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Monday, May 30
 

9:00am CEST

Courageously, Compassionately, Confidently Learning: The Path to Agility (Diana Larsen)
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Learning is emerging as a key competency as the 21st century unfolds, not only for every organization, but also for every individual – from those in the board room and the executive suite, to managers and leaders in the middle, to teams on the front line, and those who coach them. Key, not only for everyone who wants to succeed, but particularly for those who seek agility and agile proficiency. In this keynote, Diana Larsen will celebrate the learning practitioner/leader. You’ll discover how to find courage and compassion as leaders and teams who can see, embrace, and learn from mistakes. You’ll engage with ideas for setting the conditions for maximum learning for yourself and for your teams. And you’ll walk away with five crucial guidelines for confident learners and the energy to put them to the test.
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Diana Larsen

Co-founder & Chief Connector, Agile Fluency Project, LLC
Diana Larsen is a co-founder, chief connector, and principal mentor at the Agile Fluency® Project. Diana co-authored the books Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great; Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams; Five Rules for Accelerated Learning. She co-originated... Read More →

Monday May 30, 2016 9:00am - 10:15am CEST
Room 1
  Individual and Organizational Change, Keynote

10:45am CEST

Agile - 5 key points for managers (Andy Brandt)
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In this talk I want to convey what I consider to be the most important points about Agile that managers should be aware of if their organization is to truly embrace agility and reap benefits from all the methods and practices teams (and not only teams) will use. Managers are, I think, largely overlooked by Agile practitioners and consultants – no Agile method addresses line managers (or their equivalents in an Agile company) so while almost everyone else gets training and support managers usually are left on their own to figure out what it is that that they should be doing in Agile. This may lead to the quite popular but largely false notion that management is unnecessary and therefore not present in an Agile company. This talk is of course not long enough to cover the whole topic, but it is meant to give food for thought and further research and thus serve as a starting point for managers striving to find their place in Agile.
What will be covered:
  • how to approach the topic,
  • does Agile mean absence of management,
  • managers' role as teams' supporters and guardians,
  • supporting self-organization.
Learning Outcomes:
  • As a line manager / dept manager / lead you will have a better picture of your place in an Agile organization as well as pointers for further learning.
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AB

Monday May 30, 2016 10:45am - 11:30am CEST
Room 1
  Individual and Organizational Change, Talk

10:45am CEST

Obvious and less obvious barriers in Agile Transformation (Krystian Kaczor)
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Many Agile Coaches and organizations struggle with Agile Transformation, Agile Transition and similar initiatives. It seems to be never ending story. Tons of energy invested, a lot of stress, small victories on the way and just small step at a time. After years of experience we even see rollback immediately after change leader leaving the organization. We also observe new BOKs, hybrid methods and own home-grown solutions. Why is it so hard to implement thirteen pages of Scrum Guide content in an organization? Why only very few succeed? We have some ideas from publicly available surveys. However from what I observe as Agile Coach and consultant I have conclusion that the truth is very simple. Let me share some thoughts with you.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Where to focus with agile transformation program or improving agile adoption. What are typical pitfalls in Agile adoption.

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KK

Monday May 30, 2016 10:45am - 11:30am CEST
Room 3
  Individual and Organizational Change, Talk

10:45am CEST

Value over projects - a #NoProjects production (Allan Kelly)
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One of the many reasons the project model is a bad fit for software development is the emphasis placed meeting time and cost criteria. This approach destroys values but without it, how can work to be guided? controlled? and governed?
The alternative is to aim for business benefit and value.
Unfortunately, benefit can be hard to define and sometimes doing the obvious thing does't maximising value, sometimes it makes sense to delay the highest value work.
In this presentation Allan Kelly will look how software development can be planning and guided development using value and how this approach fits with the #NoProjects agenda.Placeholder
Learning Outcomes:
  • Improved understanding of value and value based prioritisation
  • - how NPV should be calculated
  • - how to model cost of delay and create a time-value profile
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AK

Monday May 30, 2016 10:45am - 11:30am CEST
Room 2
  Value Creation, Talk

11:45am CEST

Problem Solving Teams: Creating resilient organisations through managing complexity (Ken Power)
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Abstract:
One reason many of us came to the field of software engineering or software development is because we enjoy solving problems. It exercises out mental muscles, and gives us a feeling of satisfaction to know we can add value to our organizations and customers by solving tough problems. However, as the organizations we work for get bigger, and the scope of work gets bigger, so too do the problems we need to solve. There comes a point where we can’t solve them alone, or even with the immediate team we work with. Some problems require a cross-organization, multi-function approach. When our goal is to be a more agile, lean-thinking organization, we need to develop approaches to solving these types of problems.
This is where Problem Solving Teams come into play. Problem Solving Teams are temporary structures that bring together leaders and team members from across the organization to focus on solving a specific problem. The benefits are many, including not just a solved problem, but also a more resilient organization, a stronger social network and a growing cohort of problem solvers with increased skills and abilities.
This approach draws from many influences, including complexity science, social network theory, military doctrine, flight crews, and emergency responders. We have been experimenting with this approach across several areas that involve multiple geographies and multiple functions.
Learning Outcomes:
  • The benefits of leaders and teams working together to solve cross-organization problems.
  • Forming and structuring a problem solving team.
  • Removing organization impediments
  • Supporting a problem solving team.
  • Core tools, including the Cynefin framework and A3 problem solving approaches.
  • Supplementary tools.
  • Useful metrics for supporting problem solving teams.
  • How and when to define and frame the problem.

Speakers
avatar for Ken Power

Ken Power

Cisco Systems

Monday May 30, 2016 11:45am - 12:45pm CEST
Room 1
  Individual and Organizational Change, Talk

11:45am CEST

Great ScrumMaster (Zuzana Sochova)
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How do you get from good to great?
Great ScrumMasters are using team theory, system thinking, and coaching to make their teams shine. What tools do all Scrum Masters need for this essential role? How can we make ordinary ScrumMasters great?
In this practical talk, Zuzi Sochova shows you how to adopt the outlook of cultural anthropologists, apply the ScrumMaster state of mind, and learn to walk the ScrumMaster Way.
Become a Great practitioner, teacher, and servant-leader in Agile. Your work and life becomes more fulfilling and meaningful, as your teams become more self-organized, capable, and creative too.
Are you ready to be the rare Scrum Master who is truly Great?
Learning Outcomes:
  • Discover ways to become a Great ScrumMaster/Agile Coach
  • Define the ultimate one goal of every ScrumMaster
  • Understand and be able to apply ScrumMaster State of Mind model
  • Discuss the #ScrumMasterWay concept and appraise implications for your company and your environment
  • Recognize useful ScrumMaster competences and Metaskills

Speakers
avatar for Zuzana Sochova

Zuzana Sochova

Agile Coach & Scrum Trainer, CST, sochova.com
Zuzana “Zuzi” Šochová is an independent Agile coach and trainer and a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) with more than fifteen years of experience in the IT industry. She started with agile and Scrum back in 2005, when she was implementing agile methods in the USA. From that time... Read More →

Monday May 30, 2016 11:45am - 12:45pm CEST
Room 2
  Knowledge and Education, Talk

11:45am CEST

You Are Not The Customer (Tomas Kejzlar, Fred Williams)
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As software developers and product managers and owners, how many times have we built features for ourselves instead of for our customers? How many times have we pursued the latest technological bells and whistles instead of thinking why do our customers use what we are building? Very often, we mask our own ideas behind those of our customers and deliver new features in our products in order to make them look "cool" in our community instead of in order to truly satisfy our real customers and make their life easier and happier.
This session will try to help you understand why are we gaming our products in such a way and gold-plating them. Moreover, it will provide you with tools and practices that will enable you to discover what real customer needs are and how to focus on them without encapsulating them within our own ideas and wishes so that we truly deliver products that make our customers happy.
Learning Outcomes:
  • understanding who the customer really is
  • understanding the difference between customer needs and our own
  • techniques for focusing on real needs of the customer instead of our own that can be used in any team developing products (such as using personas, asking would someone I know really use that and others)
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Tomas Kejzlar

