There is no secret sauce - Tom Roden & Ben Williams (Agile Testing Days Keynote 2015)

A lean toolkit for risk management of investment portfolios by visualising assumptions & outcomes and providing rapid feedback on them.
If you apply agile methods verbatim then you will end up without portfolio management, essentially no risk mitigation and no steering of multi-million dollar investment portfolios. We might be tempted to retain our traditional portfolio management structure and process. Just adding ‘agile’ to the front of a function, does not magically conjure up agility, this is equally true for portfolio management. In fact traditional practices will actually inhibit the agility that teams may have managed to carve out.There is no secret sauce to make portfolio management work effectively for agile deliveries, you already have all the ingredients at our command. Ben and Tom will show you how to unite the principles of portfolio management with the principles of lean and agile. They are combined to form a comprehensive toolkit, that is proven to safeguard investors money in environments at scale and with regulation.You will take away concepts including, Staff Liquidity, Lean Governance, Ranged Planning, Impact Metrics & Benefits as well as how to apply linked assumptions to test your investment decisions.
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BEN WILLIAMS

Coach, consultant, transformation specialist and author of ‘50 Quick Ideas to Improve your Retrospectives’, Ben Williams helps organizations deliver real business value, consistently and faster. Applying a wide range of tools, techniques, and experiences, Ben coaches teams and leaders to appraise and refine their work systems. Drawing predominantly from agile and lean disciplines like Scrum and kanban, Ben has been involved in driving some radical and large scale agile transitions, working as a coach and servant leader. He is a regular speaker within the UK and internationally and was rated top track talk at Agile Testing Days 2014.

TOM RODEN

Tom Roden, Partner at Neuri Consulting

Tom Roden is a software delivery coach, consultant and quality enthusiast, helping teams and people make the changes needed to thrive and adapt to the ever changing demands of their environment.

He collaborates with teams intent on delivering high quality software with speed and reliability, supporting ongoing improvement through process and practice refinement, influenced by agile and lean principles.

Tom specialises in agile testing, from establishing testing functions, test management and strategy, through to practitioner approaches such as specification by example, BDD and context driven (exploratory) testing.

Tom presents at conferences in the UK and internationally.