Agile Enabled Product Innovation

Agile Enabled Product Innovation

Today, constant innovation defines our marketplace. Businesses must respond to customer expectations for better digital experiences. How do leading organisations launch successful new products and respond rapidly to external change? How do they move beyond the simple need to innovate to actively practising innovation every day?Innovation is such a big word that people over complicate it. They put too much emphasis on producing something innovative and become attached to their ideas and outputs. Instead the opposite is required. To be innovative you need to responsive and adaptable. You need to be willing to try an idea, assess, adjust and continue moving forward.These concepts of learning by doing, failing fast, adapting to change are all core principles behind Agile practices. They are the reason why iterative development exists – and the reason it can be so effective. Agile software development has moved from niche to mainstream, but still provides challenges for design and innovation.We will show you how proven Agile principles and techniques can enable product innovation. Using lean thinking, fast-feedback cycles, and by taking lots of small bets we will show how to consistently speed new ideas into the market.Join us for some stories from the trenches of Agile product delivery. Hear about the failures and successes of brave organisations that have dared to do things differently. You’ll see practical principles and techniques you could be using today.

Ben Melbourne

Ben’s current business card says he’s an Product Strategy Consultant at ThoughtWorks where he does a combination of design strategy, software delivery and preaching about the importance designers learning to become more adaptable and lean in our approach.Now that he has gone Agile, he can never go back. Producing pretty deliverables just doesn’t give the same thrill it used to now that he has experienced the joy of producing actual working software in a multidisciplinary, collaborative software delivery team.

Agenda

18:30 h Open doors, snacks and beer
19:00 h Talk
19:45 h Q&A
20:00 h More beer, chats, etc.