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Leonard Vorobej
Gai Ben Dor
Gai Ben Dor competed in the Paralympic Marathon as a guide to a blind runner, and later led him on a journey to Mount Everest. Following their groundbreaking journey, Gai founded 180° Sport - a social organization that helps hundreds of people with disabilities integrate into society through education and sports activities.
Gai participated in the Paralympic Games in Beijing as a guide to a blind marathon runner, and later led him on a journey to Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world.
In his lecture, Gai talks about the struggles, crises, and difficulties he experienced on the way to the Olympics and Mount Everest. What led him to change his course of life and devote himself to working with people with disabilities and leading breakthrough social ventures for disadvantaged populations in society.
Learn more about Gai in his website https://www.gaibendor.com/en
Peter Stevens
Agility as a movement started with software developers uncovering better ways of doing what they do. Today that movement is driving even business leaders to rethink how they lead their organizations. What does it mean to "be" agile? How can agility be applied to leading organizations? Where do successful agile leaders start? Three stories, three secrets and three tips to apply agility for more impact in your life and work.
Paulius Tuzikas
New experiences often open the door for fresh perspectives and ideas. In this talk, Paulius will share what catching waves all around the world from Spain to New Zealand taught him about change, taking risks and people. You will hear stories and examples of how to start any journey or positive changes from the right place, make sustainable progress and enjoy the ride along the way.
Ieva Ričkė
Over the last years working with different profile product organizations I was happy to learn that businesses already recognize the benefits of cross-functional product or feature oriented teams and, most importantly, the positive impact this structure has on product time to market.
However, at the same time I've seen a lot of teams that feel stuck and therefore demotivated with their current processes or slow improvements, Product Owners that are too busy to dedicate time for proper product exploration and businesses that are rapidly growing yet are struggling to understand cross-team goals and product progress overall.
These cases also revealed some patterns where basic agile/scrum principles were neglected or adapted ignoring the purpose, therefore forming some habits that are not so easy and quick to change.
Therefore I would like to share some insights I've gathered while working with mature Agile teams in different organizations.
Jeff Kosciejew
We often hear about Servant Leadership. But what if that's not enough, and not what's really needed? In our creative and knowledge work environments, there's another type of leadership that might be even more applicable.
Join Jeff for an introduction & overview of Host Leadership. We'll look at the six roles - not rules - that make a great Host Leader, along with four positions that Host Leaders take.
Brian Marick
People often make mistakes with agile processes, especially when first adopting them. Rarely do people invent new mistakes; rather, they make the same mistakes many others have already made. In this talk, Brian will talk about some of those mistakes and suggest how to fix them.
Michael Nir
My Quest for Business Agility – Why do lean agile transformations fail
The good bad and ugly of lean agile and DevOps transformations
We often encounter recurring anti patterns as organizations try to adopt agile lean and devops methods:
In the turning point of the software digital age where organizations face a Cambrian extinction - the scientific application of flow, agile, lean, design thinking, lean start up, lean UX, OKRs and DevOps together with high performing teams is crucial to business survival.
Let’s Explore together the essentials of successful lean agile and DevOps change initiatives – we’ll find surprising truths about what makes and breaks agile changes in organizations.
Allow me to share Anchors of Simplicity, Mainstays of Scalability, Tell-tale Signs of Soakability, a journey across continents, numerous clients and many industries on a quest for business agility.
Jim York
Coaching supports change. Learning loops inform direction and execution of change. Join this session for a discussion of how learning loops can amplify your coaching impact. Attendees will be able to:
Povilas Godliauskas
The first value of the Agile manifesto states: “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.” However, after studying the teams of 11 software development companies, I learned the following: the use of interaction-driven Agile practices had little to do with the psychological performance of software development teams. Upon reflection, I asked myself: could it be the case that we have been focusing too much on the interactions and too little on the individuals? So, I spent the last three years of my professional career talking to tech professionals – from engineers to leaders – about their feelings and attitudes. Unfortunately, I came to realize that this group of highly talented and growth-oriented individuals was suffering from various psychological issues, ranging from self-doubt to productivity issues. In this talk, I will share my reflections and research results on the well-being of software developers. Let us bring our attention back to the individual and see where the rubber meets the road!
