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.

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...

Workshop: The Answer to “How?” is “Yes!” (Peter Block)

Featuring Martine Devos

The agile manifesto states: “individuals and interactions over process and tools” and yet the workshop by the agile coach and the scrum trainer ends up in the process track. We are going to look together into what happens with our ‘AGILE’.

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...

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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Workshop: Map Your Values: Connect & Collaborate

Featuring Steve Purkis and Tony Piper

Why do you get out of bed every day? Why do you go to work? When it comes down to it, what’s really important to you?

BDD: From Definity to Beyond

Featuring Sharon McGee

User stories written in a common language are engaging and effective? Maybe.

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.

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...

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?