
Bridge the gap between business and technical teams with better collaboration
As Agile and BDD have evolved, so has the conversation we have about them.
P3X builds on the success of our longest running conference, Agile and BDD eXchange, broadening the conversation with three core themes: People, Product & Process. The flexibility of these three tracks allows you to cherry-pick the talks most relevant to you, or try something completely new.
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Maximise human potential
A look at how collaboration between business and technical teams maximises our potential: from diversity and collective intelligence to factors that help us collaborate more effectively.
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Explore products and align vision
What are the ways in which we frame, slice, understand and explore the intent of product evolution?
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Deliver globally-relevant outcomes
A look at the practices, tools, models and techniques that help us deliver outcomes that change the world.
Over two days, a mixture of stimulating talks and practical workshops will equip you with the knowledge to apply effective collaboration to an aligned vision, resulting in real-world outcomes.
Enjoy engaging keynotes by Antony Marcano (co-founder of River Glide), Dr. Sallyann Freudenberg (co-founder and Director of Cucumber Ltd.), Paul Rayner (of Vertical Genius LLC), Janet Gregory (Dragonfire Inc.), agility coach Gitte Klitgaard, and originator of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD), Dan North. Over the two days, meet passionate people who work in the same areas that you do and take away new ideas from our large panel of speakers who will dive into a range of topics, from establishing modern QA practices in lean startups to migrating to microservices.
View Full Programme →You'll learn how to:
- Align business and technical teams towards the same vision
- Remove wastage from development processes
- Remove opportunities for misunderstanding
- Identify the quickest path to value
- Maximise opportunities for feedback and learning
- Maximise the effectiveness of all disciplines within a cross-functional team
Who should attend?
P3X offers value to everyone in the software development cycle.
Past attendees include: Agile/Scrum Practitioners, Product Managers, Team Leads, Developers/Engineers, Software Architects.
No prior knowledge of Agile, BDD or TDD is required. Explore the programme to find your ideal track.
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Paul Rayner

Janet Gregory

Gitte Klitgaard

Dan North

Sallyann Freudenberg

Antony Marcano

Martine Devos

Jenny Martin
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Day 1: Thursday 8th November
Don't miss these inspiring talks!
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In this talk, Antony shares with you what agility means in his eyes in terms of people, product & process. See how these perspectives can help you understand the 'why' behind many of the things you do. Antony also examines how these three lenses can help you see limitations – and opportunities – that you might otherwise miss unless you explore: • People agility: Are people in fixed, functional roles? Or, can you adapt quickly to take on the role most valuable to the team at that time? • Product agility: Does it take weeks to release new capabilities in your products? Or, can you have an idea in the morning and have it in production by the afternoon? • Process agility: Do your teams have mandated and rigid ways of doing things, needing approval to change the process? Or, can you choose what works from one moment to the next? Article: Gain further insights into this topic by reading the article 3 Perspectives on Agility— People, Product, Process — #Agility3P.
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About the speaker...Antony MarcanoHis thought leadership is recognised through the references and acknowledgements found in numerous books – including Agile Coaching, Bridging The Communication Gap, Software Craftsmanship Apprenticeship Patterns and Agile Testing. Antony is also published in journals, such as Better Software Magazine, earning him his past tenure there as Technical Editor, successor to people such as Brian Marick and Mike Cohn. Antony is known for his inspiring and thought provoking talks at international conferences, events and within organisations and has regularly lectured as a guest speaker at Oxford University. For more on Antony, visit antonymarcano.com, Antony also tweets at @AntonyMarcano. |
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Although this won’t be an academic lecture, it will be based on two case studies where an understanding of neuroscience has been used to inform messages about change and management styles. Kate will introduce a different approach to communicating what you believe is in the best interest of your customer, your company and your team. She’ll also explore how to better respond to the concerns that your leaders and managers face through adapting your messages to fit their biological reactions to information. You’ll learn ways to evaluate what you say before you say it, and prepare for how people may react to your information. You’ll learn how to adapt what you have to share into a more relevant and meaningful message that people are more likely to understand and will want to support and share with others. Kate's goal is for you to learn a few techniques and immediately apply these to change your situation for the better.
