We’re growing used to talking about the importance of autonomous, high performing teams, and of bringing different technical disciplines together. But most organisations are more than their technology, and delivering great services requires organisations’ operations, policy, strategy and other functions to pull in the same direction. Drawing on experiences of bringing together teams across a broad range of disciplines in the UK and globally, James Stewart will look at why now is the time to really think multi-disciplinary and what some of the foundations are for much more inclusive digital work.

As we head into the third year of a global pandemic - facing economic & political uncertainty, customer retention is becoming a huge challenge. This is why retention has replaced growth as a north-star metric. Mainstream companies are:

• putting the "Customer Journey" front and centre
• leveraging habit-stacking in early product design
• using narrative storyboards to test concepts quickly
• setting up a pre-launch community to accelerate product/market fit

In this dynamic keynote, you'll hear real-world stories that will help you learn 3 key tips for building a high-retention product/platforms:

Tip 1: Leverage Habit-Stacking to remove friction & drive uptake

Tip 2: Build feedback & progression around customer transformation

Tip 3: Develop your re-engagement loop before polishing your onboarding

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The problems with traditional management, including budgeting

- Beyond Budgeting 

- the background and philosophy

- the 12 principles

- Companies on the journey; examples of how they operate

Implementation advice

A review of how the challenges of all space missions, especially EDL missions, requires a design mind set to maximize efficiency, minimize mass, and make the impossible possible.

Dr. Sengupta will touch on how space technology and design philosophy can serve to mitigate climate change here at home.

Around the world there’s growing interest in Digital Public Infrastructure - the way that governments and societies can build strong digital foundations - and Digital Public Goods that help us share the best practices, standards and code that support it. Together these tools should help solve wicked societal problems like financial inclusion, public services, benefits, etc at scale and speed. Examples from India’s Aadhaar to the Open Banking standards that started in the UK to Brazil’s new payments systems have driven thinking about digital platforms and infrastructure to the top of the agenda of the G20 the UN and many other bodies. Viraj Tyagi of the eGov Foundation and James Stewart of Public Digital will discuss the developments they’re seeing, the importance of the agile community and how the community can connect with the work.

Transformations are difficult, and often simply fail. After all, change is usually disruptive. Even an organization that wants to embrace change can see mediocre results. The underlying causes vary from ignorance on how to transform, to full and hostile resistance. In this talk, we will discuss the various causes and the strategies we have used as outside consultants to overcome (or at least mitigate) this resistance to change, and create meaningful transformations with our clients.

Transformation efforts must overcome a myriad of challenges to achieve success. Some of the inhibitors we will discuss include:

• Executives unaware of the transformation
• Failure to engage all the necessary parties
• Individuals losing power with the transformation
• New roles and disappearing roles
• Lack of an effective Change Agent
• Success conservatism
• Lazy buyers
• Blame-oriented cultures

For each of these inhibitors, we will cite a) situations where this occurred, b) mitigation actions to overcome the inhibitor, and c) the effectiveness of these efforts. We will conclude by suggesting some best practices we are currently employing in anticipation of likely inhibitors, including our newest proposal process of only selling complete solutions to our clients (not just body-shopping people).

This may sound a little outdated but I designed this workshop during COVID times to engage stakeholders better by using User Stories more efficiently. The idea of the workshop is to help people move away from the notion that User Stories are merely a As a .. I want .. so that writing template to a full fledged way of engaging with every stakeholder involved during a product's lifecycle. The topics covered include myth busters around user stories, 3 amigos, specs by examples, BDD, ATDD, Zero defect policies, etc.

Today, there is no dispute that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) should be a business priority. Significant results call out its impact on employee engagement, experience, connection, trust, performance and enabling inclusive organizational culture. 

From its inception, Thoughtworks' approach to DEI has been fundamental to our values, culture, vision, community and business strategy. We understood early on that the true value of DEI can only be realized if it’s integrated within all aspects of the business, across functions and specifically within teams. 

Thoughtworks has been an early adopter of agile software development and Extreme Programming (XP). As leaders in this space and an organization whose very foundation is built on the pillars of DEI, Thoughtworks has benefitted from years of following a unified approach of integrating Agility, XP and DEI principles into our software teams, thus bringing the best of these together. 

In this talk we will share our learnings, success stories and perspectives of integrating DEI with an organisations Business Agility journey and why this is much needed in the changing landscape of our businesses today. 

World entropy is continuously increasing – world is becoming more VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) – it can be a threat or an opportunity, one can surf the wave or drown in the water – depends on one’s Agility, be it an organization, team or individual professional.

Agility is essentially about sense and respond – how quickly one can sense the Customer/Market needs & respond to create value and continuously adapt to the changing contexts.

To be surviving and thriving in VUCA world one needs to constantly Innovate what they produce and how they produce & deliver/serve. Diversity is the source for Innovation and Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the basis for diversity to co-exist and collaborate. And Mindfulness is the practical way to develop Emotional Intelligence, as demonstrated by Google-Stanford program ‘Search Inside Yourself’.  

Why is it difficult for organizations and teams to sense and adapt to the changes? Fundamentally it’s because of the inability of people to let go/unlearn the past legacy and rethink the future.

This workshop integrates all these aspects and creates an experiential journey for participants to change the mindset, learn & apply techniques to BE Agile.

The deployment pipeline is a central idea in Continuous Delivery. It represents the channel through which ideas inside your business flow to the outside world so that they can be delivered to your users in the form of working software. First steps in creating a working deployment pipeline are very rewarding. They help to improve the quality of the software that you create and usually lead to happier users. 

