dependent nor independent. Instead they’re interdependent—mutually reliant on and responsible to each other. Healthy interdependence can take many forms. Do you know which one your team operates under? Mary Gorman explores how test activities can enable and strengthen interdependencies among people and practices, and within the product itself to enhance the quality of your products and process.
Nonfunctional requirements-forgotten-negleted-misunderstood-agile devpractice...EBG Consulting, Inc.
Implementing nonfunctional requirements is essential to build the right product. Yet teams often struggle with when and how to discover, specify, and test these requirements. Many teams neglect nonfunctional requirements up front, considering them less important or unrelated to user requirements; other teams specify them incompletely or with untestable and non-measurable attributes. EBG's Paul Reed introduces three types of nonfunctional requirements: interfaces; attributes including performance, usability, security, and robustness; and the environment for the product’s design and implementation. Paul helps you explore ways to visualize interfaces and value their options, examine techniques to specify quality attributes and their acceptance criteria, and consider environmental requirements. Leave with a better understanding of how these dimensions intertwine with functional requirements, and the challenges of incorporating nonfunctional requirements in your product backlog. Ellen shared a fast-paced survey of key practices and an exercise designed to help you discover and define holistic nonfunctional requirements for your agile project.
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of Agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver, at the right time, for the right customer.
Many teams rely on user stories to discover and define Agile product requirements. But user stories often lead to confusion, bloated backlogs, ineffective or inconsistent planning, and erratic sprint flow. This thrashing is not how user stories are intended to work!
Join Ellen Gottesdiener in this fast-paced dive into a common-sense, tested approach to user stories. You’ll follow a story as it’s sliced across the seven product dimensions, based on value. You’ll learn how structured conversations enable you to quickly explore, evaluate, and confirm stories. See how making your user stories “ready” is key for incremental delivery of your “done” product.
The Contracting Two-Step: Patterns & Actions for Successful CollaborationEBG Consulting, Inc.
~ Presented at Agile Games 2018, Boston, MA. ~
Do your agile team members optimize each other’s skills & capabilities? Share personal development needs? Trust each other? Experience the “contracting two-step”, a metaphor for ways to identify & monitor mutual working agreements. Learn 3 activities to build agreements that make people awesome.
Do your agile team members make optimum use of each other’s skills and capabilities? Do they share their personal development needs? Do they trust each other? If not, consider the “contracting two-step” - a metaphor for simple yet powerful ways to identify and monitor mutual working agreements. Like a dance, contracting partners take mutual responsibility to reach shared goals. While not legally binding, the contract represents public, explicit commitments essential for successful collaborations.
Learn 3 activities to implement the “Contracting Two Step” on your agile team. Leave with activities and worksheets you can use to make people awesome.
Note: you can upload the MatchUp Canvas here: https://www.ebgconsulting.com/MatchUpCanvas(EBG_Consulting)(Gottesdiener)(v1.1).pdf
Many teams struggle with getting user stories small enough and sufficiently understood for planning and delivery. Slicing user stories so they are valuable and actionable is collaborative work - involving the Product Owner, Scrum Master and the team. See how slicing user stories accelerates ongoing backlog refinement, helps sprint and release planning, and increases delivered value.
These are slides from the webinar presented by the co-creator of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland, and the industry's leading expert on story-slicing, Ellen Gottesdiener, on February 24th 2016.
Contact ellen@ebgconsulting.com if you are interested listening to the recording.
Learn to effectively and efficiently explore, evaluate, and confirm a shared understanding of refined backlog items using Structured conversations with the 7 Product Dimensions so they are ready for implementation.
(Presented at Agile Day New York City September 2018)
The first step for large enterprises transitioning toward a product-aligned operating model is to get shared agreement on this simple yet challenging question: "What is our product?"
This session will share techniques we have - and are - using to scale lean/agile product development in a large organization.
Detailed Description:
One of the biggest strengths—and concurrent challenges—for scaling product development with LeSS is defining what the “product” is. LeSS encourages product development teams to take as wide a view as possible and to use a customer-focused definition.