Agile Coach
Tomas has more than 10 years of experience as a software developer, team leader, senior manager and a agile coach in the banking and pharmaceutical sectors in Prague, Czech Republic. Tomas also lectures agile approaches and organizational change at Czech Technical University.
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Monday May 30, 2016 11:45am - 12:45pm CEST
Room 3
  Value Creation, Talk

2:15pm CEST

Agile Leadership and Self-organization Workshop (Andrea Provaglio)
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Abstract:
As Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum, blogged back in 2011:
“Scrum without self-organization and empowerment is a death march, just like waterfall, but an iterative, incremental death march without slack”.
So team empowerment – and therefore a modern approach to leadership – is key for a beneficial adoption of the Agile principles and practices.
That’s even more important if we consider that, still today, many organizations moving into Agile — and even some of its practitioners — focus much more on the “Processes and Tools” part of the Agile Manifesto values, rather than on the “Individuals and Interactions” one.
This workshop is intended to bring more balance into the equation and to help people get closer to the Agile values of self-managing, self-organizing and empowerment.
However, self-organization is an elusive concept (how can we organize something that is supposed to organize itself?) which has profound business and organizational implications.
It taps into the collective intelligence of the team, so that people can come up with better solutions in a shorter time; it distributes control, to avoid decisional bottlenecks and let the project move faster; it relies on the socio-relational skills of the team, but it also relies on transparency, clear processes and shared goals to define the boundaries of delegation; and the greater autonomy promotes engagement and team learning.
Agile leaders who really understand these dynamics will provide the necessary support and resources; they will offer guidance and help define a shared goal by talking more about the "why"and the "what", and less about the "what" and "how" of the goal should be achieved; and they will be able to create an ecosystem where the business advantage of effective self-organization can manifest spontaneously.
To reap the full benefits of Agile and Lean you need to understand these subtle dynamics and be able to implement them effectively in your organization.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Learn the principles of self-management, leadership, complexity, trust, empowerment, motivation, personal responsibility
  • Create a learning environment where knowledge is shared, and reduce the risk of operational bottlenecks
  • Promote alignment to the organization’s business goals and get more focus on the most valuable activities
  • Leverage diversity (gender, nationality, background, personality, etc.) to create smarter and more efficient teams
  • Learn practical activities to create and sustain a self-organizing ecosystem on the workplace Increase the productivity of your teams by greater participation and simpler decision-making processes

Speakers
avatar for Andrea Provaglio

Andrea Provaglio

Strategic IT Consultant, Agile Organizational Coach, andreaprovaglio.com
I help IT organizations to implement better ways of doing business; and I coach executives, managers and teams who want to improve technically and relationally. My main focus is on helping companies to transition to organizational and cultural models that are better suited to the... Read More →

Monday May 30, 2016 2:15pm - 5:00pm CEST
Room 1A
  Individual and Organizational Change, Workshop

2:15pm CEST

Evo Planning to produce even more business value in less time (Niels Malotaux)
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Abstract:
Evolutionary Delivery (Evo) is an Agile approach allowing teams to deliver more business value in less time, as has been shown in numerous environments like projects for space (40 man-year saved), building automation, and banking, in waterfall projects, scientific research, as well as Agile/Scrum teams.
Originally, Evo was focused on how to define the ‘real’ requirements for what we’re supposed to do, how to prioritize the order of value delivery, and actively learn from feedback. In order to operationalize this further, Niels added Evo Planning, which is aimed to even further improve both successful as well as timely delivery, continuously increasing the effectiveness, the efficiency, and the predictability of what we do. Evo is actually the mother of all Agile, but most Agile approaches didn’t take the full breath and hence lack some of the benefits.
We’ll discuss some typical human behaviour that influences the way we work, and then introduce the basic Evo techniques: Real Requirements to unambiguously define the goals, TaskCycles to increase efficiency, DeliveryCycles to increase effectiveness, and TimeLine for oversight and predictability. TimeLine exposes the real status of the work, and when we discover early that we will be late, we effectively deal with it.
You can immediately start using these techniques, with immediate results, as has been proven in numerous cases. It works well for individuals as well as teams. Architects, designers, and Product Owners can very efficiently make sure the team does the right things before they’re going to spend the time, rather than afterwards seeing it wasn’t exactly what they meant. This prevents a lot of waste, and hence saves a lot of time. Managers can very efficiently see what the team is doing and that they can trust the team.
In this workshop we will do some exercises. You’ll run a project to deliver Quality on Time, and find out your baseline of estimation, defect delivery, design wit, and requirements recognition. If you bring a list of the most important things you have to work on in the next couple of weeks, you’ll even be able to experience yourself why Evo Planning makes you delivering better results in shorter time.
If you come as a team, you can experience how Evo Planning can make you work more effectively and efficiently as a team.
If you think you are already very effective and efficient, please come and see for yourself what others experienced when they thought the same.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Understanding and some experience with Evo planning techniques which can be used immediately within your current way of working to deliver better results in less time
  • Recognition of typical human behaviour that can be a risk for success. Recognition provides a start to better cope with this behaviour
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NM

Monday May 30, 2016 2:15pm - 5:00pm CEST
Room 1C
  Individual and Organizational Change, Workshop

2:15pm CEST

An Agile Architect’s Framework for Decision Making (Ken Power)
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Abstract:
We want our organizations and systems to be agile. We want them to evolve with the needs of the business, its customers and stakeholders, and to be resilient in the face of ever changing market conditions and the external environment. This level of adaptability and responsiveness needs to be supported by the architecture of the systems we create. The complexity of the environment that architects find themselves in is increasing in recent years, with cloud, DevOps, continuous deployment, micro services and other elements adding to the factors that architects must consider. With this growing complexity, architects need to be supported by effective decision-making approaches.
Size is also a factor. Larger systems and larger organizations have, by definition, a larger number of dependencies (internal and external) that must be managed, and a larger number of stakeholders (internal and external) whose needs must be addressed. The architecture of larger systems can involve hundreds or thousands of people, creating dozens to hundreds of products, components and subsystems that all need to work together. Maintaining the conceptual integrity of the architecture under such circumstances, and over time, presents many challenges and a greater need for coherence.
To navigate all of this, agile architects need to be adaptive; they need the ability to dynamically shift their decision-making approach to match the complexity of the circumstances they face. This session will describe how lessons from complexity science, and in particular, sense making and the Cynefin framework, can help architects to be more agile in how they work, and in turn, help them develop architectures that are more agile and adaptive to the needs of the organizations they serve.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Applying sense making in the context of architecture
  • Applying the Cynefin framework to architecture problems and decisions
  • Examples of architecture problems and decisions that can be mapped to the different domains represented by the Cynefin framework (obvious, complicated, complex, chaotic and disorder)
  • How to manage the transition of architecture problems between these different domains
  • Implications for organization structure and communications
  • How such an approach leads to a more resilient architecture, and a more resilient organization
  • How complexity thinking and the Cynefin framework supports emergent architecture
  • How complexity thinking and the Cynefin framework help the organization and the architecture to be more agile

Speakers
avatar for Ken Power

Ken Power

Cisco Systems

Monday May 30, 2016 2:15pm - 5:00pm CEST
Room 1B
  Technical Excellence, Workshop

2:15pm CEST

Everything you always wanted to know about pair programming but where afraid to ask (Yves Hanoulle, Kevlin Henney)
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Abstract:
In a way pair programming is like riding a bicycle. You can read book about it, you can watch video’s from people doing so, you really learn it by doing so.
With this workshop we would like people to experience what pair programming is.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Particpants will discuss about pairing and will then experience pair programming by doing some extreme promiscuous pairing.

