Today, top performing agile teams exist in organizations worldwide. However, they are hamstrung by legacy bureaucratic management - the remnants of a waterfall phase gate governance approach.  True end-to-end, business agility requires a bimodal approach: continued care and feeding of agile teams done in parallel with a systematic middle-management transformation.

Join Sanjiv Augustine to explore 3 steps that enable rapid value delivery, increase decision velocity, enable portfolio prioritization, link strategy to execution and delink funding from projects:

1. Set up end to end Value Stream Teams
2. Set up an Agile Value Management Office (VMO)
3. Move from Yearly Budgeting to Fixed Funding   

We’ll cover case studies of how this approach has unshackled agile teams and liberated managers to deliver positive customer outcomes.

Great testing starts as soon as your client comes to you with an idea.

Good testing uses TDD, BDD, Automation, and other accelerators. Great testing starts in the way we think about the new Epic, how it breaks into MVPs, how we develop our architecture. The more we think about how to test our solution, the more resilient and robust that solution will be.  Agile tells us to “inject quality” throughout the delivery process. We use testing to demonstrate that quality. The more we craft our solution to make testing easier and more effective, the faster we can demonstrate that quality, and get to production bug-free.  

In this presentation, we’ll talk about “injecting testability” throughout the pipeline. We will explore decisions and techniques in architecture, solution design, data management, and – yes – test environments, that make testing robust, easier, and more effective.

Language is powerful and can paint a picture, lift people to happiness or dive us into despair.  Transforming our language can be an amazing way to shift our own mindset and that of others. What can you do to change your own internal dialog to embrace a new mindset? Why not extend the same language to help teams and others transform?

In this talk, we’ll cover a variety of language topics that can be incorporated immediately, including:

• Language of a Fixed Mindset, Growth Mindset, and Agile Mindset to enhance Agile Transformations
• Clean Language to help teams uncover root cause issues instead of focusing on symptoms
• David Marquet’s (author of Turn the Ship Around) focus on Leadership Language to help management transform into leaders
• Power Questions to help people see the future and the advantages of Agile transformations

Are your Agile transformation efforts seemingly siloed within technology? Are they struggling to breakthrough for broader impact within your business? Then a Trojan Horse may be just what you need.

Enterprise agility is the future of business and a must-have operating model for modern organizations. Yet, only a tiny fraction of organizations have successfully managed a complete Agile transformation because winning the fight to fully integrate Agile ways of working throughout non-technology functions is challenging.

Fortunately, one function has been quietly infiltrating what was once considered only the domain of software and IT. Marketers are creating strong alliances with technology teams, championing the cause for faster delivery of customer value, and paving the way to Agile ways of working for all.

Leveraging insights from the State of Agile Marketing Reports (now in its 5th year) along with learnings from numerous Agile Marketing transformations, this session showcases why marketers are on the cutting edge of agility, how they're adapting Agile to work for them, and what this means for business agility as a whole.

The Manifesto for Scaling Agility has one its values Organic Growth over pre-defined structure. What does this mean in terms of scaling? How do development efforts scale organically?

This talk will begin by examining the Scaling Manifesto's values and principles and how they fit within the context of the . Using this lens, we'll look at how organizations can entrust their teams to scale appropriately and confidently to meet the needs of the business. We'll look at prerequisites for making this growth successful, various starting points, and organizational prerequisites.

Agile in the Metaverse!

One of the biggest trends in the tech industry right now is the rise of the metaverse. The metaverse is the digital universe we inhabit when we’re online. It’s the digital spaces we visit and build, the worlds we experience, and the people we interact with. The metaverse is where we work, learn, and play.

In this talk, we will apply how we can practice agility by upholding the principle of individuals and interactions over processes and tools in the metaverse. We will also explore how we can use the metaverse and prepare for what the future of work will look like. In addition to talking about applying agile in the metaverse, we will cover why it's important to prepare organizations for the future generational workforce and how we can prepare our organizations to be agile and innovative.

Learning objectives:

1) Understand the concept of the metaverse and why it is important to prepare organizations for the future of work and agile.

2) How we, as agile coaches, use this to enable our clients to be more agile.

3) Benefits of using the metaverse as a tool for agile coaching; we will cover a demo, and discuss how it can be used in the coaching process.

4) Share case studies from universities and how we could use that to teach, train, and coach students on the various agile principles and practices through the MetaVerse.

In Conclusion, the metaverse is a tool that can be used to enable agile coaches, organizations, and individuals to be more agile and innovative. As technology unleashes with various new ways of working, it's important for us to prepare ourselves and our clients for the future of work and agile.

With today’s teams spread across time zones and locations, tools are a necessity to support collaboration and productivity. But a common misconception is that tools come with an implicit process off the shelf that will magically make your business agile. What happens more often than not is that teams and organizations implement tools as a reflection of their people and practices. So while tools are meant to be flexible to support organizational needs, it can be difficult to understand how to implement them to get the best return on investment without looking at the bigger picture.

In this talk, I'll discuss the common pitfalls of implementing a tool without a clear understanding of your people and practices. We'll work on shifting the mindset from implementing a tool to drive processes, to implementing a tool to support business needs and goals. I'll also introduce real success stories where organizations found harmony between people, practices, and technology, using the Atlassian tools to unlock agility in product and marketing teams, clinical drug trials, and advertising.

How many times have we heard "we want to deliver software fast, we want to deliver value, and we want to do it because we want to be Agile." Those extremely frustrating words mean someone wants teams to follow a predefined framework like Scrum or Kanban without assessing the current environment. These processes can easily become the enemy when it comes to getting things done. Why is it that we focus so much on someone else's rules instead of how our teams want to work? Sure, you can leverage frameworks and tips from the industry but the only way it will be valuable is if you are constantly listening to your teams wants and needs. This is not listening after the fact in the form of a retrospective. This is listening from the beginning to the end.

Come to this session to find out about how the tool of listening will help you become a successful and Agile team.