Drawing on his experience and community engagement through both ICAgile and InfoQ, Shane explores what is at the edge of agility in 2019. The trends that are impacting the way organisations are evolving; practices and approaches gaining traction in the innovators and early adopters and what’s next for agility.

Welcome to the Conference

Acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) is the god-father of test-driven development (TDD) and behaviour-driven development (BDD), so why does it get such little attention? For that matter what is it?

This workshop will give you an overview of ATDD and a run-through of an elaboration session centred on testing.

By the end - you'll never do BDD without ATDD again!

Organisation Leaders and more importantly customers are looking for faster, proactive and innovative solutions to their problems.

Instead of simply doing ‘better’, organisations must do more.

What does this all mean for the traditional PMO and how can they disrupt themselves to be the valueable business partner they need to be?

During the 30 minute discussion the 2 Becs will discuss and provide insights from a recent client engagement where they assisted the PMO to become:

• Start up Funders

• An Innovation Hub

• Investment Advisors

• LEAN Portfolio Machine.

Lessons learnt about what worked, reinforcements to get the change to stick and the pivots required along the way.

There is so much white noise about agility, and I wonder sometimes if the "Agile Industry" is creating the complexity to grow it's own importance. To me agility, indeed all modern working practices, boil down to three things: Visibility, Transparency, and Team Work. In this session I will cover what each of these three aspects bring to the principles and practices of working in the modern workplace, delivering value for an organisation, and working in high performing teams.

This session drills into the absolute fundamentals of agility in practical and tangible techniques that allows any team to adopt the practices that will support aligned, collaborative delivery of value. It's from these fundamentals that each organisation can create their own working practices and approaches to support their industry, domain or stakeholder's needs.

Feedback is a skill that allows you to bring Kaizen into your workplace on a daily basis. By regularly encouraging small changes in your colleagues (feedback); you can collectively be "doing the basics brilliantly" and hence have a high performing team. In the Feedback Dojo you will practise and refining your feedback; learning skills you can immediately apply at work.

Regardless of your experience with giving feedback, this Dojo will help you develop your skill. Participants will be grouped by experience so that they can support and challenge each other.

If you find it hard to give feedback, especially constructive feedback, you are not alone. Many people feel uncomfortable when thinking about giving feedback and lots of us have a bad experience when we delivered constructive feedback. This workshop will provide some guidance and structure that can help with this.

On the final day of the 2013 EPL season, as Liverpool and Manchester City battled for the title, millions of people logged in to watch the matches simultaneously. Sat in an incident room, a small group of tech leaders and engineers watched as their streaming platform crashed and burned under the strain. Your presenter pressed the button to shut people out of the streaming service until we recovered. Cue a lot of angry football fans and (after a stiff drink) a lot of reflection on how this had happened.

In this short talk I’ll share how, even with seemingly the right ingredients, things can still go horribly wrong. I’ll leave you with the lessons I’ve taken from this to go on to achieve success with agile service management around the world. Disclaimer: you don’t need to be a sports fan to enjoy this talk!

As we continue our forays into Business Agility, we need to ask ourselves "have we lost our way?" "if we don't pay attention to the values, do we exist in the Agile forest?"

A case study in recognising our Agility vs Agile journey, where we are at and why, what is next?

Interestingly a learning oriented organisation is both a great and terrifying place to be. Whilst we totally get investing to learn, we can also cut ourselves with the bleeding edge, lets go for cutting edge and do it well!

• An Epiphany: Establishing a frame of reference
• Returning to the basics
• Moving forward: Our Agile may not be your Agile, let's embrace diversity

In this workshop teams learn about the 10 key factors of Collaboration, they learn how to apply them in a practical problem solving task (jigsaw puzzles) and they learn how the puzzle analogy relates to our working practices. Teams will get the process as a take-away that they can then apply at work.

Collaboration

1. Be intentional
2. Have a shared (and common) goal
3. Define a process
4. Build a language
5. Build relationships
6. Be brief
7. Listen with intent to learn
8. If you don't know, say so
9. Everyone gets to contribute
10. Iterate

By working together to solve a problems teams can apply this collaboration approach and learn the value of having structure and discipline to the most important skill we can all develop.

Ideas, ideas ideas. New businesses, new products, new features. Innovative ideas, enhancements ideas, BAU ideas. You name it. They come from everywhere. Overwhelming everyone. Wasting money. Paralysing an organisation with low-priority distractions or by creating too much work to deal with.

Ideas are free. Delivering them is hard, expensive and not necessarily worth it.

How do you sort the good from the bad? How do you kill the bad ones quickly and minimise your investment in them? How do get people to let go of their emotional attachment to them?

In this talk I’ll share ways to switch from an opinion to an evidence based prioritisation model. I’ll show how to create rigour in managing the pipeline of ideas. And how saying ‘no’ to ideas can not just reduce that overwhelming feeling, but also improve your organisation’s productivity.