Evolve Beyond Meet Up 27/02/2014
First Evolve Beyond Meetup 27th February 2014
Our first try at a meetup to discuss how you combine the best of Agile and Lean innovation with great product and user experience.
- How can we evolve beyond agile to combine with what product and UX have to offer?
- How can we both innovate and execute in the same company with the same teams, same product managers, same UXers?
We had five 5 minute(ish) lightning talks with Agile, Product and UX speakers followed by some discussion and beer. Four of the videos are posted here for viewing.
Neil Perkin – Gary Kasparov and Scaling Agile Innovation
Neil runs Only Dead Fish, a digital consultancy working with companies including Google and The DailyTelegraph. Applying agile principles and ways of working in a startup is one thing but what happens when you need that at real scale? How might big companies change the way in which they structure themselves and work to innovate in … Continue reading Neil Perkin – Gary Kasparov and Scaling Agile Innovation
Hugo Pickford-Wardle – Hard Prototyping
Hugo does Innovation and Product Consulting and has innovated for The Times, LV, Fluxx and is now creating an innovation lab at Hearst Magazines. He has an idea that prototypes aren’t as easy as they used to be – and the way we approach making them to be useful to innovate needs to change…
Danny Hearn – John Lewis Hackathon
Danny Hearn is UX Manager at John Lewis Online. Danny tells the story of how he made the John Lewis hackathon happen, and on the way influenced big changes in culture and thought throughout the organisation. Some very interesting insight into strategic and tactical thinking.
Gabrielle Benefield – Being Outcomes Driven
Gabrielle is the founder of Evolve Beyond, and led the Agile transformation at Yahoo! scaling to over 250 teams globally.