Great.
So, how do you define what your product is? And, how do you define your product in a manner that is collaborative, engaging, and sticky? Based on ongoing work inside a very large global technology infrastructure organization, we share techniques we have and are using to answer this essential question: “What is our Product?”
In this session, Andy and Ellen share techniques for enabling product development leaders and communities to define their product using an “outside-in”, customer-focused perspective - and do so with a product management mindset. They also share “meta” learning points about using these techniques in facilitated sessions in ways that optimize mutual learning.
Presented at the LeSs Conference 2018 by Andy Repton and Ellen Gottesdiener, September 2018
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of Agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time for the right customer.
Many teams rely on user stories to discover and define Agile product requirements. In reality, user stories often lead to a confusing array of struggles and puzzles, such as bloated backlogs, ineffective or inconsistent planning, and erratic sprint flow. This thrashing is not how user stories are intended to work
EBG’s Ellen Gottesdiener in this fast-paced introduction of a common sense, tested approach to user stories. With a laser-like focus on delivering value, you follow a story as it’s sliced across the 7 Product Dimensions. You learn how the Structured Conversation framework enables you to quickly explore, evaluate, and confirm stories. See how making your user stories “ready” is the key for incremental delivery of your “Done” product.
(Note: you have the option of viewing the video from the start, or continuing to view the slide deck)
Closing Keynote for IIBA D.C. BusinessAnalysis Development Day (DCBADD)
Agile product discovery is essential for continuous delivery of high-quality solutions. At the same time, discovery is also one of the most challenging aspects of any project. A wide range of stakeholders must collaboratively explore and agree on inventive and valuable product requirements. To do this, many agile teams rely on user stories, and perhaps a few other techniques, such as story maps and personas.
While these are a good start, they are not sufficient for the complex products most teams wrestle with today.
Ellen reaches beyond discovery-as-usual to highlight creative ways to enlighten and energize your agile product discovery.
Product Backlog Refinement with Structured Conversations - Big Apple Scrum DayEBG Consulting, Inc.
Slides from Ellen's session at Big Apple Scrum Day, 11 May 2018.
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time, for the right customer, and refining them for delivery. This session will share a fast-paced introduction of a common sense, tested approach for defining and refining user stories—or any other method you use to represent backlog items. This enables backlog items to get “ready” to get to “done”.
You will learn how refining backlog items using Structured Conversations with the 7 Product Dimensions enables you to slice backlog items while deeply enhancing teams’ domain knowledge. You identify its usefulness for initial, multi-team and single team product backlog refinement.
We explore how the concept of refinement—making backlog items “ready”—is a corollary to “done”. You’ll participate in a card-based exercise to more deeply understand each of the 7 Product Dimensions. You discover how the dimensions can enlighten and deepen your refinement conversations. Scenes from real Structured Conversations help you visualize making refinement come alive. Join us as you learn to effectively and efficiently explore, evaluate, and confirm a shared understanding of refined backlog items so they are ready for implementation.
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of Agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time, for the right customer, and refining them for delivery. This session will share a commonsense, tested approach for defining and refining backlog items so they are “ready” to get to “done.” Explore how refinement is crucial to smooth Scrum flow, shared understanding, and healthy product development team.
(Ellen's slides presented at April 2018 Global Scrum Gathering).
Explore, Evaluate, Confirm Product Needs with Structured ConversationsEBG Consulting, Inc.
Collaborate to discover and deliver valued products using structured conversations:
Your agile team needs a holistic understanding of the most valuable product needs to deliver—just-in-time and just enough. Ellen shares how product partners—customers, business and technology stakeholders—engage in structured conversations to explore, evaluate and confirm product needs. Hear about essential practices you can use in your daily work that blend value‐based decision‐making, a testing mindset, and disciplined analysis. You will see how front‐loading verification and validation when discovering product needs fuels collaboration, saves development time and is instrumental to delivering a high quality product.
