Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration. This is probably the most used word you'll hear from agilists. It sits right at the core of agile principles. How do we reconcile this with the fact that 30% of the population is introverted?

There has been extensive research around introversion that can help us understand this apparent contradiction better. This talk will explore the complexities of introversion, from the distinction between shyness and introversion to the complexities of pseudo-extroverts and "high active" babies. 

Finally, what can we learn from companies like Menlo Innovations and Hunter Industries, where they have high collaborative environments with introverts that say they would not work any other way.

How can new tools and technologies shorten our feedback cycles, and reduce pain and frustration of deployment and maintenance of systems? How do you scale your continuous deployment system to support more developers? This hands-on technical session demonstrates how new containerization technologies like Docker and Concourse CI can be used to build deployment pipelines. Sean and Chris will show how to build a deployment pipeline, configuration-manage it, and deploy software through it. 

No previous technical knowledge of Docker or Containers is needed. 

This will be a 2 part. The first 45 minutes will go into the basics of docker. The second 45 minutes will show how to setup a Concourse.CI continuous delivery pipeline.

Everything a dev team does can borrow from Agile Principles, including hiring great developers. We as a company are customers of our own hiring process, our requirements have changed significantly from once hiring 6 people in 2 years to hiring over 20 this year alone, and we have to experiment and adapt over time in order to hire the best people for the job. This talk is about how at Solium we realized the core Agile Principles can be applied to hiring and iterated the process during the last 18 months. During the course we got rid of some sacred recruiting beliefs (hint: "culture fit" means nothing!)

"The higher you go in an organization, the more your suggestions become interpreted as orders." - Marshall Goldsmith

An Architect garners a high level of authority by being an expert. People will follow their lead. But what if the Architect is wrong? They will follow right off a cliff.

How do we get people to think like the Architect? Use the principles of Intent-Based Leadership to decouple the success of your project from the personality of the architect. By creating clarity around architectural goals and by engaging people in problem solving rather than defining rules and standards we can divest control and create an organization of leaders.