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About the speaker...Kate GrayKate has worked with companies in technology, finance, media, healthcare, travel, sports, and beverages, and began her career in US national politics. She’s completing a MSc in Cognition and Computation at Birkbeck. Free time is spent coaching and mentoring executives at corporations, start-ups and scale-ups, and promoting the benefits of greater diversity in business. |
This isn't surprising when the development team works as a black box, with everyone else waiting to see what comes out of it; and when the software itself is a black box that only the development team can understand. In this session, you'll learn how to open up these black boxes, and how to give more people direct involvement with the product as it grows.
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About the speaker...Pete BuckneyWhat makes Pete tick is working with teams to discover and build the technology a business really needs. He's passionate about using collaborative approaches, and believes in the power of examples to give all relevant experts direct involvement in the software under development. Pete is active in the Agile/BDD community, speaking at meet-ups and conferences such as DDDX, BDDX and CukeUp. He co-authored SkillsMatter’s BDD Fast Track training course with Jenny Martin, and delivers this regularly. Follow Pete on Twitter @PeteBuckney. |
These approaches are not magic formulae. They give you a framework within which to think, but they don’t make thinking unnecessary. The ability to think is your ‘secret sauce’ and you need to start realising that, while experts have valuable things to say, you need to filter their insights through our own experience.
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About the speaker...Seb RoseRegular speaker at conferences and occasional contributor to software journals. Co-author of “BDD Books 1: Discovery” (Leanpub), lead author of “The Cucumber for Java Book” (Pragmatic Programmers), and contributing author to “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly). He blogs at cucumber.io and tweets as @sebrose |
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Nancy believes that when it comes to diversity as you know and discuss in today's world, you have only just scratched the surface. The next phase is neurodiversity, which opens up a new world where you will see an increase in the variety of unique strengths.
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About the speaker...Nancy EvbuomwanFollow Nancy on Twitter @nancy_evbuomwan. |
Being a first time speaker, her motivation behind this talk is to share how you establish modern QA practices in a delivery focused and ever-changing organisations like start-ups; where budgets are tight with loads of technical debt, where failure is almost guaranteed if you don’t break the rules. The key to establishing a successful QA function in such a dynamic environment is not to attempt a big bang change by introducing new advanced QA processes. An iterative approach is required. Understanding what needs to improve in the existing QA function, to begin with, bringing people along and explaining the ‘why’ is important. Solving simple little problems helps in building trust, for example, the developers found it hard to release to production, so an emphasis on the deployment pipeline helped. What should people expect to take away from this:
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About the speaker...Isha SoniPrior to that experience, Isha worked in the UK’s largest fashion retailer ASOS as Senior QA. She has experience across these organisations building QA teams from scratch, establishing processes like shifting left, automation, CI pipelines, acceptance, test and behaviour driven development. And recently integration of such processes in a Squad Framework as used by Spotify. |
Don’t wait for it to go wrong to introduce metrics! 😀 In this session, Steve Purkis and Adam Scott will explore some of the Lean Kanban metrics they've used with clients over the past 3 years. They'll look at how the metrics evolved over time, what worked and what didn't, and show how the metrics were used to predict and influence delivery. This practical talk is based on a wide range of scenarios from real-world experiences and is aimed at both delivery teams and stakeholders looking for ideas on how to encourage the right behaviours to get the best for their organisations.
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About the speakers...Steve PurkisSteve is also a passionate advocate of Agile and Lean thinking. Across his 18 years at a broad range of clients, Steve has helped several companies through their digital transformations. |
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This could be the story of how productivity improved by introducing lean ideas across the entire business and how it resulted in the faster delivery of value. And it is that. But more importantly, it's the story of how some experiments in toe-curling honesty has helped the business focus on their goal and removed frustration as all people get to use their own skills in delivering better products more quickly.
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About the speaker...Peter MarriottHis primary focus is complex projects that combine challenging technical, business and organisational issues. |
These ideas are expounded in this recent Article Geoff wrote for Methods and Tools magazine.
