Ivaylo Lyubenov

Ivaylo is an engineer with more than 14 years of delivering successful – both software and hardware – products. He had the opportunity to work with professionals from all continents, through several industries  – entrepreneurs, enterprises, digital agencies, engineering companies. As Scum Master and Product Engineer he brought valuable and profitable products in highly competitive markets such as the aircraft and automotive industry. As a mentor and trainer, he had the possibility to teach over 15 different training programs in various themes and audiences – from entry level Scrum and Kanban for new beginners to deep technical dives for knowledge workers, totaling in more than 800 trainees. You will hear Ivaylo often telling people to think about the system overall, not just the individual component – 11 stars don’t make a star team. Even if all component are perfect, that doesn’t mean your whole product is perfect. That is where the agile mindset comes in play – the ability to mold those 11 stars in a team, in a real product. The ability to adapt to a changing situation and deliver those valuable 20% of functionally which are meaningful, rather than the 80% of features which are nice to have – that for Ivaylo is essential in the working way of a successful product team.