WEAVING THE FABRIC OF PRODUCT PROTOTYPING
"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." – Sam Walton.
Empiricism is the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. The modern era of technology innovations have consciously embraced empirical approaches to model cutting edge products for customers across the globe. An organization’s ability to balance focus between ‘Building the product right’ and ‘Building the right product’ is often the difference between its creativity and failure.
Behold the ‘Zorro Circles’ of Product Prototyping as a comprehensive framework to blueprint a plan that affords you an opportunity to choose from a gamut of techniques with origins from Lean Startup and Rapid Prototyping. This approach shall showcase a holistic path to model complex products by unraveling the multi-layered circles of customer identification. Attend this session to discover several strategies and tactics to identify your customers, empathize with their pain and bridge their perception with your reality in order to create products that market themselves.
Outline/Structure of the Talk
Given below is the session outline: (Total Presentation Time: 45 mins)
- Introduction (5 min)
- The need to Prototype (10 min)
- The Zorro Circles of Product Prototyping (20 min)
- Open Forum (10 min)
Learning Outcome
- Learn two techniques designed to help you differentiate your customer’s need from their perspective.
- Walk away with specific tactics to craft a product vision that exemplifies your customer’s need.
- Discover the applicability of ‘Zorro Circles’ as a guardrail to formulate a comprehensive approach to product prototyping in various locales.
Target Audience
Product Owner, Business sponsors, Agile leaders, product stakeholders, Agile team members, Business analysts,
Links
This topic has been previously presented and well received at Agile conferences including the Big Apple Scrum Day 2016 and a few Fortune 50 organizations.
Aakash Srinivasan’s presentation experience:
- Agile Conferences/Events –
- Agile 2015
- AgileIndy 2015
- Innovate Virginia 2016
- Big Apple Scrum Day 2016
- ADC West Las Vegas 2016
- Global Scrum Gathering Orlando 2016
- Heart of Agile 2016
- Tri Agile 2016
- Agile User Groups/Local Meet ups –
- DC Scrum User Group
- Illinois Regional Agile Users Group
- DC Area Scaled Agilists
- Agile Professionals VA
- Baltimore Agile
- Agile Chicago Style Podcasts
- Learning Tree Scrum User Group
- IIBA DC
Vivek Angiras’s presentation experience:
- Agile Conferences/Events –
- IIBA BA Development Day 2015
- Innovate Virginia 2016
- Big Apple Scrum Day 2016
- ADC West Las Vegas 2016
- Global Scrum Gathering Orlando 2016
- Heart of Agile 2016
- Tri Agile 2016
- Agile User Groups/Local Meet ups –
- DC Area Scaled Agilists
- Agile Professionals VA
- Baltimore Agile
- Agile Chicago Style Podcasts