The Agile Australia conference is held annually over two days and is jam-packed with insights from Agile experts, industry practitioner case-studies and adoption challenges from beginners. This year I will be presenting on Agile for StartUps. The overview is included below:
Startup businesses face significant risk in the search for a sustainable, profitable and scalable business model. Consequently, the success rate for Startups is low, making them a typically high risk investment. Agile methods offer a way of reducing the risk for both the technical implementation and the development of customers. This is achieved by increasing the ability for a Startup to adapt to change and to incorporate the lessons learned from early customer engagement. In this presentation the nature of technology Startups is examined and the application of Agile principles, practices and tools discussed. Additionally, the presenter will share some real life experiences in the application of Agile to his own Startup business.
The key topics I'll be covering are:
- Key business challenges that face Startup businesses
- Concept of the Lean Startup
- Application of Agile principles and practices to Startup businesses
- Sample of tools that support Agile practices in Startups
- Experiences and lessons learned from a real-life Startup