Aleksej Kovaliov
Reflections on our Scaled Agile case study after trying different teams topologies in the development of highly complex product. Engineering Program benchmark: 250+ people, 30+ teams, 50+ components of the platform suite product, public release every sprint. Talk will cover: pros and cons of different teams organization approaches, typical challenges, hints for transformation handling.
Frederik Vannieuwenhuyse
Frederik will introduce the Personal Agility System, a coaching-based framework which allows you to align what you do in life with what really matters. The session includes an explanation and a small exercise to get started yourself.
Gražvydas Šedys
Companies or Teams wanting to adopt Agile ways of working often focuses on wanting to become Agile. But Agile is not the goal itself, Agile is there to help you reach your goals and/or solve your challenges. So do we really need to be fully Agile, adopt perfect Scrum or create a unique, all-encompassing method for ourselves?
In my experience working with various companies and teams, you can often benefit and solve your main pain points, just by adopting a few of the tools or methods promoted by the Agile mindset. So I Deconstructed Agile to different bits and pieces so you can pick the ones that will give the most benefit to reach your desired goal and I will introduce this approach to you in this speech.
Joe Justice
What is it like to work in 3 hour sprints? How does any company deploy 27 changes per week in hardware, or more? What is a team size like when you are moving that fast? What about certification, and how does testing fit in such short sprints? Joe Justice will answer these questions and more.
Thomas van Zuijlen
Hybrid” no longer means combining the best of two worlds. In the world of work, it is the middle ground that makes no-one happy, and you should stay the hell away from it.
If your company is “going hybrid” it means you’ve so far failed to truly adapt: Adapt to changing regulations, to the nature of knowledge work, to the power of self-organisation.
Nine-to-five life in a physical office is the answer to a question no-one is asking anymore. You’ve already seen that we can do better, smarter, more human-centric work under difficult circumstances with a widely dispersed workforce.
So people trying to get your team “back” to the office are missing the point of self-organisation, and are pushing a command-and-control agenda.
If you end up with mandatory “office days” and office meetings with a few colleagues on TV screens, now second-class citizens - you’ve gone hybrid, and I am here to tell you: you need to inspect and adapt again.
Pandemic restrictions made you rely on yourself to make some hard choices to become productive. Let’s not stop now. Let’s dare to strive further than the mediocrity of hybrid. For a goal-oriented, agile and inclusive work life.
Dmitry Emelyanov
Two ways of providing the transformation, how the "wrong" way could be more useful than "right".
Doc Norton
Many Software Development Managers use velocity in order to plan their Sprints, but often times this metric doesn’t seem very useful. Looking for a better way to forecast when a new user story will be complete or how to gather data that actually helps your team?
Join Doc Norton as he briefly addresses some issues with velocity, looks at root causes for said issues, and then dives into other, better metrics.
Francis Laleman & Charles-Louis de Maere
This practical, collaborative workshop will have participants practice their co-creative storytelling skills together using a variety of formats proposed by the facilitators. Throughout the workshop, we will also learn how to apply this in the organisational contexts of transformation, of teamwork and agile ways of working.
Ant Agile sofos
We will be hosting short interviews / talk shows with speakers of the conference. Our goal is to have them as informal as possible, like you would be sitting on the Agile Couch with a cup of coffee and discussing Agile related topics with your friends or colleagues. So if you want to hear what you did not manage to ask the speakers during their presentations – come and join us anytime!
