TALKS AND WORSHOPS

 Talk: Practice Does not Make Perfect (When It Comes to Agile Journeys)

"These days, almost every organization is on an Agile journey. And yet, most companies have trouble achieving real agility. Why is that? Aren’t the ingredients for effective transformations available to everyone? There is no shortage of motivation, established practices, detailed processes, ever-improving tools, literature, consultants, employees with agile experience, and certifications. Gil Broza, author of “The Agile Mindset” and “The Human Side of Agile”, thinks that one particular ingredient has been overlooked in the mad rush to adopt Agile. In this session, he leads us on an exploration of that ingredient and its crucial role in successful Agile journeys."

 Workshop: Your Agile Blind Spot: What’s Limiting Your Agility? 

"Does your Agile implementation produce meaningful agility? Too many implementations look fine, but they've really plateaued well short of their potential. They don't produce meaningful agility, which is: a good flow of valuable solutions to real customer problems; drama-free, affordable adaptation; and a healthy, collaborative, engaged human culture. If you’re leading teams (directly or indirectly), or are facilitating your organization’s journey, do you know how much more Agile they can become? What could be missing, partial, or misapplied? What it would take to close the gap? In this workshop with Gil Broza, we'll uncover the seven greatest (and often invisible) weaknesses of Agile implementations, and discuss workable strategies and actions for strengthening those areas."

 Talk:  Being Nimble - Implementing Capabilities to Prepare for Change and Deliver Better Outcomes

This session is the official global launch of important survey findings on how to build an organization that outperforms competitors in key dimensions of success: operationalizing innovation, delivering superior value, operational efficiency, and speed of change. Backed by extensive research, this presentation will share findings from IIBA’s pioneering work, for the first time, initially titled “Being Nimble: The Critical Role of Business Analysis in Sensing and Responding to Change”.  Successful organizations foster a positive attitude towards change by anticipating it and purposefully planning for change. 76% of organizations surveyed by IIBA said they are focused on increasing the pace of change as a deliberate priority of the company. Survival in today’s global economy requires organizations to be flexible and adapt readily to the ever-changing marketplace. Change has become the norm; it is inevitable. Organizations need to rethink their capability to change, and the role analysis plays.

Learning Outcomes:
• The modern context of change and the components needed to systemically change with both speed and precision
• Characteristics of a nimble organization and how they alter performance to deliver outcomes
• How maturity of Agile methodologies works together with mindset, characteristic, and business analysis for remarkable performance gains
• Implementing core concepts to becoming a nimble organization

 Talk: Understanding value streams at the gemba, not from the office

Join Nigel Thurlow as he bust some Agile myths, takes on the pretenders to the throne and examines the modern format wars. Listen as he introduces you to assemblages theory. Lean why Ginger is the key to true Agile and why frameworks are nothing more than a tree. He’ll cover what Lean metrics really are, how scaling should work, take you into queuing theory, and then back to the Genba where the real improvements happen. Learn what a real value stream is and how to uncover the real costs of doing business. This and a whole lot more of mind bending topics.  

 Workshop:   Lean Thinking applied to your Agile World

Join Nigel Thurlow for some Lean and Agile fun as he presents an exercise to test your problem solving skills and show you how simply firing a third of your workforce will solve all your problems. Come prepare for 90 minutes of high energy fun as you learn the fundamentals of Lean Thinking applied to your Agile world.

 Talk: Some of the Craziest Things working with Methods and Frameworks

"In this talk, I will give a brief history of methods and frameworks and the “crazy things” we have lived with for 50+ years and still live with. However, there is now a change in the coming. The international standard Essence and its use cases addresses this situation elegantly. How? That is the key learning objective of this talk."

  Workshop:   Experience Essence the radical new force in software – a hands on workshop

Essence is a revolutionary new way to think about software development. It helps optimize and improve your way of working no matter what practices or methods you are using, and is a freely available open standard. This workshop will help you truly get under the skin of Essence by learning and experiencing one of its simplest and most powerful use cases – a team healthcheck. This can be applied to any type of team using any type of development approach and will quickly and effectively diagnose what progress they have made and where they have any weaknesses. Attendees will be equipped with the knowledge and skill to repeat the exercise with their own teams. This is just one of many use cases where Essence can radically improve your development practices. It is hosted by Ivar Jacobson, one of the creators of Essence and a well known innovator with decades of experience disrupting the software industry.