Our London event with Eric Ries, November 15th, 6-9pm, will sell out today. He will be talking about his new book, The Startup Way, #StartupWay and empowering the entrepreneurs in your organisation.
Here are some of the companies that will be represented…
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As we prepare for our evening with Eric Ries in London next week, we’ve been digging through the archives and found his classic BoS Talk from back in 2010.
This is an absolute must-watch if you’re interested in agile or lean methods.
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Always very nice to be recognized as doing something worthwhile. Guess who is on the list of 6 conferences on workplace culture that are worth your time and money?
(OK, spoiler alert, see if you can guess the other five). 🙂
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Iris runs CDI Apps for Good, an award-winning technology education movement where young people in schools learn to create apps that solve problems they care about and change their world.
She discusses the challenges of bringing lean and agile thinking into an education system that operates in very linear ways. From a modest start in 2 UK schools, 2 teachers and 50 students in 2010, Apps for Good has scaled to 1,000 schools and 50,000+ 11-18 year olds in the UK, USA, Spain and Portugal. Apps for Good is supported by hundreds of leading-edge technology entrepreneurs, UX designers and developers as expert volunteers as well as tech industry partners.
Iris shows how their approach slowly gained the backing and trust of entrepreneurs, teachers, parents and children and share some of the lessons learned in building a programme that isrelevant to any organisation that is scaling internationally.
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Ahead of our event with the Eric Ries in London on November 15th, we take a look at what people are saying about his book.
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We are excited to announce that our event with Eric Ries in London will be held at The Emmanuel Centre in Westminster.
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Ash Maurya is the author of ‘Running Lean’, ‘Scaling Lean’ as well as the Lean Canvas business modeling tool.
Ash is driven by the search for better and faster ways for building successful products. He has developed a systematic methodology for raising the odds of success built upon Lean Startup, Customer Development, and Bootstrapping techniques.
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Having met online just a few weeks before Business of Software 2017, Alli and I naturally threw caution to the winds and decided to become in-person BFFs at the conference this year.
But mere friendship wasn’t enough for two Type A copywriters. Nope.
We also decided to do a conference “takeover”, and interview BoS speakers and longtime attendees about their conference experience!
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“My research has focused on what causes established companies to maintain success, and The Startup Way provides practical guidance on how to do just that.” Clay Christensen, Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School
You should probably get yourself a copy. In it he shows how to apply the ideas that have become so well established in startups to make larger organizations more agile and innovative. Looking through our copy, we were struck by how many of the speakers at Business of Software over the years have had an influence on his thinking.
Here’s a few recordings of Business of Software talks (transcripts too) from some of the people who Eric cites as driving his thinking…
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Last time we saw Eric Ries in London was at the launch of the Lean Startup book in 2012.
As we prepare for our upcoming evening with Eric Ries to celebrate the launch of The Startup Way, 15th November, Central London, we took a look back at the last time he was in town…
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Collaborative notes from attendees, blog posts, pictures and other good stuff from the 11th Business of Software Conference USA.
Thanks to all of the hard note taking elves at Business of Software Conference USA.
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Zack Urlocker is an executive, advisor and board member with over twenty years of experience in the software industry.
He has helped scale revenues in startups from under $6 million to over $100 million and has had multiple billion dollar exits. He has held executive positions at Zendesk (COO), MySQL (EVP Product), Active Software (VP Marketing) and Borland (VP Marketing) and is currently COO at Duo Security. In his spare time he writes rock operas.
Ninety percent of all startups self-destruct —mostly because they scale too quickly. So how do you go about scaling from a small company to a large one without blowing up? In this presentation, Zack Urlocker, Chief Operating Officer of Duo Security, walks you through some of the lessons he has learned in helping software companies like Zendesk and MySQL scale to billion dollar valuations. In particular he highlights what it takes to use a disruptive strategy and how to build a high-velocity business.
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Here at Business of Software HQ we’ve landed without too much turbulence (metaphorical or aeronautical) back into a week of sitting at desks and sending emails – a far cry from being in Boston last week for the 11th annual Business of Software USA Conference.
Having said that…
We’ve had the biggest grins on our faces reading the feedback from this year’s attendees.
It’s fantastic to hear from both familiar and new names that BoS continues to provide opportunities and content that genuinely help the growth of their businesses. Even some of the negative comments have made us laugh…
“The pen is horrible.”
Consider it noted (with one of those horrible pens).
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I had visions of artful but frustrating paper folding. It turned out to be an excellent tool to help visualize the customer experience of a conference attendee. In a post conference workshop with Bernhard Ferro and Sean Mcguire from Tieto, participants were walked through a process to model and understand a complex services. in this case, Business of Software Conference was the subject of inquiry.
Clearly a good way to finish the conference, the enthusiasm of the participants was clear and we were walked through the output by Bernhard and Sean themselves.
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Lianna Patch at Punchline Copy not only did a Lightning Talk at Business of Software Conference USA last week, she took some pretty cool sketchnotes of the talks when she wasn’t preparing to give her own.
We will add these sketchnotes to the collaborative notes and publish a summary of all the notes we are aware of. Please drop us a note if you have notes/pictures that you would like to include in our write up. Thanks for these Lianna.
The rubber chicken brightened our day.
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It is early days but change is coming. Faster than you think. You should worry, but are you concerned about the right things? Should you concern yourself with terrible tales of, ‘The Singularity’, or about how AI and Machine Learning will change the way that your business runs?
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We expect AI and Machine Learning to have a significant impact on the jobs we do – Forrester estimate 16% of current US jobs will be done by AI by the end of the decade (while creating 13.6 million jobs, this still reduces the workforce by 7%). AI represents a significant opportunity for software businesses to embrace innovation within the industry that will destroy some businesses and provide a competitive advantage to others. Jana considers where AI is now, the problems that it can solve and what companies need to know to start claiming the benefits. What do you need to get started with machine learning and AI in your own organization?
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It’s always entertaining to see how people respond to this question. This appears on attendee badges and is usually an entertaining way to get conversations going. Not everyone realizes we’re serious.
We are. This can have consequences…
We’re still giggling about this @Grinblo #BoS2017 https://t.co/zGCkJjJnvm
— Mark Littlewood (@MarkLittlewood) June 19, 2017
Here’s the output of this year’s BoS USA ‘Talk to Me About’. There’s some interesting conversation starters!
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The web is being filled with pointless content that barrages our senses, overwhelms and distracts us and reinforces the new norms of sub-mediocrity. And this contentless content is amplified and regurgitated through social media, email marketing, streamed webinars and sometimes even conferences. It’s time to take a stand against the banal and pointless pollution and Dave shares with us how in this great talk from Business of Software Conference USA 2016.
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Ziad Wakim is a long time Business of Software Conference attendee who isn’t able to come this year for good reasons (see below), but he sent a lovely email that captured some of the reasons that Business of Software Conference has made a difference to him.
Ziad is the founder and CEO of Kumbu, where he leads a distributed team helping people to preserve their digital memories. Check it out.
Shared with permission.
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