[Presented in NYC, 01-October-2012 at Skillsmatter's the Agile BDD Exchange in New York City]
How Agile Reduces Requirements Risk Ebg Consulting Slide ShareEBG Consulting, Inc.
Learn how agile practices reduce the many risks associated with requirements in this presentation by EBG Consulting's Ellen Gottesdiener.
To read a companion article, go to:
http://ebgconsulting.com/Pubs/Articles/HowAgilePracticesReduceReqtsRisk_BetterSw_Gottesdiener_JuAu2009.pdf
Product Camp Boston 2015 | 2 May 2015
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On the surface, user stories seem pretty straightforward: Just write “As a...I need to...So that...” on an index card.
But in reality user stories often lead to a confusing array of struggles and puzzles, such as losing precious engineering time during iterations with analysis; delivering the wrong product slice—or delivering it with errors; delivering late; and more. Surely this chaos is not how user stories are intended to work!
Ellen Gottesdiener shares practical ways for product managers and product owners to mitigate the troubles of user stories while amplifying their advantages. Learn the power of collaboratively uncovering user stories, when and how to engage with engineering and product stakeholders, and guidelines for effective user stories. Leave with a straightforward, holistic approach to stories that will smooth the way for a successful iterative delivery effort.
[Presented at Product Management Festival 2014 | 17 September 2014 | Zurich, Switzerland]
Problems that result from an unclear, ambiguous, or inaccurate understanding of product scope can permeate and threaten your entire product development effort. This is known as “scope creep”—the unrestrained expansion of requirements as the project proceeds. Scope creep is often cited as a cause of excess costs, late delivery, and dissatisfied customers. Yet discovering requirements is about gaining an ever-growing understanding of them. So isn’t scope creep to be expected? Can—and should—you identify and limit the scope of a product’s requirements?
Join Ellen Gottesdiener as she shares tools and techniques for efficiently and effectively identifying and managing product scope. Learn how you can provide real value to your projects by reducing the risks of scope creep while establishing clear project focus.
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of agile product development is discovering the right product requirements, to deliver at the right time, for the right customer.
User stories and product backlogs are useful, even essentials tools, but wait – there’s more!
This is a fast-paced introduction of a common sense, tested approach to agile requirements presented by Mary Gorman at Agile 2017. Agile Alliance members can watch the recording at this address:
http://agilealliance.cmail19.com/t/y-l-hriyydk-bdllkqik-iu/
With a laser-like focus on delivering value, you follow a story as it’s sliced across seven product dimensions. You realize the power of sketching analysis models to “see” agile requirements and the strength of using acceptance criteria to ideate and confirm agile requirements. You survey creative ways to engage in collaborative conversations that result in right and ready agile requirements. You appreciate how adaptive planning replaces change management with value management.
See how a holistic, adaptive approach to agile requirements provides a sound foundation for your product backlog through effective stakeholder conversations, collaboration, and co-creation of a shared understanding of ever-evolving product needs.
That Settles It: Techniques for Transparent & Trusted Decision Making EBG Consulting, Inc.
Your team makes countless product and process decisions: vision, product value, requirements to deliver, acceptance criteria, validation tests, platforms and tools, requirements or backlog management, metrics, delivery cadence, risks to proactively mitigate, and more.
Ellen Gottesdiener explores how participatory decision making is essential for fostering collaboration. Learn practical techniques for deciding how to decide. Leave with a toolkit to align your choices with your team values.
Learn:
* How to identify types of product and process decisions made on projects, including their timing and stakeholders
* Recognize decision-making traps, risks, and blunders
* Discover a tried and true—and transparent—decision-making process you can use right away in your work
Success with User Stories: Cut Through User Story Chaos (Toronto Agile Commun...EBG Consulting, Inc.
