Continuous delivery: a product manager’s perspective

Session type:

Case Study

Presented by:

Neha Datt

Mercurial Phoenix Ltd / Equal Experts Ltd

Marcel Britsch

Complex Made Easy Ltd / Equal Experts Ltd

Session duration:

60 minutes

About the session

The continuous delivery movement has been a game changer for businesses, helping them deliver high quality, reliable software at predictable speeds. And yet parts of the business cannot keep up, which slows down delivery. Drawing on the experiences of 2 product managers, this session will explain where things can go wrong and explore how to identify, fix and avoid common issues - through the adoption of continuous delivery as an organisational mindset, rather than a software delivery practice.

About the speaker(s)

Neha Datt

Neha’s role as a product manager, trainer and coach is focused on bringing a people-centred approach to designing business strategy, delivering products and shaping organisational culture.
Her focus on people - while working within highly technical areas - is the result of over 15 years’ experience in designing and delivering intentional user experiences across a wide range of industries.
A strong advocate of lean, modern agile and service design, Neha helps organisations of all sizes - from start-ups to enterprises - to build products and teams that make a real difference to people.
Neha is a director of Mercurial Phoenix, a new venture studio and consultancy based in London, and a member of the Equal Experts network. She also finds it strange to write about herself in the 3rd person.

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Marcel Britsch

Marcel Britsch is an independent digital consultant, product owner and business analyst. Born in Germany, he has been living and working in London for over 15 years. He has worked with creatively and technically focused agencies and all sorts of clients across a wide variety of industry sectors including retail, automotive, finance, medical and energy.
He believes that project success is strongly linked to happy teams, value-focused decision-making and fast feedback cycles. As part of his role, he is passionate about finding the best tools and techniques to optimise team culture, ways of working and solution design. He considers projects that follow classic waterfall / big-design-up-front practices to be too likely to be doomed to go anywhere near them, and will also stay away from transformation projects that are solely based on coaching. But he has and will happily help organisations transform via practical involvement and by example.
Outside of work he is interested in sci fi and comic books, Theravada Buddhist mediation and number theory.
He is currently working with Equal Experts, and can be best contacted via his website, www.thedigitalbusinessanalyst.com or LinkedIn.

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