Agile Victoria

Location: Virtual on Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2475543229
Meeting ID: 247 554 3229

Speaker: Briana Wood
Speaker Bio:
I’m a systemic change consultant and leadership coach with 10+ years of experience guiding public sector, non-profit, and private organizations through complex digital and organizational transformations.

I specialize in co-designing change journeys that center people’s readiness and capacity for change; enabling smoother adoption of new technologies, structures, and ways of working. My work spans IM/IT modernization, digital service transformation, leadership enablement, and organizational change and development initiatives.

Speaker: Lena Stachiw
Speaker Bio:
Lena works with people to help them find the greatest opportunities for their design and development needs. With 15 years of design, facilitation, product ownership, project management and coaching experience, she wears many hats and easily pivots to best help her clients through challenging design conundrums.

Talk Description:
Making the Most of User Research: Driving a User-Centric Backlog While Maintaining Delivery Momentum
User research within agile product development processes is incredibly valuable to create products that incrementally best serve those most impacted. This work and its outcomes, however, can be inefficient or ineffective in driving the high-value solutions we are after. The value of the research depends on when it’s used, how it’s applied, and what happens after the findings are understood.
This discussion is designed for those involved in agile product design and development who want to use user research and service design in a way that strengthens product development and decision making without slowing it down. The focus is on how to get tangible value from research and design that best informs the backlog, how to apply it to your team and product development cadence and how to make sure that the findings are truly getting to the root of what needs solving.
Location: In person at Viatec - 777 Fort st
Come a few minutes early to mingle and get a snack before listening to a one hour talk from 6pm-7pm, followed by questions. Stay after and network if you'd like.

Sponsor: Vivid Solutions https://www.vividsolutions.com

Speaker: Blaine Bey, DASSM, CSM
Blaine is a senior consultant with over forty years of solution delivery experience involving analysis, design, development, and implementation of applications, included ERP solutions.
For the last twenty-eight years, he has focused on the roles of Business Analyst, Quality Assurance (QA) Lead, and Project Manager. He has taught Agile courses to students in North America and beyond.
He recently retired from the BC Energy Regulator (https://www.bc-er.ca/) in Victoria as a Senior Business Analyst. He had been focusing on managing the implementation of SaaS solutions at the BCER. He is working part-time while at the same time designing a custom Strata management SaaS solution.

Location: Virtual on Zoom
Join Zoom with this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2475543229
Meeting ID: 247 554 3229