Presented for the Toronto Agile Community, 13 June 2016:
On the surface, user stories seem pretty straightforward: Just write “As a...I need to...So that...” on an index card. But in reality user stories often lead to a confusing array of struggles and puzzles, such as losing precious engineering time during iterations with analysis; delivering the wrong product slice—or delivering it with errors; delivering late; and more. Surely this chaos is not how user stories are intended to work!
Join Ellen Gottesdiener as she shares practical ways for agile product managers and product owners to mitigate the troubles of user stories while amplifying their advantages. Learn the power of collaboratively uncovering user stories, when and how to engage with engineering and product stakeholders, and guidelines for effective user stories. Leave with a straightforward, holistic approach to stories that will smooth the way for a successful iterative delivery effort.
On the surface, user stories seem pretty straightforward: Just write “As a...I need to...So that...” on an index card. But in reality, user stories often lead to a confusing array of struggles and puzzles, such as losing precious engineering time during iterations with analysis; delivering the wrong product slice—or delivering it with errors; delivering late; and more. Surely this chaos is not how user stories are intended to work!
In this AIPMM webinar, Ellen Gottesdiener shares practical ways for agile product managers and product owners to mitigate the troubles of user stories while amplifying their advantages.
Learn the power of collaboratively uncovering user stories, when and how to engage with engineering and product stakeholders, and guidelines for effective user stories. Leave with a straightforward, holistic approach to stories that will smooth the way for a successful iterative delivery effort.
Lego Serious Play : Enhancing collaboration @AgileCymru15Patrizia Bertini
What are the key values and aspects of Lego Serious Play that can support and help the Agile community?
What makes Lego Serious Play a tool that an Agile practitioner can take and apply in their everyday's practice?
Thoughts, reflections, and inspiration for the Agile community.
Nonfunctional requirements-forgotten-negleted-misunderstood-agile devpractice...EBG Consulting, Inc.
Implementing nonfunctional requirements is essential to build the right product. Yet teams often struggle with when and how to discover, specify, and test these requirements. Many teams neglect nonfunctional requirements up front, considering them less important or unrelated to user requirements; other teams specify them incompletely or with untestable and non-measurable attributes. EBG's Paul Reed introduces three types of nonfunctional requirements: interfaces; attributes including performance, usability, security, and robustness; and the environment for the product’s design and implementation. Paul helps you explore ways to visualize interfaces and value their options, examine techniques to specify quality attributes and their acceptance criteria, and consider environmental requirements. Leave with a better understanding of how these dimensions intertwine with functional requirements, and the challenges of incorporating nonfunctional requirements in your product backlog. Ellen shared a fast-paced survey of key practices and an exercise designed to help you discover and define holistic nonfunctional requirements for your agile project.
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of Agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver, at the right time, for the right customer.
Many teams rely on user stories to discover and define Agile product requirements. But user stories often lead to confusion, bloated backlogs, ineffective or inconsistent planning, and erratic sprint flow. This thrashing is not how user stories are intended to work!
Join Ellen Gottesdiener in this fast-paced dive into a common-sense, tested approach to user stories. You’ll follow a story as it’s sliced across the seven product dimensions, based on value. You’ll learn how structured conversations enable you to quickly explore, evaluate, and confirm stories. See how making your user stories “ready” is key for incremental delivery of your “done” product.
The Contracting Two-Step: Patterns & Actions for Successful CollaborationEBG Consulting, Inc.
~ Presented at Agile Games 2018, Boston, MA. ~
Do your agile team members optimize each other’s skills & capabilities? Share personal development needs? Trust each other? Experience the “contracting two-step”, a metaphor for ways to identify & monitor mutual working agreements. Learn 3 activities to build agreements that make people awesome.
Do your agile team members make optimum use of each other’s skills and capabilities? Do they share their personal development needs? Do they trust each other? If not, consider the “contracting two-step” - a metaphor for simple yet powerful ways to identify and monitor mutual working agreements. Like a dance, contracting partners take mutual responsibility to reach shared goals. While not legally binding, the contract represents public, explicit commitments essential for successful collaborations.
