Liz Keogh
Lean and Agile Consultant
Liz Keogh is a Lean and Agile consultant based in London. She is a well-known blogger and international speaker, a core member of the BDD community and a passionate advocate of the Cynefin framework and of Wardley Mapping.
Liz has a strong technical background with over 20 years’ experience in delivering and coaching others to deliver software, from small start-ups to global enterprises. Most of her work now focuses on Lean, Agile and organizational transformations, and the use of transparency, positive language, well-formed outcomes and safe-to-fail experiments in making change innovative, easy and fun.
Talks I've Given
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Are You Scared Yet?
Featuring Liz Keogh
If you've read the IPCC reports, you'll know all about the terrors of the Climate Crisis and how urgent our need for action is. It's not all scary though! There's plenty that we can do as human beings and technologists! Even if we can't save everything, there's still a lot...
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Value Streams are Made of People
Featuring Liz Keogh
For millenia, human beings have survived by learning, then applying learning to different contexts; with a fierce drive to find those patterns, even when they don’t exist. It leads to a desire for predictability across every aspect of human life, affecting beliefs, behaviour and even identity, to...
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Cognitive Cynefin with Liz Keogh
Featuring Liz Keogh
Join Liz to discover how our language and perceptions can hold us back, and how changing the things we say and the way we look at the world might help us become more resilient, happy and innovative.
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DDD All The Things
Featuring Liz Keogh
We're used to applying DDD to help us model our systems and architecture.
What would it look like, though, if we applied some of those principles and patterns to ourselves, our work and our lives? What happens when we use the wrong models? What about the ones we're using now?
In this...
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Introduction to Cynefin
Featuring Liz Keogh
Cynefin is a framework for making sense of the world and its problems; for understanding where outcomes are predictable, where they might emerge with experiment and feedback, and where urgent action is required. Applied to any kind of knowledge work, Cynefin can help us to use libraries and...
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10 Years of Doing BDD All Wrong
Featuring Liz Keogh
In this talk, Liz takes a look at things we said back then which we shouldn't have; ways in which we abused BDD more than we used it; and things that we're still doing all wrong today. Come along to see the mistakes, listen to the stories, and hear the apologies!
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Handling Uncertainty with Behavior-Driven Development
Featuring Liz Keogh
BDD is a set of practices which help software development teams to have conversations about the behavior of their system and how it delivers value to the project stakeholders. BDD has changed from its early roots as a replacement to TDD and now works as a mini-methodology across the whole...
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Handling Uncertainty with Behavior-Driven Development
Featuring Liz Keogh
BDD is a set of practices which help software development teams to have conversations about the behavior of their system and how it delivers value to the project stakeholders. BDD has changed from its early roots as a replacement to TDD and now works as a mini-methodology across the whole...
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Handling Uncertainty with Behavior-Driven Development
Featuring Liz Keogh
BDD is a set of practices which help software development teams to have conversations about the behavior of their system and how it delivers value to the project stakeholders. BDD has changed from its early roots as a replacement to TDD and now works as a mini-methodology across the whole...
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Cynefin
Featuring Liz Keogh
Leading lean and agile expert Liz Keogh returns to Skills Matter to discuss Cynefin. Come along and find out how to spot uncertainty on projects and in our lives, why it's important, how to handle it, and which kinds of problems to tackle first - and maybe your world will start to make sense...
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Deliberate Discovery, Cynefin and Real Options
Featuring Liz Keogh
Most software projects involve doing something new, which brings uncertainty. Our brains aren't comfortable with that, so we have to make conscious effort to stop pretending to be certain when we're not! In this workshop-filled tutorial Liz Keogh looks at how common practices can help us...
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BDD: When Outcomes don't Come Out
Featuring Liz Keogh
BDD is largely a goal-driven approach: we start from a context and explore whether some particular event will lead to the outcome we want.
So how does it work when the outcomes are unclear, or you're just trying to find out what's possible? When finding examples changes the examples, is...
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Deliberate Discovery - Step Away From The Tools
Featuring Daniel Terhorst-North and Liz Keogh
In this talk, Liz and Dan introduce BDD from a new perspective, taking the focus away from the tools and scenarios and returning to the language, conversations and philosophies at its heart. With deliberate Discovery addressing our ignorance and misunderstanding across technology, people and...
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BDD for Life
Featuring Liz Keogh
This talk introduces the non-technical principles of full-stack BDD, together with a few simple examples, so is suitable for beginners.
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Behaviour Driven Development: Learning as a constraint
Featuring Liz Keogh
BDD, often described as “TDD done well”, is strongly aligned with Lean principles.
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Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback
Featuring Liz Keogh
Find out why we give personal feedback, how to provide effective feedback, what makes feedback ineffective and how to deal with poorly phrased feedback. Learning what makes feedback effective helps you to seek your own feedback and improve, whilst being able to support the people around you.
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Fractal BDD
Featuring Liz Keogh
In this talk, co-authored with Eric Willeke, Liz will explore how the higher-level principles behind BDD work consistently at every scale, from analysis through to code and deployment.
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BDD: A Lean Toolkit
Featuring Liz Keogh
BDD is strongly aligned with Lean principles. It's a pull-based approach to delivering software that matters, which minimises rework and over-delivery, bakes quality in, and is based on respect for people and the language that we use to collaborate and communicate.
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Feature Injection and BDD: pull in action
Featuring Liz Keogh
Ever been on a project where the software worked, but turned out to be the wrong software? Where the software was shipped, but didn't make any money?
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Introduction to Behaviour Driven Development
Featuring Liz Keogh
For the last 4 years, the BDD movement has been growing, replacing Test Driven Development and According to wikipedia, BDD is an Agile software development technique that encourages collaboration between developers, QA and non-technical or business participants in a software project.
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Introduction to BDD
Featuring Daniel Terhorst-North and Liz Keogh
Dan North and Liz Keogh introduce the principles behind BDD and describe how it works in practice.