Value-driven Delivery Mini-Workshop
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Description
Level up your skills, network with peers, and learn to accelerate stakeholder value delivery with this unique workshop from nuCognitive.
The first Agile principle is "Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software." However, in practice this does not seem to be true nearly as often as it should be. Teams often fail to provide early, frequent delivery of stakeholder value. Instead, they focused on spikes, class libraries, infrastructure, and other inward-focused work, without an understanding of their stakeholders and what they value. As a result, many teams start with what is most familiar, easiest, or most convenient for them rather than what stakeholders value most.
Why do teams often become focused on (or even obsessed with) feature development and maximizing development velocity? Without explicit focus on value, the association between velocity, feature development, and value-delivery is weak - perhaps even non-existent. At best, these projects are conducted sub-optimally. Frequently, they fail when stakeholders remove funding because they perceive a lack of value add.
Value-driven delivery is achieved using the answers to three simple, but not at all easy, questions:
1. Who are your stakeholders?
2. What do they value?
3. What are you doing in the next two weeks or less to provide value to them?
Teams often have many more stakeholders than they first realize. Value-driven Delivery ensures those stakeholders are made explicit, and that the list of stakeholders is kept current throughout the project.
Value-driven delivery captures and maintains stakeholder values in a quantified, verifiable way. This ensures that teams can know the real effects of each stakeholder value delivery, and prevents work based on an outdated understanding of value.
Value-driven Delivery also challenges teams to sequence deliveries so that they deliver the most valuable things first. This can have tremendous benefits, generating early business results and reducing the time required for the team to get into a positive Return on Investment for the project.
Value-driven delivery makes a natural overlay for Scrum, but does not require Scrum's use to be effective. Value-driven delivery does not ignore features and velocity, but it explicitly places value delivery above those things as the top priority.
Two other advantages to Value-driven Delivery worth mentioning: First, it is not limited to software, but applies to all aspects of an organization, including the executive suite, human resources, finance, IT, and product teams. Second, it is not focused on or limited to any particular scale. In fact, it is scale-free, working on small teams and teams of more than 500 engineers in a 100K-person company.
Learning Outcomes:
- The definition and nature of value
- The principles and practices of Value-driven Delivery
- How to use Evolutionary Delivery to manage value-driven work, alone or in concert with Scrum
- Fundamentals of several disciplines and models that aid value-driven work, including the Kano Model, elements from Diffusion of Innovations, UX Proof Points, and the HEART Framework
- Attendees will gain enough understanding to begin using Value-driven Delivery in their own work if they desire.
- Additional sources of information will be provided for continued learning.
Who should attend:
Product management, product owners, product developers, service designers, architects, product managers, engineers, business development, business strategy, marketing, planners, project managers, software developers
Who is speaking?
Erik Simmons
Erik has extensive experience in SW & systems eng in both public & private sector in high technology, healthcare, manufacturing, apparel, travel & event management, contract management, and other areas. Erik is internationally recognized for his expertise in requirements eng, lifecycles, Agile, solutions thinking, & complex adaptive systems eng. He is a respected trainer and mentor.
BA, Applied Mathematics. MS, Mathematical Modeling, Humboldt State University
Daniel Walsh
Dan has expertise in accelerating product development and driving culture change. Experienced leader of org transformations across many functional areas including HW, SW, product validation, mfg, supply chain, marketing, and startups. Industry recognized for Lean Startup, org transformations, complex adaptive systems.
BS and Masters, Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M
MS, Systems Engineering. MBA Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cancellation Policy:
You can cancel with a full refund for any reason up to 10 days prior to the event. After that, it is too late to get substitute attendees. You are free to send a substitute in your place if you'd like. (email us at info@nucognitive.com). nuCognitive reserves the right to cancel the event and refund participants.
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