Speakers
avatar for Yves Hanoulle

Yves Hanoulle

Agile Coach, PairCoaching
too many places to upload my bio. Find an up to date bio at http://www.hanoulle.be/yves
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Kevlin Henney

Thought Provoker
Kevlin is an independent consultant and trainer based in the UK. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice, and process. He has been a columnist for various magazines and websites, including Better Software, The Register, Java Report and the C/C++ Users Journal... Read More →

Monday May 30, 2016 2:15pm - 5:00pm CEST
Room 2
  Technical Excellence, Workshop
 
Tuesday, May 31
 

9:00am CEST

Lightning Talks (Jutta Eckstein, Adam Cetnerowski)
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Abstract:
The Rule of Three - Kevlin Henney
CoderDojo a Status Report - Yves Hanoulle
What's wrong with Demos? - Niels Malotaux
Let's get back to the Core of Agile - Angel Medinilla
Exploiting the Cross-Functional Team Promise - Katarzyna Derenda
Dis-economies of scale – Allan Kelly
Agile Concept Challenges of FW Development in RF Transceivers - Mladen Krstic
How bullshit and ambiguity works - Fred Williams
Learning Outcomes:
  • *

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AC
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Jutta Eckstein

Independent Coach, consultant, trainer and speaker, IT Communications
Jutta Eckstein (http://jeckstein.com) is an independent coach, consultant and trainer from Braunschweig, Germany. Her know-how in agile processes is based on over twenty-five years’ experience in project and product development. Her focus is on enabling agile development on the... Read More →

Tuesday May 31, 2016 9:00am - 10:00am CEST
Room 1
  Knowledge and Education, Talk

10:30am CEST

Experiences from Lean-Agile Hardware Development (Maarit Laanti)
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Abstract:
As agile methods are becoming the standard way to develop software, a question arises how to do embedded systems consisting of both software and hardware.
In my past as agile advocate with a software background I was trying to answer this question with a group of experienced hardware developers.
The session is summary from what I learned during this journey.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Tips what to try and what to avoid when applying lean and agile methods to hardware development or development of embedded systems.
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Maarit Lanti

Head Agile Coach, Nitor
Maarit Laanti has passion on bridging the research with the practise.  She holds a PhD on Scaling Agile, see Agile Methods in large-scale software development ... - Oulu  See a list on her publications here https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laanti_Maarit  She also has... Read More →

Tuesday May 31, 2016 10:30am - 11:15am CEST
Room 2
  Technical Excellence, Talk

10:30am CEST

Value (Andrea Provaglio)
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Abstract:
In Agile we like to deliver valuable software to our customers on a regular basis. However, while it’s pretty clear what “software” means, we cannot really say the same about “valuable”. The definition of Value in a project (with an uppercase “V”) is frequently fuzzy and confused.
Even within the same project, asking different stakeholders what Value means to them produces different answers; and the same stakeholder will likely provide different definitions of Value, depending on their perception and role in the project.
Most stakeholders will naturally associate Value to money, sometimes through surprisingly creative correlations; but there are other dimensions, equally valid, such as strategic positioning, company image, innovation and learning, and so forth.
Understanding the multidimensional nature of Value becomes therefore critical to drive the project to success.
However, the traditional approach to defining value stems either from a financial mindset or from and engineering mindset, and both may turn out to be incomplete or inadequate to address the complexity of the Agile projects we face and of the ecosystem in which they exist.
In this talk we’ll address what Value means in Agile for different stakeholders; how to map and categorize the stakeholders; how to describe Value on different dimension and how to track it; how to bring system awareness to your project’s definition of value. We’ll also see what happens when we don’t do that.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Considering parameters that are not limited to economic data
  • Getting stakeholders' involvement
  • Multidimensional and dynamic representation of Value
  • Consider Value creation from a systemic perspective

Speakers
avatar for Andrea Provaglio

Andrea Provaglio

Strategic IT Consultant, Agile Organizational Coach, andreaprovaglio.com
I help IT organizations to implement better ways of doing business; and I coach executives, managers and teams who want to improve technically and relationally. My main focus is on helping companies to transition to organizational and cultural models that are better suited to the... Read More →

Tuesday May 31, 2016 10:30am - 11:15am CEST
Room 1
  Value Creation, Talk

11:30am CEST

7 Sins of Scrum and other Agile Anti-Patterns (Todd Little)
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Anti-patterns are something that looks like a good idea, but which backfires badly when applied. Many organizations and teams fall into the trap of these anti-patterns, becoming stuck without ever realizing it. Frequently, this is due to a dogmatic understanding of what is right and wrong about Scrum and agile development. The first step to getting unstuck is to be able to detect these “sins.” The presentation exposes teams to these common pitfalls and then also provide a vision for a virtuous path to take them to the Promised Land.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Exposure to some common pitfalls in agile development
  • For every potential sin, there is a virtue that teams should strive for
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Todd Little

Chairman, Kanban University
Todd Little is Chairman of Kanban University, the leader in Kanban training for knowledge work. He is an executive with deep experience leading the development of commercial technology solutions. He is a pioneer and global thought leader in lean and agile approaches to improve business... Read More →

Tuesday May 31, 2016 11:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 1
  Individual and Organizational Change, Talk

11:30am CEST

Agile leadership - running organizational change experiments (Hendrik Esser)
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Abstract:
While there are a couple of proposed approaches on how to implement an Agile setup in an enterprise, there are thousands of controversal opinions about this topic.

Each agile transformation case is unique. Not so much because the problems and challenges companies face in today's complex world are very different, but because company and leadership cultures vary a lot.

So, there is no fixed recipe telling you how to do it. Leadership is an essential success factor.
Based on my own experience being part of transforming and sustaining a several 1000 people R&D organization, that is distributed over many countries on several continents, I have looked at the factors and leadership approaches that make agile setups successful. I also gained a lot of insights from working as a Program Director for the Agile Alliance’s “Supporting Agile Adoption” initiative, connecting to Agile Change leaders from many different companies.

In this talk I will share these experiences and insights. I will – based on real-life stories – explain and demonstrate a Systems Thinking approach and a method that can help you make also your agile approach sustainably successful.
Learning Outcomes:
  • You will learn why agile journeys are different in every company.
  • You will know a method to identify and plan potentially successful organizational change experiments.
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avatar for Hendrik Esser

Hendrik Esser

Growing up in the 1980s I was a passionate computer game developer during my school and study times. After getting my diploma in Electrical engineering I started at Ericsson in 1994 as aSW developer. From 1996 I worked in project management roles. Since 2000 I am working as a manager... Read More →

Tuesday May 31, 2016 11:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 2
  Individual and Organizational Change, Talk

11:30am CEST

Raw TDD (Kevlin Henney)
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Abstract:
Looking around at the blogosphere, OSS repos and conferences, it might be easy to assume that test-driven development is all about frameworks — unit-testing frameworks, mocking frameworks and frameworks for dealing with frameworks.
Most frameworks evolve as responses to other frameworks, which means they are often anchored (or stuck) in a particular point of view. And often that point of view is fairly narrow and, somewhere along the line, influenced by JUnit. What makes TDD effective is focus, clear progress and expression of intent; frameworks do not typically change what is possible, simply what is convenient.
This talk reconnects with the essentials by taking a lo-fi approach to framework usage.
Learning Outcomes:
  • A better appreciation of unit testing practice and motivation, which is anchored not in terms of testing frameworks but in terms of code understanding. Testing may be automated, but understanding is not, so the content of this session hopes to strengthen and provide stronger arguments for people working in test-resistant environments.
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avatar for Kevlin Henney

