Product teams often have a huge challenge in balancing the effort towards building for the future and supporting their product today.

In this workshop you will learn how to use common lean tools like Pareto analysis and PICK matrixes, alongside the cost of delay to ensure that your product teams have a continuing focus of maintaining a health balance between the two.

At Boral and Campaign Monitor we use this light set of lean tools to help teams maximise the impact they have on the supportability of their systems ensuring they have a healthy balance between building for the future and supporting their product today.

To succeed and indeed survive in today’s world of accelerating change and disruption leaders need to constantly evolve themselves, their teams and their organizations. This session will outline the need for this type of leadership, present the Evolutionary Helix, a 4-step framework for evolving faster than the pace of change and tools to develop their awareness, teams and stakeholder relationships.

Successfully onboarding new developers is vital to the overall success of a development team. This talk provides a framework for evaluating your specific onboarding program. It doesn't pretend to provide a one-size-fits-all program, but rather gives leaders the insights they need to build a world class onboarding program specific to their own circumstances and company values.

We all know that empathy is essential to effective leadership, management, product development, marketing - pretty much any aspect of the business and the organisation that involves people and their collaboration.

Meanwhile, the amount of time managers and employees spend on collaborative workshop ballooned over the past two decades.

You hear lots of big words at conferences but can you use them in a sentence?

• "Are you taking Holacracy and the Dark Arts this term, Hermione?"
• "We need to talk about CYNEFIN"
• "Does your partner like the Monte Carlo method?"

This light-hearted game tests you on your knowledge of tricky vocabulary words and concepts.

Learn these words quickly. Once politicians start using them it's too late to impress anybody.

The communication tools of Liberating Structures will teach you how to facilitate the discussions your org needs. I am going to demonstrate how to use these techniques in the workshop. And all the attendees are going to be fully immersed and ready to wield their new knowledge the very next day at work.

If you are a recent convert to LS, come learn a new set of techniques to continue the journey. If you are new to LS, this will start you on your path of facilitation mastery.

Imagine you are a Mad Agile Scientist and have a diabolical experiment to conduct - what would happen if you exchanged the brains of a Product Owner and Scrum Master? Mwuhahahaha!!! How would the body of a Product Owner with the brain of a Scrum Master act? And vice versa?

Perhaps the Scrum Master would now treat the team like a backlog? This Scrum Master would be focused on value and maintaining a coaching backlog of team and person improvements. This Scrum Master is refining the team, crafting a group that delivers value.

And perhaps the Product Owner might treat the backlog like a team? Rather than backlog refining, they coach the backlog. They would be focused on nurturing, protecting, and empowering the backlog. The backlog might transform from an irritation into a labor of love.

Although this experiment sounds terrible, this change of perspective might be what you need to reanimate your dead team or backlog.

Join the fun and come learn what horrifying results await!

This workshop is for agile leaders assisting large organisations to shift towards a highly engaged, autonomous working environment.
Using a simple model and supporting canvas, participants will learn to use a systematic approach for creating clarity and focus around the transformational activities an organisation decides to pursue.
I will briefly introduce a simple organisational model about how we work and how we engage our people, and teach participants how to use it is evaluate their own working environment and decide on impactful changes.

As practitioners of Agile and guides on changing mindsets, we often hear the same reason as to why things cannot or will not change...

"It won't work, it's more complicated than you know"

"It's not that simple...we don't do it like that here"

"That's all well and good (that fluffy pie in the sky Agile thing) but we still need to deliver"

We hear these proclamations before we have even started or tried any form of change...Why is that? Why is there a large portion of our organisation afraid to try something new?

Breaking it down further, why are teams afraid to experiment? And at it's very core, why are we as individuals afraid of challenge and learning when there is the real possibility of becoming better?

By understanding our own unconscious mindsets, we can grow our own capacity to understand other's and their resistance.

Join us as we learn about the concepts of fixed and growth mindsets and how our own unconscious tendencies can undermine our capacity for change.

Diversity is a key element of the modern landscape, but left unchecked, it can impair both performance and learning. The antidote: psychological safety.

To date, researchers have often treated diversity as a single idea, diluting the interpretability of different findings.

From the quick dive into three types of diversity: separation, variety and disparity we will explore how psychological safety can enable team diversity to be better accessed and leveraged, reaping the benefits associated with diverse sets of skills, experience, knowledge and backgrounds in ways that would not be possible if team members were unwilling to speak up and listen carefully to each other.