Park Bench Panel Discussion

This interactive discussion will allow questions from the floor to be answered and discussed by the speakers of the day and attendees. We're extremely grateful that Steve Bohlen will be chairing the discussion.

Workshop: Humanising the Workplace – An Intro

Featuring Gitte Klitgaard

For many years Gitte has been working on different aspects of being a whole person at all times; also at work. In 2017 she realised that part of what she had been working with had a term: psychological safety; and she started exploring that further.

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Workshop: My Reading Specs

Featuring Tom Roden and John Ferguson Smart

Written specs are easy to read but hard to write. Even with an understanding of the principles and tips for writing good Gherkin, it can be very hard to keep scenarios clean, informative and readable.

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30 Minute Talk (TBC)

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Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy; a Foundation for Better Relationships in our Teams

Featuring Louise Cantrill

Louise will unpack the importance of secure relationships and how they enable you to thrive as human beings. She'll explore practical ways that you can all use to shift your mindset to one of relating to others through, thinking, feeling, communicating, and behaving.

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Workshop: From Failures to Hypotheses, Examples to Evidence

Featuring Russ Miles and Jenny Martin

Join Russ and Jenny for this collaborative session, exploring example driven operational testing and chaos engineering. Use real world examples and failure modes to vividly imagine how things could go wrong in your production environments, and generate hypotheses and experiments to help explore...

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Workshop: Core Qualities, a Gateway to People Relations (used to be referred to as human resources)

Featuring Martine Devos

Working with core quadrant of core quality/pitfall/challenge/allergy (developed years ago by Daniel Ofman) we can gain insights into our own behaviour, expectations, fears and irritations in work situations.

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Lightning Talk: Bringing Playfulness into Mentoring: A Case Study

Featuring Sarah Templey

Often mentoring is seen as a for formal development relationship. Taking the view that people discover more when playing, this is a case study of creativity in a mentoring relationship that delivered a step change in the mentee’s thinking.

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Workshop: Heard, Seen, Respected

Featuring Nancy Evbuomwan

If you want high-quality outcomes, you need high-quality relationships. Taking this approach, when it comes to creating an environment where teams can be successful, allows us to focus on the human nature of teamwork. In simple terms, for teams to be successful, they need high-quality...

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Bringing Humanity Back to the Workplace

Featuring Gitte Klitgaard

How many times have someone told you:

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