Kevlin Henney

Thought Provoker
Kevlin is an independent consultant and trainer based in the UK. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice, and process. He has been a columnist for various magazines and websites, including Better Software, The Register, Java Report and the C/C++ Users Journal... Read More →

Tuesday May 31, 2016 11:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 3
  Technical Excellence, Talk

2:00pm CEST

The Scaling Ball Game (Yves Hanoulle, Markus Wissekal)
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Abstract:
During the game you will experience scaling issues that occur when multiple teams work on the same product. Multiple Teams will look for solutions to scaling issues and experiment in an iterative way with their ideas on solving them..
##What did the session creators hope to learn?
These days we have a few models for scaling teams.
With this game we want to help participants experience common scaling issues and observe how they affect them.
With the exercises in this book and others, we hope to learn more about scaling dynamics.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Attendees will face a series of typical scaling challenges like:
  • + team synchronisation
  • + efficiency
  • + standardisation
  • + optimisation of expertise
  • + distributed teams

Speakers
avatar for Yves Hanoulle

Yves Hanoulle

Agile Coach, PairCoaching
too many places to upload my bio. Find an up to date bio at http://www.hanoulle.be/yves
avatar for Markus Wissekal

Markus Wissekal

Kanban.today / agilerescue.ch
Markus is accredited Kanban Trainer, Agile Coach and LegoSeriousPlay Facilitator. In the past he was a programmer writing code that makes things work and do cool stuff. Now he concentrates his talents on helping teams to work better together and make even cooler stuff. Markus is really... Read More →

Tuesday May 31, 2016 2:00pm - 5:00pm CEST
Room 1C
  Individual and Organizational Change, Workshop

2:00pm CEST

One-Size Never Fits All: Tailor Your Agile Transformation to Meet Your Needs (Diana Larsen, Steve Holyer)
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Abstract:
Use the Agile Fluency™ Model to chart a course for the team, create alignment with management, and secure organizational support for improvement.


Too many people have told us, "We tried Agile, and it just didn't work."
Let's do better.
There is an Agile way of working which fits your organisation best—that's "best-fit" Agile. Come explore the path Agile teams and organisations take as they tailor "best-fit" Agile. On the pathway you hunt fluency in your organisation to find Agile that returns the benefits your customers need. That's Agile that works.
What is fluency? Fluency is flow. It's practice mastery. It's performing with routine, skilful ease. Whether learning to speak a language, play an instrument, or develop software in a new and better way, the pathway to fluency involves an investment in learning and deliberate practice: regularly and consistently practicing a skill with increasing levels of challenge and the goal of mastery.
This workshop will help you understand your goal of mastery, and and it will help you identify deliberate practices you can undertake—and investments to make—in order to move towards your goal. When you go home you will be better prepared to hunt fluency and tailor "best-fit" Agile within your organisation.


We’ve observed that Agile teams develop through four distinct stages of fluency.
— James Shore and Diana Larsen


You will explore the Agile Fluency™ Model with Diana Larsen and Steve Holyer. Diana is one of the model's co-creators, and Steve has been collaborating on using the model in organisations since the beginning.
Agile leaders, change agents, program managers, Agile coaches, Scrum masters, team coaches—and anyone else who needs to work with best-fit Agile: find pragmatic ways to use the Agile Fluency Model within your organisation and teams.


“As an Agile coach… Agile Fluency has been an effective tool for me to help tell the agility story to the entire organization.”
— Brent D. Strange / Go-Daddy


This workshop is playful, interactive, and hands-on. You will do in-depth exploration together through simulations and other types of model exploration.
You will uncover ways to use the Agile Fluency Model to:
  • chart a course with your teams,
  • create alignment with management,
  • secure organizational support for improvement,
  • and take it to the next level—the right level for you.


"I gathered a lot of new fresh ideas during this workshop ... will help me energize my coaching sessions."
— a 2015 workshop participant


Learning Outcomes:
  • Relate the four zones in the Agile Fluency Model; understand the shifts that occur at each transition, and the benefits obtained in each zone.
  • Characterise the organizational investments that are required to reach each of the zones.
  • Apply your knowledge of software development to identify specific practices that will help your specific team(s) progress toward the right zone.
  • Collaborate to uncover strategies for improving alignment between the team and management using the Agile Fluency Model.
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avatar for Steve Holyer

Steve Holyer

Agile PO Coach and Trainer, engage-results.com
Steve Holyer is a product ownership coach, trainer, facilitator and consultant helping product organisations unleash value and deliver results. Principal consultant at Steve Holyer and Associates in Zurich Switzerland; he is an international speaker and trainer on Scrum and Agile... Read More →
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Diana Larsen

Co-founder & Chief Connector, Agile Fluency Project, LLC
Diana Larsen is a co-founder, chief connector, and principal mentor at the Agile Fluency® Project. Diana co-authored the books Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great; Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams; Five Rules for Accelerated Learning. She co-originated... Read More →

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Tuesday May 31, 2016 2:00pm - 5:00pm CEST
Room 1A
  Knowledge and Education, Workshop

2:00pm CEST

Real Time Collaboration (Ola Ellnestam, Ville Svärd)
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Abstract:
Software development is not a production process but a collective creative process. Analogies would be improvisation theater, team sports or the behavior of socially living animals. The “collective” aspect of software development is not only about arranging duties and solving integration problems. The key part is distributing and sharing information and making individual knowledge available to all team members.
Traditional approaches are asynchronous, rendering the team a set of individuals rather than a whole complete in itself as it is demanded by the agile philosophy. The step beyond is real-time collaboration: common synchronous crafting on the same artifacts by several individuals. Changes are distributed instantly; the artifact itself becomes an additional communication channel.
This workshop is designed to give people a real feel for the different style of work without need for knowledge of specific software technologies or development approaches. We will give teams a task to accomplish together using Google Docs. You only need to bring a laptop that can run Google Docs.
Learning Outcomes:
  • This session gives both technical and non technical coaches a way to explain the difficulties of a creative process, such as software development.
  • It provides a good metaphor for discussions and as you run this workshop you can illustrate:
  • - Integration issues
  • - The value of flow
  • - Iterations
  • - Quality problems
  • - Specifications
  • - Evolutionary architecture
  • - ...

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VS

Tuesday May 31, 2016 2:00pm - 5:00pm CEST
Room 3
  Knowledge and Education, Workshop

2:00pm CEST

How Architects nurture Technical Excellence (Patrick Kua)
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Abstract:
Architects and architecture are often considered dirty words in the agile world, yet the Architect role and architectural thinking are essential amplifiers for technical excellence, which enable software agility.
In this workshop, we will explore different ways that teams achieve Technical Excellence and explore different tools and approaches that Architects use to successfully influence Technical Excellence.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Identify what Technical Excellence means
  • Understanding of how Architects behaviour in an agile environment
  • New tools and techniques for improving Technical Excellence
  • Examples and stories
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PATRICK KUA

 CHIEF SCIENTIST, N26
Patrick Kua is the CTO of the mobile bank N26 (Berlin, Germany), where he is building the engineering group that will change modern retail banking for people like you and me. Formerly a Principal Technical Consultant at ThoughtWorks, he is the author of three books, The Retrospective... Read More →

Tuesday May 31, 2016 2:00pm - 5:00pm CEST
Room 2
  Technical Excellence, Workshop

2:00pm CEST

Agile Product Ownership - StoryMapping (Zuzana Sochova)
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Abstract:
Build your own startup company. Agile Product Ownership is not easy. You are going to experience Story Mapping in safe environment. This workshop is designed as group exercise where everyone get experience with Story Mapping and Agile Product Ownership.
Learning Outcomes:
  • How to build a product in Agile environment
  • Product Ownership vs. Product management
  • Product Vision
  • Story Mapping
  • Personas
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avatar for Zuzana Sochova