Learn 3 activities to implement the “Contracting Two Step” on your agile team. Leave with activities and worksheets you can use to make people awesome.
Note: you can upload the MatchUp Canvas here: https://www.ebgconsulting.com/MatchUpCanvas(EBG_Consulting)(Gottesdiener)(v1.1).pdf
Many teams struggle with getting user stories small enough and sufficiently understood for planning and delivery. Slicing user stories so they are valuable and actionable is collaborative work - involving the Product Owner, Scrum Master and the team. See how slicing user stories accelerates ongoing backlog refinement, helps sprint and release planning, and increases delivered value.
These are slides from the webinar presented by the co-creator of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland, and the industry's leading expert on story-slicing, Ellen Gottesdiener, on February 24th 2016.
Contact ellen@ebgconsulting.com if you are interested listening to the recording.
Learn to effectively and efficiently explore, evaluate, and confirm a shared understanding of refined backlog items using Structured conversations with the 7 Product Dimensions so they are ready for implementation.
(Presented at Agile Day New York City September 2018)
The first step for large enterprises transitioning toward a product-aligned operating model is to get shared agreement on this simple yet challenging question: "What is our product?"
This session will share techniques we have - and are - using to scale lean/agile product development in a large organization.
Detailed Description:
One of the biggest strengths—and concurrent challenges—for scaling product development with LeSS is defining what the “product” is. LeSS encourages product development teams to take as wide a view as possible and to use a customer-focused definition.
Great.
So, how do you define what your product is? And, how do you define your product in a manner that is collaborative, engaging, and sticky? Based on ongoing work inside a very large global technology infrastructure organization, we share techniques we have and are using to answer this essential question: “What is our Product?”
In this session, Andy and Ellen share techniques for enabling product development leaders and communities to define their product using an “outside-in”, customer-focused perspective - and do so with a product management mindset. They also share “meta” learning points about using these techniques in facilitated sessions in ways that optimize mutual learning.
Presented at the LeSs Conference 2018 by Andy Repton and Ellen Gottesdiener, September 2018
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of Agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time for the right customer.
Many teams rely on user stories to discover and define Agile product requirements. In reality, user stories often lead to a confusing array of struggles and puzzles, such as bloated backlogs, ineffective or inconsistent planning, and erratic sprint flow. This thrashing is not how user stories are intended to work
EBG’s Ellen Gottesdiener in this fast-paced introduction of a common sense, tested approach to user stories. With a laser-like focus on delivering value, you follow a story as it’s sliced across the 7 Product Dimensions. You learn how the Structured Conversation framework enables you to quickly explore, evaluate, and confirm stories. See how making your user stories “ready” is the key for incremental delivery of your “Done” product.
(Note: you have the option of viewing the video from the start, or continuing to view the slide deck)
Closing Keynote for IIBA D.C. BusinessAnalysis Development Day (DCBADD)
Agile product discovery is essential for continuous delivery of high-quality solutions. At the same time, discovery is also one of the most challenging aspects of any project. A wide range of stakeholders must collaboratively explore and agree on inventive and valuable product requirements. To do this, many agile teams rely on user stories, and perhaps a few other techniques, such as story maps and personas.
While these are a good start, they are not sufficient for the complex products most teams wrestle with today.
Ellen reaches beyond discovery-as-usual to highlight creative ways to enlighten and energize your agile product discovery.
Product Backlog Refinement with Structured Conversations - Big Apple Scrum DayEBG Consulting, Inc.
Slides from Ellen's session at Big Apple Scrum Day, 11 May 2018.
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time, for the right customer, and refining them for delivery. This session will share a fast-paced introduction of a common sense, tested approach for defining and refining user stories—or any other method you use to represent backlog items. This enables backlog items to get “ready” to get to “done”.
You will learn how refining backlog items using Structured Conversations with the 7 Product Dimensions enables you to slice backlog items while deeply enhancing teams’ domain knowledge. You identify its usefulness for initial, multi-team and single team product backlog refinement.
