Mad Scientist: Are you building the right thing? How do you know?

Nick’s presentation can be found here: Mad Scientist. We all know that time to market is king. Being too late to the party and your organization can lose competitive advantage and market share. Many organizations talk in buzzwords like: MVP, MMF, innovation, empowerment and entrepreneurship, but are your teams actually moving in this direction. Do your […]

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Driving Innovation through Continual Learning and Systems Thinking

Joel’s presentation can be found here Driving Innovation. After years of ‘enterprise’ decisions, organizations are waking up to the need to be creative and innovative in an increasingly unpredictable and complex world.  Moving quickly just to move is not the same as learning and adjusting.   Adopting a process doesn’t guarantee success. Instead we need to […]

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I Am An Enoughionist

Preston’s presentation can be found here: I am Enoughionist. “Simplicity—the art of maximizing the amount of work not done—is essential”. This is perhaps the most difficult Agile principle to follow. My take on this principle is a new word… Enoughionism. It’s not really at the other end of the spectrum from perfectionism, but somewhere between it and […]

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Examining the Product Owner Role

Kent’s material can be found here: Examining the Product Owner Role. As with everything else related to agile, the nature of the Product Owner role, and whether it is needed at all, depends a great deal on context. As teams discover this, it leads to some common questions: – What do Product Owners Really Do? – […]

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