Barry O'Reilly

Lead Consultant at ThoughtWorks and co-author of 'Lean Enterprise'

The software delivery problem has evolved, now its about leverage the insights that our customers are giving us to build truly innovative products that challenge both their and our own assumptions about what we should be doing next.

In this presentation we will share ThoughtWorks are helping their clients by disrupting themselves to drive new product offerings forward and leap frog the competition.

Key insights from the session will be;
- how to define the problem you want to solve, then create hypotheses to test the solution in order to validate or invalidate assumptions you are making about your product/market fit
- how to reduced cycle time from concept to customer through Continuous Design & Delivery
- get out of the building and talk to your customers to understand their problems using innovative approaches to user testing and sourcing customer feedback
- leveraging actionable metrics and analytics tools to understand if we are truly building the right thing, over simply building products because we can.