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About the speaker...Geoff BacheGeoff has a particular interest in agile methodologies and has pioneered the use of automated system acceptance tests in his organization. Over the years he has used and developed various techniques and tools, most recently the acceptance test tool “TextTest” and its GUI testing plugin “StoryText”. Geoff has presented his work in papers, workshops and tutorials at various conferences in Europe and the USA, including Agile Testing Days, Europython, EuroStar and Scandinavian Developer Conference. Check out Geoff's website here. |
Whilst this can help with business clarity, it pulls you further away from what really matters, the humans using our product. So how do you drive progress, whilst still retaining empathy and engagement with the people we need to keep our products afloat? |
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About the speaker...Dr. Sallyann FreudenbergShe holds a PhD in the Psychology of Collaborative Software Development and since being diagnosed as autistic has developed an interest in neurodiversity. Through re-assessing her own traits and neurology, and considering the extra-ordinary people with whom she has worked over her 25+ years in tech, Sal is raising awareness of the benefits of having diversity in our organisations, and is helping the industry to begin to understand how to support and include every kind of brain. Follow Sal on Twitter @SalFreudenberg. |
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Sarah is keen to understand how psychology influences how people behave in team environments.
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About the speaker...Sarah TempleyShe has worked in the industry for over 28 years, mainly in the engineering & construction sector, where she has held a variety of different roles. She has an engineering degree and a masters degree in psychology, as well as being a member of several professional bodies and a registered PRINCE2 Agile practitioner. Follow Sarah on Twitter here. |
These areas are starting to be regulated, and some organisations are calling for these technologies to be banned in some high-risk areas. Ultimately and practically it will be up to technologists to verify whether AI is operating legally and fairly. This issue is explored in detail by Adam who discusses approaches to testing for bias throughout the lifecycle. |
This session is an attempt to define the role of BDD in CD. What works, what does not? Continuous delivery should mean continuous quality for the delivery team. What kind of quality criteria do we want to target with CD and how is it supported by BDD?
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About the speaker...Gaspar NagyGáspár Nagy is the creator and main contributor of SpecFlow, regular conference speaker, blogger, editor of the BDD Addict monthly newsletter (http://bddaddict.com), co-author of the "BDD Books - Discovery: Explore behaviour using examples" and "BDD Books - Formulation: Express examples using Given/When/Then" . Gáspár is an independent coach, trainer and test automation expert focusing on helping teams implementing BDD and SpecFlow. He has more than 18 years of experience in enterprise software development as he worked as an architect and agile developer coach. |
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This can be very demoralising. Perhaps we should stop trying so hard to be rounded individuals and work on having rounded teams instead? A strengths based approach to performance development helps us flourish and be happy. In this talk Jenny explores the psychology of flow and how celebrating our differences and individuality brings unity, cooperation and harmony to teams.
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About the speaker...Jenny MartinJenny believes that great teams are built on collaboration, shared responsibility and by embracing individuality and diversity. Jenny is active in the software development community as an expert in team collaboration and effectiveness and a regular speaker at events across Europe. She has 20+ years of leadership experience delivering large scale projects on multiple platforms, tools and technologies in the customer loyalty, retail and finance sectors. |
Everything is going fine until the day when, during an informal conversation, you understand something deeper about your domain … This is called a ‘refactoring breakthrough’. Suddenly, everything changes, you start dreaming up a new design that would both simplify your life and make you more effective. Something else has changed: your technical debt. It just doubled overnight! Whereas yesterday you felt productive, today, you feel slow in the light of what this new design would enable. Interestingly, it’s BDD and the discussions with users that put you in this situation. That’s strange, isn’t it? That a best practice would create technical debt looks like a nonsense! Should we rethink the whole notion of ‘technical debt’? How does BDD unlock these ‘refactoring breakthrough’? How can we benefit from this opportunity? What’s at stake here?
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About the speaker...Philippe BourgauLife is too short for boring stuff! Philippe helps software engineers to reach a productive and sustainable pace through continuous refactoring of their code and organization. |
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Do you ever feel like development work seems to involve a lot of waiting? Waiting for builds to finish. Waiting for your team members to complete the code you need. Waiting for testing to be completed? Waiting for other teams, or for approvals to happen? Sigh. Yawn. The typical approach is to try to make the coding more efficient or start new work. But what if all these wait-states are actually where you should be focusing your improvement efforts first? These invisible piles of unfinished work slow you down far more than you realize, sucking team productivity, and making everything take longer than it should. Don Reinertsen says, The enemy of flow is the invisible and unmeasured queues that undermine all aspects of product development performance, but how can you fight an invisible enemy? Most development teams remain blissfully unaware of the negative impact of these invisible queues on productivity, or how to deal with them effectively. This talk focuses on demonstrating the presence and the negative impact of these invisible queues in the work of real teams. Task boards are great for helping teams visualize and coordinate their work, but they don't show the full picture. In this session, you’ll see a live demo of visualizing and troubleshooting team development queues as timelines with Flow. Paul can’t get you out of boring meetings, but he can help you reduce waste so you can spend more time doing the coding you love.
