Towards Autonomously aligned teams with Domain-Driven Design

Featuring Kenny Baas-Schwegler

Kenny has been involved in several transformations over the years, from DevOps to Digital to Agile. These transformations typically focus on transitioning people into near-autonomous teams of no more than eight people who will work in an agile manner. Every company he has worked for has asked the...

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Building Products in the Age of Chaos

Featuring Bethan Vincent

Technology is moving at an ever greater pace, with new frameworks, languages and processes emerging almost constantly. Alongside changes to your tools and techniques for building products, consumers and businesses are undergoing digital transformations of their own, which means that user demands...

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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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Comfort Zone?

Featuring Dennie Declercq

You live your life as a developer. You write code, always the same code, the same language, the same stack. At your work, you'll talk to the same coworkers, you have the same hours, the same routines. But if you are someone who always finds the zone within your comfort zone, your life is...

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Domain Modelling For Digital Transformations

Featuring Cyrille Martraire

The collaboration between business people and the development teams is often distorted by implementation concerns, past habits and past constraints. This is harmful, especially if you have major ambitions.

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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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Ceci N’est Pas Un Scrum

Featuring Martine Devos, Colin Deady and Gitte Klitgaard

How exiting "Agile is mainstream" and there are now hundreds of thousand of Scrum “masters”.

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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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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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Leading Smart People

Featuring Julia Harrison

Michael Dell's famous quote tells you to "never be the smartest person in the room". But how does that help when people are looking to you for the answers?

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Building Careers Frameworks for a Diverse, Digital Environment

Featuring Umer Ehsan

This lightning talk will cover how News UK has been revamping its tech careers frameworks through collaboration, expertise and a recognition of the diversity that makes up successful cross-functional delivery teams.

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Lightning Talk: Engineering a Better Interviewer

Featuring Heather Whyte

Interviewing people isn’t easy - it’s like combining performance reviews, A-Levels, and The Bachelor into an awkward couple of hours. Eek. And it only gets harder as an interviewer when you’re out of your comfort zone, or have received little to no training. You’re left to wonder, did I make the...

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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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How to use Apache Kafka and Grafana to visualise business process decisions running on the cloud! - Paulo Menon, Ingo Weiss, Craig Reeves.

Featuring Craig Reeves, Ingo Weiss and Paulo Menon

Modern business relies on rapid feedback of data and an ability to easily process that data in order to make good business decisions. In this scenario we look at how a government department distributes grants to farmers ensuring that they have the resources that they need to feed a growing...

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Don’t keep it to yourself - openness and honesty in the workplace

Featuring Rob Drury

You must have sat in a meeting, listening to someone talk about the next great innovation and how it will revolutionise the way things are done. They’ve discovered the idea, approach, or improvement, that will take the business to the next level and they’re enthusiastically extolling its virtues....

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Fast Code: Save Money By Overcoming Bottlenecks

Featuring Ruben Bridgewater

Today most developers rely upon existing code to help you cut developing time to the absolute minimum. For similar reasons new language features are constantly added to JavaScript and other programming languages.

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ElasticSearch Inverted Index

Featuring Sabrina Wons

ElasticSearch is a document store that allows very efficient and fast full-text searches using an inverted index. This inverted index consists of a list of all words that appear in any document.

In this talk, we will see a tool to display the content of the inverted index that will help you to...

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What’s New in .NET Core 3.0 and .NET 5.0 for Performance and Memory-Aware Folks?

Featuring Konrad Kokosa

The newest version of the runtime, as well as the C# language itself, brings some very interesting features that are helping in writing high performance, memory-aware code.

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Emergent Behaviour in Insects

Featuring Alison Rice

We're also very lucky to have Alison Rice, accomplished in psychology and horticultural therapy.

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The Sonic Contender

Featuring Chakib Labidi

The bread and butter of designing user experiences have long been in creating interactions that heavily rely on visuals. However, more complex products entering the market, that combine multimodal interfaces (voice, touch, pen, manual gestures, etc.), as well as multi sensory, these provide...

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