This session was presented at the PMI Austin Development Day Conference in Sept 2014. We explore the difference between "Doing Agile" vs. "Being Agile." Establishing a learning culture is critical. Six problems are presented and solutions are shown which lead to the team's ability to deliver double the value in half the time.
Deliver Double the Value in Half the Time - PCA13 - PCATXDavid Hawks
64% of product features built in software development are rarely or never used. Too many teams focus on increasing the amount of output, as opposed to focusing on delivering the most value with the least amount of output. In this interactive presentation, David Hawks will share the key factors that sabotage product success and what to do about it. Learn practical tools and techniques that accelerate learning throughout the product development cycle to deliver double the value in half the time.
Presented at ProductCamp Austin 13 on August 2nd, 2014
David Hawks is a Certified Scrum Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer. David guides software organizations to deliver innovative products faster. David brings his broad experience working with Fortune 50 companies and early stage startups to challenge organizations to think differently about how they build products.
KAA: Deliver Double the Value in Half the TimeDavid Hawks
The document discusses six common traps that teams can fall into when working in an agile way. These traps are: making decisions too early and locking them in; not having a shared understanding of purpose; long or no feedback cycles; being overwhelmed by opportunities; not actually getting to a "done" state for features; and treating everything as equally important. It provides strategies for overcoming each trap, such as deferring decisions, using user story mapping, implementing lean startup and MVP approaches, focusing on highest value work, defining "done" rigorously, and prioritizing work.
Agile Austin - Deliver Double the Value in Half the TimeDavid Hawks
Learn practical techniques to guide your teams and escape the top 6 traps preventing organizations from realizing the full benefits of agile.
64% of product features built in software development are rarely or never used. Too many teams focus on increasing the amount of output. Not enough teams focus on delivering the most value with the least amount of output. In this interactive presentation, David Hawks will share the key factors that sabotage product success and what to do about it. Learn practical tools and techniques that accelerate learning throughout the product development cycle to deliver double the value in half the time.
Deliver double the value in half the timeDavid Hawks
The document discusses how to deliver double the value in half the time through agile principles and practices. It identifies common problems such as making decisions too early, long feedback cycles, lack of prioritization, and lack of focus. Solutions proposed include deferring decisions, frequent validation of work, limiting work in progress, focusing on completing work rather than starting new work, and prioritizing the backlog. Adopting these agile practices can help teams deliver 80% of value in 20% of the time.
The document is a presentation on overcoming six traps of Agile. It discusses making decisions too early and locking them in. It advocates deferring decisions to the last responsible moment to avoid this trap. It also discusses teams not having a shared understanding of their purpose and advocates shifting from a requirements delivery process to a requirements discovery process through techniques like user story mapping. The presentation provides examples of how to address these common Agile traps.
OHUB Kansas City Month 1 - September 2019 Dave Parker
This document provides an agenda and materials for a startup accelerator program called OHUB KC – Month 1. The agenda includes introductions, an overview of the instructor Dave Parker's background, discussions on venture-ready companies, storytelling, research, markets, co-founder discussions, and deliverables. The document outlines program outcomes, rules, and mechanics. It also includes templates for participant pitches and exercises on evaluating problems, markets, and potential reasons for startup failure. The goal of the program appears to be helping startups become venture-ready over the course of several months.
"Fitness for Purpose" - Resilience & Agility in Modern BusinessDavid Anderson
High technology businesses tend to focus on and reward innovation but to be “fit for purpose” in the eyes of customers, product and service innovation must be coupled with acceptable service delivery. Business resilience relies on a constant ability to sense shifts in customer demands and expectations, and to respond with new products, service and levels of service delivery. Evolutionary biology provides us with a model for adapting to changing conditions and evaluating fitness. This talk will look at how the Kanban Method enables evolutionary adaptability and how to define fitness criteria metrics to drive effective business performance.
Deliver Double the Value in Half the Time - PCA13 - PCATXDavid Hawks
64% of product features built in software development are rarely or never used. Too many teams focus on increasing the amount of output, as opposed to focusing on delivering the most value with the least amount of output. In this interactive presentation, David Hawks will share the key factors that sabotage product success and what to do about it. Learn practical tools and techniques that accelerate learning throughout the product development cycle to deliver double the value in half the time.
Presented at ProductCamp Austin 13 on August 2nd, 2014
David Hawks is a Certified Scrum Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer. David guides software organizations to deliver innovative products faster. David brings his broad experience working with Fortune 50 companies and early stage startups to challenge organizations to think differently about how they build products.
KAA: Deliver Double the Value in Half the TimeDavid Hawks
The document discusses six common traps that teams can fall into when working in an agile way. These traps are: making decisions too early and locking them in; not having a shared understanding of purpose; long or no feedback cycles; being overwhelmed by opportunities; not actually getting to a "done" state for features; and treating everything as equally important. It provides strategies for overcoming each trap, such as deferring decisions, using user story mapping, implementing lean startup and MVP approaches, focusing on highest value work, defining "done" rigorously, and prioritizing work.
Agile Austin - Deliver Double the Value in Half the TimeDavid Hawks
Learn practical techniques to guide your teams and escape the top 6 traps preventing organizations from realizing the full benefits of agile.
64% of product features built in software development are rarely or never used. Too many teams focus on increasing the amount of output. Not enough teams focus on delivering the most value with the least amount of output. In this interactive presentation, David Hawks will share the key factors that sabotage product success and what to do about it. Learn practical tools and techniques that accelerate learning throughout the product development cycle to deliver double the value in half the time.
Deliver double the value in half the timeDavid Hawks
The document discusses how to deliver double the value in half the time through agile principles and practices. It identifies common problems such as making decisions too early, long feedback cycles, lack of prioritization, and lack of focus. Solutions proposed include deferring decisions, frequent validation of work, limiting work in progress, focusing on completing work rather than starting new work, and prioritizing the backlog. Adopting these agile practices can help teams deliver 80% of value in 20% of the time.
The document is a presentation on overcoming six traps of Agile. It discusses making decisions too early and locking them in. It advocates deferring decisions to the last responsible moment to avoid this trap. It also discusses teams not having a shared understanding of their purpose and advocates shifting from a requirements delivery process to a requirements discovery process through techniques like user story mapping. The presentation provides examples of how to address these common Agile traps.
OHUB Kansas City Month 1 - September 2019 Dave Parker
This document provides an agenda and materials for a startup accelerator program called OHUB KC – Month 1. The agenda includes introductions, an overview of the instructor Dave Parker's background, discussions on venture-ready companies, storytelling, research, markets, co-founder discussions, and deliverables. The document outlines program outcomes, rules, and mechanics. It also includes templates for participant pitches and exercises on evaluating problems, markets, and potential reasons for startup failure. The goal of the program appears to be helping startups become venture-ready over the course of several months.
