Clayton Read
Agile Coach at IAG
Zen Ex Machina
location_on Australia
Member since 4 years
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II am a passionate Agile Coach and Servant Leader who enjoys building high performing teams to deliver quality outcomes across the online digital space. With over 13 years of hands on Agile experience, I have specialised in delivering business value utilising a variety of Agile and Lean practices.
I have experience in coaching in a diverse range of Lean-Agile delivery environments. While working at organisations such as UBank, PM Partners, NBN Westpac and Telstra, I have been able to prove my experience in coaching and transforming teams to deliver effective agile driven customer focussed Business and IT initiatives.
I am a pragmatic and proactive, end-to-end delivery focussed Agile practitioner. I have been responsible for the transformation of technology teams to Agile methodologies and ensuring associated business areas understand and support such changes. This has involved a spectrum of activities from training and coaching Agile Fundamentals to facilitating department-wide agile transformation initiatives. This has helped grow a Continuous Improvement culture and Agile-Lean mindset, which deliver substantial improvements in culture, performance and product quality.
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keyboard_arrow_downAccelerate Improvements through Retrospectives
Mia HorriganFounding Partner Zen Ex Machina - VP of Agile Program DeliveryZen Ex Machina
Clayton ReadAgile Coach at IAGZen Ex Machinaschedule 3 years ago
40 Mins
Workshop
Beginner
I had been sitting in a few team retrospectives and hearing the same old tired pattern of "what went well, what didn't, what can we improve". The teams were bored, I was bored, they were just doing mechanical Scrum. Retrospectives are such a powerful tool to drive continuous improvement, but what i was seeing was a stagnation and the true value of this event was being lost.
End of the Sprint was coming up so as the enterprise agile coach, I thought I'd provide some of my favourite patterns and ended up providing my 20 Scrum Masters with a playbook to accelerate and reinvigorate learning and improvement, retrospectives and ideas as well as links to where to find more.
Would love to share these patterns with you, discuss the pain points we were experiencing and how we were able to reinvigorate this event and improve overall quality of our delivery. It will be a workshop so would also love to hear your favourite patterns so we can share them with the group in this workshop and help inspire our teams to strive for activating real improvements.
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How to survive the Zombie Scrum Apocalypse
Mia HorriganFounding Partner Zen Ex Machina - VP of Agile Program DeliveryZen Ex Machina
Clayton ReadAgile Coach at IAGZen Ex Machinaschedule 3 years ago
40 Mins
Workshop
Intermediate
A couple of years ago Christiaan Verwijs and Johannes Schartau coined the term ‘Zombie-Scrum’. What's it all about?
Well, at first sight Zombie Scrum seems to be normal Scrum. But it lacks a beating heart. The Scrum teams do all the Scrum events but a potential releasable increment is rarely the result of a Sprint. Zombie Scrum teams have a very unambitious definition of what ‘done’ means, and no drive to extend it. They see themselves as a cog in the wheel, unable and unwilling to change anything and have a real impact: I’m only here to code! Zombie Scrum teams show no response to a failed or successful Sprint and also don’t have any intention to improve their situation. Actually nobody cares about this team. The stakeholders have forgotten the existence of this team long time ago.
Zombie Scrum is Scrum, but without the beating heart of working software and its on the rise. This workshop will help you understand how to recognise the symptoms and cuases of Zombie Scrum and what you can do to get started to combat and treat Zombie-Scrum.Knowing what causes Zombie Scrum might help prevent a further outbreak and prevent the apocalypse
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