Lean Coffee - Discovery vs Delivery in Product, Rewired by AI

Discovery vs Delivery in Product: Rewired by AI

Lean Coffee is back, driven by popular demand. Bring your product problems, solutions and voice to the table, to discuss a topic facing us all today in Product teams.

The Context
Getting the time and the buy-in to do product Discovery was hard enough before AI-accelerated Delivery. AI-assisted development tools have fundamentally altered the equilibrium and democratised the opportunity space like never before - but how can we balance speed with risk-mitigation? This shift does not just impact product managers / owners; it changes the daily operational reality for developers shipping code at unprecedented speeds, UX and UI designers scaling qualitative user research, project managers re-aligning delivery timelines, startup founders optimising lean capital and more.

The specific differentiator of this session is bringing back our beloved Lean Coffee format; its cross-functional focus, leveraging a democratic style to bring our entire local technology community together to solve this shared tension.

How it Works
There is no single expert on a stage tonight. Instead of sitting through slides, we start the evening with a blank wall where you pitch the exact discovery and delivery challenges you want the room to discuss. The room votes on their favourites, and we dive into timed, democratic rounds of peer-to-peer discussion.
Bring your raw operational realities, your current friction points, or simply an open mind about how other local Product teams are adapting. The agenda is entirely yours to set.
This session is explicitly designed for the entire Product team so please do consider bringing your team for this after-work session.

Key Takeaways:

• Cross-Functional Insights: Pragmatic, peer-tested approaches to maintaining discovery rigour without blocking an accelerated delivery pipeline.
• Operational Benchmarking: Direct insight into how other technology organisations in the West Midlands are structuring their teams and handling increased technical throughput.
• High-Density Ecosystem Networking: An opportunity to sit with professional peers across multiple disciplines to discuss localised resource constraints, cross-functional friction points, and lasting connections.

👥 Agenda

• 18:30: Arrival, structured networking, pizza, and drinks.
• 19:00: Welcome, Lean Coffee board setup, and topic pitching.
• 19:05: The discussions begin with timed rounds of cross-functional peer-to-peer conversations.
• 20:00: Facilitated Q&A and session wrap-up.
• 20:15: Unstructured peer networking resumes.
• 20:30: Event close.

🍕 Food & Drinks
Thanks to our sponsor, AND Digital, we’ll have pizza and drinks available, and we'll be ready to connect!

🤝 Thanks to our Sponsors
· AND Digital – A digital delivery partner helping ambitious companies build world-class digital capabilities and close the digital skills gap
· IntelStream UK – A Birmingham-based content and storytelling company, providing professional photography, videography and PR content for events.

Bring your toughest multi-disciplinary pipeline challenges, bring your unique role perspective, and help shape the dialogue that elevates our local tech community.

Hosted by Max Laverty and Nohit Arora, Mahdi Barkhordari, Janice Feighery, Matt Vercauteren.