Product Sashimi

Slice your product thinly and deliver sooner!

You have an idea for a product.

You have to figure out how to deliver software that will delight your customers.

You want to ship something of value now!

We can help you!

We can help you turn a nebulous product idea into a plan with some chance of success; or we can help you ship the most for the least from your already-way-too-big scope of work. Either way, it boils down to this: you will learn how to slice a product thinly.

We don't know about you, but the very idea makes us hungry. For sashimi. That's why we named this workshop the way we did. In a single day, we present to you a three-course menu of sashimi-inspired techniques.

FIRST COURSE

Product to Feature Areas

Which major areas of the system are essential to delivering a complete, coherent product? Slice your product to essential feature areas.

SECOND COURSE

Feature Areas to Stories

Which specific features are most likely to get people to buy and use your product? Slice your feature areas to concrete features.

THIRD COURSE

Stories to Examples

How can you describe each feature in a way that best helps programmers understand what to build? Slice your stories to executable examples.

Your Chefs

J. B. Rainsberger

Bonnie Aumann

J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger helps software organizations better satisfy their customers as well as the businesses they support.

Expert at delivering successful software, he writes, teaches and speaks about why delivering better software is important, but not enough. He helps clients improve their bottom line by coaching teams as well as leading change programs.

He helps software organizations off the treadmill of over-commitment and under-delivery, addressing all aspects of software delivery including understanding the business, gelling the team and even writing great code.

Bonnie Aumann works with software development teams and their customers to build better products by improving understanding and communication.

An experienced dialectical facilitator between the business and development sides of the software creation process, she has found that a clear product vision, constant communication, and happy employees produce better products more efficiently.

An up-and-coming speaker and unorthodox teacher and coach, she helps companies and programmers achieve their goals by applying Lean and Systems thinking.

J. B.'s favorite sashimi: Sea bass

Bonnie’s favorite sashimi: Yellowtail with scallion

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