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Quantifying Risk for Innovative Teams

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Sam McAfee focuses on quantitative risk modeling approaches when developing new products or services that do not have a well understood product/market fit scenario. Using modeling approaches like Monte Carlo simulations and Cost of Delay scenarios, he explores how lean innovative teams can bring scientific rigor back into their Lean Startup process.

Bio

Sam McAfee, Principal at Neo Innovation, has been building consumer and enterprise applications for fifteen years. He co-founded a web development agency in 2002 which he ran for a decade, before joining Change.org as the Director of Web Engineering in 2012, and then serving as VP of Engineering for Luxr in 2013.

About the conference

Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.

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Oct 19, 2014

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