9:55AM - 10:55AM - Ellen Gottesdiener Keynote: Amplify Discovery to Accelerate Delivery

The agile community has made great strides in improving the quality and speed of product delivery, evolving toward continuous delivery. What about product discovery? Can we align continuous product delivery with continuous product delivery? It is possible to overcome the immutable fact that product requirements are the source of so much uncertainty and waste? Can we balance satisfying customers with improving product viability through continuous product discovery?  In my work with many product and engineering organizations, I have learned some key principles and practices that enlighten and energize product discovery. These include setting product context, clarifying outcomes and validation tests, amplifying collaboration, using Structured Conversations with Discovery Boards, and injecting visual models—with and beyond stories and story maps—to build shared understanding of the product. Indeed, agile discovery can accelerate delivery and help build better high-value products.  

10-minute break

9:00AM - 9:45AM - Ryan Lockhard Secrets from the Agile Manifesto Authors on Flow

I have interviewed 14 of the 17 Agile Manifesto authors for a special podcast project. Originally the intent was to capture the intent of authors and to chronicle the manifesto story. What emerged was much more. The story of why the event was needed, what the vision was, and what we have ruined in agile were all artifacts of the project. This talk covers the real story behind the rise and fall of Agile in industry and what we can do to reclaim it.

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11:05AM - 11:50AM - Ardita Karaj, Jeff ‘Cheezy’ Morgan Focusing on the Value: Getting the Basics Right

Q:"Why should we do Agile?"A:"To bring valuable solution to our customers"Q:"Why?"A:"The purpose of business is to create and keep customers - said Peter Drucker. So we need to provide valuable solution to problems that customers have so they join us and stay with us"Many companies lose track of the first Agile principle as they start to adopt Agile frameworks. It says ”Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software”. We forget that Agile is not THE goal but more of a vehicle that will move us to continuously deliver value to our customers.In this talk Ardita and Cheezy take you back to the basics by stepping into Continuous Delivery.

10-minute break

10-minute break

12:00PM - 12:35PM - David Tangess, Jerridan Quiring, Ned Schwartz (Nulogy Team) How We Learned How to Ship Less Software, Sooner

Our stories are too big, they're taking too long to deliver and we're struggling to pivot. At Nulogy we addressed these pains not with careful retrospection, but by fighting over wrong solutions until the key points became clear. We chose to ship less, sooner, with trust that we would iterate and improve guided by customer feedback, not hunches. Come hear the story from dev, design and test.

5-minute break

12:40PM - 1:25PM - Roman Pichler Building a Product Users Want

We spend most of our time working on digital products with tactical tasks: writing and prioritizing users stories, making design and architecture decision, implementing and testing software, gathering and analyzing user feedback and data, and updating the product backlog. While attention to detail is necessary to develop a great product, we are in danger of no longer seeing the wood for the trees if we focus too much on the details. In the worst case, we develop a product with amazing features and cutting-edge technologies that nobody really wants and needs. This talk will help you avoid this trap by showing how you can create an effective product strategy that clearly communicates the value the product should create for the users and the business, and that serves as an input for a product roadmap or product backlog thereby guiding the tactical work.

1:35PM- 2:20PM - Colleen Johnston Death of the Product Roadmap

We've moved our delivery practices to lean and agile methods but somehow left our product discovery processes behind.  Learn how to leverage just-in-time thinking for product discovery and definition through an upstream Kanban. Create a funnel to validate product options before they make it to the team's backlog. Use Lean Startup Principles to ensure customer value and simple Kanban metrics to forecast delivery. Explore how lean thinking can be more than just a tool for delivering faster and can finally be the Death of the Product Roadmap.

10-minute break

10-minute break

2:30PM- 3:15PM - David Hussman Helping Companies Adopt a Customer-Centric Approach

Many companies and leaders are looking to adopt a product approach but there is little guidance on how to go about this change. This talk will present a collection of concrete practices shown to have helping IT organizations make the move or digital product companies improve their skills around customer learning, product discovery, impact-oriented delivery and more.

10-minute break

3:25PM- 4:25PM - Jeff Patton 5 Things You Need to Fix Agile Product Ownership

Agile development has fixed lots of problems in software development. Companies using it consistently deliver working software more predictably than ever before, But, the software they make isn’t necessarily better, or more successful in the market. Because the things we need to do to make a product successful aren’t baked into agile development,. And, in fact, strict adherence to common agile practice can result in even worse products.This talk explains why and gives you 5 concrete changes to Agile development you can make to improve things. These aren’t things your product owner or product manager must do. They’re the things the whole team need to do. And, they’re not easy things. But, they’re necessary if you want to more consistently make products people love.

10-minute break

4:35PM- 5:10PM - Sophie Freiermuth How Agile Helps and Constrains UX and Product Designers

Beyond a delivery transformation, agile impacts products early on in the design, as UX, UI and visual designers must adapt to feeding thoughts and deliverables to be built at a new cadence, and with different rules and intentions.In this talk, I'll share insights on how transformation teams and leaders can help their designers adopt agility with ease, and how to use the agile framework to create great designs without giving in to the speed trap.Covering topics such as deliverable fidelity, how iterative can design be and how designer-developer pairs can contribute to efficiency, this talk is intended for organisations with a concern for good design and who want their products to really work well for their users and customers.