Case Study: Getting to 100K users in 30 days

About the talk:

Just Not Sorry is a gmail plug-in that highlights weak words that undermine people's message. Just Not Sorry was built by Cyrus Innovation (http://www.cyrusinnovation.com/), a NYC based Agile consultancy, in under a week. In its first month, 100,000 people downloaded the app and hundreds of news outlets covered the launch.

Tami, who had the idea, and Steve, who built the app will walk through the Lean validation and Agile prioritization they performed leading to the successful launch. They'll also tell you stories about post-launch development in Agile ways.

About the speakers:

Tami, CEO of Cyrus Innovation, leads the Cyrus team to deliver great results for our clients. She focuses on ensuring that Cyrus is a great development partner, guiding clients through tough times and helping them grow.

She is an experienced product person who has worked with dozens of companies of all sizes to bring their products and services to market. Over the past 10 years, Tami has worked with teams to develop technology solutions on platforms ranging from mainframe systems to modern microservice architectures and iOS. She is a public advocate for Agile development, Lean strategies, and cross team collaboration to accomplish business goals. Prior to joining Cyrus, Tami was a Sr. Product Manager at Pivotal Labs where she consulted with companies on employing best practices to turn good ideas into great products.

Steve is an engineering lead and agile coach at Cyrus Innovation with more than sixteen years of experience in software development, architecture and technology strategy, agile coaching, and team building. He has built successful software systems for a variety of industries, ranging from scientific data management for the Broad Institute to television scheduling software for HBO to telecommunications billing software for Lucent. He specializes in creating user-friendly and maintainable software using Agile, Lean, and XP techniques.