Do you remember your team's first engagement with agile adoption? Did you or others on your team hold strong opinions on specific topics? Were meetings derailed by discussions about which is the right way to do agile? Perhaps as a scrum master or coach, you face stormy meetings with many debates. If so, let's talk about chartering:

Steve Teske presets a chartering framework for sequentially identifying and resolving tough issues for teams embarking on lean or agile implementations. Utilizing the chartering framework a scrum master, team lead or coach creates a facilitation plan which includes activities and educational opportunities relevant to a specific team. Through the course of facilitated chartering the team discovers two fundamental things. First they cooperative discover common definitions of agile words and processes. Second, they build a deep understanding of their intra-team commitments which provides the foundation for trust and accountability.

Agile projects require a different approach to project/product initiation and planning to facilitate organizational success. in this talk, I will describe the elements of an Agile Financial Hierarchy that, if followed, will increase the empowerment and effectiveness of agile teams, support quality metrics and reporting and, ensure decisions are aligned with organizational objectives.

This game lets players experience the burden of being a Product Owner, backlog management and having to choose between stakeholders. Players will form a team responsible for everything related to coffee and will try to create as much business value as possible for their organization while keeping stakeholders happy.

Do who want to bring agility to an entire organization but struggle with how to scale it enterprise-wide. By attending this session you will learn what are the key aspects and stakeholders to consider when embarking on a Business Agility transformation and how to establish the right guiding coalition and the appropriate roadmap for success.

Do you want to sharpen your leadership skills? Wish you could use coaching techniques to improve and provide more effective leadership to your teams and organization? Learn the 7 foundational coaching questions that will make you more effective in empowering your teams, encouraging self-organizing, and building more resilient teams.

The current buzz in the industry is all about Business Agility. The majority of the literature, publications, and marketing makes the case that to achieve business agility organization’s need to undertake an agile transformation. And those organizations that do not adopt agile, will struggle in the market and be challenged with their current business model. The session will address the description of Business Agility, describe what is an Agile Transformation, and look at the relationship between business agility and agile transformation.

The Agile Manifesto has been around for over 16 years. That seems like enough time for organizations to adapt to Agile processes and get the hang of writing Agile contracts. Yet, when it comes time for US Federal Agencies to enter into a contract about Agile work processes and deliverables, we're still seeing Waterfall language persist.

If we want to see Agile software development contracts that are truly aligned for the best interests of all parties involved, there are a few steps that we need to take. Learn what these steps are in this presentation.

No one has more trouble making the switch to Agile than traditional PMs. Learn how to Inspect and adapt your way to a more Agile version of you and design a journey towards facilitation and collaboration mastery.

Corporations are becoming more complex by growing and adding new layers of indirection between the front line workers and the problems that needs solutions. This seems to be unavoidable but there is an increasing realization that instituting new models like scrum of scrums to force fit, agile processes to corporate hierarchies isn’t going to work. So find out what is the solution.

The presentation is a case study of how Agile (Scrum/Kanban) can be applied to business development (BD).

Business Development is about managing increasing amounts of investment or determining where to invest. Agile business development is about learning, failing and succeeding quickly in this process. This talk presents a case study from the presenter's personal experience in coaching, training and mentoring 6 BD teams how to apply Agile to their work. 

The case study will cover how the following challenges of applying Agile to BD activities were addressed:

• How do you define a Release?
• How to do release planning?
• How to define Sprint goals?
• Do we write User Stories? 
• Do we size the stories?
• Do we calculate velocity?
• How do you do Sprint planning?
• Do we need a Scrum Master? Who should play this role?
• What is the right duration of a Sprint?

Doing Agile is more than just the summation of all the roles, ceremonies and artifacts of a method like Scrum. Agile only works when one has the courage to really realize the concepts, values and principles at its core. The secret is in "being" Agile in thinking so that it manifests in the "doing."

The session will present common patterns observed in organizations and teams thinking they are "doing" Agile, whereas their practices are very "Fr-agile". These patterns are signs of Agile being practiced in an unhealthy way leading to complete failure or a less-than-expected outcome with unfulfilled expectations.

The presentation is for executives and senior managers responsible for supporting and leading agile transformation in their organizations. In addition, both experienced Agile practitioners and those who have just started or are planning to start their agile adoption journey will find this session helpful in learning about common anti-Agile patterns.