"Fitness for Purpose" - Resilience & Agility in Modern BusinessDavid Anderson
High technology businesses tend to focus on and reward innovation but to be “fit for purpose” in the eyes of customers, product and service innovation must be coupled with acceptable service delivery. Business resilience relies on a constant ability to sense shifts in customer demands and expectations, and to respond with new products, service and levels of service delivery. Evolutionary biology provides us with a model for adapting to changing conditions and evaluating fitness. This talk will look at how the Kanban Method enables evolutionary adaptability and how to define fitness criteria metrics to drive effective business performance.
The document discusses assumptions and challenges around adopting Agile practices in marketing and digital agencies. It explores different roles such as a TPM, Scrum Master, or certified practitioner and how they might work with and influence clients to embrace Agile. It also addresses potential barriers to change and emphasizes the importance of understanding the context, identifying requirements, and driving fearless change when seeking to adopt Agile ways of working.
Recruiting and Managing a Startup Board Flat6 FinTechDave Parker
This document discusses best practices for recruiting and managing a board of directors. It recommends flipping the traditional board meeting model to focus on one major topic the CEO needs help with. The goal of boards is to support the CEO and company by providing experience, finding blind spots, and acting as a coach and therapist. Effective board recruitment focuses on filling gaps in experience and expertise. Meetings should have prepared agendas, discussions, and action items documented in minutes.
I discuss my experiences at dxw making the agile process work for us and our clients. The lessons we learned, and how created a stable agile approach to design and development.
So much best practice advice and examples of successful agile in practice are geared towards product teams. When you’re actually working on the front lines with a client who has the drive to do things right, but is still limited by their timescale and budget, how can you make agile work?
Originally presented at NorDevCon 2015
Enterprise Services Planning: Defining Key Performance IndicatorsDavid Anderson
Defining KPIs for use in Enterprise Services Planning and with Kanban systems. Understanding the difference between KPIs, Improvement Guides, and General Health Indicators. Understanding how KPIs drive behavior such as establishing multiple classes of service. Relating KPIs to evolutionary change. KPIs are Fitness Criteria Metrics with defined threashold values
The document discusses tools and best practices for designing, building, testing, and launching Alexa skills. It covers principles of voice design such as being adaptable, contextual, and having a flat menu structure. It also discusses the Alexa Skill Management API, command line interface, testing skills with users, and using analytics to optimize skills.
Enterprise Services Planning - Effective Middle ManagementDavid Anderson
This may be the first time, I really explained Enterprise Services Planning (ESP) effectively. Many people in the audience seemed to understand for the first time.
ROTR/OHUB Program
Intro
Telling Your Story in 11/13 Slides
Research & Competitive Analysis
Markets
Value Propositions
Customer Development Data
Awkward Co-Founder Discussions
Ideation Master Class Dec. 2020 ROTR/OHUB Dave Parker
This document provides an overview and agenda for Dave Parker's Ideation Master Class. The class will help participants score their startup ideas, explore why they are pursuing their idea, learn about design thinking and 11 ideation frameworks. It will also cover target markets, the LeanStack canvas business model, and pitching ideas. The agenda includes exercises for participants to write their motivation, track ideas, and outline pitches. Resources on creativity, innovation and design thinking are also listed.
How Startup Make Money –
Marketing
Sales
Business Development
14 Revenue Models
Pricing and Metrics that Matter
Go-to-Market
Traction and Product / Market Fit
Pitch Reviews
When you look out into your lobby, we bet a lot of people are looking down at their smartphones or tablets. We live in a world where internet access is at our fingertips wherever we go and making sure that your website performs well on all different types of devices is becoming standard. Don’t fall behind the times with a website that isn’t responsive! Lyles shares the benefits and importance of a responsive website design and how it helps with your conversions compared to other mobile options.
Trajectory Startup Program Session One (Jordan Sept 2021)Dave Parker
Intro
Telling Your Story in 10/12 Slides
Research & Competitive Analysis
Markets
Value Propositions
Customer Development Data
Awkward Co-Founder Discussions
How to overcome the 6 traps of Agile - DFW Scrum PresentationAgile Velocity
There are a lot of features that are rarely or never used. What causes that? From locking in tough decisions too early to drowning in a sea of opportunity, learn the 6 traps of Agile and how to avoid them.
The document discusses overcoming six traps of agile development. It begins by discussing the trap of making decisions too early and locking them in. The document advocates deferring decisions to the last responsible moment to avoid this trap. It then discusses the trap of teams not having a shared understanding of their purpose. The document proposes shifting from a requirements delivery process to a requirements discovery process to address this trap. It provides an example of using user story mapping to help teams better understand customer needs.
Agile Velocity - Deliver double the value in half the timeDavid Hawks
Learn practical techniques to guide your teams and escape the top 6 traps preventing organizations from realizing the full benefits of agile.
64% of product features built in software development are rarely or never used. Too many teams focus on increasing the amount of output. Not enough teams focus on delivering the most value with the least amount of output. In this interactive presentation, David Hawks will share the key factors that sabotage product success and what to do about it. Learn practical tools and techniques that accelerate learning throughout the product development cycle to deliver double the value in half the time.
The document discusses next level agility and how organizations can achieve it. It outlines five stages of agility maturity from superficial to fast. Next level agility provides benefits like faster time to value, organizational agility, and quicker validation of ideas. Six practices are presented to help organizations level up: serving customers over stakeholders, using hypotheses over requirements, objective decision making, goal-driven investment, continuous release, and measuring value over velocity. The document concludes by matching each practice to the values it impacts most.
This document introduces the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as an approach for applying Agile and Lean principles at an enterprise scale. It discusses how traditional development methods are not keeping pace with increasing software complexity. SAFe is presented as a proven framework that harnesses the power of Agile for large software enterprises through elements like Agile teams, program execution, alignment, code quality, and scaling practices up to the portfolio level. The document advocates for SAFe's ability to accelerate value delivery, make money faster, deliver better customer fit, and reduce risk through approaches like continuous delivery, cadenced development, and synchronizing teams.
Will Agile work in my embedded development environment?bmyllerup
Agile approaches like Scrum is designed for software development, but will it also work when we add electronics development and mechanical construction to the practices? Come and get insights from the experiences of a Certified Scrum Trainer who actually did the work himself. You will learn about how to setup teams that have the combined skill-set of software, electronics and mechanical engineers...
Techniques for Effectively Slicing User Stories by Naresh JainNaresh Jain
In order to achieve my goals, as a buyer of your product, I want awesome feature. AT: make sure your users stories don't get in the way.
Users Stories, the tool teams use to break big ideas into small demonstrable deliverable, are easy to describe and challenging to write effectively. In this hands-on workshop you'll learn how to write great user stories and acceptance criteria, that everyone on the team understands. We'll learn various techniques to slice your stories using the tracer-bullet approach. We will discuss what elements should be included in the stories, what criteria you should keep in mind while slicing stories; why the size of your user story is important and how to make them smaller and efficient.
