Melbourne .NET User Group double header: Scrum and the “Product person” + Azure DevOps and CosmosDB
Session #1: The View From The Bridge – presented by Chris Drylie
The importance of having direction and the right focus is not as clear cut as most of companies think. Here we will review what the dev team is made up of and the why it is so important to have that ‘Product’ person as part of the team and not just someone who sits on the side lines telling you what people want and why they want it. Cutting through buzz words like Product Owner and Manager and understanding the core of these principles and what they bring to the team.
This presentation will discuss these challenges faced when a new Product member joins a development team that has never had this voice before and how to address these concerns that follow and the positive/negative outcomes of a change of this nature. How this increased volume, variety, and velocity of work being generated by these teams, but put them under a spotlight they had never been part of before. We will also touch on the point that this is not limited to any one methodology and how this person bridges the gap between the development team and the world.
About the presenter:
Chris Drylie had the dream of becoming the first Scottish NBA player, however it turned out that 'Robert Archibald' beat him to it back in 2002. Since this dream crushing realization, Chris set his sights on becoming the best Product Management Leader he could. Now with over 16+ years working in the IT industry, he finds himself as the Senior Product Owner at StarRez Inc. Where he has learned to thrive in the chaos of software development. He has taken his passion and applied it to managing complex cross-team initiatives and strategic programs. he helps organizations be more productive, thereby making it possible to achieve their business goals and sometimes plays basketball on the side.
