Last Chapters

Afterword: Shifting to The Third Stream

We wrote this book because we were experiencing a shift towards outcome-based thinking in product development, and whilst lots has been previously written about why this is important, we found there was a gap to connect the concept to actual concrete approaches to focusing on product outcomes. By taking you through the Three-Stream learning loop, we wanted to bring outcome-based product thinking to life, and we hope you are now equipped with new patterns to begin experimenting with.

Learning more

Discover more about The Third Stream, as we seek to continue answering the tricky question, “What happens after we ship?” on our website https://TheThirdStreamBook.com.

Acknowledgements

We hope that this book has given you inspiration and ideas to move beyond the theory of why focusing on outcomes is important, and into concrete practice. We hope you will experiment with some of these ideas, in a different context from ours, and adapt and improve upon them to help solve for your unique needs.

A special word of thanks to David’s wife, Anne Marie, who illustrated many of the brilliant drawings you see in the book, and really helped bring our stories to life. Her talent as a creative graphic artist is incredible. In addition to this, she supported David on this challenging journey of co-writing his first book, alongside family commitments. This would simply not be possible for him without that support.

David would also like to thank his good friend, Rob Healy. Rob has been a great support to him throughout his career, and co-founded the Agile-Lean Ireland community with David, having many adventures along the way. Rob is an inspiring leader, and anyone who gets an opportunity to work with him is truly fortunate.

Dionatan thanks everyone engaged with modern product development, specially those who believe we can have a better world by positively impacting people and their lives. Our book is a little contribution among so many others on outcome-based thinking.

The content in this book was developed from our experience since we met back in 2016 as colleagues and remained friends ever since (with a lot of laughs along the way). We wish to thank all of those who we learned from and with on the journey so far.

About the Authors

David Denham

David is a Product Manager with experience creating products in Fortune 500 SaaS and eCommerce organisations, in addition to founding a web development startup business soon after leaving college. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Product Management from Technological University Dublin. Prior to his work as a PM, David worked as an Agile Coach and UX Design Manager, and thus has an unapologetic slant towards infusing whole-team approaches, deep customer-centricity, and systems thinking into how he approaches product creation. David co-founded Agile-Lean Ireland, and more recently founded Product Elevation – a global Product Management & UX conference for Product people to learn, share and grow. His website is http://www.daviddenham.io.

Dionatan Moura

Dionatan is Agile Coach since 2013 working for Fortune 500 corporations and government. Book writer on Agile and Personal Productivity. Master of Science degree in Computer Science. Programmer since 2006. Mentor of Product Owners and Agile Leadership on Outcome-Driven Product Development. Coached and trained dozens of agile teams on Scrum, Kanban, eXtreme Programming, DevOps, Lean and Scaling Agile. Co-founder and organiser of Agile Lean-Ireland 2017 Conference. Speaker in agile conferences and meetups in Brazil, Ireland and San Francisco. Born in Porto Alegre, very south of Brazil. His website is http://www.dionatanmoura.com.

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