ProductTank Berlin #10: Continuous Discovery
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Continuous delivery and continuous integration helped product teams to ship their products faster and and more reliable from a technical persepctive. But it does not assure to produce the best outcome and create great business results. This is why the best product teams nowadays go a step further and make continious discovery part of their product development process. This often means continiously identifying backlog items and validating them as soon as possible with suitable methods. Often in a dual-track agile environment. As good as this sounds in practice it is often harder to implement than one might initially think...
Join us and the following speakers when they share their experience about product discovery and what it really takes to go beyond scrum & kanban to make continious discovery a working routine.
Jennifer Beecher - Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/
Director Content ID Products, Product/Planning Process Facilitator at SoundCloud
Talk: Remembering the Agile in Agile
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Jennifer Beecher is currently responsible for content identification at SoundCloud. A business/IT graduate by training and mobile engineer by heritage, she enjoys being at the forefront of building products that bring value to the humans using them and the company creating them alike. She has concepted, built, released and maintained mobile apps, websites, web integrations, widgets and key technology components of all kinds in startup and larger corporate environments.
In addition to her day job Jennifer is a coach, trainer, consultant and facilitator working with individuals and organisations in the areas of product management, agile development and overall ways of working. She lives near Berlin with her family and has a weakness for karaoke, baking and neuroscience.
Willem-Jan Jansen - eBay - http://www.ebay.com
Global Product Strategy, eBay Classifieds Group
15 years of building and managing digital products, services and product teams in Dutch and Australian companies – telecom, online media and multi-sided marketplaces. Currently in a global role at eBay, driving the transformation of product organisation and processes across a portfolio of local marketplaces, in line with lean startup principles and practices. Increasingly involved with startups themselves to provide advice and keep learning myself.
Master degrees in Industrial Design Engineering and Cognitive Science. Still passionate and curious about people and technology - and making magic and business happen at their intersection.
Manuela Riesch - useeds GmbH - https://www.useeds.de/
Senior Experience Researcher bei USEEDS° GmbH
Manuela Risch is a User Experience Researcher at USEEDS° GmbH in Berlin, where she puts the user in the center of the product development in order to enable the team to build the right product in the right way. Her focus is on agile teams, with the integration of the build-measure-learn principle.