Getting Ready To Produce

What's Needed Before Iteration 1

Description

How do you know you are ready to start iterating? In some cases, very little is needed before the first iteration. In other cases, rushing to iterate (because you were told to) can lead to weeks of time wasted overly focused on delivering a poorly understood product.

Agenda

This tutorial provides concrete tools for discovering your product context and assessing whether you are ready to start building and / or iterating. Participants will learn tools for defining how much process you need and tools for truly understanding what you are building and why, as well as who will use it, why they will (or will not) use it and why.

Format

We will combine lecture, group exercises, and individual work as we move from idea to iteration, or “it would be cool if” to “we could build it like this”.

Bio

David teaches and coaches the adoption and improvement of agile methods as powerful delivery tools. He works with companies of all sizes around the world. Sometimes he is pairing with developers and testers, while other times he is helping to plan and create product roadmaps. David often works with leadership groups learn to pragmatically use agile methods to foster innovation and competitive business advantage.

Prior to working as a fulltime coach, David spent years building software in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education to name a few. David now leads DevJam, a company composed of agile collaborators. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on agility as a tool to help people and companies improve their software production skills. DevJam provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically match technology, people, and processes to create better and cooler products in competitive cycles.

For more information (past presentations and DevJam U courses) check out www.devjam.com