No matter how utopian your agile working environment, if you're building a commercial product, at some stage you will be asked the inevitable question - When will it be done? This talk will provide you with tools and techniques to use when you hear your manager say "We just need to get better at estimating". If you have ever wished for a crystal ball to help you predict the team's future, this talk is for you!

YOW! presents two great talks on Agile Product Development:

Is it done yet? (How about now?) - Michele Playfair

No matter how utopian your agile working environment, if you're building a commercial product, at some stage you will be asked the inevitable question - When will it be done? This talk will provide you with tools and techniques to use when you hear your manager say "We just need to get better at estimating". If you have ever wished for a crystal ball to help you predict the team's future, this talk is for you!

Is this (really) what we are supposed to build? - Jean Looi (& Eyung Lim)

Engaging users when developing digital solutions helps the agile development team to understand their needs. This talk will share with you how design thinking and agile methodology complement each other and work to amplify the benefits that bring to the product development on one of our Whole-of-Government initiatives, Moments of life app. This app aims to deliver integrated information and services to citizens at key stages of their life.

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Research into employee engagement asserts that what we want is "autonomy, mastery and purpose" not necessarily a corner office, a ping pong table, or a fancy job title.

Anecdotally though I have seen a different story where particularly those closer to the start of their career are very focused on job titles as evidence of progress.

Super-flat structures such Holacracy (where you perform a collection of roles rather than having a job title) only exacerbate this... there's really no concept of "promotion".

As managers/employers how do we attract, support, grow and retain our staff - is the answer more likely to be a giant skills matrix allowing progress through a level system than flat circles of autonomy?

When we talk about the list of important skills for future jobs - skills like critical thinking, collaboration, agility and several others come up. Educators are, and have been for quite some time, aware of these skills and they are already working on incorporating these into everyday life of school children.

This session presents the very simple ideas, concepts and techniques currently being used in Australian primary and secondary schools - skills which are amazingly useful in the adult world - and gives you a chance to experiment with them.

The Agile version of Cards Against Humanity. You may have seen versions of this on the internet, but rest assured this version has been enhanced to yield a minimum of 156% more awesomeness. Relatively fresh from its stellar debut at the 2017 Xero Unconference!

The Agile version of Cards Against Humanity. You may have seen versions of this on the internet, but rest assured this version has been enhanced to yield a minimum of 156% more awesomeness. Relatively fresh from its stellar debut at the 2017 Xero Unconference!