
Gino Marckx
Business Improvement Consultant
Xodiac Inc.
location_on Canada
Member since 3 years
Gino Marckx
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In 2002, Gino started working with some of Belgium's most prominent Agile promoters. Very soon after that, he joined the Belgian XP/Agile User Group and became actively involved in promoting Agile techniques and practices, because he believes in their effectiveness.
When he moved to Canada in 2008, Gino co-founded the Toronto Agile Software Development Community and started travelling the world coaching individuals and organizations as they embrace the Agile mindset.
Gino strongly relies on his passion for team dynamics, his experience in leadership positions and his technical expertise. He currently is active as a management consultant at Xodiac, helping organizations to make their digital transformation matter. His lifetime mission is to ‘make every team thrive’.
He likes to spend his spare time with family and friends enjoying cycling, travel, art, music, poetry and bragging about the supreme quality of Belgian beer (although he recognizes that Canada has narrowed the gap significantly).
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Measuring outcomes ... or how to get meaningful metrics
40 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
"How well is your delivery team doing?" That seems like a straightforward question, but it is more complicated that it might sound at first. Do we know what it means to "do well" or is it one of those things that is different to everyone?
In this session we will discuss how we can meaningfully measure a teams output and what we can learn from the measurements. We will also touch on common pitfalls and provide insight in how to avoid them.
You will walk away with information on how to design metrics for your own purposes, and get started with some concrete examples to measure productivity of a delivery team. In short, you will have all the information to answer "how well your team is doing" meaningfully. -
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Don't hire more coaches, increase your coaching capacity!
90 Mins
Workshop
Advanced
Many organizations have difficulty hiring coaches to support their teams in applying agile principles and practices. As a result, many teams are left to their own devices and often face challenges that can lead to mediocre results and even demotivated teams, quite the opposite what the introduction of agile principles intended to achieve.
I believe that many organizations are trying to solve the wrong problem. It is not the lack of coaches on the market that is causing the lack of support for the teams, but the lack of coaching capacity. What if there are alternative ways to address this redefined problem besides only hiring more coaches?
I have helped small and large organizations increase their coaching capacity with programs that structure coaching for both the coaches and the teams. Join this session to hear about these experiences and understand how you as well can gradually increase the coaching capacity of your teams.
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Building Powerful Roadmaps
45 Mins
Talk
Beginner
Any organization’s ability to focus on what matters most to their customers is directly related to their ability to get valuable feedback from them. While more and more organizations embrace agile practices during the development of their services, they often lack in how they collect feedback and therefor don’t get the benefits they are after. After all, what is the upside to investing in being able to pivot, if there is no information available to guide the direction of that pivot?
The fact that many roadmaps leave little room for flexibility significantly contributes to this and building powerful roadmaps is a really hard task. How does one get feedback about a house without building it completely? How does one give feedback about a car without being able to drive it around the city for a couple of hours?
This session will provide you with practical techniques on how to build a powerful roadmap for your product or service, one that allows any organization to get valuable feedback from their customers. The session is based on ideas from the draft book Powerful Roadmaps.
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Going undercover: understanding Agile inside out
90 Mins
Workshop
Beginner
The success of agile practices has impacted the masses’ understanding of what’s really happening behind the scenes. This too often leads to blind adoption and mediocre results. In order words, for many teams agile practices have become the new waterfall.
With a deeper understanding of the core tenets of the agile mindset and a simple process to help you think in an agile way, you will become a master of sustainable improvement with tangible results and with a lot less frustration.
Expect this session to energize you with a healthy combination of theory and practice.
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Building Powerful Roadmaps
90 Mins
Workshop
Beginner
Any organization’s ability to focus on what matters most to their customers is directly related to their ability to get valuable feedback from them. While more and more organizations embrace agile practices during the development of their services, they often lack in how they collect feedback and therefor don’t get the benefits they are after. After all, what is the upside to investing in being able to pivot, if there is no information available to guide the direction of that pivot?
The fact that many roadmaps leave little room for flexibility significantly contributes to this and building powerful roadmaps is a really hard task. How does one get feedback about a house without building it completely? How does one give feedback about a car without being able to drive it around the city for a couple of hours?
This session will provide you with practical techniques on how to build a powerful roadmap for your product or service, one that allows any organization to get valuable feedback from their customers. This workshop is based on ideas from the draft book Powerful Roadmaps.
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Don't hire more coaches, increase your coaching capacity!
90 Mins
Workshop
Advanced
Many organizations have difficulty hiring coaches to support their teams in applying agile principles and practices. As a result, many teams are left to their own devices and often face challenges that can lead to mediocre results and even demotivated teams, quite the opposite what the introduction of agile principles intended to achieve.
I believe that many organizations are trying to solve the wrong problem. It is not the lack of coaches on the market that is causing the lack of support for the teams, but the lack of coaching capacity. What if there are alternative ways to address this redefined problem besides only hiring more coaches?
I have helped small and large organizations increase their coaching capacity with programs that structure coaching for both the coaches and the teams. Join this session to hear about these experiences and understand how you as well can gradually increase the coaching capacity of your teams.
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