Justyna Wykowska

ABELight 2020 Gojko Adzic Max impact Min effort

ABE Light 20 | Gojko Adzic | Maximum Impact, Minimum Effort

A big government IT project delivered two years ahead of schedule. A fraud detection initiative saving tens of millions more than predicted. An app that helped a city rebuild faster after a major disaster and save ten times more money than expected. Learn how early adopters use impact mapping to create big impacts and minimise effort, from large government departments to innovative consultancies and small startups

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Specification by Example online

How to run Specification by Example remotely

One of the best things about Specification by Example is how it allows a group of people to quickly get to a shared understanding, and collaboratively discover and define exactly what they need to build. Specification workshops are the most effective when everyone is in the same room and has access to the same information. For better or worse, that’s impossible to do in most countries around the world at the moment. So here are some tips on getting the benefits from spec workshops without having to be in the same place.

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LeSS Warsaw Jurgen de Smet

LeSS Warsaw | Jurgen De Smet | Outcome based Product Backlog

The acronym MVP is frequently used in a context of a fully working application or minimal set of features where one forget to truly validate assumptions. PO’s are writing detailed user stories but not always following up on the business impact of it all. Let’s see how we can do things differently! A cocktail of different models that put business outcomes at the center. A different way to look at so-called product backlogs, stepping away from a flat list of items. This cocktail is one of many LeSS experiments you could try and some things to avoid.

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Split learning from earning

Software development often involves dealing with unknowns. Analysing third-party systems, investigating new standards and assessing the risks of migration to a new version of an infrastructure component are all common tasks. Yet each such task differs from others of the same type enough that people can’t really estimate them without digging in and investigating the details.

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Case Study Zappos

The culture of delivering WOW experience in Zappos

During our trips we always try to visit companies known for their unique culture and way of working. You might have read the stories from Toyota and Mazda factories from our stay in Japan. This time, we had a chance to spent almost two hours in Zappos headquarters in Las Vegas, NV. As there was no one else in our group except us, we could get answers to all our questions.

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