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.

Keynote: Playful Leadership - How to Enable Transformational Change and Have Fun Doing It

Featuring Portia Tung

Does creating change seem like a constant uphill struggle? Are you blocked by relentless resistance? Do you feel lost and alone in your efforts to create positive change?

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How Focusing on the 3 Ps Helped us to Successfully Scale Agile at M&G

Featuring Sarah Nash and Rebecca Slater

The organisation that Rebecca and Sarah works for made a decision in 2018 to fundamentally transform how they deliver change to their customers. The delivery teams had been following various Agile methodologies for some years but were always frustrated that the internal customers weren’t working...

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Workshop: Let's play the built-in quality game!

Featuring Ahmad Atwi and Philippe Bourgau

Why would you lose time with unit testing when you already have a department writing automated tests?

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Storystorming

Featuring Martin Schimak

Storystorming is a young and very lightweight set of methods to explore and understand user journeys, work procedures and whole business processes by telling visual stories and by focusing on natural language.

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Exploring the World of Engineering Management

Featuring Maria Stylianou

Transitioning from an engineer to an engineering manager is like moving to a new country. You start exploring the infrastructure of the country and you learn the different paths that take you where you want to be. During this navigation, you will find yourself at a fork; one direction takes you...

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Kaizen To Karōshi - Burnout in Agile Teams and What You Can Do About It.

Featuring John Clapham

Agile folk love notions borrowed from Japanese manufacturing, like Kaizen, ‘Continuous improvement’. From the perspective of teams expected to transform, continuous may also mean relentless, ceaseless, unsustainable.

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Agile for Introverts

Featuring María Castro

Agile Software Development is here to stay. It’s very clear that the days of the lone wolf and rockstar programmers are left behind, and the secret of a successful project are integral teams, constant communication and quick reaction to changes. And to achieve that success a great amount of...

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Love the Brain You're In

Featuring Chris Young and Kate Gray

Value streams are made of people. But what are people made of?

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Lightning Talk: Human by Design

Featuring Abidemi Ogunbowale-Thomas

An exploration into the key challenges that faces businesses in the post-digital era and how an alternative orthodox challenging-approach is required to empower the ability for organisations to continuously transform to meet the changing demands of people; not just customers.

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