Zuzana Sochova

Agile Coach & Scrum Trainer, CST, sochova.com
Zuzana “Zuzi” Šochová is an independent Agile coach and trainer and a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) with more than fifteen years of experience in the IT industry. She started with agile and Scrum back in 2005, when she was implementing agile methods in the USA. From that time... Read More →

Tuesday May 31, 2016 2:00pm - 5:00pm CEST
Room 1B
  Value Creation, Workshop
 
Wednesday, June 1
 

9:00am CEST

Panel: Is Agile Still Agile? (Adam Cetnerowski, Jutta Eckstein)
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Abstract:
"We welcome changing requirements", but the Agile Manifesto and it's Twelve Principles remain written in stone. Is this good? Is it the best way to create software? Is it even true? Come hear what our panelists have to share on the topic and engage in the discussion. Fifteen years behind us, how many in front of us?
Panelists:
Stephen Denning
Todd Little
Hendrik Esser
Ray Arell
Steve Holyer
Learning Outcomes:
  • Understand the position of the experts and engage in the discussion

Speakers
AC
avatar for Jutta Eckstein

Jutta Eckstein

Independent Coach, consultant, trainer and speaker, IT Communications
Jutta Eckstein (http://jeckstein.com) is an independent coach, consultant and trainer from Braunschweig, Germany. Her know-how in agile processes is based on over twenty-five years’ experience in project and product development. Her focus is on enabling agile development on the... Read More →

Wednesday June 1, 2016 9:00am - 10:00am CEST
Room 1
  Knowledge and Education, Talk

10:30am CEST

Leading change: The Language of Complexity (Hendrik Esser)
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Abstract:
Companies and their environments are complex adaptive systems. An agile transition is a change to that human dynamic system.
Sounds theoretical?
It does!
Nevertheless: a key to a successful agile transition is to understand this complexity. It is a problem to make it tangible and actionable. An important tool to overcome that problem is language. As Wittgenstein said: “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”.
So, if you want to see things from a different, new perspective a powerful tool is, to start using a different language. This creates awareness and a new experience to grow beyond existing beliefs.
In this talk we will look at complexity and how a new language could look like: what words fit better to an agile company culture? What words to be aware of? And what words to avoid?
We will also look at our visual language: the way we express and depict collaboration visually in our companies - traditionally versus when transitioning to Agile.
This talk is based on the work in the "Supporting Agile Adoption" initiative of the Agile Alliance (https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/initiatives/supporting-agile-adoption-its-about-change/) as well as my own experiences and learnings leading a several 1000 people agile transformation at Ericsson.
Learning Outcomes:
  • • Understand the basics of Complexity and Systems Thinking
  • • Understand the importance of Language when driving change
  • • Get inspiration on how dealing with complexity can be made tangible and actionable.

Speakers
avatar for Hendrik Esser

Hendrik Esser

Growing up in the 1980s I was a passionate computer game developer during my school and study times. After getting my diploma in Electrical engineering I started at Ericsson in 1994 as aSW developer. From 1996 I worked in project management roles. Since 2000 I am working as a manager... Read More →

Wednesday June 1, 2016 10:30am - 11:15am CEST
Room 1
  Individual and Organizational Change, Talk

10:30am CEST

A Comment on How We Learn (Aino Corry)
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Abstract:
As an expert you will be asked to facilitate the learning of others, not to mention your personal eternal learning in your field. Join an interactive session about how our brains accept new knowledge and store it for later use. Your take-away will be three-fold; how to chunk information you give to others, how to improve your own learning AND something to entertain with at dull parties.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Your take-away will be three-fold; how to chunk information you give to others, how to improve your own learning AND something to entertain with at dull parties.
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Aino Corry

Metadeveloper

Wednesday June 1, 2016 10:30am - 11:15am CEST
Room 3
  Knowledge and Education, Talk

10:30am CEST

My Agile Is More Cross-Functional Than Yours (Lasse Koskela)
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Abstract:
Have you ever wondered how much easier your project would go if everyone involved would sit in the same room, everyone knew at least something about everything, and there would be no walls or silos but just one big happy agile family we call the team?
While a team being cross-functional isn't a value in itself, it has been a recommended practice for quite a while. To that effect, most teams proudly claim that they're cross-functional – often mentioning how the developers also test and how the designer sometimes makes small changes to the code on his own. However, the odds are the most of those teams haven't been even close to pushing the boundaries of this practice.
In this talk Lasse will share the story of a team that took the concept of a cross-functional team perhaps farther than any other team he's met so far. You will learn how the team benefited from incorporating a broad set of responsibilities ranging from the usual technology-oriented activities such as design, code and test to not so common activities for an agile development team to take over, such as infrastructure, analytics, marketing, public relations, social media presence, and customer support.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Understand the benefits of a development team taking ownership of the product they're building.
  • Make a thoughtful investment in staying in direct, active contact with your end users.
  • Take home ideas to consider and build on (or pitfalls to beware) to make your team more cross-functional.
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avatar for Lasse Koskela

Wednesday June 1, 2016 10:30am - 11:15am CEST
Room 2
  Technical Excellence, Talk

11:30am CEST

Leadership Storytelling (Stephen Denning)
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Abstract:
Drawing on his award winning book, The Leader's Guide to Storytelling (Jossey-Bass, 2nd ed, 2011), and on his experience in coaching Fortune 500 companies, Steve Denning will show the participants how leaders at all levels of an organization can use stories to perform the most difficult challenge that they face, namely to inspire even difficult audiences to embrace new ideas, new approaches, new products and services and turn skeptics into supporters and even champions.
The highly interactive workshop will show participants how to harness the power of storytelling to communicate even the most complex technical ideas and spark rapid energetic action towards their implementation.
The workshop will cater to participants with a wide variety of backgrounds.
It will show how leadership storytelling can be used for managing up, down or sideways.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Understand how leadership storytelling can be used for managing up, down or sideways
  • Learn how to harness the power of storytelling to communicate even the most complex technical ideas
  • Experience how storytelling spark rapid energetic action towards their implementation
  • Learn how to turn skeptics into supporters and even champions
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Steve Denning

Founder, Steve Denning LLC
Steve Denning is the warren Buffett of business communication. He sees things others don’t and is able to explain them so the rest of us can understand. Chip Heath, author of Made to Stick. Steve Denning is a master storyteller, leadership expert and best... Read More →

Wednesday June 1, 2016 11:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 1
  Individual and Organizational Change, Talk

11:30am CEST

Purposeful Agile (Oana Juncu)
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Abstract:
Throw a purpose in a middle of a crowd, it will start to self-organize.
Many self-organised entities like ... villages or cities have an "embedded purpose", not voluntarily shared out-loud or displayed in common places.
Acting in a purpose driven way is less obvious for organisations. More a company grows, more dissolved into the Process the original business purpose becomes.The enterprise gets diluted into the HOW-TO control complexity. Forget about the purpose.
What products we build as a company and who are the services we provide for turns from core meaning to marketing fancies. That's business as usual.
Until it's not anymore. Until crisis comes. Until customers change behavior from consumers to service users. Until adapt to reality brings more value than creating processes to change reality. At this point in time, Agile becomes the new big thing everyone wants to have, do or be. Agile Transformations are ordered and Agile History is written. Here are the 3 stages of Agile Experience Awareness I've seen unfolded .
Learning Outcomes:
  • Have a new perspective on organisations Agile Adoption
  • Learn about the social impact of purpose driven organisation
  • Reflect how focus on outcome and result is a culture change major game player
  • Gather knowledge of an original change pattern

Speakers
avatar for Oana Juncu

Oana Juncu

Founder, cOemerge
Oana's over 15 years of experience in Software Development and System Management led her choice to Agile, as the most effective approach for 21st century leading organizations focused on quality products creation that matter . She recently embraced the entrepreneurship path by founding... Read More →

