Agile and lean practices are now well known. Where companies, teams, and programs are working hard to learn faster, they are often faced with the ambiguity of the real and measurable value of what they are “getting done”. This talk will pick up where the basics of agile methods left off. Starting with the premise that agile practices are now table stakes, we will explore the many undiscussed challenges that still remain: making sound investments in projects and programs, measuring real impact and incrementally adjusting toward the most real value, knowing how much agility is valuable a particular effort, incrementally investing in continuous discovery, some of which lies outside of delivery. If you have questions or challenges that you believe live outside the scope of what agile or lean practices provide, please show up with your questions and comments. We will field all of them!
David teaches and coaches product discovery through iterative delivery. He has spent the last 15 years coaching agility and producing products for companies of all sizes around the world. David’s coaching is non-dogmatic and pragmatic. His focus on getting to know a project community allows him to seed self-discovery and avoid falling into the expert trap of simply telling people what they “should do". David spends most of his time with teams, helping them create and validate product ideas and roadmaps with responsive engineering. He also works with leadership teams to pragmatically introduce the type of lasting agility that fosters innovation and creates a competitive edge. David was awarded The Gordon Pask Award and has contributed to Agile at Scale, Story Mapping, and many other publications and presentations that can be found on-line