We explore how the concept of refinement—making backlog items “ready”—is a corollary to “done”. You’ll participate in a card-based exercise to more deeply understand each of the 7 Product Dimensions. You discover how the dimensions can enlighten and deepen your refinement conversations. Scenes from real Structured Conversations help you visualize making refinement come alive. Join us as you learn to effectively and efficiently explore, evaluate, and confirm a shared understanding of refined backlog items so they are ready for implementation.
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of Agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time, for the right customer, and refining them for delivery. This session will share a commonsense, tested approach for defining and refining backlog items so they are “ready” to get to “done.” Explore how refinement is crucial to smooth Scrum flow, shared understanding, and healthy product development team.
(Ellen's slides presented at April 2018 Global Scrum Gathering).
Explore, Evaluate, Confirm Product Needs with Structured ConversationsEBG Consulting, Inc.
Collaborate to discover and deliver valued products using structured conversations:
Your agile team needs a holistic understanding of the most valuable product needs to deliver—just-in-time and just enough. Ellen shares how product partners—customers, business and technology stakeholders—engage in structured conversations to explore, evaluate and confirm product needs. Hear about essential practices you can use in your daily work that blend value‐based decision‐making, a testing mindset, and disciplined analysis. You will see how front‐loading verification and validation when discovering product needs fuels collaboration, saves development time and is instrumental to delivering a high quality product.
[Presented in NYC, 01-October-2012 at Skillsmatter's the Agile BDD Exchange in New York City]
How Agile Reduces Requirements Risk Ebg Consulting Slide ShareEBG Consulting, Inc.
Learn how agile practices reduce the many risks associated with requirements in this presentation by EBG Consulting's Ellen Gottesdiener.
To read a companion article, go to:
http://ebgconsulting.com/Pubs/Articles/HowAgilePracticesReduceReqtsRisk_BetterSw_Gottesdiener_JuAu2009.pdf
Product Camp Boston 2015 | 2 May 2015
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On the surface, user stories seem pretty straightforward: Just write “As a...I need to...So that...” on an index card.
But in reality user stories often lead to a confusing array of struggles and puzzles, such as losing precious engineering time during iterations with analysis; delivering the wrong product slice—or delivering it with errors; delivering late; and more. Surely this chaos is not how user stories are intended to work!
Ellen Gottesdiener shares practical ways for product managers and product owners to mitigate the troubles of user stories while amplifying their advantages. Learn the power of collaboratively uncovering user stories, when and how to engage with engineering and product stakeholders, and guidelines for effective user stories. Leave with a straightforward, holistic approach to stories that will smooth the way for a successful iterative delivery effort.
[Presented at Product Management Festival 2014 | 17 September 2014 | Zurich, Switzerland]
Problems that result from an unclear, ambiguous, or inaccurate understanding of product scope can permeate and threaten your entire product development effort. This is known as “scope creep”—the unrestrained expansion of requirements as the project proceeds. Scope creep is often cited as a cause of excess costs, late delivery, and dissatisfied customers. Yet discovering requirements is about gaining an ever-growing understanding of them. So isn’t scope creep to be expected? Can—and should—you identify and limit the scope of a product’s requirements?
Join Ellen Gottesdiener as she shares tools and techniques for efficiently and effectively identifying and managing product scope. Learn how you can provide real value to your projects by reducing the risks of scope creep while establishing clear project focus.
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of agile product development is discovering the right product requirements, to deliver at the right time, for the right customer.
User stories and product backlogs are useful, even essentials tools, but wait – there’s more!
This is a fast-paced introduction of a common sense, tested approach to agile requirements presented by Mary Gorman at Agile 2017. Agile Alliance members can watch the recording at this address:
http://agilealliance.cmail19.com/t/y-l-hriyydk-bdllkqik-iu/
With a laser-like focus on delivering value, you follow a story as it’s sliced across seven product dimensions. You realize the power of sketching analysis models to “see” agile requirements and the strength of using acceptance criteria to ideate and confirm agile requirements. You survey creative ways to engage in collaborative conversations that result in right and ready agile requirements. You appreciate how adaptive planning replaces change management with value management.