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About the speaker...Paul RaynerWith over 25 years of hands-on software development experience in a variety of industries, Paul is a seasoned agile design coach and leadership mentor, helping teams ignite their design skills. His company Virtual Genius LLC, provides training and coaching in collaborative design for agile teams. Paul is from Perth, Australia, but lives, works and plays in Denver, Colorado, with his wife and two children. He tweets with an Australian accent at @ThePaulRayner and blogs at thepaulrayner.com. |
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Day 2: Friday 9th November
Don't miss these inspiring talks!
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Is your current development process helpful or harmful to your delivery team? How do you know your process is a good fit for your team or your organization? How do you know if you have too much process or not enough? What are the risks if you get it wrong? Janet explores the interaction between the development process and different types of quality measures that organizations use. She shares ideas about how a “good enough” process can make your product more valuable to customers -- since that is your customers (internal or external) care about.
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About the speaker...Janet GregoryJanet works with teams to transition to agile development and teaches agile testing courses worldwide. She contributes articles to publications and enjoys sharing her experiences at conferences and user group meetings around the world. For more about Janet’s work and her blog, visit janetgregory.ca or agiletester.ca You can also follow her on twitter @janetgregoryca. Together with Lisa Crispin, she has founded the Agile Testing Fellowship to grow a community of practitioners who care about quality. Check out agiletestingfellow.com to find out more about courses and membership. Read Janet's Blog: |
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Today, because of science and psychology, we can answer those ‘what if’ questions with confidence. This talk will share the seven most important insights we’ve gleaned in the last 15 years from social psychology, informatics, neuroscience, nudge theory and positive psychology into what makes a team truly thrive and why so many teams struggle with low engagement and motivation. So, if you lead a team, or if you’re a team member wondering how you could make things better for everyone, this talk is for you. Our time together will be focused on practical, actionable tactics, rather than scientific chest beating. You will walk away with at least two simple interventions that are proven to significantly impact you, or your team in a short space of time. They will improve collaboration, morale, quality of productivity and more. Intrigued? See you at the talk.
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About the speaker...Alan Furlong
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Still, over time it is possible to extract a growing set of techniques and heuristics that can boost the effectiveness of the interviews with domain experts, to learn faster and converge quickly to better models. There are techniques and heuristics for asking better questions, listening carefully to words and other signals, and for managing credibility as a developer facing business experts. If you think all the above is important, then these interviewing techniques will improve your skills, step up the quality of your collaboration with your domain experts, and will provide benefits for better domain models. And if you find all that boring, then perhaps you could focus your career on Java EE instead.
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About the speaker...Cyrille MartraireWith 17+ years of experience in startups, software vendors and banks, Cyrille still calls himself a developer. He's passionate about design in every aspect: TDD, BDD and in particular DDD. Cyrille also has an extensive knowledge of capital market finance, and he's the author of the book Living Documentation to be published by Addison-Wesley Professional in 2018. Cyrille tweets at @cyriux, and you can find out more about Arolla here. |
You will then evolve a product to meet those people's purpose and at the same time evolve a process that helps you discover and learn about all of these things. You'll look at measurement, feedback, inclusion and enabling constraints. You'll explore how different people value different things and how that shapes our process. It will be a hands on session with audience participation, beeps and blinkenlights.
