Agile mixed with Waterfall exists in every product development organization globally, yet current thinking teaches us to crusade for one approach at the expense of the other - an approach that creates unnecessary resistance and alienates people with different perspectives. The question is: How can we manage the reality of a mixed-methods environment while still receiving the intended benefits of both approaches? In this talk, Brock Argue and Erkan Kadir will introduce Integrated Agile, a groundbreaking and practical approach that leverages Polarity Thinking to manage the predictable dynamics between Agile and Waterfall while maximizing the upsides of both approaches.

Have you ever struggled to gain buy-in from your boss, a stakeholder or an executive for a key direction or product decision? Do you have good ideas, but find that no one is listening? In this 90-minute workshop, you'll learn how to meet executives on their level, build rapport by using their language, and create an elevator pitch to gain buy-in for your ideas. You'll leave this workshop with a strategy to analyze stakeholder needs, a formula that lays out information in a way that grabs and keeps executive attention, an elevator pitch you can use in your work and an action plan for delivering your pitch successfully.

The ScrumMaster is responsible for coaching their team and the surrounding organization. Unfortunately, professional coaching is typically taught in the context of one-on-one conversations. This leaves the ScrumMaster ill-equipped to serve their team from a coaching stance. Without a solid approach for coaching teams, it’s all too easy for a ScrumMaster to slip from coaching into consulting - and start telling people what to do. Understanding how to take a coaching stance in group settings will grow your ability as a ScrumMaster to foster continuous improvement in your team - taking your ScrumMastering from good to great.

So how does one effectively engage groups from a coaching stance? In this workshop, you will practice coaching techniques that can be used with groups of any size. You’ll leave with a few simple tips on how to leverage any coaching model you are already familiar with when coaching large groups and the confidence to catalyze lasting change in your organization.

Get ready to level-up your coaching with a new superpower!

All ScrumMasters yearn for their teams to become more effective agilists. It’s common for this yearning to turn into frustration when working with people who just don't get it. Before we know it, we’re speaking disparagingly about who we’re there to help - throwing our hands in the air, giving up and being unhappy in our roles as ScrumMaster.

News flash! ScrumMasters will, by definition, ALWAYS be in situations where the people around them haven’t mastered Scrum. When that stops being true, you’ll just be moved to another team that does need your help.

Come to this session if you want to learn how to enjoy every day of your amazing journey, develop compassion for your team, link the work you’re doing now back to your life’s purpose and rediscover that spark for your role as an agile change agent.

Let me guess - you’re in an agile coaching engagement right now with no clear agenda or timeline for the coaching. You hang out at the back of team meetings and try to add value by interrupting with powerful questions. There's no apparent rhyme or reason to your interventions and the team is making little progress. You’re kind of just...there. After a while, no one really knows why, and everyone, including yourself, wonders when you’ll leave.

Sound familiar? Don’t worry! This unfortunate occurrence is extremely common for new and experienced agile coaches alike. In this session, you will learn to identify your current coaching approach and how to use systems entry to break out of unhelpful patterns once and for all.

Have you ever struggled to gain buy-in from your boss, a stakeholder or an executive for a key direction or product decision? Do you have good ideas, but find that no one is listening? In this 90-minute workshop, you'll learn how to meet executives on their level, build rapport by using their language, and create an elevator pitch to gain buy-in for your ideas. You'll leave this workshop with a strategy to analyze stakeholder needs, a formula that lays out information in a way that grabs and keeps executive attention, an elevator pitch you can use in your work and an action plan for delivering your pitch successfully.

Your team has hit a plateau in their performance and is no longer improving at the pace you are used to. You, as their leader, are racking your brain to determine what the issue might be. What would cause such a team to stall out. Have you considered that the cause might be you?

The level of consciousness of an organization cannot exceed that of its leader. (Frederic Laloux). Enabling your team to reach ever higher levels of performance requires that you do so first. In this workshop, we will guide leaders through the Immunity to Change framework developed by Robert Keagan and Lisa Lahey and demonstrate how the Immunity Map can be used to catalyze change in your leadership. Participants will practice using the Immunity Map to identify areas of improvement, limiting beliefs, assumptions and behaviors that are holding you and your team back from higher performance. You know that you need to change. Now’s the time. Start here!