Agile Transition Lessons That Address Practical Questions

Featuring Ken Rubin

This presentation won't focus on the political and cultural issues that other presentations cover in depth. Rather, we will focus on lessons learned addressing practical questions (like the ones above) whose answers are actionable in the context of performing a transition to agile.

Kanban Pizza!

Featuring Massimo Sarti

Since 2011, Kanban Pizza was baked everywhere in the world. Thanks to the original idea from Agile42, hundreds of people learnt how to apply the six Kanban practices (visualize, limit Work in Progress, manage flow, make policies explicit, implement feedback loops, improve collaboratively and...

Shifting individual and collective behaviors

Featuring Matt Roadnight

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Cynefin Lego with Martine Devos and Abid Quereshi

Featuring Abid Quereshi and Martine Devos

Come join Martine Devos for this exciting Experiential Learning workshop! You'll have an hands on evening learning from one of our most experienced experts at Skills Matter for this special event.

Beyond Agile Pilot Stage? Time to Embrace Agile Budgeting, Planning, and Cost Accounting!

Featuring Ken Rubin

Traditional forms of budgeting, planning, and cost accounting do not align well with agile-based development. For example, detailed up-front annual budgets and business plans, utilization-based planning and execution, and large budgeting and planning batches can thwart or even compromise the...

Scrum - The Good, The Bad and The Not So Good

Featuring Martine Devos

Scrum is like raspberry jam — the more you spread it, the thinner it gets. What is the minimum we need to derive some real benefits, how can we avoid fooling ourselves about “being agile”, do we really need additional methods to scale….

Talk Scrum With Sameer Chauhan at LSUG

Featuring Sameer Chauhan

In this session we will do a deep dive into BDD using SpecFlow. SpecFlow is an open source plug in for Visual Studio, but the concepts and techniques discussed in this talk equally apply across all BDD tools that use the Gherkin syntax.

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Implementing Agile with Non-Technical Teams

Featuring Caspar Below and James Burnett

At the next LSUG meetup we'd like to discuss adapting scrum methods for non-technical teams.

London Scrum UG and Microsoft ALM UG: Agile Portfolio Management

Featuring Matteo Emili

One of the biggest problems in managing software development projects is maintaining continuity between the single project and the larger programs and portfolio. This can make it difficult to forecast and to get a clear picture of the program or portfolio.

Intro to NoSQL and Utilising Agile Development

Featuring Robin Johnson

In this talk we will see how Couchbase uses a flexible Data Model to allow us 100% application uptime. We will cover Data modelling, NoSQL Architectures and Agile Methodologies that can be used to ensure our application has zero downtime. We will also see real life use cases from the likes of...