Agenda:
What do you do to Large Stories? Spike, Split, Stub & Timebox (SSST) technique.
Core Slicing Techniques:
1. System Slice
1.a. Static vs. Dynamic
1.b. Real-time vs. Batch Processing
1.c. Build vs. Buy
1.d. Automated vs. Manual Steps
1.e. Defer certain roles
2. Behavioural Slice
2.a. Adjusting Sophistication - MVF (Minimum Viable Feature) or Walking Skeleton
2.a.1. Acceptance Criteria
2.b. By-pass certain steps in the workflow
2.c. Focus on Happy Path First (edge cases later)
2.d. No options - 1 option - Many options
3. Incrementally improve ‘Ilities' (Usability, Scalability, Reliability, etc.)
3.a. Simpler UI (even consider using a standard UI)
3.b. Minmal Data
3.c. Improve Performance Iteratively
The document discusses assumptions and challenges around adopting Agile practices in marketing and digital agencies. It explores different roles such as a TPM, Scrum Master, or certified practitioner and how they might work with and influence clients to embrace Agile. It also addresses potential barriers to change and emphasizes the importance of understanding the context, identifying requirements, and driving fearless change when seeking to adopt Agile ways of working.
Recruiting and Managing a Startup Board Flat6 FinTechDave Parker
This document discusses best practices for recruiting and managing a board of directors. It recommends flipping the traditional board meeting model to focus on one major topic the CEO needs help with. The goal of boards is to support the CEO and company by providing experience, finding blind spots, and acting as a coach and therapist. Effective board recruitment focuses on filling gaps in experience and expertise. Meetings should have prepared agendas, discussions, and action items documented in minutes.
I discuss my experiences at dxw making the agile process work for us and our clients. The lessons we learned, and how created a stable agile approach to design and development.
So much best practice advice and examples of successful agile in practice are geared towards product teams. When you’re actually working on the front lines with a client who has the drive to do things right, but is still limited by their timescale and budget, how can you make agile work?
Originally presented at NorDevCon 2015
Enterprise Services Planning: Defining Key Performance IndicatorsDavid Anderson
Defining KPIs for use in Enterprise Services Planning and with Kanban systems. Understanding the difference between KPIs, Improvement Guides, and General Health Indicators. Understanding how KPIs drive behavior such as establishing multiple classes of service. Relating KPIs to evolutionary change. KPIs are Fitness Criteria Metrics with defined threashold values
The document discusses tools and best practices for designing, building, testing, and launching Alexa skills. It covers principles of voice design such as being adaptable, contextual, and having a flat menu structure. It also discusses the Alexa Skill Management API, command line interface, testing skills with users, and using analytics to optimize skills.
Enterprise Services Planning - Effective Middle ManagementDavid Anderson
This may be the first time, I really explained Enterprise Services Planning (ESP) effectively. Many people in the audience seemed to understand for the first time.
ROTR/OHUB Program
Intro
Telling Your Story in 11/13 Slides
Research & Competitive Analysis
Markets
Value Propositions
Customer Development Data
Awkward Co-Founder Discussions
Ideation Master Class Dec. 2020 ROTR/OHUB Dave Parker
This document provides an overview and agenda for Dave Parker's Ideation Master Class. The class will help participants score their startup ideas, explore why they are pursuing their idea, learn about design thinking and 11 ideation frameworks. It will also cover target markets, the LeanStack canvas business model, and pitching ideas. The agenda includes exercises for participants to write their motivation, track ideas, and outline pitches. Resources on creativity, innovation and design thinking are also listed.
How Startup Make Money –
Marketing
Sales
Business Development
14 Revenue Models
Pricing and Metrics that Matter
Go-to-Market
Traction and Product / Market Fit
Pitch Reviews
When you look out into your lobby, we bet a lot of people are looking down at their smartphones or tablets. We live in a world where internet access is at our fingertips wherever we go and making sure that your website performs well on all different types of devices is becoming standard. Don’t fall behind the times with a website that isn’t responsive! Lyles shares the benefits and importance of a responsive website design and how it helps with your conversions compared to other mobile options.
Trajectory Startup Program Session One (Jordan Sept 2021)Dave Parker
Intro
Telling Your Story in 10/12 Slides
Research & Competitive Analysis
Markets
Value Propositions
Customer Development Data
Awkward Co-Founder Discussions
How to overcome the 6 traps of Agile - DFW Scrum PresentationAgile Velocity
There are a lot of features that are rarely or never used. What causes that? From locking in tough decisions too early to drowning in a sea of opportunity, learn the 6 traps of Agile and how to avoid them.
The document discusses overcoming six traps of agile development. It begins by discussing the trap of making decisions too early and locking them in. The document advocates deferring decisions to the last responsible moment to avoid this trap. It then discusses the trap of teams not having a shared understanding of their purpose. The document proposes shifting from a requirements delivery process to a requirements discovery process to address this trap. It provides an example of using user story mapping to help teams better understand customer needs.
Agile Velocity - Deliver double the value in half the timeDavid Hawks
Learn practical techniques to guide your teams and escape the top 6 traps preventing organizations from realizing the full benefits of agile.
64% of product features built in software development are rarely or never used. Too many teams focus on increasing the amount of output. Not enough teams focus on delivering the most value with the least amount of output. In this interactive presentation, David Hawks will share the key factors that sabotage product success and what to do about it. Learn practical tools and techniques that accelerate learning throughout the product development cycle to deliver double the value in half the time.
The document discusses next level agility and how organizations can achieve it. It outlines five stages of agility maturity from superficial to fast. Next level agility provides benefits like faster time to value, organizational agility, and quicker validation of ideas. Six practices are presented to help organizations level up: serving customers over stakeholders, using hypotheses over requirements, objective decision making, goal-driven investment, continuous release, and measuring value over velocity. The document concludes by matching each practice to the values it impacts most.
This document introduces the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as an approach for applying Agile and Lean principles at an enterprise scale. It discusses how traditional development methods are not keeping pace with increasing software complexity. SAFe is presented as a proven framework that harnesses the power of Agile for large software enterprises through elements like Agile teams, program execution, alignment, code quality, and scaling practices up to the portfolio level. The document advocates for SAFe's ability to accelerate value delivery, make money faster, deliver better customer fit, and reduce risk through approaches like continuous delivery, cadenced development, and synchronizing teams.
Will Agile work in my embedded development environment?bmyllerup
Agile approaches like Scrum is designed for software development, but will it also work when we add electronics development and mechanical construction to the practices? Come and get insights from the experiences of a Certified Scrum Trainer who actually did the work himself. You will learn about how to setup teams that have the combined skill-set of software, electronics and mechanical engineers...
Techniques for Effectively Slicing User Stories by Naresh JainNaresh Jain
In order to achieve my goals, as a buyer of your product, I want awesome feature. AT: make sure your users stories don't get in the way.
