Lean Product Management for Enterprises: The Art of Known Unknowns

Welcome back from our summer break! We have scheduled our first talk of the fall speakers season and are excited to announce that Natalie Hollier from Thoughtworks. Come join for networking, talk, and Lean Coffee discussion afterwards.

Lean Product Management for Enterprise: The Art of Known Unknowns

"Innovate or die” is the mantra of successful companies. So how can we build innovation into our product development process? By combining design thinking, lean startup and agile we get a recipe for repeatable innovation: lean UX. Lean UX and lean startup methods are being used today by many startups and innovation labs to take a learning approach to discovering and building the best product for customers.

But what does repeatable innovation look like scaled across an enterprise? This talk will share how to apply lean product practices as a continuous process across multiple products and agile development teams in an organization. With real examples and artifacts you will learn how to manage - and thrive - in uncertainty to create awesome products.

About Natalie Hollier

Natalie is a creative and innovative technologist who believes that variety is the spice of life. As someone who is continuously learning and trying new things, she has worked as a software consultant on teams large and small in Australia, Asia, Europe and America. She is accustomed to performing a variety of cross-functional roles on projects; including software development, user experience design, business analysis, and project management.

A constant innovator and compulsive "ideas woman", she is always trying to find new ways of making things work better - whether it be products, processes, teams or organizations. Her most recent passion over the past year or so has been learning and applying Lean UX practices at her current project in New York.

As usual, we charge to provide refreshments, and to prevent people from RSVPing and then not showing up, depriving other folks the chance to attend.