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Traditional approaches for innovation pale in comparison to approaches leveraging the practice of agile innovation. In this practical and lively and interactive case study session you will leverage the agile approach to start a small business. You will see how an agile approach enables you to reduce cost and accelerate project success. We will demonstrate how to reduce innovation risk via the fail-fast and pivot approach. Finally the four main customer needs -- price, quality, choice and convenience -- that every entrepreneur must consider to succeed are presented from the agile lens.

 

Bio:

Dr. Vijay Kanabar is the Director of Project Management programs and Associate Professor at Boston University, Metropolitan College, where he has just completed 27 years of service.  At Boston University he has served on the President’s Council on Digital Learning and Innovation at Boston University.   Author of books in the domains of Computing and co-author of several project Management books, he is Agile CSM Certified, and has maintained his Project Management Institute’s (PMI)  PMP credential for about 25 years. Dr. Kanabar was awarded PMI’s Linn Stuckenbruck Teaching Excellence Award in 2017, this global award recognizes and honors an individual faculty member for excellence in teaching and curriculum development to the academic discipline of project management.  Dr. Kanabar has consulted for several Fortune 100 firms and can be reached at kanabar@bu.edu.