How can I De-Risk my projects?

Opening Question: How can I increase confidence in my deliveries?

(Confidence that we are building the right thing)

Elevator Pitch:

• Promote visibility to surface issues early
  • white boards, backlog, burndown
• Limit your exposure
  • Short development cycles
  • Simple, repeatable deployments
• Validate your propositions
  • research led, Pathfinding
  • Tightly coupled to customer feedback

How to do it now?

• Reduce cyle time
• Get regular feedback
• Use reliable metrics (usage, conversion, retention, )

Sound bite:

Lean Startup: “Build, Measure, Learn”