1. Products
Action
over
Process
Mechanics

2. Products and People
over
Process and Dogma

3. Choose a few words to How do those words
describe your process help your product?
What’s your story?

4. Share, Compare, Learn

5. Learning
by
Comparing

7. Brown M and Ms Heart Surgery
Why compare these?

8. B-17 Rialto Restaurant
Or these?

10. Simple - Complicated - Complex

11. Complex Adaptive Systems
Dave Snowden

12. Complexities We Face

13. Agility and Complexity
Creating Community (Common Vision)
Form Communities (Chartering)
Composing Product (Personas - Story maps - Sketching)
Create an Eco-System (Iteration 0 - Common Workspace)
Discovery (Planning)
Product Releases (Value - Effort - Dependencies)
Iterative Delivery (Iterations (cycles) - Kanban (flow))
Delivery (Iterating)
Staying Connected (Daily Standup - Common Workspace)
Tracking Progress (Task Walls - Burncharts - Velocity)
Technical Agility (Continuous Integration - Test Driven)
Delivering Value (Acceptance Tests - Continuous Deploy)
Learning (Tuning)
Validating Progress (Reviews - User Testing)
Reflect and Improve (Retrospective – Market Feedback)

14. Continuous Product Learning
Discovery Delivery
What and Why How and When
“Pivot”

15. How do your processes promote
product learning or “pivots”?

16. Rethinking
Development
( the simplest thing that matters )

17. Continuous Deployment
(extremely crazy or extremely powerful?)

18. Balancing Your Investments
Imagine your project is a start up?
How would your approach differ?
Where would you invest your money?
process (how) vs. product (why)

19. The Customer Checklist

21. How do you measure product success?
Does it help you “pivot”?
(measure, learn and move towards value)

22. The Red Threads (so far)
Learning by Comparison
Checklists and Complexity
Customer Development
Meaningful Investment

23. The Story of Brown M & Ms
( complexity calls for simplicity )

24. Atul Gawande
Simple Process / Complex Problems
(author Checklist Manifesto)

25. Learning by Trying is Scientific
(succeeding and failing)

26. Wendy Freedman
(on the laws of gravity )
V = GT F = MG
“Gravity is just a theory … there is always testing.”

27. Common Laws in Action
George Ohm’s
Ohm Law

28. What are the laws for agility?
What are the best guides?

29. Dude’s Law

30. Discussions around ”are we doing Agile?”
“Why are we doing what we are doing?”
{ Meaning = Intent / Action }
{ Worth = Purpose / Practice }

31. Dude’s Law: Value = Why / How
Questions?
W W
V= H V= H

32. Share, Compare, Learn
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