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About the speaker...Chris YoungSince then he has worked for broadcasters and platform owners including Dish Network in the US and Deutsche Telekom in Europe. Most recently he led the development team for the YouView Set Top Box User Interface and headed up engineering for YouTube’s largest Content Network outside the US; Base79 (now Rightster) He is an active member of the Lean/Agile/DevOps community speaking at Meet Ups and conferences across Europe including CukeUp and Agile Cambridge. |
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About the speaker...Dennie DeclercqIn daily life Dennie is president and developer at DDSoft, a nonprofit that connects IT to people who are less tech-savvy. Dennie invented technical solutions and systems to help people with disabilities to participate in their daily life. Thanks to his autism he's the right man at the right spot to contribute as a volunteer in function of people with disabilities. |
BDD is a conversation enabler, allowing business people, developers and testers to strive for a shared understanding of business rules and objectives. Even without the conversation, common language, such as “Given… When… Then” is often used to describe business scenarios, acceptance criteria and tests, facilitating fluency between the three. However, scenarios, criteria and tests each serve a different purpose, and sometimes framing each as “Given, when, then” constructs is not intuitive. Avoiding a prescribed definitive approach to story writing, yet effectively using a common language to satisfy each objective is challenging. This talk will borrow from causal theory to illustrate the fundamental real-world principle underlying a “Given, When, Then” assertion. The premise of dispositional causality is that in order to see an Effect (then), there must be combination of Disposition (given), and Trigger (when). An understanding of simple causal concepts will help translate natural language into effective scenarios, criteria and tests. It will also help to clarify the difference between the three, so that business scenarios are fully explored, while acceptance criteria are succinctly expressed and test coverage is thorough.
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Given the miscommunications and misunderstandings between the development and the business, several questions arise: how can you learn to communicate and closely cooperate with the business, or even better be part of the same team? Also, how can you help the business to deliver a clear vision? In this session, João will show you how to engage the development team and the business using DDD tools and techniques, using Behaviour Driven Development as the central piece to bring everyone closer. If you have a similar experience, or you want to emerge into DDD & BDD, the session is for you!
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About the speaker...João RosaHe is the curator of the bool Visual Collaboration Tools (https://leanpub.com/visualcollaborationtools/) and the host of the Software Crafts Podcast (https://www.softwarecraftspodcast.com/). When he is not on his duties, you can find him travelling with his daughter and wife, or laying down on the beach reading a book. João is an amateur cook in his remaining time.He is the curator of the bool Visual Collaboration Tools (https://leanpub.com/visualcollaborationtools/) and the host of the Software Crafts Podcast (https://www.softwarecraftspodcast.com/). |
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She will go through how continuous feedback has evolved as a response to the frequency and complexity of challenges faced in the tech world and take a look at how a startup mindset helped me navigate an ever-changing and highly demanding environment.
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About the speaker...Emma ObanyeEmma previously co-founded and sold the award-winning, music-focused loyalty and influencer platform BuddyBounce. With over 70K users, BuddyBounce connected fans, bands and brands, attracting a wealth of clients including all three major labels, O2 and Penguin Random House. Aside from her work at Capital Enterprise Emma also enjoys working on her two current ventures Mindful Team and The Retrospective Game (a tech platform and card game respectively). Both products focus on allowing businesses to measure and improve the culture of their teams. In her spare time, she advises and mentors a number of individuals and startups. |
By doing EventStorming and using techniques from BDD, such as Example Mapping or Feature Mapping, you can create more insights. You can simultaneously create a model and executable specifications for your user needs. This way, you can write software and tests which matches the shared understanding of the user, creating a ubiquitous language. Value will be shipped at a faster pace. In this session, Kenny will explain how to do Process EventStorming. He will use Example Mapping, or Feature Mapping to get more insights into his process. The outcome can drive your Software Modelling EventStorming and create Executable Specifications
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About the speaker...Kenny Baas-SchweglerOne of Kenny's core principles is sharing knowledge. He does that by writing a blog on his website baasie.com and helping curate the Leanpub book visual collaboration tool. Besides writing, he also shares experience in the Domain-Driven Design community as an organiser of Virtual Domain-Driven Design and Domain Driven Design Nederland. He enjoys being a public speaker by giving talks and hands-on workshops at conferences and meetups. |
This talk is based on such a project and aims at sharing the lessons learnt and give some tips for successfully managing such transition, highlighting both benefits and pain points. |
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Most people in Agile and Lean are involved in change somehow. Whether it is a big transition or an evolvement of an existing organisation, it is still a matter of change. You explain the change, sometimes you even explain the vision and the why behind the change. And then it is supposed to happen. But change is not simple. If the goal is to get teams to perform and to work better together, you need to provide the teams with the tools to do so. You have people who are educated in engineering, programming, computer science, etc. – how are they supposed to have the tools to build good relations and to collaborate if we do not provide them?
