uestion: how much does it cost you not to have something? Reinertsen has said that Cost of Delay is the most important thing to quantify when producing a product. Great, but how do you start? How do you assign a dollar amount to something you have not built yet? How do we make sure that our teams focus on building the most important thing right now? This talk will give you the tools you need to understand Cost of Delay, as well as a set of techniques, from simple proxies to more sophisticated real-dollar analyses to help you understand the impact of delays on your organization.

Speaker:
Roger Turnau is an Agile coach with SolutionsIQ, an Accenture company. An IT executive for over 20 years, his experience includes development on large-scale, high-availability, high-profile sites, as well as helping clients unlock the value-creating potential of Agile enablement. He has helped large organizations through difficult digital and DevOps transformations, and is passionate about instilling a culture of technical excellence through test automation, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. Roger has a particular interest in helping companies align their strategies to their team-level Agile initiatives, to ensure their policies are enabling rather than hampering innovation and change.