Applications of Computing in Industry : Lecture

Producing the perfect design for a product before it has been used by a significant number of real world users is extremely difficult. There are many unknowns that cannot be anticipated, greatest of which is, how will the user actually use the product?

With traditional software development techniques, this can lead to the unnecessary development of features, increased costs and delays to the product launch. However the Minimal Viable Product (MVP) approach encourages us to fail fast and fail often, rapidly learning how to build the right product.

In this talk we will discuss how to practically use the MVP approach and take advantage of web application programming to rapidly create the right product.

Paul is a Software Engineering Lead within Next Jump and heads up the UK Engineering Team. This agile team of engineers is responsible for the development and internationalisation of products which power the employee benefits platforms used by over 85% of FTSE 100 companies. Paul graduated with a BSc in Computation from UMIST in 2007 and prior to Next Jump was the co-founder of Tactile CRM, a B2B software start-up with a global client base.