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About the speaker...Gitte KlitgaardShe has great interest in how people function, how we communicate, how the brain works, what motivates us, how we can feel better about ourselves, and how to be perfect in our imperfections. Working in different companies in Europe and developing training as needed, her expertise now centre on soft skills, as she has found this to be something missing in many organisations. The past few years she has been focusing on creating psychological safety. Since 2013 Gitte has been speaking and doing workshops, and keynoting at international conferences across three continents (mainly for developers, agile professionals and testers). Her talks are often about the topics we don't talk about: stress, mental health, inclusion, vulnerability and courage. Follow Gitte on Twitter @nativewired. |
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You all know how demoralising and off-putting rejection can be. What if they told you "No" marks the start of a negotiation that can lead to a meaningful conversation and create a WIN-WIN situation? With a wealth of experience in Agile coaching and consulting, A.C.E negotiators (short for Agile, Chilled & Empathetic) Tom Roden and Portia Tung will share their adventures in applying a range of tools and techniques, inspired by the work of Chris Voss, former Chief Hostage Negotiator for the FBI. They will explore what it takes to get you started on your own mission impossible so you can negotiate for better outcomes.
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About the speakers...Portia TungPortia combines coaching and business strategies with play to bring about positive and enduring change. She is also the founder of The School of Play dedicated to promoting happier adulthood through lifelong play into existence. Portia is also the author of The Dream Team Nightmare, the first ever Agile novel where your discussions determine the outcome of the story. Tom RodenTom specialises in transformation, coaching and testing, from test management and strategy, to practitioner methods like specification by example, BDD and context driven testing. He is author of the books Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve your Tests and Fifty Quick Ideas to improve your Retrospectives Follow Tom Roden on Twitter: @tommroden |
In this talk Konstantin will share his experience in refocusing one product delivery team from a traditional Scrum to a custom-made process focused on extremely short feedback loops. What happens when you throw away more traditional Agile process and replace it with something more agile and lean. This talk will explore experiences of a team that done just that. |
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... As humans you are wired to debate in this frustrating cycle of solution - critique - solution that usually ends either once everyone has had their say, everyone is exhausted or the next group of victims arrive for their next meeting. Brainstorms and unstructured processes for anybody who's experienced them clearly don't work. Yet in the desire to emulate the "innovation" and success of the Apple, Google, & Facebook's of the world, you see this type of activity coupled usually to a lengthy drawn out design process entirely removed from the notion of agile, iterative development. There is though a new design thinking 'process' that can work for every team or organisation and enable 'design thinking' ideas to be applied to any problem, product or process that can fit with agile teams and ways of working. In this talk, Paul will look at the 'Design Sprint' process popularised by a New York Times bestseller authored by Jake Knapp of Google Ventures. You'll see how it's changing the way many companies (including Apple, Google & Facebook) are working and how it can be used by any organisation to solve almost any problem. You'll see how it works and the secret weapons it deploys to reduce and compress the ideas of 'Design Thinking' into an actionable and repeatable process that any team can follow. In addition, you'll walk through the "Lightning Decision Jam" - a relative that any team can get started with at their next meeting or retro. This technique takes the same principles, reduces it again making it a powerful tool for running almost any meeting. About Design Sprints: “The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers” -Jake Knapp, Author of SPRINT and one of the inventors of the Design Sprint About Design Thinking: “Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer's toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success.”
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About the speaker...Paul StringerWrites intermittently about the art and craft of iOS development guided by principles of professional agile software development at http://stringerstheory.net |
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Come and learn how to sort the wheat from the chaff, the effective from the dogmatic, of scaling delivery, and find out why Dan is Scaling Without A Religious Methodology.
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About the speaker...Daniel Terhorst-NorthThe originator of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Deliberate Discovery, Daniel has published feature articles in numerous software and business publications, and contributed to The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends and 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts. He occasionally blogs at dannorth.net. |
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Can You Be Too Honest? Experiments in Better Productivity through Transparency
Featuring Peter Marriott
"Go and make the developers more productive" the Managing Director told Peter as he began his role as Interim Development Manager. There was an obvious frustration by the business with the productivity of the development team - and the development team was frustrated with the business!
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Keynote: What’s Process Got to do with Quality?
Featuring Janet Gregory
Teams and organizations measure many different things. For example, they might measure how many stories they put through in an iteration to try measure how good their development process is, but does that tell us we doing it the ‘right’ way? Organizations often try measure product quality but...
