Product SIG - Radical Roadmapping

Topic: Radical Roadmapping

Radical Roadmapping - Creating Synchronized Agile Product and Technology Roadmaps

This presentation will discuss why a company would create and maintain three major artifacts (innovation roadmap, infrastructure/platform roadmap, and operations/DevOps roadmap) as well as the process to do so. Further it will cover how to synchronize them in order to move away from making OR decisions to making AND decisions that will please all stakeholders. It will also discuss key cultural changes that must be present in order to achieve maximum benefit from this approach and challenges experienced along the way to making this a reality at Socialware, a SaaS product company. Finally, this will include real world examples of the evolution of these roadmaps over 18 months that participants can take away and use as guidelines for doing so.

This concept is RADICAL as it is innovative in both its novel approach and ability to drive enormously positive organizational agility.

Of course, in Matt's usual energetic* style, there will be tangents, humorous self-deprecating references of learning (aka failure), and time for participants to describe how this would "never work" in their organization coupled with Matt's re-framing to help them understand how it just might.

*Best feedback comment ever received in his Keep Austin Agile 2015 presentation on Continuous Capacity Planning: "Man, this guy has been drinking way too much coffee for a 4:00 PM presentation!"

Speaker: Matt Roberts

Matt Roberts is an agile pragmatist continuing his lifelong learning journey, currently serving customers and innovators throughout the complete value chain as VP of Product Engineering for Continuum Analytics. His experience is wide-ranging as he has developed software and led efforts to create systems for product development teams to deliver innovative solutions in companies ranging from early-stage startup to publicly-traded companies in both consulting and full-time roles. He has had the privilege of serving the Austin software development community as Agile Austin President for four consecutive years and as Secretary for the IEEE Computer Society for two years. Matt holds certifications as a Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO). If you’d like to learn more about him, please visit http://linkedin.com/in/cpgmattr or see his latest thoughts at multicastmatt.blogspot.com. You can also follow him on twitter @MulticastMatt

Product SIG Info:
More information and communication may be found at the SIG's Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/agile-austin-product-sig . Food and Drink will be provided courtesy of Agile Austin.
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Seating is limited!

Please make sure that you are able to attend this session. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. We want to give everyone the opportunity to attend, so please only sign up if you are committed to attending.

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