See how a holistic, adaptive approach to agile requirements provides a sound foundation for your product backlog through effective stakeholder conversations, collaboration, and co-creation of a shared understanding of ever-evolving product needs.
That Settles It: Techniques for Transparent & Trusted Decision Making EBG Consulting, Inc.
Your team makes countless product and process decisions: vision, product value, requirements to deliver, acceptance criteria, validation tests, platforms and tools, requirements or backlog management, metrics, delivery cadence, risks to proactively mitigate, and more.
Ellen Gottesdiener explores how participatory decision making is essential for fostering collaboration. Learn practical techniques for deciding how to decide. Leave with a toolkit to align your choices with your team values.
Learn:
* How to identify types of product and process decisions made on projects, including their timing and stakeholders
* Recognize decision-making traps, risks, and blunders
* Discover a tried and true—and transparent—decision-making process you can use right away in your work
Success with User Stories: Cut Through User Story Chaos (Toronto Agile Commun...EBG Consulting, Inc.
Presented for the Toronto Agile Community, 13 June 2016:
On the surface, user stories seem pretty straightforward: Just write “As a...I need to...So that...” on an index card. But in reality user stories often lead to a confusing array of struggles and puzzles, such as losing precious engineering time during iterations with analysis; delivering the wrong product slice—or delivering it with errors; delivering late; and more. Surely this chaos is not how user stories are intended to work!
Join Ellen Gottesdiener as she shares practical ways for agile product managers and product owners to mitigate the troubles of user stories while amplifying their advantages. Learn the power of collaboratively uncovering user stories, when and how to engage with engineering and product stakeholders, and guidelines for effective user stories. Leave with a straightforward, holistic approach to stories that will smooth the way for a successful iterative delivery effort.
On the surface, user stories seem pretty straightforward: Just write “As a...I need to...So that...” on an index card. But in reality, user stories often lead to a confusing array of struggles and puzzles, such as losing precious engineering time during iterations with analysis; delivering the wrong product slice—or delivering it with errors; delivering late; and more. Surely this chaos is not how user stories are intended to work!
In this AIPMM webinar, Ellen Gottesdiener shares practical ways for agile product managers and product owners to mitigate the troubles of user stories while amplifying their advantages.
Learn the power of collaboratively uncovering user stories, when and how to engage with engineering and product stakeholders, and guidelines for effective user stories. Leave with a straightforward, holistic approach to stories that will smooth the way for a successful iterative delivery effort.
Lego Serious Play : Enhancing collaboration @AgileCymru15Patrizia Bertini
What are the key values and aspects of Lego Serious Play that can support and help the Agile community?
What makes Lego Serious Play a tool that an Agile practitioner can take and apply in their everyday's practice?
Thoughts, reflections, and inspiration for the Agile community.
Misconceptions abound about the way requirements fit—or don’t fit—into agile projects. Is “agile requirements” an oxymoron—two contradictory terms joined together? How is it possible for requirements to be agile? Do agile projects even need requirements? In reality, requirements are the basis for planning, analyzing, developing, and delivering agile projects. Paul Reed shares the value of requirements analysis on agile projects, the ways requirements form the basis for agile planning, and explains how effective agile teams collaborate to develop requirements. Drawing on what we know about chaos theory, complex adaptive systems, metrics on software projects, and practical application on numerous agile projects, discover how agile and requirements are congruent. Learn how agile and requirements combine to form a sound and sensible union that drives successful delivery of business value. Leave with a clear understanding of how requirements done right leverage agile practices and how agile projects depend on requirements to deliver business value.
