Attention coaches, Scrum Masters, and facilitators - this session is for YOU! Come get hands-on experience with a variety of activities that you can use to help people understand the power of Agile methods. You will experience these activities, and you’ll come away with the ability to conduct them and debrief them as well.

When working with people who are new to Agile it is important to engage them in the experience. Talking about the wonders of collaboration and communication rarely changes anyone’s mind, but having them experience the value of rapid feedback, creative communication techniques, and collaborating as a team can help them see new opportunities for application in their day to day work.

Stop building stuff people don't want! Develop empathy for your customer and delight them with a high value product they love. Let go of assumptions that lower the value of the product you deliver. Leave this workshop with a framework that you can go and implement TOMORROW!

We will use the Stanford d.school's Wallet Project to teach you design thinking concepts through a fast-paced exercise where you will take a product though a full design cycle. Build empathy, ideate, & move to action by building a prototype. Get feedback by testing your solution and ultimately create a product that is useful and meaningful to your partner!

Alignment to a shared vision is necessary to achieve the outcomes you desire in your business. On top of this, engaged autonomous teams must be able to execute. In a scaled agile organization, this is crucial for success. In this interactive talk, I help you understand this in more detail and we walk through some fun exercises and discussions to learn how to create alignment across teams at multiple levels in your organization using OKRs.

Many companies attempting Agile are not getting the benefits they hope for. I believe most of these companies are more focused on blindly following practices than living the agile principles. Many of these companies have not fully embraced the principles and some do not even know the principles! For an organization to reap the benefits that agile offers, it must live the principles. In this workshop, I'll teach you exercises and techniques to reset the people in your organization around the 12 Principles Behind the Agile Manifesto and the 4 Modern Agile Principles.

Have you ever been the only agilist on a team of agile-resistors? How about one of a few people with an agile mindset in an entire organization? It can be a lonely place. Which is exactly why having an agile support system is so important. And if you don't have one, you should create one!

In this session I will explain why and how I created the Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild, a meetup in Tampa Bay that has been going strong for over 3 years. I will share stories that teach how valuable a community of like-minded practitioners can be. I will provide testimonials from Guild members to demonstrate the power of a good support system and I will teach you how you can start a similar support system in your area. This will be an interactive session with discussions and exercises built in to make it engaging and fun!