According to Jeff Patton, only 20% of software product features have the positive impact initially intended. Of the remaining ones, 60% have little or no impact, while 20% are complete failures — the product would have been better off if they were never built. In essence, four out of five features add no value and are a waste of time and resources.
Product Agility leverages the cadence of agile to reverse this trend. It enables teams to build the right things through a continuous flow between continuous discovery, validated learning, and agile delivery. This presentation introduces the fundamentals of Product Agility, demonstrating how Agile and Lean Startup principles can flow into a powerful cycle that sparks self-sustaining and ever-accelerating product growth.
In this session you will learn about:
- Why shifting towards Product Agility is critical for short and long term success
- Organizational shifts in mindset are essential to remove friction and enable continuous discovery, validated learning, and agile delivery
- Prioritization techniques that reduce risk and enable the identification of features that will have the highest impact
- The day-to-day habits that accelerate a transition to a continuous discovery, validated learning, and agile delivery cycles
About the Speakers:
Dan Gallagher is the Senior Principal, Delivery Leadership, at Slalom, with 30 years’ experience as a product manager, product owner, product designer, product executive, product consultant, scrum master, and agile team member. Driven by the notion that life is too short to build products people won’t use, Dan has combined his extensive experience with product research, wisdom from pundits (applied and validated), and life observations to create the Product Agility methodology, a powerful force for change in product development.