Wednesday June 1, 2016 11:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 3
  Individual and Organizational Change, Talk

11:30am CEST

To Estimate or #NoEstimates, That is the Question (Todd Little)
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Abstract:
The #NoEstmates twitter hashtag was intended by Woody Zuill "..for the topic of exploring alternatives to estimates [of time, effort, cost] for making decisions in software development. That is, ways to make decisions with ‘No Estimates’." Based on twitter traffic it has been successful at generating activity. It's a bit debatable as to whether it has really spawned much exploration. In this talk Todd will actually do some exploration using real data from over 50 projects at companies ranging from startups to large enterprises. In addition to the analysis of the data, Todd was able to build a simulation model of the software development process to both replicate the data to and explore the conditions under which estimates add value and when they do not. Based on the findings from the data and the simulations, along with an analysis of the types of business decisions that organizations need to make, Todd will provide some pragmatic advice for estimators and #NoEstimators alike.
Learning Outcomes:
  • What does the data tell us about estimation?
  • If our conditions are different, what does the simulation tell us?
  • Given the decisions we need to make, how to we pragmatically proceed?
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Todd Little

Chairman, Kanban University
Todd Little is Chairman of Kanban University, the leader in Kanban training for knowledge work. He is an executive with deep experience leading the development of commercial technology solutions. He is a pioneer and global thought leader in lean and agile approaches to improve business... Read More →

Wednesday June 1, 2016 11:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 2
  Value Creation, Talk

2:00pm CEST

Eliminating the Contradiction of Self-Organization and Hierarchies with Sociocracy (Pieter van der Meché, Jutta Eckstein)
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Abstract:
Many agile teams suffer from the mismatch of agile and the organizational hierarchy. Based on self-organization and iterative processes the teams run into trouble with the top-down steering of their environment. Consequently, very often agile proponents believe that a supportive agile organization should be structured without hierarchies. But lack of hierarchy, in the sense of an order of decision making levels, leads especially in larger and more complex organizations to a lack of alignment and lack of speed. To achieve both self-organization and alignment, organizations need an order of decision making levels which integrates both top-down and bottom-up decision making at every level.
In this session we are suggesting to use sociocracy as a solution. You will learn how especially the principles of shared decision making and double-linking enable self-organizational hierarchies. It will empower both agile teams as well as managers.
It will also help improve retrospectives and other agile meetings. It will as well enable teams to take full advantage of the evaluations by developing shared decisions that lead to better alignment. And finally, it will improve the cooperation between agile teams by creating alignment between the teams.
Learning Outcomes:
  • How to create agile hierarchies
  • How to align hierarchies with agile teams
  • How to get alignment within agile teams and amongst them
  • How to make retrospectives more effective, leading to better alignment through joint decision making

Speakers
avatar for Jutta Eckstein

Jutta Eckstein

Independent Coach, consultant, trainer and speaker, IT Communications
Jutta Eckstein (http://jeckstein.com) is an independent coach, consultant and trainer from Braunschweig, Germany. Her know-how in agile processes is based on over twenty-five years’ experience in project and product development. Her focus is on enabling agile development on the... Read More →
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Pieter van der Meche

Management Consultant - Division Leader, Sociocratisch Centrum - The Sociocracy Group
As a sociocratic management consultant Pieter van der Meche increases commitment and fosters effectiveness and cooperation within organizations and teams. Over the years he has trained and counseled in different sectors of the economy, from the shop floor level up to the board room... Read More →

Wednesday June 1, 2016 2:00pm - 5:00pm CEST
Room 2
  Individual and Organizational Change, Workshop

2:00pm CEST

Smooth collaboration in distributed teams (Hugo Messer)
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Abstract:
In this workshop, participants will create a practice board in teams of 5-6 people. The teams go through each block of ‘The distributed team Canvas’ using their own team situation or a scenario. The goal is to learn how to use the canvas for a smoother collaboration in a distributed team. People will learn from each other by sharing practices, ideas and experiences.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Learn how others address the challenges distributed teams face
  • Understand how to apply the distributed team canvas to your team
  • Learn how to collaborate smoothly across culture, distance and time
  • How to bridge cultural differences in distributed teams
  • How to apply agile methods to a distributed setting
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HM

Wednesday June 1, 2016 2:00pm - 5:00pm CEST
Room 3
  Knowledge and Education, Workshop

2:00pm CEST

#DiscoveryDojo: Hunting Value with Structured Conversations (Steve Holyer)
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Abstract:
Product Owners, you get better outcomes when you collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders. You can use structured conversations to collaborate and the discover the value your product can deliver.
Are you a Product Owners or a stakeholder? Are you looking for ways to uncover and prioritize your product requirements with effective and efficient conversations? Then join us for the #DiscoveryDojo. (Remember, developers are stakeholders too.)
In this hands-on, interactive session, you experience the power of structured conversations that engage stakeholders as product partners, explore product options, and hunt value. You learn essential skills through deliberate practice so you, your customers, and your team members can experience rich, efficient powerful ways to build shared understanding of product needs.
The first half of this workshop weaves quick teaching moments with coaching dojo circles. You practice your product discovery skills with colleagues in each dojo – doing, facilitating, coaching, observing and providing feedback.
In the second half of the workshop we will dive deeper into Agile requirements engineering with the 7 Dimensions of Product Value. We'll also explore how your team's relation to value creation changes as you and your team are able to master each new product skill.
We'll ask for volunteers with real product needs to serve as PO for each dojo circle. Vounteers will be rewarded with the best learning experience. For the optimal learning experience, come prepared to share a real product need from your actual backlog. Naturally not everyone can share a product need publicly, they will work with the volunteer POs.
Everyone leaves with helpful assets to immediately apply to your product work.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Experience real conversations which will help you holistically discover product requirements through COLLABORATION.
  • Practice product discovery with structured conversations in the safe environment of the #DiscoveryDojo
  • Learn to uncover business value in an engaging and fast way
  • Challenge how you view requirements, including user stories and MVPs
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avatar for Steve Holyer

Steve Holyer

Agile PO Coach and Trainer, engage-results.com
Steve Holyer is a product ownership coach, trainer, facilitator and consultant helping product organisations unleash value and deliver results. Principal consultant at Steve Holyer and Associates in Zurich Switzerland; he is an international speaker and trainer on Scrum and Agile... Read More →

XPAgile2016 HuntingValue pdf
Wednesday June 1, 2016 2:00pm - 5:00pm CEST
Room 1C
  Value Creation, Workshop

2:00pm CEST

Improving Processes with Lean and Value Stream Mapping (Angel Medinilla)
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Abstract:
One of the leading principles of Agile and Lean is to increase value by removing waste (non-value adding activities) and improving processes. Unfortunately, both strategies (remove waste and improve process) require a deep understanding of what is value, what is waste, how to detect waste, how to remove it, how to spot process bottlenecks, how to identify impediments, how to detect root causes and how to... Well, how to put it all together!
Fortunately, Value Stream Maps have proven to be a great tool to provide a whole system view on how your group provides value, and also a great tool to spot improvement opportunities. In this workshop we'll learn the basics of Lean value, waste reduction and Value Stream Mapping as a tool to improve your internal processes. We will also introduce Theory of Constraints and show how Value Stream Mapping can help to design and manage your Kanban board.
Learning Outcomes:
  • - What is value and how to increase it
  • - What is waste and how to sport it
  • - How Value Stream Maps work and how to map your own internal processes
  • - How to assess a Value Stream Map and how to improve a value stream
  • - How to apply Theory Of Constraints to improve bottlenecks
  • - How to turn your value stream into a Kanban Board
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avatar for Angel Medinilla

Angel Medinilla

Management 3.0 trainer, keynote speaker, book author, Improvement21
Ángel Medinilla ha colaborado en la transformación Ágil de grandes y medianas empresas en Europa, Asia, y América.  Estas transformaciones se han realizado en sectores como banca, finanzas, seguros, telecomunicaciones, retail, turismo, médico, militar, aero-espacial, gobierno... Read More →

