Chris Matts
Chris Matts has over 10 years of experience in investment banking including strategy work as a practitioner rather than as a consultant. His specialist areas are real options, IT risk management, business value and agile analysis. He has been working in exotic credit derivatives for the past few years.
Talks I've Given
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The Good, The Bad and the Ugly [Workshop]
Featuring Richard Warner and Chris Matts
We all know that Middle Managers are the sheriff in any Agile Western. Sometimes good. Sometimes bad. Often ugly. This session will explore aspects of their role in an Agile Organisation.
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Panel: Portfolio delivery: from here to there.
Featuring Daniel Terhorst-North, Chris Matts, Tony Grout, Marina Oliveira and Ram Rao
Join experts from the Portfolio Management track of the Agile Testing and BDD eXchange for a panel discussion.
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Introducing Delivery Mapping
Featuring Daniel Terhorst-North and Chris Matts
Just over ten years ago Dan North and Chris Matts came together to create the Given-When-Then format that we are here to celebrate today. They had come together to solve a problem they perceived in the communication between developers and non-developers.
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Build the backlog from MVPs?
Featuring Chris Matts
How do you build the team's backlogs for each of the MVPs in your Organisational Backlog? Some items require analysis, like new tax laws. Some require A-B testing, like improving user experience. Others are obvious and don't need much explanation, and some leave everyone confused. Come...
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Feature Injection
Featuring Chris Matts
Chris Matts will present Feature Injection to the CukeUp family. Feature Injection has four steps (Yes, it has grown a step).
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BDD & The Business Analysts
Featuring Chris Matts
The Agile Alliance recently created a program that explores the role of business analysis and product management within Agile; this on-line discussion will be another part in that ongoing conversation involving some of the original participants.
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BDD and The Agile Business Analyst
Featuring Chris Matts
What is the value of Agile?
Why do we need BDD?
How do we deliver value?
What value do business analysis/product development and user experience bring to the party?
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Why do we do Agile? What is Scrum and Kanban?
Featuring Chris Matts
This talk is the message I've developed to explain "Why we do Agile" to HR, Finance and IT Management. In addition I quickly explain "What is Scrum", "What is the value if Lean" and "What is Kanban". All in simple terms that require no prior knowledge...
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Driving Requirements from Business Value
Featuring Chris Matts
In this talk, Chris Matts presents feature Injection, a lightweight process that starts with the half baked solution and uses it to work out what business value should be delivered.
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Feature Injection
Featuring Antony Marcano and Chris Matts
Feature Injection is an extention of the BDD family of tools to cover Business Analysis practices. Antony Marcano and Chris Matts will run a game that helps you understand how information flows in a project. The game builds on the idea that all value is in the output of a system. The game allows...
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A pecha kucha about leadership
Featuring Chris Matts
In this pecha kucha talk, Chris Matts talks about leadership.
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Agile Business Analysis with Feature Injection
Featuring Antony Marcano and Chris Matts
Business Analysts sometimes wonder where they fit in a cross-functional agile team. How do you get from a vague and amorphous business problem to a collection of user stories that the team can incrementally implement?
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