Talks

When you hear “product” or “product owner” what comes to mind in your context? A temporary project? A project manager? If you were to ask the customers who pay your company money what they think your product is would it be the same definition that you came up with?

Toyota is well known for its production system that was an inspiration for the Lean movement. However, it’s one thing to read about how famous companies do things, and completely different to actually see them in action.

Starting a new engagement with an organisation effectively is likely to create the foundations for an impactful coaching relationship that will lead to meaningful and sustainable change.

This talk is about the traits of resilient organizations – the ones that are ready to take the lemons life hands them and make lemonade.

The speed of New Product Development and New Product Introduction is related to the agile management of the enterprise and the agility of the manufacturing processes. The CEO’s of Volkswagen, Bosch, Toyota, and Tesla all agree that speed of change is top priority.

Often leadership gives the edict to their organizations to “Go agile,” but why is leadership and management the cause of the top five problems with agile adoptions (per 10 years of Version One’s State of Agile survey)?

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

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.

I see Agile being used as synonym of Scrum even though Agile is more of an umbrella where Scrum is just one flavour of getting there. Many inquiries show that Scrum is the most used Agile flavour in the world and I’m here to tell you to stop that movement unless you truly mean it. Let me guide you through some basic elements and help you evaluate if you and your organisation should ditch Scrum or not. Help you recognise if you are truly a Scrum Master or rather a Scrum Novice. And much more.

“Far, far away…Customer exactly knew what he needs…Team exactly knew how to build it…And nothing changed along the way.”
Life would be so simple if that fairy tale was true. However, if you don’t live in the magic kingdom, then you struggle with problems of lack of communication, requirements change, dependencies, delays and politic. I can’t promise you a simple cure for all these problems. What I can do, is to show you the three main reasons behind them and what you can to address them.