Wednesday June 1, 2016 2:00pm - 5:00pm CEST
Room 1A
  Value Creation, Workshop

2:00pm CEST

Sabotage: techniques, motivation and prevention (Tomas Kejzlar, Fred Williams)
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Abstract:
As agile supporters, our ultimate goal is to create maximum value for our clients, whilst maintaining happiness inside our teams and satisfaction of our stakeholders. Sadly, our initiatives are often being sabotaged by our own companies. In this highly practical workshop, we will walk you through classic sabotage patterns (with videos, enactments and other visual techniques) and especially those targeting agility. For each technique, we will show you and in groups practice how that particular sabotage may be prevented, leaving you not only prepared to recognize sabotage, but with many practical tools and techniques to make your workplace happier and truly focused on delivering value. At the end of the workshop, we will also share sabotage patterns we have noticed and in groups discuss how to tackle them.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Understand how sabotage begins and what effects it might have.
  • Identify common sabotage patterns.
  • Prevent sabotage using a wide range of techniques.
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avatar for Tomas Kejzlar

Tomas Kejzlar

Agile Coach
Tomas has more than 10 years of experience as a software developer, team leader, senior manager and a agile coach in the banking and pharmaceutical sectors in Prague, Czech Republic. Tomas also lectures agile approaches and organizational change at Czech Technical University.
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Wednesday June 1, 2016 2:00pm - 5:00pm CEST
Room 1B
  Value Creation, Workshop
 
Thursday, June 2
 

9:30am CEST

Agile Transformation Sessions
Enterprise Agile Transformation
Presented by: Mirosław Dąbrowski
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Agile offers tons of approaches, methods, framework and techniques to set up Agile organization. We have a lot of questions on how to embed Agile principles and value in an enterprise world. How not to follow "best practices" blindly during the transformation. There is no place for dogma and one-size-fits-all thinking. Each company is unique due to it's culture, people, behaviors and values that were established through the years. By respecting organization heritage and slowly improving existing culture yet we need to stop bad habits and wasteful activities and this requires time, effort and support. We need to find people that will become our allies in an everlasting journey towards agility...

The delivery approach will be in form of story telling based on actual case studies that I had during Agile transformations (supported by visual slides). The goal of the session it to share knowledge of anti-patterns, problems (and potential solutions) that are common during or before the transformation.

Agile Transformation of Intel Imaging and Camera Technologies Group
Presented by Serhiy Tkachenko & Felipe Chies
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There are many books describing the details of SCRUM. There are many trainings that can teach you to become an SCRUM Master or a Product Owner. However, there is not much information about the process of switching from the waterfall development process to the SCRUM development process.

Our presentation aims to bridge this information gap and explains the introduction of SCRUM from scratch in the Processor and Compiler Tools Team (PCT) in the Intel Imaging and Camera Technologies Group (ICG) during 2014-2016. The SCRUM introduction was done in a number of preparation steps and team performance improvement actions. Key outcomes and key learnings will be discussed in details. The outlook to 2016 with the aim to push the team to become even more Agile will also be presented.

Agile Transformation Model
Presented by: Danuta Luczak-Wieczorek & Stephan Lissel
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Adopting Agile in large organizations always leads to two major questions: how can we do it, and what benefit can we expect? Former question seems to be trivial to answer at the team level. However when it comes to a large, complex, multi-geo organizations, things are getting harder. As for the latter question, adopting Agile principles usually bears multiple costs – teams’ delivery slows down at the beginning, trainings need to be conducted, agile coaches are hired to guide transforming teams or organizations.

All those costs are an investment, from which companies hope to get a return.
Therefore each team, project or organization faces a challenge of measuring its agility – level of adopting Agile values and principles. Measuring whether changes did improve anything.
As a solution to those problem statements, available scope of actions is going to be presented along with the Capability Model – a measure of how well organizations and/or teams pursue their goal, and what might be an area of improvement. Practices and ideas that are going to be presented are based on the experience of the Agile Transformation in a 500+ people project in a mobile area. 

Speakers
avatar for Mirosław Dąbrowski (@mirodabrowski)

Mirosław Dąbrowski (@mirodabrowski)

Scrum / Agile Transformation Coach, IT Product Manager, Trainer, Author, Public Speaker (fmr PHP/JEE developer), Independent
More about me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miroslawdabrowski Mirek have over 13 years of professional experience in IT spanning across public and private sector projects performing different roles and jobs. Early as a help desk (high-school times) then programmer, UX/UI designer... Read More →
avatar for Felipe Chies

Felipe Chies

Technical Lead, Intel Corporation
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avatar for Serhiy Tkachenko

Serhiy Tkachenko

Program Manager, Intel Corporation
Inspiring, organized, practical, achievement-oriented, passionate Agile Coach, leader and certified project management practitioner with MBA degree and 13 years of management experience. Hands-on knowledge of strategy definition and execution; change management; building, coaching... Read More →

Thursday June 2, 2016 9:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 3
  Individual and Organizational Change

9:30am CEST

Trust Building within a Team (Silvana Wasitova)
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Abstract:
Some great teams do just happen by accident, most do not. It takes conscious effort to build a team, and build trust among its members, to achieve greatness. How to do it?
This session will explore this topic, and includes exercises that will equip attendees with tools to strengthen their respective teams.
Learning Outcomes:
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SW

Thursday June 2, 2016 9:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 1A
  Individual and Organizational Change, Workshop

9:30am CEST

Why Agile Product Development Hooks US - Demo For Our Brain (Oana Juncu)
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Abstract:
A product tells a story where users are the heroes. Develop a product is like crafting a story. A Demo is like telling the story of a sprint.
The practice of customer centric Agile Product Development highlighted for me the importance this one Agile Ceremony : The Demo.
Demo is the hands-on validation of achieved value. It enables focused , effective and concrete feed-back from customers. Demo allows us to project into the story the user can experience while using the new version of a product.
Why does story matter ? Because our brain is story wired. It infers the informations it receives and builds patterns for fast decision, and se love thinking concepts. In the same time, our same brain needs concrete data to focus attention and decide. Demos, as stories, as experiments built on examples, are opportunities to solve these contradictions, as they meet our needs of concreteness.
It the product is an User Experience story, what about building it as a TV show ? And what if in this TV show each sprint demo is built like an episode? The "Demo For Your Brain" workshop, shows how we can build an “Agile Incremental Product as a Serial Experiment” that tell a a story where users are heroes. During the session phases a neuroscience perspective of each “Test-Driven Activity” will be highlighted, to explain what ingredients of a story hook customers' and stakeholders' mind.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Understand the effectiveness of demos from cognitive science perspective
  • Experience the benefit of storytelling for developing products
  • Learn how thinking a product as a series of stories , just like a TV show movie impacts the quality of Product Development
  • Ultimately, see how having a purpose and having fun impacts the performance of the team !

Speakers
avatar for Oana Juncu

Oana Juncu

Founder, cOemerge
Oana's over 15 years of experience in Software Development and System Management led her choice to Agile, as the most effective approach for 21st century leading organizations focused on quality products creation that matter . She recently embraced the entrepreneurship path by founding... Read More →

Thursday June 2, 2016 9:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 1B
  Knowledge and Education, Workshop

9:30am CEST

Enterprise Agile Sessions
Accelerating from Opportunities to High Value Solutions
Presenter: Ray Arell
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Innovation programs within companies has fallen trap to a chronic misuse of the word, to the point most programs are shoehorned into traditional project management frameworks that focus more on the word than addressing the need—enabling the inventor, intrapreneur, and entrepreneur. In this talk, Ray Arell will talk about how to create the right environments and methods that allow true innovation to thrive. This will include an overview of Innovation Hubs, methods like Solutions Thinking, establishing networks of innovators via communities of practice, and other key methods/tools that can help accelerating your time to value.