14:10 - 14:30 Gai Ben Dor on the Agile Couch
14:35 - 14:55 Leonard Vorobej on the Agile Couch
15:00 - 15:20 Frederik Vannieuwenhuyse on the Agile Couch
15:25 - 15:45 Jim York on the Agile Couch
15:50 - 16:10 Michael Nir on the Agile Couch
16:15 - 16:35 Peter Stevens on the Agile Couch
Leonard Vorobej
Dave Snowden
The phrase Its not what you know, but who you know has both positive and negative connotations in an organisation. the negative meaning is obvious, but there is also a positive side. We use informal networks and common associations as a cognitive efficiency tool, helping us make quick decisions and using past relationships of trust as a short circuit. Informal networks act like mycorrhiza in the soil that provide nutrient to the more visible trees. If we could find a way to manage the formation of those informal networks and their connection, in context, to the formal systems then we would have a powerful means of working across silos and creating a real time flow of both knowledge and, critically, nurture within a organisation. This presentation will look at new methods and tools to do precisely that.
Tom Gilb
There is a better agile world, one that is much better at delivering measurable organizational results quickly, on time, under budget. It is well proven in major corporations, but it is not well-marketed to get your cash; perhaps because it is essentially free. You just have to be smart and motivated to go for it.
It can change your career as an agile coach, consultant, teacher or leader.
It is based on a pretty simple idea: Deliver measurable stakeholder value incrementally and early, and be agile enough to change anything to deliver it better.
Most of you cannot yet do this because you have not been trained in stakeholders, in value ideas, in quantification of value ideas, in decomposition of Big Bang ideas, and in dynamic value-prioritization. Here is your big chance, to rectify your lack of knowledge. It won’t cost you much more than your own time to study the methods, which themselves are free. No, we will not certify you, (for a small fee). You either deliver real value impressively to your stakeholders, or you do not yet know how to do it.
I do not want your money, I want you to deliver far better value streams to your stakeholders.
Peter Maddison
TACO stands for Traceability, Access, Compliance and Operations and is a set of 20 controls I use as a guideline for helping organizations define automated governance for their software delivery pipelines. However, the primary purpose of TACO is to provide a common language for the organization to understand what "good" pipelines mean for them and how to get there.This model allows for the creation of opinionated pipelines and helps create a common understanding across teams as to what is required in order to be secure. Taking a TACO approach can be considered a part of implementing a DevSecOps program and I’ve used this approach at multiple banks. Having this baseline helps build organizational confidence in the automation of software delivery.During the talk, I’ll run through the different categories of controls, how they are implemented, what the purpose of them is, how to create robust feedback loops for controls.
Linda Rising
When Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize for developing a new model of how the brain works, it changed how we think about thinking. If you haven't had time to read Kahneman's book "Thinking Fast and Slow," or even if you have, Linda will "translate" the model and what it means for us in working better. We know that our jobs involve thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making. We all want to do a better job of thinking fast and slow. Linda will help you get started with that.
Ken Rubin
Dependencies are killing your agility and you want to fight back. A common belief is that if we just re-organize ourselves “correctly” (for example, organize 100% into feature teams) we can eliminate dependencies. This is a myth. Certainly re-organizing can help, but eliminating all dependencies when trying to do agile at scale is not practical. There are many other beliefs that cloud our minds when dealing with dependencies. For example, if we could just identify all of the dependencies upfront, we could manage them. Or if we just had a more detailed dependency-management process with awesome tool support, we could tame our dependencies. Yeah, no. In this session Ken will bust many of the common myths surrounding how to best deal with dependencies. He will provide critical insight drawn from his years of experience working with many different clients and their dependency issues. At the end of the session, you will be in a better position to evaluate your organization’s approach to dependency management and begin utilizing reality-based rather than myth-based approaches that will actually help lessen the impact of dependencies.
Bob Willis
So we‘ve been doing this remote working thing for a while now huh? Some of us are actually going back to face-to-face working which is great! Either way I think it‘s time to hit the reset button on how we can bring our best selves to setting the foundation for Agility that really works.In this talk I‘ll be bringing to bear many years of pain and joy to help you guys from playing the wheel reinvention game!I‘ll take a sweeping cut across Leadership, Product Ownership, Team Dynamics, Value Generation, Scaling (or descaling!) and, and and …Looking forward to seeing you all again at Agile Tour Vilnius!