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Predicting & Influencing with Kanban Metrics
Featuring Adam Scott and Steve Purkis
Your project’s going off the rails! You’re not sure if you’ll be able to deliver everything the client wants in the time they can afford. Your team is great, but you still can't help the feeling you could be performing better…What do you do?
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BDD Alchemy: Change your Heavy Lead (Pb) Code into Pure Gold (Au)
Featuring Philippe Bourgau
How to continuously deliver more and more value? You’ve read Clean Code, you are writing SOLID code, you are a true craftsman. You are proud of not letting any technical debt behind you. You are applying DDD and BDD, and discussing with your users to clarify what needs to be built.
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Track Lead: Continuous Behavior – BDD in Continuous Delivery
Featuring Gaspar Nagy
This session is about Gáspár's experience with BDD in a Continuous Delivery model. Many teams use Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for automated UI testing. Although UI testing might be an important element of your verification pipeline, it is slow, brittle and costly. But in the era of...
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Keynote: 3 Lenses of Agility – People, Product & Process (And what we might miss if we don't look through all of them)
Featuring Antony Marcano
In conversations about agility, we all have our biases. Some folks may tend to focus more on organisational and team structures, with discussions about autonomous teams with co-located, cross functional team-members. Others might focus more on practices ranging from User Stories to Test Driven...
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Keynote: SWARMing: Scaling Without A Religious Methodology
Featuring Daniel Terhorst-North
Dan North has spent the last few years showing all kinds of organisations how they can deliver faster, achieve better results with less effort, and have fun doing it. He has a wealth of experience and stories of alignment at scale, and not a formal scaling methodology in sight. This is not a...
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Knowing Me Knowing you.... Ahaaaaa!
Featuring Jenny Martin
In our constant strive for success and self improvement, we find ourselves focusing on our weaknesses and comparing ourselves to our peers.
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Crunching 'Real-Life Stories' with DDD Event Storming and Combining it with BDD Techniques
Featuring Kenny Baas-Schwegler
To really understand what your users will need, you want to have a first-hand experience from 'real-life stories' before you can model and create your software. While both the DDD and BDD techniques emphasis on ‘real-life stories’ by doing collaborative deliberate learning, they both...
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Track Lead: 7 Lessons From Science That Will Improve Team Collaboration
Featuring Alan Furlong
What if there were some universal truths about how to make a great team? What if those universal truths could be replicated in any team AND what if we had rock solid proof that these truths really do work?
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BDD: From Definity to Beyond
Featuring Sharon McGee
User stories written in a common language are engaging and effective? Maybe.
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A Chaotic Journey to a Vague (Yet Effective) Process
Featuring Chris Parsons
Chris recently took a growing team through from 4 back end developers to a multi team structure that has no hierarchy, several short-lived teams, and has focused coaching built in to encourage people to generalise. Come, listen and learn the story of how Chris and team built their own process...
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Keynote: Wait - So I can go to the Party AND Stay at Home? - A Tale of Remote Mobbing, Collaboration and Inclusivity
Featuring Dr. Sallyann Freudenberg
We are excited to have Dr. Sallyann Freudenberg Keynoting at this year's #P3X!
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Track Lead: Every Process Needs Thoughtful Participants
Featuring Seb Rose
Books, conference talks, the internet are all awash with processes that claim to help you solve problems. They document how other people have overcome challenges in a way that makes their approaches accessible to others.
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Track Lead: Insights From Teams in Nature: Why Do Most Wolves Live in Packs?
Featuring Sarah Templey
Taking inspiration from cognitive and behavioural ecology, there are upsides, and a few downsides, to what wolves gain from living and working as a pack. What insights can be drawn from this and taken into our teams?
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Track Lead: Interviewing Domain Experts: Heuristics From the Trenches
Featuring Cyrille Martraire
Deep conversations with domain experts and careful attention to the language are central in software development and in particular in BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) and DDD (Domain-Driven Design). However, it takes many years and many failures to get better at this game.
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Track Lead: Brainstorms are Dead! - How 'Design Sprints' are Revolutionising 'Design Thinking' and Helping Companies Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas Quickly
Featuring Paul Stringer
Have you ever been invited to a meeting where the idea is you get everyone together to brainstorm a problem, come out with an inspired solution with a team aligned, ready to go with a plan?
