Over the last 18 months Super Retail Group (SRG) has been on a journey to move to a new way of working.

This talk focusses on the why, what and how of decreasing their time from Idea to Value.

Now more than ever innovation and agility at pace is required to respond to the ever increasing pressures of

the now economy. This pressure is felt enormously in the retail business.

Hear how the SRG agile journey started by answering into the WHY. Once buy in was obtained WHAT did they stop, start and continue

and HOW did they go about doing this? What worked, what didn’t and what have they learnt so far.

This session talks to the hilarious/scary behaviour that surrounds estimates and forecasts.

I'll look to discuss:

• why teams need to estimate
• some of my own funny experiences when discussing estimates with teams
• the difference between estimates and forecasts
• probabilistic vs deterministic forecasting methods

You'll level up by being more aware of the problematic behaviours with estimates, and how probabilistic forecast methods can help.

When working in the transformation game, teams we encounter will often provide reasons why agility concepts wont work "for them"...

"we are already performing!" "we have too much unplanned work to do any planning!" "we each have our own individual work to get done!" and so on :)

But what do you do when your own transformation team is tempted by some of these thoughts?

This talk tells the story of a team driving an agile/devops transformation, consisting of diverse skillsets and a collection of "individual work" - who levelled up their team mojo by focusing on the core principles of collaboration, adaptive planning and continuous improvement!

I'll share the elements I believe made us successful - and leave you with some practical tools and techniques that we use on a daily basis to support one another, stay outcome focused, constantly improve and have fun along the way :)

This talk and mini workshop aims to address:

• Why some agile implementations have not hit the mark
• Incorporating design thinking into existing agile frameworks
• how to bring focus to the real customer need and not what the business thinks they need
• Rapid innovation techniques with Brainwriting
• mini-workshop to practise an effective Ideation technique.