Sandra Davey
Managing Director
Product Space
location_on Australia
Member since 3 years
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Sandra Davey
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With a foundation in Internet-enabled product management working and across highly innovative and changing industries, I’ve developed real capability in the cultural and organisational challenges of digital disruption and transformation.
Having delivered 30+ products during my career, I founded the Product Space to help medium-sized Australian and New Zealand businesses transform and simplify their digital product management environments.
I'm also proud to be an Agile product management coach with Nomad8
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Avoiding the Kracken of Doom: A story of CHOICE's lean quest
40 Mins
Case Study
Beginner
CHOICE, Australia's consumer advocate, is more than 50 years old and has +180,000 members. For most of those 50 years CHOICE's default was testing appliances and then mailing out the results in a magazine. We had a website, but it was seen as a supplement to the magazine.
Only a few years ago, we were stuck. We had a website, but no mobile presence. We had no product managers, no scrum masters, no UX skills, and work on our critical platform, choice.com.au, was outsourced because it was deemed "non-core". Our agility, velocity and ability to innovate were almost zero and part from rebuilding our website, we hadn't launched a new product in 15 years.
Fast-forward to 2017, every metric we use to understand the value of our organisation and measure its success is heading in the right direction. And that includes employee engagement and customer satisfaction.
How on earth did this happen? Come join us for a lively discussion on how an agile journey in one part of our organisation led to an organisation-wide Lean quest. -
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Thinking is Good Feeling is Better
25 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
You can learn product management, you can learn the full-stack environment your dev works in, and you can learn how to prototype; these are all professional skills we learn in our jobs. But the rest, the big stuff, the important stuff, you gotta feel it.In product management, we make a truckload of logical, rational decisions and choices. using logic, reason and method we immerse ourselves in the data so can make "data driven decisions". And they're good decisions right, cause it's data. And to get there, we revere rationality, logic, structure, but often to the exclusion of emotion, feeling, gut, instinct and knowledge.So I wanna talk about this 'soft' stuff. Of giving voice, of feeling and expressing vulnerability, of the power of listening, of using empathy and emotion ... the stuff of creativity to help make choices and decisions. And you learn this by feeling it, experiencing and doing it, by being it. Not by reading about it. -
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