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Rapidly progress a complex portfolio of stalled products
DIGITAL PRODUCTS
ACCORDING TO...
Dave Evans, Product Manager (ecommerce) at Nature Publishing Group
Glyn Parry – Programme Manager at SH:24 (NHS collaboration)
Will Rowan, product lead at Ministry of Justice (and other orgs)
Richard Stobart – CEO, Unboxed Consulting, Agile Coach of the Year 2014
BIG, organisation?
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How do you get
MOVINGPRODUCTS
SLOW MOVING
Without
T R U S T...you can doNOTHING.
would anyone TRUST
WHY
YOU?
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ways to create
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5TRUST
Think like a salesperson.What do they want?
the players1UNDERSTAND
Who’s jobs are
What do they
What do they
AFFECTED?
NEED?
FEAR?
,
And bring everyone
back to the user...
who sometimes doesn’t get a mention amongst the complexity and interdependencies
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process.against it.NOTWITH
Work
the governance
ESTABLISH
FOCUS.
Where is the money?What KPIs matter?What should the product owner be influencing?
2 where the value lies
COMPETITION.PRODUCT,MARKET
As a product owner, product, market and competition.
The product follows from there.
you need to understand
AND
As a product owner,
The product follows from there.
you’re dealing in features:OTHERWISE
“I can’t sell it unless it’s got feature”
,
THIS
Think
SHORTterm.
IMMEDIATELY.Focus on what users can benefit from
Show stakeholders what can be done rapidly.
Make it visible
Put everything on the walls
MAKE YOUR MARK
GET AGILE WORKING HARDIntroduce Agile to more teams.Quickly learn and iterate.Create vision statements.Groom backlogs.
3
INSTINCTIVELYAGILE, and many
to work that way.WANT
There are many people who are
who
AGIL
Don’t assume they’re not
,
just because they don’t know
, THE WORD
,
DO SOMETHINGHack, test and prove something yourself.
4
PROJECT MANAGERStry to control ALL the risk by doing
PRODUCT OWNERSunderstand how to take a
EVERYTHING.
bitesizemouthful
You’ll have to take some
RISKS.Find some
WORK
CONTRACTS.WITHOUT
WORKAROUNDS.
,
OUTTHERE
Get the product
however scrappy and unfinished it is.
SHARE IT,
person working on the product or service.
5 TRUSTEDBE THE MOST
is what’s important.
Business is just people.
FORMINGRELATIONSHIPS
,
BUILD
Build your reputation as the expert.
your reputation as the expert.
EVERYWHERE.Take in data from
They’ll trust you when you say “We don’t need , we need .”A B
BE
FREEEGO-
THE UNIT OF SUCCESS IS LEARNING
WORK IN OUTCOMES FOR USERS.
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