Users Stories, the tool teams use to break big ideas into small demonstrable deliverable, are easy to describe and challenging to write effectively. In this hands-on workshop you'll learn how to write great user stories and acceptance criteria, that everyone on the team understands. We'll learn various techniques to slice your stories using the tracer-bullet approach. We will discuss what elements should be included in the stories, what criteria you should keep in mind while slicing stories; why the size of your user story is important and how to make them smaller and efficient.
Agenda:
What do you do to Large Stories? Spike, Split, Stub & Timebox (SSST) technique.
Core Slicing Techniques:
1. System Slice
1.a. Static vs. Dynamic
1.b. Real-time vs. Batch Processing
1.c. Build vs. Buy
1.d. Automated vs. Manual Steps
1.e. Defer certain roles
2. Behavioural Slice
2.a. Adjusting Sophistication - MVF (Minimum Viable Feature) or Walking Skeleton
2.a.1. Acceptance Criteria
2.b. By-pass certain steps in the workflow
2.c. Focus on Happy Path First (edge cases later)
2.d. No options - 1 option - Many options
3. Incrementally improve ‘Ilities' (Usability, Scalability, Reliability, etc.)
3.a. Simpler UI (even consider using a standard UI)
3.b. Minmal Data
3.c. Improve Performance Iteratively
Be Agile Scale Up Stay Lean for AgileNCR India April 4, 2014Colin O'Neill
The document provides an overview of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for applying Lean and Agile practices at an enterprise scale. It discusses how SAFe addresses the need for new approaches to software development that can scale for large organizations. SAFe is based on Lean principles and emphasizes continuous delivery through Agile teams and release trains, alignment across teams and programs, and transparency. Implementing SAFe through practices like these can help organizations accelerate delivery, increase productivity, and improve software quality.
PCA14: Accelerate Learning and Overcome the 6 Traps of AgileDavid Hawks
The document discusses 6 common traps that teams fall into when working in an agile way. These traps are: 1) making decisions too early and locking them in, 2) not having a shared understanding of purpose, 3) long feedback cycles with no validation, 4) being overwhelmed by opportunities, 5) not getting work fully completed ("done"), and 6) treating all work as equally important. For each trap, the document provides examples and proposes solutions like deferring decisions, using user story mapping, employing lean startup principles, limiting work in progress, focusing on completion over features, and prioritizing work. The overall message is that teams need to accelerate learning, deliver value faster, and avoid these traps in order to be
060514 Camp IT: Leveraging & Transforming Big Data: What Every IT Leader Nee...Jim Vaselopulos
This presentation will make you think very differently about Big Data. It is important to focus on how information consumed and processed more than the tools that IT vendors want you to use. It is also important to utilize "split times" to help the provide the business what it craves but can not articulate - wisdom.
Agile Testing is nonsense, because Agile is about testing!Andrea Tomasini
Testing is an attitude which brings us to trust results based on the fact that we can validate them. Testing is an approach which allows us to think about how to verify we did the right thing even before starting. Testing is a practice which allows us to write effective tests that can be repeated indefinitely while systematically producing consistent results.
Agile is built around the idea of managing complex projects, recognizing the importance of emerging results and verifying in a very disciplined way the assumptions and hypothesis we make as often and as thoroughly as possible. This means testing everything we do, every day ... So if you are truly Agile, you are living testing in every second of your life!
Next Level Agile - David Hawks - Keep Austin Agile 2018Agile Velocity
Today most Agile teams are trying to achieve predictable, fast delivery. While that’s good, it’s no longer good enough—not if we want to keep up in this highly competitive, rapidly changing world. It’s not just about teams anymore. Next Level Agility is about the ability of entire organizations to quickly adapt to market changes.
In his Keep Austin Agile 2018 session, David Hawks shared principles and practices that are the future of Agile organizations. Together, he and the audience reset the bar on how great Agile organizations operate by moving beyond practices like user stories, project plans, stakeholder feedback, continuous integration, and velocity, and towards a new Next Level Agile Manifesto with an emphasis on Discovery over Execution.
Learn to identify organizational impediments keeping you from breaking through to the next level. Attendees walked away from this session with concrete practices needed in order to support this new way of working.
Seven Deadly Habits of Ineffective Software ManagersTechWell
As if releasing a quality software project on time were not difficult enough, poor management of planning, people, and process issues can be deadly to a project. Presenting a series of anti-pattern case studies, Ken Whitaker describes the most common deadly habits—along with ways to avoid them. These seven killer habits include mishandling employee incentives; making key decisions by consensus; ignoring proven processes; delegating absolute control to a project manager; taking too long to negotiate a project’s scope; releasing an “almost tested” product to market; and hiring someone who is not quite qualified—but liked by everyone. Whether you are an experienced manager struggling with some of these issues or a new software manager, take away invaluable tips and techniques for correcting these habits—or better yet, for avoiding them altogether. As a bonus, every delegate receives a copy of Ken’s full-color Seven Deadly Habits comic.
Accelerating breakthrough business technologies in atlanta, tag featured spea...Melanie Brandt
The document discusses emerging technologies including the internet of things, augmented reality, bitcoin, and autonomous systems. It presents examples of applications in transportation like traffic analytics from video cameras, healthcare like non-contact patient monitoring, and payments through accepting bitcoin. The document argues we are entering a fifth wave of technology driven by intelligent systems and autonomous agents that can plan, observe, and execute actions through continuous monitoring and updating of plans.
Good agile / Bad agile: Proving the value of Agile to a skeptical organizationAlan Albert
Is Agile worth it?
What value can being Agile bring to your organization?
Done right, Agile software development methodologies can help your organization deliver greater value to customers and other stakeholders more efficiently and with reduced risk.
Done wrong, Agile methodologies become an endlessly iterating feature factory, facing an ever-growing backlog.
In this interactive session, attendees discussed:
- How to identify what’s most valuable to build next
- How to ensure that the features you build are not just functional, but used and valued
- How to measure and effectively communicate the value that you create
Led by Alan Albert of MarketFit, this session at Agile Vancouver explored theory, examples, and exercises showing how to unlock the power of discovering, creating, and communicating value.
Efficient Big Data Solutions: How to Maximize Results with Less Effort and Lo...Jim Vaselopulos
This document contains the agenda and slides from a presentation on big data. The presentation covers topics such as the complexities of terabyte storage, storage area networks, ultra-fast networking requirements, data warehouse basics, analytics tool recommendations, ad-hoc reporting, and back-up strategies. It emphasizes focusing on information consumption rather than production and improving the relationship between business and IT. The document stresses the importance of context, business processes, split times, and using data to make in-race adjustments to improve results.
The document describes The PM Success Formula, which provides practical guidance to help project managers successfully deliver projects, accelerate their careers, and increase their earnings. It teaches how to adopt the mindset of top-performing PMs through a seven-day program and focuses on getting work done through others to meet requirements on time and budget and provide a positive customer experience.