Most of the world’s largest organisations are attempting an enterprise Agility transformation but not all are succeeding. One recent study shows that 75% of all Agile transformations fail. This makes us wonder if the Agile values and principles from the 20-year-old Agile Manifesto is still conducive to today’s new ways of working? 

We need to recognise that while new technologies bring some consolation for overcoming the challenges of new ways of working, the real secret to success is hidden in the mindset and cultural shift. Leaders who focus on providing psychological safety in a modern workforce culture are helping their employees be the best versions of themselves, both physically and mentally. 

Drawing upon more than a decade of Agile transformation experiences in multiple organisations across nine countries, Dipesh will share real-life case studies and insights in this highly interactive session to provide clear guidelines, organised around seven key areas that will be useful for leaders and organisations wanting to unleash the full potential of their Agile teams. Be inspired by knowing what serves to catalyse and nourish a modern workforce culture – and what does the opposite.

Being able to develop, test and easily deploy a single microservice is a key indicator for a successful transition to a microservice style architecture. The challenge arises when determining how the new microservice will interact with your existing system meaning that they need to undergo comprehensive integration testing before deployment. This slows down the path to life and highlights problems at a much later point in the microservice lifecycle. Contract Driven Development helps you to shift left and identify compatibility issues earlier in the development life cycle when they are easier to catch and fix.

The Deployment Pipeline is a central concept in Continuous Delivery. It represents an effective, controlled channel through which all changes destined for production pass.

A defining objective in CD is to work so that our software is always in a "releasable state." By applying high levels of automation to our development process, in the form of a Deployment Pipeline, we pass all changes to our production systems through this channel and evaluate them prior to release. This means that the pipeline quickly becomes a strategic resource.

As our use of this important tool grows, the performance of the pipeline, in terms of the rapidity with which it can give valuable feedback on the quality of your work, becomes a central concern.

Do you think in pictures? If so, you are part of 65% of people who are visual learners. In Agile, we have a lot of complex concepts that we need to understand and explain to others. Sketchnoting or visual summaries can help you learn more effectively, retain information and connect ideas. It can also be used to share with your teams to communicate in a fun and engaging way. 

Here’s the good news: everyone can draw! It’s not about art, it’s about capturing and communicating ideas. Sketchnoting uses words and visuals to summarise information in a unique and memorable way. 

Sketchnoting as a skill can help you in your personal journey of learning, as well as sharing with your teams. 

Join this workshop to become a sketchnoter, you’ll never look back!

Back in-person? Attend this workshop to feel confident making awesome posters for your teams. Flipchart posters and hand-drawn visuals don’t need to be difficult. Tap into the power of visual workshops by learning the skill of poster-making to increase engagement, generate ideas and insights. 

Take your retrospectives, training, workshops, or events to the next level by creating eye-catching and engaging posters. The applications are endless. All you need is the basics of creating simple and effective posters. 

In this workshop we will cover: 

-      Benefits of hand-drawn posters 

-      Basic elements 

-      A range of templates and ideas for your posters 

-      How to apply different layouts for different purposes

-      Visual metaphors and branding 

Add this useful skill to your toolbox as a scrum master, agile coach or facilitator. 

A team is “greater than the sum of its parts”, but what does this mean in practice? Using insights from Google’s Project Aristotle research, we explore ways of getting feedback quickly to empower and improve team high performance. 

In this session we will cover the 5 traits of High Performing Teams as defined by Google’s well-known study on team effectiveness:

-      Psychological Safety 

-      Dependability 

-      Structure and clarity 

-      Meaning 

-      Impact 

Using insights from a two-year data-driven survey run across 180 employees and multiple Agile Teams, we will cover learnings, tips and techniques to help you run the same in your teams. 

If you are interested in the answers to these questions: How do we use this theory in practice in our teams? How do we improve team effectiveness using feedback from our teams? How do we empower leadership with data to improve and increase positive traits within teams?

Join the session to find out more...

Innovation is risky. That’s why successful innovators validate their ideas before building them. 

And the best way to validate your product idea is to test the right prototype on the right early customers. 

In this high-impact workshop for product leaders and entrepreneurs, you’ll learn how to turn your ideas into a product that people come back to, again and again, with a proven system that takes the guesswork out of product discovery. 

During the workshop, you’ll put together a rapid innovation playbook to help your team:

• Zero in on product/market fit by talking to the right early customers 

• Boost engagement with a skill-building habit loop

• Save time by testing your product with no-code storyboards

This workshop will teach you advanced techniques that power the biggest hit games & products of our time - & dramatically increase your odds of success.

The world is on fire! None of our improvements in software development will matter at all if we can’t change the course of the climate crisis. The software lifecycle creates direct and indirect carbon emissions: it has a footprint, worsening environmental problems. So, it's time to examine how agility can help to reduce energy consumption and ensure greater - environmental, social & economic - sustainability. The point is not to pursue sustainability for altruistic reasons, but to understand that over time, sustainability is also becoming a key factor that determines the success of companies, both in the search for talent and for customers and markets.
In this session, inspect real data to gain a holistic perspective of your team or company’s current situation regarding agile sustainability. Comparative Agile Sustainability is an approach that we created in a small team with the support of data analysts that serves to anchor and promote the awareness of sustainability in an (agile) team and/or company. The evaluation was published under creative commons and is therefore freely available to all interested parties. By using the results of this validated assessment, agile teams and organizations can better understand how they can increase their own effectiveness and contribute to increasing sustainability across the industry.