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Happy People Build Better Products than Agile Teams

Happy People Build Better Products than Agile Teams

I gave this talk at Oulu Agile Seminar 13.8.2014

Tuomas Jomppanen

August 13, 2014
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  1. Disclaimer Digital Products can be built in many ways. This

    presentation is about a small team building web/mobile products and we’re constantly trying to fi nd better ways to do our work. It might not work for you, but at least for now, it works for us :)
  2. Hi! Can you walk us through the last time you

    bought stuff? Ok, let’s see — I went to grocery shop yesterday and…
  3. Brainstorm Interview people (get out of the building) Analyze Lean

    Canvas, Create Hypotheses 3-4 hours? Idea Are our hypotheses valid?
  4. Does the user have a problem? Does our solution solve

    the problem? Are they willing to pay for it?
  5. A project with a unknown problem and a unknown solution,

    It’s nearly impossible to make correct estimates
  6. New normal Understand that the team works as close to

    the long-term maximum as possible when they are happy
  7. CFO: What if we train our employees and they leave

    us? CEO: What if we don’t and they stay?
  8. Concept Video 1. Write a customer journey 2. Make a

    rough storyboard about the happy case 3. Film it
  9. - One week sprints - One product backlog - Six

    component backlogs - Two backend teams - Three client teams
  10. Each sprint starts with team’s planning meeting Product Owner goes

    through The Product Backlog in planning meeting
  11. Product Backlog has the “epics” (or features). Five stages: -

    Maybe - In concepting - In development - Pilot/QA - Released
  12. About 50% of backlog items comes from the team members.

    - Main ingredient of our success - Everybody shares the same vision - Roadmap becomes a team-
  13. Pivo development process in a nutshell - Focus on people

    - Don’t waste time on estimates - One week sprints - Communicate the roadmap - Major feature deserves a concept video - Release as often as possible