During the Workshop, a new board game Agilist will be used. Agilist is a Business Agility Game that intricately combines elements of Kanban and Scrum to simulate the complexities of real-world product development and business operations. The game accommodates up to four players, each taking on the role of a business leader navigating the challenges of bringing a product from conception to market success. The centerpiece of the game is incorporating Kanban board, allowing players to visualize and manage their product development processes efficiently.Agilist players will compete in product development, team management, testing their decision-making skills, strategic planning, and adaptability along the way. The primary goal of the game is to be the player with the highest Profit at the end of the last iteration.

Agenda:

Intro [5 min]
Objectives, Rules & Gameplay [5min]
Setup and simulation of first few turns [10min]
Game round 1 [45min]
Break [5min]
Game round 2 [45min]
Retrospective [5min]
Q&A [5min

During the Workshop, a new board game Agilist will be used. Agilist is a Business Agility Game that intricately combines elements of Kanban and Scrum to simulate the complexities of real-world product development and business operations. The game accommodates up to four players, each taking on the role of a business leader navigating the challenges of bringing a product from conception to market success. The centerpiece of the game is incorporating Kanban board, allowing players to visualize and manage their product development processes efficiently.Agilist players will compete in product development, team management, testing their decision-making skills, strategic planning, and adaptability along the way. The primary goal of the game is to be the player with the highest Profit at the end of the last iteration.

Agenda:

Intro [5 min]
Objectives, Rules & Gameplay [5min]
Setup and simulation of first few turns [10min]
Game round 1 [45min]
Break [5min]
Game round 2 [45min]
Retrospective [5min]
Q&A [5min

The aim of the talk will be to highlight several most important activities, items and points in which Product Manager is needed to contribute and support the delivery process, from the Engineering / Project / Delivery Manager perspective. The focus here should be on WHY. Why the product manager needs to know the product well? Why the product manager should understand the correlation between business and technical aspects? Why the product manager should be good in managing stakeholders expectations? Why the product manager should be measuring costs vs benefits for features? What could happen if client is driving the delivery process? What happens when one of these above is missing? All these questions will be covered with an appropriate examples.