In this interactive session Shane discuss his experience working in a distributed, virtual organization which is founded on an Agile Mindset. The challenges of maintaining agility when remote, the ways the ICAgile team have consciously designed their team and organization culture and provide actionable advice based on real experience on how to maintain collaboration, teamwork and live the agile values in a remote only organization.

ICAgile is a global, virtual organisation working with partners across over 100 countries spanning almost every timezone. There is no single corporate office and the ICAgile team is spread across seven locations in three countries. We have managed to build a strong collaborative culture and a truly safe working environment focused on outcomes rather than activities, holding each other to account and being really effective and productive while having a joyful workplace.

Have you ever played the game ‘Uncharted the Lost Legacy’ where an incident changes a life of a child to become greatest treasure hunter of all times.

In this session, i am going to take you on a similar journey where i moved from Dubai to Australia. The journey was a result of a life changing event which shook my inner belief system.

You can lose your inner self-belief system and lose your desire to grow, your passion may just drop off - Life event or just the ebb and flow of life.

Learn how to recapture or rekindle your inner belief system through a world of visuals. This session will tell you how visual facilitation helped me gather my individual expression back, helped me regain my personal drive and opened a door to work with empowering leadership and tap on to discover my hidden jewels. It will help you believe, if i can do it, you can do it as well.

As David Goggins rightly said, its not only motivation but your personal drive and alignment of your mind & heart which can help you discover your hidden jewels.

This session will help you level up your inner talent and your curiosity. As a true Agilist, it will make you believe that, Agile is not about frameworks but a true growth mindset.

We've all seen the classic case studies of a team - sometimes running legacy systems - who aren't able to deliver the value their business needs being saved by an Agile journey. These studies are a great example of what Agile processes can do, but how do you take a high performing team, who are delivering value under a waterfall approach and convince them to level up?

This talk covers ~12 months of one such journey, from the point where we (finally) decided to take the leap and adopt Agile practises, through to our current day state. We'll talk about the context, approach, successes, failures and most importantly the lessons learned.

Hopefully at the end of this talk you will leave with 2 things:

1. the knowledge that such a transformation is possible - even in an otherwise performing 'legacy' team
2. ideas on how you can start your own journey