Agile everywhere - what on earth do Agile and Lean have to do with recruitment?
Presenter: Wojciech Seliga
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Agile was born in the software development world. But it quickly started spreading like wildfire into other areas finally reaching also Human Resource - historically one of more conservative departments. Together with Lean thinking it starts to seriously transform the way how HR personnel work.

This session presents how Agile values and practices accompanied with Lean paradigms help improve one of focal points for HR in any companies - recruitment of new employees - especially challenging in the extremely competitive IT industry 
At Spartez we have been using Agile and Lean approach for hiring new employees for many years. We have processed thousands of applicants, we’ve carried out hundreds of interviews, we've hired dozens of great people who became our greatest asset. We have been iterating constantly and improving our process and we've learnt a lot from it. We strongly believe that applying Agile and Lean approach to recruitment should also help your company to be more effective and successful with the recruitment process. If you are interested to see why and how - this is the session for you.

Cardinal Sins of our Daily Scrums/Daily Stand-Ups
Presenter: Marcin Bukowski
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Scrum is a methodology largely revolving around a variety of meetings. We have our Sprint Planning meeting, our Sprint Review meeting, our Sprint Retrospective meeting and sometimes even our Backlog Grooming. It’s no secret, that the pithiest and most frequent of them all is our Daily Stand-Up, sometimes also referred to as Daily Scrum.

In my presentation I would like to pinpoint some of the most common, yet most crippling, flaws occurring during our Daily Scrum meetings. I will also suggest some useful hints on how to overcome these flaws and thus how to improve your average Daily Scrum meeting, to get the most of it. 
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Ray Arell

Director of Engineering, Intel Corporation
As Director of Intel Emergent Systems and Coaching, Ray is a transformative leader in the adoption of Agile, lean, and complex system methods inside Intel. Rays group is currently coaching a community of practice of more than 10,000 people who are moving to a continuous value delivery... Read More →
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Thursday June 2, 2016 9:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 1C
  Technical Excellence, Talk

9:30am CEST

Traditional management meets 21st century (Maarit Laanti, Rami Sirkiä)
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Abstract:
Traditional business management practices - cost accounting, budgeting and annual business strategy rounds set an inhibitor to your agile initiatives.
Traditional management practices are largely based on products and services being physical goods - i.e. sold once and cashed once.
With digital products and services we are transitioning to continuous mode of deliveries and continuous business models.
There is a request for disruption - as traditional business management leads to wrong decisions made, and to wrong kind of steering.
This session provides answers how to take CEO's decision-making toolboxes to 21st century.
Learning Outcomes:
  • - Agile portfolio management
  • - Agile budgeting and financial control
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Maarit Lanti

Head Agile Coach, Nitor
Maarit Laanti has passion on bridging the research with the practise.  She holds a PhD on Scaling Agile, see Agile Methods in large-scale software development ... - Oulu  See a list on her publications here https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laanti_Maarit  She also has... Read More →
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Rami Sirkiä

Managing Director, lean agile coach, controller, Nitor Delta
Agile SW development drives change how corporate planning, resource allocation and performance management works. This logic span across the company boundaries and redefines how software development is procured. I have lived the Agile transformation and implemented planning and... Read More →

Thursday June 2, 2016 9:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 2
  Value Creation, Workshop

2:00pm CEST

Hacking Culture for Change Management (Angel Medinilla)
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Have you ever wondered why, if Agile is such a good idea, people are resisting it so much? What’s the reason that your bosses agree to it when you explain it, but fail to change their behavior later on? Why people revert to their previous state when you stop pushing them on the right direction? Why it’s so difficult to convince clients about trying Agile? Above all, why everyone is OK with change, as long as it’s ‘others’ the ones who change, not tchem?
For most of us, the problem is not to understand burn-downs, story points or user stories, but to make change happen in our organizations and stick it to people’s mind. Join this talk to understand more about how and why change – any change – happens or fails in any kind of human group, how to define and assess corporate culture and – hopefully – how to hack it for profit and fun (oh, well, and for everyone’s happiness too).
Learning Outcomes:
  • How to change human organizations
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Angel Medinilla

Management 3.0 trainer, keynote speaker, book author, Improvement21
Ángel Medinilla ha colaborado en la transformación Ágil de grandes y medianas empresas en Europa, Asia, y América.  Estas transformaciones se han realizado en sectores como banca, finanzas, seguros, telecomunicaciones, retail, turismo, médico, militar, aero-espacial, gobierno... Read More →

Thursday June 2, 2016 2:00pm - 3:00pm CEST
Room 1
  Individual and Organizational Change, Talk

2:00pm CEST

Antipatterns for retrospectives (Aino Corry)
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Anti-Patterns are like patterns, only more informative. With anti-patterns you will first see what patterns reoccur in "bad" retrospectives and then you will see how to avoid, or remedy, the situation.
Based on her experience with facilitating retrospectives, join Aino for an entertaining and informative presentation on the anti-patterns she has seen and how to overcome the problems. We also encourage the audience to chip-in with their experiences or questions along the way.
Learning Outcomes:
  • With anti-patterns you will first see what patterns reoccur in "bad" retrospectives and then you will see how to avoid, or remedy, the situation.
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Aino Corry

Metadeveloper

Thursday June 2, 2016 2:00pm - 3:00pm CEST
Room 2
  Knowledge and Education, Talk

2:00pm CEST

Test-Driven Development effectiveness - beyond anecdotal evidence (Krzysztof Jelski)
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Let’s face it: most developers adopt TDD because they’ve heard someone claim it works. Not that I’d neglect personal experience, but hey, don’t we have something more objective to get our buy-in? Turns out we have — there are numerous studies on TDD, done in both academic and corporate environments.
Research results help us convince others that TDD is worth investing in — at individual, team and organization level. We can also have more realistic expectations of the improvements to come. Furthermore, knowing what metrics does TDD influence, we can measure effects of TDD adoption.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Recognize the state of scientific research on TDD
  • Choose metrics that should improve when adopting TDD
  • List metrics useful in measuring internal code quality
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Krzysztof Jelski

Head of Training, Pragmatists
TDD, technical agile practices

Thursday June 2, 2016 2:00pm - 3:00pm CEST
Room 3
  Technical Excellence, Talk

3:30pm CEST

How To Make The Whole Organization Agile (Stephen Denning)
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Steve Denning will discuss the dynamics of the ongoing transformation from the Traditional Economy of hierarchical bureaucracy to the radically different Agile management practices of the Creative Economy. He will review the challenges that lie ahead, including the difficulties of implementation, communicating Agile to general managers, the risk of fake Agile and a regression to bureaucracy, and resolving the pervasive tension between Agile teams at the working level and the way the organization at the top is run.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Learn how to uncover fake Agile
  • Learn how to explain Agile to general managers
  • Understand how agile management differs from traditional management
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Steve Denning

Founder, Steve Denning LLC
Steve Denning is the warren Buffett of business communication. He sees things others don’t and is able to explain them so the rest of us can understand. Chip Heath, author of Made to Stick. Steve Denning is a master storyteller, leadership expert and best... Read More →

Thursday June 2, 2016 3:30pm - 4:30pm CEST
Room 1
  Individual and Organizational Change, Keynote

4:45pm CEST

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Jutta Eckstein

Independent Coach, consultant, trainer and speaker, IT Communications
Jutta Eckstein (http://jeckstein.com) is an independent coach, consultant and trainer from Braunschweig, Germany. Her know-how in agile processes is based on over twenty-five years’ experience in project and product development. Her focus is on enabling agile development on the... Read More →

Thursday June 2, 2016 4:45pm - 5:00pm CEST
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