From a Product Vision to a running software... and back again, and agile coac...Andrea Tomasini
Eliciting Requirements and breaking them down into actionable tasks is a challenge that requires both creativity and a systematic and analytical approach. Applying agility to Requirement Engineering, means much more than focusing on full bandwidth communication instead of documentation... Discovering a more empirical approach to Requirement Engineering - an approach that allows you to focus systematically on what needs to be done, as well as allowing creative tension to emerge and find the simplest and more concrete solutions for your Requirements engineering
Agile Embedded Software Development, what's wrong with it?Andrea Tomasini
We are in 2014 and still someone is challenging the fact that you can't use an Agile approach to develop embedded systems, why? What's wrong with embedded software development? Well, there are somethings which makes it harder than needed: Dependencies with hardware releases, fixed delivery dates, inadequate software tools, limited adaptation possibility due to hardware costs... and yes, one more thing, really special: culture!
We would like to focus this keynote in analyzing some example cases that include the “limitations” listed above and also give you some hints on how to solve them. Finally we will also attack the “culture” issue. This is especially important for companies which grew out of hardware development and do not have a solid culture that include software, and therefore are stuck with waterfall development process and a traditional view on professional barriers for their employees. These companies are usually the ones not understanding that the complexity for years gone away from pure hardware, and landed in integrated product development. Without more focus in increasing quality of the process and the techniques to build - especially mission critical - functionality, the cost of failure are going to be very high, as the amount of bugs exposed to the users will rise and the competition sharpens at the same time.
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The document discusses problems organizations face and solutions to increase engagement and agility. It addresses three main problems: focusing only on output, a changed workforce, and lack of engagement. To solve these, the document recommends self-organizing teams with autonomy, servant leadership, daily huddles and visual boards for collaboration, and regular retrospectives. This allows teams to prioritize work in a backlog and finish projects through user stories.
The document discusses 10 common pitfalls that can occur during an agile transformation. The first pitfall is thinking agile is just a process change rather than a cultural shift. Other pitfalls include providing no guidance during the transformation, leadership not being properly aligned, transparency being abused, and organizational culture remaining misaligned after the transition to agile. The document stresses the importance of establishing a continuous improvement culture, aligning teams to products and customers, and gaining organizational alignment across the entire company for a successful agile transformation.
The document discusses problems with leadership and engagement in the modern workforce. It proposes that self-organizing teams with servant leaders who support rather than dictate can lead to better outcomes and engagement. Regular retrospectives, visibility of work, and team prioritization of backlogs can help with collaboration, alignment and finishing work to satisfy stakeholders through shortened feedback loops. The key is balancing servant leadership, team ownership and visibility to drive engagement, innovation and improvement.
Agile velocity - Requirements Discovery Presentation David Hawks
1. The document discusses challenges with user stories and provides strategies for splitting stories into smaller pieces.
2. It then covers how agile practices like Scrum can help with execution and testing, while lean startup practices aid discovery and learning from customers.
3. The key message is that teams should seek to shorten the learning cycle by treating requirements as hypotheses and getting customer feedback quickly through methods like paper prototyping and explainer videos.
Would you like to be able to increase the adoption rate of your product? In this session, we will introduce you to cutting edge concepts and techniques to shift your product development process from output to outcome driven. We will combine elements of Lean Startup, Product Discovery, and Experiment Driven Development to accelerate learning to quickly build products customer love.
In this interactive workshop, David Hawks will share best practices for writing user stories, acceptance criteria, the INVEST approach, and breaking down user stories. Using these approaches you will be able to effectively convey your vision to the development team so they can output what you want.
This document outlines an agenda for a session on the role of coaching and building trust within teams. The agenda includes: defining coaching; aligning teams around goals and values; building trust; and creating an action plan. It discusses tools for coaching, common team dysfunctions, and conducting an exercise to assess team trust. Methods are presented for improving trust through sharing experiences, open communication, and establishing team values. The document provides guidance and exercises for teams to identify their core and aspirational values, as well as intrinsic motivators. It emphasizes taking action to demonstrate that values matter in building an aligned, high-trust team.
PCA14: Intro to agile for product managersDavid Hawks
This document provides an introduction to agile development for product managers. It discusses some key differences between traditional waterfall development and empirical agile processes. The document also outlines the scrum process, including product owner responsibilities like maintaining the product backlog and collaborating with stakeholders. It emphasizes that working software is the primary measure of progress in agile.
KAA How to get your Good agile teams to GreatDavid Hawks
The document provides tips for getting an agile team from good to great by focusing on outcomes over outputs, allocating time to incremental improvements to reduce technical debt, and limiting work in progress to focus on finishing projects instead of starting new ones in order to deliver value earlier. The presentation also discusses building trust, handling conflicts constructively, establishing team values and policies, and developing team members' breadth and depth of skills.
In this session you will learn what is Agile and how it compares to traditional waterfall development. We will also explore the advantages of Agile for increasing visibility and shortening the feedback loop. Then we will introduce you to Scrum, the most popular agile process improvement framework. We will finish with a description of the Product Owner role and its involvement in Scrum.
David Hawks is a Certified Scrum Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer. He founded Agile Velocity when he noticed companies ineffectively building innovative software products. David brings his broad experience working with Fortune 50 companies and early stage startups to challenge organizations to think differently about how they build software.
How to Keep Going Fast - Agile Velocity - Product Camp AustinDavid Hawks
Features often get delivered quickly on new software projects and slow to an exponentially slower pace over time. Teams are usually on their own to discover, implement, and even get buy-in for improving the technical capability to deliver. In this session we'll discuss how technical debt accrues and impacts the flow of features over time as well as how Product Owners can encourage and support teams to improve. We will run a simulation of a software project that demonstrates the impact of employing technical practices and addressing other technical debt.
Agile Velocity Story Mapping Session from Product Camp Austin 11 #PCATXDavid Hawks
User Story Mapping is a technique for organizing and prioritizing user stories. It addresses challenges with traditional backlogs by providing context and showing relationships between stories. The process shifts from requirements delivery to requirements discovery, recognizing that customers discover wants and developers discover solutions as things change. User story mapping decomposes user tasks into smaller tasks and organizes them into activities to form user stories. It is collaborative and fosters co-ownership by helping understand the user perspective and test for gaps by walking through the map.
The document discusses how focusing on finishing work rather than starting new work can improve productivity. It notes that many companies are "drowning in a sea of opportunity" by taking on too much work at once and not completing anything. The document advocates for limiting work in progress to improve flow and focus, balancing demand with throughput, and delivering work frequently to build trust. It provides examples of how multi-tasking reduces efficiency compared to focusing on one task at a time.
