Building roadmaps that last with Kanban

‘A roadmap cannot be realistic without understanding our delivery capability, otherwise it’s wishful thinking’ - this can be the key outcome of our story.

Many startups and bigger software development companies regularly struggle with planning and forecasting their product development.

In this session, Katya Makarevich will be sharing her experience solving these challenges by applying Kanban practices and principles, resulting in a simple solution to create roadmaps: adopting options/real options theory to manage the strategic backlog, measuring capacity in 2-dev/sprints and introducing a WIP limit of 2 features for Downstream Kanban as well as 2 classes of service (standard, expedite).

"The roadmap has helped us to balance demand and capability to deliver, ensuring expectations of external and internal stakeholders are managed accordingly."

After Katya's presentation, we'll open the floor for an open discussion about the topic. Bring your questions and experiences to share!

About Katya:
Katya Makarevich is a professional with rich experience in innovation and the high-tech domain, including more than 8 years in IT in various roles from testing to business analysis, product management and technical pre-sales. She has worked as a Consultant for Targetprocess, an Agile project management tool, and gained deep knowledge of Agile methodologies, including Scrum, LeSS, SAFe, and NEXUS. She used to be an advocate of Agile, which helps many teams to increase their efficiency by improving processes and collaboration. However, since she also has a PhD in Economics, she was looking for more scientific and pragmatic ways to manage knowledge work and eventually found that in Kanban. Applying this method to the unique processes of a company helped her to achieve better outcomes in both IT and non-IT cases.