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Track Lead: A Process Fit for People, Product and Purpose
Featuring Chris Young
You build products for people to meet a purpose. To do this you need a process that fits. In this session Chris will explore this by starting with two people with a simple purpose, to send and receive messages from one end of the room to the other.
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Continuous Feedback or Die: Surviving the Age of Disruption
Featuring Emma Obanye
In this talk, Emma will give a summary of why continuous feedback is key to survival in the age of disruption and what it means for all levels of an organisation.
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Approval Testing - Test Automation as Behaviour Change Management
Featuring Geoff Bache
Reasoning about system behaviour is a key element of BDD. Tests that have this focus tend to be easier to understand and maintain and can also function as executable specifications. But system behaviour changes over time, and it can be difficult to maintain tests with many assertions written...
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Changing Mindsets: Developers can Understand the Business too!
Featuring João Rosa
In the Domain Driven Design world everyone points to the ubiquitous language as paramount to the success of the project. However, often the developers fall under the pitfall of the technical jargon; the business assumes the developers have all the necessary business knowledge, given incomplete...
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Establishing Modern QA practices In Lean Startups
Featuring Isha Soni
Isha gained valuable QA experience in the UK’s largest online fashion retailer and grew within an environment which encouraged learning, experimentation and continuous improvement. She established new practices like BDD, ATDD within the organisation and team. It was time to move on and build on...
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Negotiating for Your Life: How to Get More of What You Want from Difficult Situations
Featuring Portia Tung and Tom Roden
"No. It's not up for negotiation." How many times have you heard these words before? Do you often wish people would just listen to what you have to say, would see things the way you see them, would buy into your plans?
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Track Lead: Testing for Bias
Featuring Adam Leon Smith
AI and machine learning introduce complex algorithms which affect your daily life. Despite all the benefits of AI, there are risks that are introduced which can manifest themselves as a bias towards customers or users, in the form of racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination.
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Neurodiversity an Untapped Resource for Innovation
Featuring Nancy Evbuomwan
What would the workforce look like if neurological differences were recognized and respected as any other human variation?
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Help! My Co-Worker is Autistic!?
Featuring Dennie Declercq
So you are working as a developer or DevOp in a company and you have to work with a co-worker with autism? Or worse, you are a leader or team leader with autistic workers? No problem! People with autism aren’t that hard to handle, there are worse problems, like people who don’t understand autism....
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Keynote: Enabling Teams to Embrace Change
Featuring Gitte Klitgaard
Change isn't simple. This talk is Gitte's story about the tools that she was part of providing for 6 teams and how they enabled her to build the foundations for safe continuous learning themselves.
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Track Lead: Breaking the Black Box - Making Experts Awesome
Featuring Pete Buckney
We're still finding out that we've built the wrong thing after we've built the software.
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The Naked Truth About Migrating to Microservices
Featuring Régis Déau
How to successfully shift from monolithic application to micro-services and API? What are the important things to consider in such a journey and what are the pitfalls to avoid? How to take benefit of micro-services architecture without compromising on quality? This kind of projects often require...
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Track Lead: Extremely Incremental Product Delivery
Featuring Konstantin Kudryashov
10% The Goal, 20% Throughput accounting, 30% Incremental delivery management and 40% Experience report.
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Track Lead: What Goes on in Brains: How an Understanding of Neuroscience Makes a Difference When you Advocate Agility
Featuring Kate Gray
How often do you feel like no one understands what you are saying when it comes to the value of agility in your organisation? This 45 minute presentation will introduce the benefits of getting to know more about neuroscience in order to improve the odds that what you say is best suited to how our...
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People put the P in Persona - Humanising the Research Process
Featuring Roisi Proven
When launching a new product or building an MVP, product market fit is the key to success. However, from persona creation to KPIs, you have a habit of falling back on to practical, pragmatic goals and data.
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P3X — People Product Process eXchange 2021
Two days - Online Conference
Meet with experts and likeminded project managers, product owners and developers at P3X 2021: Discover how other teams are building their products and ensuring their teammates reach their potential as you explore the latest frameworks and practices around Agile, Scrum, and Product Development.
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P3X - People, Product & Process eXchange 2019
Two days in London
P3X aims to broaden the conversation between three core themes: People - Maximise human potential, Product - Explore products and align vision, Process - Deliver world-changing outcomes.
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