The document discusses how companies can improve their technology development processes through adopting Agile and Lean principles. It argues that companies often try to maximize utilization and multi-tasking, which causes waste and slows everything down. Better approaches include focusing on one task at a time to improve flow, limiting work in progress to identify bottlenecks, and balancing demand with throughput. Implementing Kanban techniques like visualizing work and imposing work-in-progress limits can help achieve more efficient flow and frequent delivery of value.
The document discusses how focusing on improving throughput and limiting work in progress can help organizations finish work more quickly. It suggests that companies should balance demand against throughput by throttling input into the system. This will expose bottlenecks and enable the team to try improvements to optimize the whole process and achieve level flow. A Kanban board can be used to visualize and limit work in progress.
Building API data products on top of your real-time data infrastructureconfluent
This talk and live demonstration will examine how Confluent and Gravitee.io integrate to unlock value from streaming data through API products.
You will learn how data owners and API providers can document, secure data products on top of Confluent brokers, including schema validation, topic routing and message filtering.
You will also see how data and API consumers can discover and subscribe to products in a developer portal, as well as how they can integrate with Confluent topics through protocols like REST, Websockets, Server-sent Events and Webhooks.
Whether you want to monetize your real-time data, enable new integrations with partners, or provide self-service access to topics through various protocols, this webinar is for you!
Just like life, our code must adapt to the ever changing world we live in. From one day coding for the web, to the next for our tablets or APIs or for running serverless applications. Multi-runtime development is the future of coding, the future is to be dynamic. Let us introduce you to BoxLang.
European Standard S1000D, an Unnecessary Expense to OEM.pptxDigital Teacher
This discusses the costly implementation of the S1000D standard for technical documentation in the Indian defense sector, claiming that it does not increase interoperability. It calls for a return to the more cost-effective JSG 0852 standard, with shipbuilding companies handling IETM conversion to better serve military demands and maintain paperwork from diverse OEMs.
Hands-on with Apache Druid: Installation & Data Ingestion StepsservicesNitor
Supercharge your analytics workflow with https://bityl.co/Qcuk Apache Druid's real-time capabilities and seamless Kafka integration. Learn about it in just 14 steps.
Stork Product Overview: An AI-Powered Autonomous Delivery FleetVince Scalabrino
Imagine a world where instead of blue and brown trucks dropping parcels on our porches, a buzzing drove of drones delivered our goods. Now imagine those drones are controlled by 3 purpose-built AI designed to ensure all packages were delivered as quickly and as economically as possible That's what Stork is all about.
Streamlining End-to-End Testing Automation with Azure DevOps Build & Release Pipelines
Automating end-to-end (e2e) test for Android and iOS native apps, and web apps, within Azure build and release pipelines, poses several challenges. This session dives into the key challenges and the repeatable solutions implemented across multiple teams at a leading Indian telecom disruptor, renowned for its affordable 4G/5G services, digital platforms, and broadband connectivity.
Challenge #1. Ensuring Test Environment Consistency: Establishing a standardized test execution environment across hundreds of Azure DevOps agents is crucial for achieving dependable testing results. This uniformity must seamlessly span from Build pipelines to various stages of the Release pipeline.
Challenge #2. Coordinated Test Execution Across Environments: Executing distinct subsets of tests using the same automation framework across diverse environments, such as the build pipeline and specific stages of the Release Pipeline, demands flexible and cohesive approaches.
Challenge #3. Testing on Linux-based Azure DevOps Agents: Conducting tests, particularly for web and native apps, on Azure DevOps Linux agents lacking browser or device connectivity presents specific challenges in attaining thorough testing coverage.
This session delves into how these challenges were addressed through:
1. Automate the setup of essential dependencies to ensure a consistent testing environment.
2. Create standardized templates for executing API tests, API workflow tests, and end-to-end tests in the Build pipeline, streamlining the testing process.
3. Implement task groups in Release pipeline stages to facilitate the execution of tests, ensuring consistency and efficiency across deployment phases.
4. Deploy browsers within Docker containers for web application testing, enhancing portability and scalability of testing environments.
5. Leverage diverse device farms dedicated to Android, iOS, and browser testing to cover a wide range of platforms and devices.
6. Integrate AI technology, such as Applitools Visual AI and Ultrafast Grid, to automate test execution and validation, improving accuracy and efficiency.
7. Utilize AI/ML-powered central test automation reporting server through platforms like reportportal.io, providing consolidated and real-time insights into test performance and issues.
These solutions not only facilitate comprehensive testing across platforms but also promote the principles of shift-left testing, enabling early feedback, implementing quality gates, and ensuring repeatability. By adopting these techniques, teams can effectively automate and execute tests, accelerating software delivery while upholding high-quality standards across Android, iOS, and web applications.
About 10 years after the original proposal, EventStorming is now a mature tool with a variety of formats and purposes.
While the question "can it work remotely?" is still in the air, the answer may not be that obvious.
This talk can be a mature entry point to EventStorming, in the post-pandemic years.
Folding Cheat Sheet #6 - sixth in a seriesPhilip Schwarz
Left and right folds and tail recursion.
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Strengthening Web Development with CommandBox 6: Seamless Transition and Scal...Ortus Solutions, Corp
Join us for a session exploring CommandBox 6’s smooth website transition and efficient deployment. CommandBox revolutionizes web development, simplifying tasks across Linux, Windows, and Mac platforms. Gain insights and practical tips to enhance your development workflow.
Come join us for an enlightening session where we delve into the smooth transition of current websites and the efficient deployment of new ones using CommandBox 6. CommandBox has revolutionized web development, consistently introducing user-friendly enhancements that catalyze progress in the field. During this presentation, we’ll explore CommandBox’s rich history and showcase its unmatched capabilities within the realm of ColdFusion, covering both major variations.
The journey of CommandBox has been one of continuous innovation, constantly pushing boundaries to simplify and optimize development processes. Regardless of whether you’re working on Linux, Windows, or Mac platforms, CommandBox empowers developers to streamline tasks with unparalleled ease.
In our session, we’ll illustrate the simple process of transitioning existing websites to CommandBox 6, highlighting its intuitive features and seamless integration. Moreover, we’ll unveil the potential for effortlessly deploying multiple websites, demonstrating CommandBox’s versatility and adaptability.
Join us on this journey through the evolution of web development, guided by the transformative power of CommandBox 6. Gain invaluable insights, practical tips, and firsthand experiences that will enhance your development workflow and embolden your projects.
Digital Marketing Introduction and ConclusionStaff AgentAI
Digital marketing encompasses all marketing efforts that utilize electronic devices or the internet. It includes various strategies and channels to connect with prospective customers online and influence their decisions. Key components of digital marketing include.
Refactoring legacy systems using events commands and bubble contexts
Deliver Double the Value in Half the Time
1. Being Agile vs Doing Agile
!
Deliver Double the Value in Half
the Time
David Hawks
@austinagile
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2. Please fill out card as follows & bring to front
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!
!!
David Hawks
Agile Velocity
!
