Dave Thomas: Lean Value Driven Product Development – Faster, Better, Cheaper!

Properly implemented Agile delivers its value proposition of improved predictability; quality and transparency. However often business leaders invest in Agile to gain Agility, which they see as faster delivery at lower cost while flexibly responding to changing demands. Hence it isn’t surprising that both executives and leading technologists have moved beyond Agile to deliver more value faster at reduced costs.

In this talk we discuss using the lean value driven perspective to optimize the product life cycle. We discuss techniques applicable to both business and software development that increase the software agility beyond Agile as most know it including lean portfolio management; envisioning; fixed price time and cost estimation; code and deploy; micro service architecture; randomized testing; example driven development; alternative programming models…

About the speaker:
Dave Thomas (http://www.davethomas.net) has a wide spectrum of experience in the software industry as an engineer, consultant, architect, executive and investor. He is the Founder and Chairman of Bedarra Research Labs — a company specializing in emerging software technologies and applications. He is also the Managing Director of Object Mentor — a company specializing in the training and deployment of Agile and Object-Oriented Software Development methodologies. He is perhaps best known in Ottawa as the founder and past CEO of Object Technology International Inc. (formerly OTI, now IBM OTI Labs) where he led the commercial introduction of object and component technology. The company is often cited as the ideal model of a software technology company and was a pioneer in Agile Product Development with a process called Just-In-Time Software. Throughout his career, he has worked with major global corporations as well as startups on business and technical strategy, development organization and process, as well as competitive analysis and strategy.

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Doors open at 6 pm for networking. Agile 101 begins at 6:15 and the main presentation gets underway at 7pm.