Gojko Adzic
Impact Mapping is a lightweight planning technique that helps organisations align delivery with business goals. It is collaborative, visual, and most importantly fast. In this talk, Gojko presents early results of an ongoing research on how teams around the world apply impact mapping to speed up time to market and get maximum impact for minimum effort. You'll learn about five important ideas to ensure effective impact mapping sessions.
Jeremy Berriault
Maturity is a term that is used a lot to show effective and efficient use of processes. Being agile is more than just processes. Yes, a team will get better at doing the processes or guidance within a framework, is that the way the concept of agile delivery is meant to be? This talk will discuss:
Mikhail Sorokin
The workshop is based on a real-life case of a manager who struggles with organizing a successful product delivery and motivating the team to work with happiness and energy.
At the workshop you will learn how and at what level goals can be set and what tools Agile frameworks provide for this matter.
At all exercises of the workshop we will use Liberating Structures as facilitation techniques.
Oana Juncu
Change is source of resistances and we all have experienced it. We were either resistant or we were resisted at. Change is a life cycle, when something new rises up, the old system is falling. A falling system does not want to die, therefore it resits. You are invited you to discover how to succeed your transformation using the Two loop model for systemic change. The approach, defined by Margaret J. Wheatley and Deborah Frieze, is a nonlinear theory of change based upon the ideas of living systems. It provides us with insight into the simultaneous growth and decline process that are underway within a system during a transition period. In transition, an old system struggles to live, and a new system prepares itself to be born. We will experiment how to strengthen the transition resilience of an organisation, business, and society from one social structure to another. You can discover and experiment how different roles of a change agent are necessary to accompany the different needs of the system in change. You will learn why being compassionate with the falling system is important, if you are part of the rising community. You will learn how to listen to the emergent future if you feel loyal to the ancient system. You will discover not only the change model, but also why the different types of change agents are key roles, and how a resilient transformation needs to onboard them. The workshop will give openings on why change can be fragile, and how we can reinforce it.
João Proença & Michael Kutz
You’ve certainly heard that word before: “bias”. Today, a lot of controversial topics surround that word and for a good reason. After all, bias is at the core of a lot of discrimination and prejudice issues in our world.
However, did you know there are many different types of biases that influence our judgement every day and are not related with discrimination?
For instance, have you heard of Loss Aversion? It states that humans experience losing something much more intensely than they do when acquiring it. It really affects our judgement, for instance, when you are contemplating on the idea of deleting an automated test!
Maybe the Gambler’s fallacy influences the way you handle flaky tests? Or maybe the Spotlight Effect blocks you from driving changes in your organization?
In this workshop, we want you to experience some of these cognitive biases first-hand! After all, acknowledging that our behavior, as human beings, is impacted by these factors is the first step in learning how to improve our rational judgement. We’re also going to try to relate these behaviors with our professional lives. Maybe you can even come up with your own ideas on how cognitive biases hinder our abilities as testers and engineers.
Let’s learn together! So join us and, please, bring your cognitive biases with you!
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Ant Agile sofos
We will be hosting short interviews / talk shows with speakers of the conference. Our goal is to have them as informal as possible, like you would be sitting on the Agile Couch with a cup of coffee and discussing Agile related topics with your friends or colleagues. So if you want to hear what you did not manage to ask the speakers during their presentations – come and join us anytime!
14:25 - 14:45 Dave Snowden on the Agile Couch
14:55 - 15:15 Charles-Louis de Maere, Francis Laleman on the Agile Couch
15:15 - 15:25 Gražvydas Šedys, Simas Torgovickis, Andrius Degutis Refections on the Agile Couch
15:35 - 15:55 Ken Rubin on the Agile Couch
16:00 - 16:20 Tom Gilb on the Agile Couch