GOTO 2012 • What is Value? • Jez Humble

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2012
Jez Humble - Author of "Continuous Delivery", Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks
ABSTRACT
The concept of "value" is central to agile and lean software development - but how do we decide what is valuable, and on what basis? I will argue that determining value is the responsibility of everyone - not just the "product owner" - and that in order to deliver value, the most important thing is to be able to measure it transparently, and to establish a fast feedback loop so we can quickly determine if what we're doing is in fact valuable. In this talk I will discuss several approaches to measuring value, how to maximize creating it, and how doing so affects the way teams work.