The time we went beyond Agile

This is the story of how we started with Game Arena. From a strict scrum methodology we adopted a lean approach to build a prototype of our new mobile game. Presented in Milan at Agile for Innovation

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1. Agile for Innovation 2 March 2016 emabolo@gmail.com @emabolo Game Arena “the time we went beyond Agile”
2. Emanuele Bolognesi emabolo@gmail.com @emabolo
3. THE SITUATION
4. Product Owners The big boss Their main products Can they innovate?
5. THEN WHAT HAPPENED?
6. An idea coming from “outside”
8. Brain storming…
9. The idea - finalized 1. Simple, easy to understand 2. Original 3. Its own specific niche of users 4. Different from our current products 5. Feasible and testable http://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinharrington/2013/10/08/10-qualities-of-a-successful-product/
10. Methodology • MVP • Small team (4 people) • Time boxed (4 weeks) • Alpha test • Fail fast, fail often
11. Prototypes
12. Moodboard
13. More Prototypes
14. User Interface
15. and More Prototypes
16. From Jira…
17. To This
18. + a lot of fun
19. You can try it if you want http://gamearena.io
20. Let’s review the strategy 1. Research and brain storming 2. Build a MVP 3. Publish and test step by step (first internally, then closed beta, open beta, staged rollout) 4. Collect feedbacks 5. Analyse Data 6. And restart
21. Let’s review the strategy At each iterations you must be ready to: Drop the idea Now you have time & resources to start something new Improve be data driven! Test again and restart
22. • Be open accept ideas coming from “outside” • Clean the idea brain storming with the right attitude • MVP design a “real” MVP • Small team use the minimum viable team :) • PO free let the product “decide” • Validate the idea don’t release anything you cannot test What we learnt
24. Thank you! Email emabolo@gmail.com Twitter @emabolo Skype emabolo