Secrets of Highly Innovative Product Development

Location: NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky – Amsterdam
Time: 09:00 – 13:00 with lunch and networking
Date: March 10, 2010

Why?
Product development companies are faced with a unique set of challenges. Innovation based on intimate customer understanding is the driving force to growth and be successful. At the same time you need to service existing customers for maximum intimacy and loyalty to retain your footprint. These business challenges can only be met with modern software development approaches that yield best-ofbreed high performance. Great companies manage to combine these factors without making concessions! We would like to invite you to a seminar that uncovers the secrets of highly innovative product development on Wednesday March 10, 2010. You will learn about the combination of techniques, based on Agile and Lean principles, that give companies like Adobe Systems, Google, FaceBook, and Bol.com their edge. A number of techniques will be outlined that will help your company to improve the quality and the time to market of your products and at the same time will significantly reduce the development costs. We will show you a way to determine what functionality you should add to gain the best return on investment.

This event is free of charge.

For whom?
This exclusive event is directed at C-level Management and Research & Development Management of Software Product Companies only.

Agenda highlights
1.Customer Centric Innovation: “Uncover your customer needs in a fun way using Innovation Games®”. By Luke Hohmann, creator of “Innovation Games®”.

2. Mind the gap: “Use Agile methods to ship your software quickly and deliver the high quality products using an Agile Offshore product engineering services, while you retain the crucial knowledge in-house”. By Guido Schoonheim, CTO Xebia Netherlands and Vikas Hazrati, Director of Technology Xebia India.

3.Customer story: “An example of reducing the product development costs while building robust next generation software with a capable team”. By Winfried van Holland, CTO Human Inference Netherlands.

Agenda March 10, 2010
09.00 – 09.30 Welcome
09.30 – 09.40 Introduction by Daan Teunissen, Managing Director Xebia Group
09.40 – 10.40 Customer Centric Innovation by Luke Hohmann, CEO and Founder, Enthiosys and creator of Innovation Games
10.40 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 11.45 Mind the Gap by Guido Schoonheim, CTO Xebia and Vikas Hazrati, Director of Technology
11.45 – 12.15 Reducing the product development costs while building robust next generation software with a capable team by Winfried van Holland, CTO Human Inference
12.15 – 12.20 End of Seminar Andrew Vayro, European Sales Director, Xebia Global Services – Offshoring
12.20 – 13.00 Lunch and networking

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