Doing proper, product-driven, user-driven agile in large organizations is hard. Much of it, of course, has to do with organizational processes that are inflexible and built around long-term planning. Emily Tate knows all this first hand, and we discuss her about her recent talk on this topic. As the abstract says: "sometimes working in an enterprise company, your life can feel more like a Dilbert cartoon than a TechCrunch article. Pushing for modern product and design thinking in the enterprise can be challenging, but the opportunity to make an impact can be huge. This talk will discuss common challenges to building great product in the enterprise, including: User research roadblocks MVP misunderstandings Product autonomy Institutional momentum against change."
As always, we also go over recent news in the infrastructure world.
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News
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Announcing the general availability of Azure Event Grid. Some cool tech that acts as a managed event routing service. Services feed in, you handle events on the way out.
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The era of the cloud’s total dominance is drawing to a close - bit of an overstatement as it's likely more additive, not zero-sum, but rise in mainstream coverage that there's edge/IoT stuff: the new desktop.
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Cloud Native Works in Government - the IRS, US Air Force, and contractors - Coté's write-up of some digital whatnot in the US government.
Big Time Agile
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"Everything's coming up Dilbert: Building Product in the Enterprise," Emily Tate, Pivotal, Dec 2017.
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Also, Emily's a 2015 talk detailing selecting features and such for MVPs, and her ignite talk on being a serial hobbyist.
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