1. Making Product Development Agile
Stacey Berlow
President, Project Balance
Product Camp NYC
November 6, 2010
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Learning Objectives
Learn about the core values of the Agile framework
Understand how the framework helps teams be more customer
oriented
Take one idea away that you an immediately use in your product
development efforts
3. Agenda
Overview of Agile principles 15 minutes
Group exercises 20 minutes
Group discussion 10 minutes
Wrap up 5 minutes
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Origins of Agile
1950s: US Department of Defense and NASA
used iterative and incremental development
1960s: Evolutionary project management (Evo)
recommends two-week iterations focusing on delivery of product each
iteration
1986: Takeuchi and Nanoka
Wrote seminal paper The New New Product Development Game Discussed
the rugby approach of dedicated, self-organizing, cross functional
teams
1990s: Agile methodologies take off
Scrum, Extreme Programming, Rational Unified Process, Dynamic
Systems Development Model
2001: Agile Manifesto written
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http://agilemanifesto.org/
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Individuals and interactionsoverprocesses and tools
Agile approach focuses on empowered, self-managing teams
You must consider all aspects about the people on your team and how
they work together
Communication and team collaboration are key to creating innovative
products
7. Individuals and interactionsoverprocesses and tools
Examples of cross functional teams:
Advertisement development:
Artist, copy writer, language translator, product owner,
operations
Healthcare software:
Physicians/clinicians, program managers, business analysts
software developers, testers