Continuously Innovate: GitLab's Approach to PM by GitLab Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Create a foundation to empower teams - Vision, values, strategy, and structure
- Reward outcomes over output - Framework, principles, OKRs, and performance indicators
- Optimize the value exchange - Sensing mechanisms, customer discovery, jobs to be done, iteration, and continuous delivery
Continuously Innovate: GitLab's Approach to PM by GitLab Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Create a foundation to empower teams - Vision, values, strategy, and structure
- Reward outcomes over output - Framework, principles, OKRs, and performance indicators
- Optimize the value exchange - Sensing mechanisms, customer discovery, jobs to be done, iteration, and continuous delivery
This presentation was originally delivered in three parts at the SharePoint Evolutions conference in London, 15th April 2013. It was designed for a business audience - project leads and decision makers responsible for delivering intranet projects
ANIn Coimbatore March 2023 |How Did Feedback Loops Help To Build Better Produ...AgileNetwork
Agile Network India - Coimbatore
Title: How Did Feedback Loops Help To Build Better Products? by Hariharasudhan R
Date: March 2023
Hosted by: Thoughtworks
Digital Maturity Report on Engineering Industry | TheDigitalFellowthedigitalfellow
We Help Decision-makers in Any Industry to Upgrade their process, people, and technology. Our Research is your success. Download the industry report now.
International Schools Education Sector Report 2022 | TheDigitalFellow thedigitalfellow
We Help Decision-makers in Any Industry to Upgrade their process, people, and technology. Download the International School Education Sector report now.
Business Value of Agile Product ManagementDavid Rico
A very short overview of contemporary lean and agile product management concepts, their role in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), definitions, principles, practices, and tools, what differentiates it from Scrum product owner(ship), user experience (UX) design, and other popular customer-centric thinking approaches.
Attention is the new currency in digital. We see it’s missing since post covid world swiped 45+ GDP boosting #industries since 2020. While, businesses are still navigating their way based on hunch & gut feeling, some are still not adopting digital.
The Decision-makers are indeed struggling to upgrade their process, people, and technology. A #digital mindset is still missing.
But wait, we understand. A #digitaltransformation can’t happen overnight. Some brands even while basking in their past glory, understand that digital is the key factor to survival, they don’t know how, where & who to reach out to.
This huge demand has given rise to a fake/self-proclaimed #digitalmarketing people. Making the choice & shift even more difficult as digital is no more the future, but the present.
We researched/ audited 45+ Top industries' digital assets as we took a deep drive and spotted one common cause of failure - A Massive Digital immaturity.
Do UX designers have a role in reducing digital waste?User Vision
UX designers are primarily concerned with ensuring the experience of end users, but should we also consider the impact on the environment?
Do the ultra-usable and convenient digital lifestyles we help create provide ease-of-use at the cost of sustainability?
We'll explore the surprisingly large impact that digital has on C02 emissions and other contributors to the climate crisis.
Then we’ll discuss what can be done by individuals and as a profession to raise awareness of the issue contribute to ways to mitigate the problem.
Digital Maturity Report on Courier Services Industry | TheDigitalFellowthedigitalfellow
We Help Decision-makers in Any Industry to Upgrade their process, people, and technology. Our Research is your success. Download the industry report now.
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.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
2. Ellen Gottesdiener
CPO, Founder, CSM, CSPO, CPF
Ellen helps product and development communities create valuable outcomes
through product agility. She is known in the agile community as an instigator
and innovator for collaborative practices for agile product discovery using
skilled facilitation to enable healthy teamwork and organizational learning.
twitter: @ellengott
blog: ebgconsulting.com/blog
linkedIn: ellengottesdiener
tips newsletter: www.ebgconsulting.com
EBG is a global leader in agile product management and ownership and collaborative practices
for technology products. EBG helps organizations amplify discovery to accelerate delivery.
Volunteer:
Agile Product Open ~ Boston (Co-Founder, Producer)
Agile Product Management Initiative (Director,Agile Alliance)
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4. props & appreciations to Andy Repton
[ @reptonandy | https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyrepton/ ]
for collaborating with me on an earlier workshop version
of this presentation