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
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.
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/
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?”
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.
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
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
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.
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/
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?”
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.
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
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
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
Learn to effectively and efficiently explore, evaluate, and confirm a shared understanding of refined backlog items using Structured conversations with the 7 Product Dimensions so they are ready for implementation.
(Presented at Agile Day New York City September 2018)
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of Agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time for the right customer.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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]
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).
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
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.
[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.
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.
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.
What Can Participative design do for you and what you can do for participativ...Patrizia Bertini
Participative design, or co-creation, can be a game changer.
The UX industry is evolving and so should evolve the tools and the approaches that allow professionals to deliver meaningful and valuable experiences.
Participative design has been around since the '70s - and the raise of a collaborative culture enhanced by technology are quickly changing the way users and customers engage and communicate with brands, organisations, and companies.
How and why companies should consider a participative approach?
[Presented at UX Crunch London, 29th September 2015]
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.
To survive in today’s market, organizations need to deliver higher quality, more secure software than ever before, and they need to do it faster. Today’s leaders need to understand what DevOps is all about and how to implement it across the enterprise to remain competitive, react to changing conditions, and facilitate growth. This interactive workshop will explain what DevOps is and isn’t, what benefits we should expect adopting it, and what we need to do to adjust to a DevOps mindset. We’ll look at our current delivery processes and discuss how we can deliver higher quality, more secure software, and how we can do it faster, more reliably, and have more confidence in the result. We will focus on the culture and process, only touching on the tools that enable us to work better. It is not a technical deep dive. This workshop is designed for executives and leaders, managers, project managers, and team leads to help them prepare for successful DevOps transformation and leadership.
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
Learn to effectively and efficiently explore, evaluate, and confirm a shared understanding of refined backlog items using Structured conversations with the 7 Product Dimensions so they are ready for implementation.
(Presented at Agile Day New York City September 2018)
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of Agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time for the right customer.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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]
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).
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
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.
[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.
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.
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
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Thoughts, reflections, and inspiration for the Agile community.
What Can Participative design do for you and what you can do for participativ...Patrizia Bertini
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The UX industry is evolving and so should evolve the tools and the approaches that allow professionals to deliver meaningful and valuable experiences.
Participative design has been around since the '70s - and the raise of a collaborative culture enhanced by technology are quickly changing the way users and customers engage and communicate with brands, organisations, and companies.
How and why companies should consider a participative approach?
[Presented at UX Crunch London, 29th September 2015]
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.
To survive in today’s market, organizations need to deliver higher quality, more secure software than ever before, and they need to do it faster. Today’s leaders need to understand what DevOps is all about and how to implement it across the enterprise to remain competitive, react to changing conditions, and facilitate growth. This interactive workshop will explain what DevOps is and isn’t, what benefits we should expect adopting it, and what we need to do to adjust to a DevOps mindset. We’ll look at our current delivery processes and discuss how we can deliver higher quality, more secure software, and how we can do it faster, more reliably, and have more confidence in the result. We will focus on the culture and process, only touching on the tools that enable us to work better. It is not a technical deep dive. This workshop is designed for executives and leaders, managers, project managers, and team leads to help them prepare for successful DevOps transformation and leadership.
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Digital Business Lab's social media experts have collected, consolidated, and interpreted the key facts of the Automotive industry on Social Media across Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Indonesia).
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Digital Business Lab's social media experts have collected, consolidated, and interpreted the key facts of the Automotive industry on Social Media across Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Indonesia).
Digital Business Lab's social media experts have collected, consolidated, and interpreted the key facts of the Automotive industry on Social Media across Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Indonesia).
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What does the shift away from project-thinking really look like?
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- Adopting a “customer-first” mindset
- Appointing a Product Value Stream Lead and a Product Manager
- Implementing the Flow Framework™ to align the language of IT with the language of the business
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Implementing New Technology: 5 Secrets to Maintaining Productivity and Profi...AppFolio
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Mobile apps presentation - Mobile App Development ServicesRosa Aguiar Catraio
Cynoteck Mobile App Development Services
Grow your business with custom mobile apps - get in touch with Cynoteck for cross-platform mobile app development.
Over the years, we have had exposure to multiple diverse industry clients, our client list includes Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft and JLL. We have maintained a healthy and successful relationship with our clients. In the past 10 years, we have experience of more than 100,000 man-hours on projects, having completed all our projects with over 90% Client Satisfaction and Approval ratings. Our major clients have been working with us for over 4 years and 3 out of every 5 new clients have worked with us on multiple projects. In fact, 70% of our projects have come as referrals through existing clients.
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Doing PRODUCTs in Large Organizations
- Empower people: Create stable teams
- Focus on value: Organizing around value
- Flow, …flow faster!: Product development flow
Habitualmente dentro del mundo Agile se identifican las "corrientes" de #noEstimates o #noProject como tendencias a futuro y que en algunos casos parecen irrealizables, sobre todo en grandes organizaciones.
En la mayoría de las transformaciones en las que trabajamos a día de hoy, ya sea a nivel nacional o a mundial, venimos aplicando #noProjects dentro nuestros procesos de transformación.
La ponencia consistiría en compartir experiencias y lecciones aprendidas cuando hemos trabajado para eliminar los proyectos en grandes empresas, poniendo el foco en las personas en lugar de los proyectos, y permitiendo tener equipos estables que crecen día a día gracias a este enfoque.
Aunque pueda parecer un concepto muy teórico, #noProject puede ser una realidad si se crean los mecanismos necesarios dentro de las compañías y se dota a los equipos de herramientas para ser productivos y predecibles a largo plazo.
Unai Roldán
UST Global
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“Over 40 percent of the companies surveyed still aren’t talking to their end users during development.”
It’s not “User Experience” without the user, but how do you get the user insights you need? How can you make sure you’re building a product that will resonate with your users? It all starts with user research: before, during, and after product development.
In this presentation, Product Managers will learn:
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- Pragmatic tips on how to conduct the most effective research.
- The Do’s and Don’ts of user research.
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All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
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What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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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/
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Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
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Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
2. Ellen Gottesdiener
Founder, CSM, CSPO, CPF
Ellen is an Product Coach and CEO of EBG, focused on helping 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 and using skilled
facilitation to enable healthy teamwork and strong organizations.
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)