Agile Coach
david@agilevelocity.com
Name
Role
Years of Agile
Experience
(if any)
Company
10 yrs
Email Address
(If you would like to receive periodic information about agile)
3. David Hawks
CEO of Agile Velocity
Agile Trainer and Coach
Agile Austin Board Member
(Education Chair)
@austinagile
austinagile.com (blog)
Deliver Innovative Products Faster
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4. What is Agile?
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5. Doing Agile
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6. Being Agile
1. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable
software.
2. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the
customer's competitive advantage.
3. Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference
to the shorter timescale.
4. Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
5. Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and
trust them to get the job done.
6. The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team
is face-to-face conversation.
7. Working software is the primary measure of progress.
8. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to
maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
9. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
10. Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.
11. The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
12. At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its
behavior accordingly.
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7. You are not Agile unless you are Learning
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8. Agile is about Learning
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9. Team learns…
Scope
!
PO learns…
Cost
Agile is about Learning
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10. Team learns…
How to implement,
Knowledge transfer
!
PO learns…
Team Commitment
Team learns…
Scope
!
PO learns…
Cost
Agile is about Learning
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11. Team learns…
Progress,
Risks,
Daily Plan
Team learns…
How to implement,
Knowledge transfer
!
PO learns…
Team Commitment
Team learns…
Scope
!
PO learns…
Cost
Agile is about Learning
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12. Stakeholders learn…
Implementation progress
!
PO/Team learn…
Feedback
Team learns…
Progress,
Risks,
Daily Plan
Team learns…
How to implement,
Knowledge transfer
!
PO learns…
Team Commitment
Team learns…
Scope
!
PO learns…
Cost
Agile is about Learning
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13. Stakeholders learn…
Implementation progress
!
PO/Team learn…
Feedback
Team learns…
How to be better
Team learns…
Progress,
Risks,
Daily Plan
Team learns…
How to implement,
Knowledge transfer
!
PO learns…
Team Commitment
Team learns…
Scope
!
PO learns…
Cost
Agile is about Learning
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14. Let’s assume we can get
100% of the value in
100% of the time today.
1V = 1T
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15. Let’s assume we can get
100% of the value in
100% of the time today.
1V = 1T
By learning can we get
Double the Value in
Half the Time?
2V = .5T
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16. Feature/function usage in the software industry
45%$
19%$
13%$
16%$
7%$
Never$
Rarely$
Some5mes$
O8en$
Always$
What causes us to build features
which are rarely or never used?
From: A Standish Group study
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17. Problem #1
We make tough decisions
too early and lock them in
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18. Defer Decisions to the
last Responsible Moment
x
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19. Defer Decisions to the
last Responsible Moment
x
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20. Defer Decisions to the
last Responsible Moment
x
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21. Defer Decisions to the
last Responsible Moment
x
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22. Defer Decisions to the
last Responsible Moment
x
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23. Defer Decisions to the
last Responsible Moment
x
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24. Defer Decisions to the
last Responsible Moment
x
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25. Defer Decisions to the
last Responsible Moment
x
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26. Defer Decisions to the
last Responsible Moment
x
z
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27. Defer Decisions to the
last Responsible Moment
Smartest Point??
x
z
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28. Defer Decisions to the
last Responsible Moment
SDmuamrtbeesstt PPooiinntt??
x
z
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29. Defer Decisions to the
last Responsible Moment
SDmuamrtbeesstt PPooiinntt??
x
z
Accelerate Learning
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30. Problem #2
The team doesn’t have a Shared
Understanding of their purpose
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31. We want to Shift the Process from a Requirements Delivery Process…
14
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32. We want to Shift the Process from a Requirements Delivery Process…
False Assumptions:
14
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33. We want to Shift the Process from a Requirements Delivery Process…
False Assumptions:
1. The customer knows what he wants
14
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34. We want to Shift the Process from a Requirements Delivery Process…
False Assumptions:
1. The customer knows what he wants
2. The developers know how to build it
14
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35. We want to Shift the Process from a Requirements Delivery Process…
False Assumptions:
1. The customer knows what he wants
2. The developers know how to build it
3. Nothing will change along the way
14
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36. …To a Requirements Discovery Process
15
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37. …To a Requirements Discovery Process
Reality:
1. The customer discovers what he wants
2. The developers discover how to build it
3. Many things change along the way 15
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38. Technique to Learn
about Customer Needs
User Story Mapping
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39. A
sample
story
map:
E-‐commerce
site
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40. A
sample
story
map:
E-‐commerce
site
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41. A
sample
story
map:
E-‐commerce
site
Search
by
keyword
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42. A
sample
story
map:
E-‐commerce
site
Search
by
keyword View
description
&
photo
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43. A
sample
story
map:
E-‐commerce
site
Search
by
keyword View
description
&
photo
Select
item
for
purchase
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44. A
sample
story
map:
E-‐commerce
site
Search
by
keyword View
description
&
photo
Select
item
for
purchase
Enter
shipping
info
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45. A
sample
story
map:
E-‐commerce
site
Search
by
keyword View
description
&
photo
Pay
by
credit
card
Select
item
for
purchase
Enter
shipping
info
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46. A
sample
story
map:
E-‐commerce
site
Search
by
keyword View
description
&
photo
Pay
by
credit
card
Select
item
for
purchase
Enter
shipping
info
Search
products
Shopping
cart
Create
account
Pay
&
Ship
Compare
products
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47. A
sample
story
map:
E-‐commerce
site
Search
products
Search
by
keyword View
description
&
photo
Filter
by
price
Pay
by
credit
card
Select
item
for
purchase
Enter
shipping
info
Filter
by
brand
Clear
search
criteria
Shopping
cart
Create
account
Pay
&
Ship
Compare
products
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48. A
sample
story
map:
E-‐commerce
site
Search
products
Search
by
keyword View
description
&
photo
Filter
by
price
Pay
by
credit
card
Select
item
for
purchase
Enter
shipping
info
Filter
by
brand
Clear
search
criteria
Shopping
cart
Create
account
Pay
&
Ship
Compare
products
Read
product
reviews
Detailed
product
specs
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49. A
sample
story
map:
E-‐commerce
site
Search
products
Search
by
keyword View
description
&
photo
Filter
by
price
Pay
by
credit
card
Select
item
for
purchase
Enter
shipping
info
Filter
by
brand
Clear
search
criteria
Shopping
cart
Create
account
Pay
&
Ship
Compare
products
Read
product
reviews
Detailed
product
specs
Select
multiple
items
for
purchase
Remove
from
cart
Modify
item
quantity
Estimate
total
w/
tax
shipping
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50. A
sample
story
map:
E-‐commerce
site
Search
products
Search
by
keyword View
description
&
photo
Filter
by
price
Pay
by
credit
card
Select
item
for
purchase
Enter
shipping
info
Filter
by
brand
Clear
search
criteria
Shopping
cart
Create
account
Pay
&
Ship
Compare
products
Select
multiple
items
for
purchase
Read
product
reviews Update
Detailed
product
specs
profile
Order
status
View
open
orders
Confirm
payment
&
shipping
info
Remove
from
cart
Modify
item
quantity
Estimate
total
w/
tax
shipping
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51. A
sample
story
map:
E-‐commerce
site
Search
products
Search
by
keyword View
description
&
photo
Filter
by
price
Pay
by
credit
card
Select
item
for
purchase
Enter
shipping
info
Filter
by
brand
Decreasing
priority
Clear
search
criteria
Shopping
cart
Create
account
Pay
&
Ship
Compare
products
Select
multiple
items
for
purchase
Read
product
reviews Update
Detailed
product
specs
profile
Order
status
View
open
orders
Confirm
payment
&
shipping
info
Remove
from
cart
Modify
item
quantity
Estimate
total
w/
tax
shipping
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52. A
sample
story
map:
E-‐commerce
site
Search
products
Search
by
keyword View
description
&
photo
Filter
by
price
Pay
by
credit
card
Select
item
for
purchase
Enter
shipping
info
Filter
by
brand
Decreasing
priority
Clear
search
criteria
Shopping
cart
Create
account
Pay
&
Ship
Compare
products
Read
product
reviews
Detailed
product
specs
Facebook
for
login
Search
by
SKU
Persist
payment
info
Zoom
on
photos
Product-‐
specific
filters Side
by
side
comparison
Pay
by
PayPal
Update
profile
Order
status
View
open
orders
Confirm
payment
&
shipping
info
Select
multiple
items
for
purchase
Remove
from
cart
Modify
item
quantity
Estimate
total
w/
tax
shipping
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53. A
sample
story
map:
E-‐commerce
site
Search
by
keyword View
description
&
photo
Filter
by
price
Pay
by
credit
card
Select
item
for
purchase
Enter
shipping
info
Filter
by
brand
Decreasing
priority
Clear
search
criteria
Select
multiple
items
for
purchase
Modify
item
quantity
MVP
1
above
this
line
Search
products
Shopping
cart
Create
account
Pay
&
Ship
Compare
products
Read
product
reviews
Detailed
product
specs
Facebook
for
login
Search
by
SKU
Persist
payment
info
Zoom
on
photos
Product-‐
specific
filters Side
by
side
comparison
Pay
by
PayPal
Update
profile
Order
status
View
open
orders
Confirm
payment
&
shipping
info
Remove
from
cart
Estimate
total
w/
tax
shipping
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54. Problem #3
Long/ No Feedback or Validation Cycles
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55. Validated Learning
Learn Build
Minimize time
thru the loop
Measure
Lean Startup/ Lean UX
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56. Validated Learning
Learn Build
Minimize time
thru the loop
Measure
1) What do we
need to
learn?
Lean Startup/ Lean UX
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57. Validated Learning
Learn Build
Minimize time
thru the loop
Measure
1) What do we
need to
learn?
2) How can we measure it?
Lean Startup/ Lean UX
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58. Validated Learning
Learn Build
Minimize time
thru the loop
Measure
1) What do we
need to
learn?
3) What is the
simplest thing
to build to
measure it?
2) How can we measure it?
(MVP)
Lean Startup/ Lean UX
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59. 45%$
7%$
19%$
13%$
16%$
Never$
Rarely$
Some5mes$
O8en$
Always$
Assume the team was working in value order,
when would you release this product?
What would be the benefit of releasing early?
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60. If we don’t waste time:
!
• Building the wrong features
• Building low value features
• Over-engineering features (due
to lack of clarity)
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61. If we don’t waste time:
!
• Building the wrong features
• Building low value features
• Over-engineering features (due
to lack of clarity)
We Could Deliver 80% of
the Value in 20% of the time
.8V = .2T
or
2V = .5T
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62. What keeps us from delivering
products faster?
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63. Problem #4
Drowning in a Sea of Opportunity
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64. Lots of WIP slows things down
Working
on many
items in
parallel
10 20 30 40
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65. Lots of WIP slows things down
Working
on many
items in
parallel
Working
on items
one at a
time
10 20 30 40
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70. Problem #5
Not Getting to Done
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71. Illusion of Progress
Requirements
Design
Development
Test
Release
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72. Illusion of Progress
Requirements
Design
Development
Test
Release
80% done??
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73. Working Software is your primary
Measure of Progress
Sprint 1
Requirements
Design
Development
Test
Sprint 2
Requirements
Design
Development
Test
Sprint 3
Requirements
Design
Development
Test
Sprint 4
Requirements
Design
Development
Test
Potentially Shippable Product Increment
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74. Impact of Change
Working on
many items in
parallel
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75. Impact of Change
Working on
many items in
parallel
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76. Impact of Change
Working on
many items in
parallel Highest Value
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77. Impact of Change
Working on
many items in
parallel
Working on
items in value
order Highest Value
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78. Impact of Change
Working on
many items in
parallel
Working on
items in value
order Highest Value
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80. Problem #6
Everything is Important
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81. How we Normally
Assign Work
Alex
Carter
James
Camryn
Janet
Will
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82. How we Normally
Assign Work
Alex
Project 1 Carter
James
Camryn
Janet
Will
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83. How we Normally
Assign Work
Alex
Project 1 Carter
James
Camryn
Janet
Will
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84. How we Normally
Assign Work
Alex
Project 1 Carter
James
Camryn
Janet
Will
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85. How we Normally
Assign Work
Alex
Project 1 Carter
James
Camryn
Janet
Will
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86. How we Normally
Assign Work
Project 1
Project 2
Alex
Carter
James
Camryn
Janet
Will
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87. How we Normally
Assign Work
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3
Alex
Carter
James
Camryn
Janet
Will
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88. How we Normally
Assign Work
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3
Alex
Carter
James
Camryn
Janet
Will
All High Priority
How does Alex decide what to work on next?
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89. How we should
prioritize work in Agile
Alex
Carter
James
Camryn
Janet
Will
Agile Team
Prioritized
Team Backlog
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90. How we should
prioritize work in Agile
Alex
Project 1 Carter
James
Camryn
Janet
Will
Agile Team
Prioritized
Team Backlog
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91. How we should
prioritize work in Agile
Project 1
Project 2
Alex
Carter
James
Camryn
Janet
Will
Agile Team
Prioritized
Team Backlog
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92. How we should
prioritize work in Agile
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3
Alex
Carter
James
Camryn
Janet
Will
Agile Team
Prioritized
Team Backlog
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93. What can you change so your
product can deliver value faster?
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94. If we don’t lose focus working:
!
• On too many items at once
• In silos instead of swarming
• On the wrong things first
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95. If we don’t lose focus working:
!
• On too many items at once
• In silos instead of swarming
• On the wrong things first
We Could Deliver 100% of
the Value in 25% of the time
V = .25T
or
2V = .5T
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