Part of the 10 Year Reflections Project.

This session will be an opportunity to hear 3 short presentations about how the state of our industries and the way that we work in 2012, when LAST started, compares to today. You'll then have a chance to discuss this in small groups to think about what's happened in the past 10 years and also think about what might happen next.

NOTE: This session will have 2 concurrent sessions running in the North Magdalen Laundry and in the Industrial School that is adjoining.

We are experiencing a tech talent shortage in Australia, which is set to intensify. Onboarding new people into our industry is an important part of addressing the shortage. Designing and running great programs for graduates and career switchers isn't easy though. Some organisations already have progressive programs, while many are still working out where to start. And everybody has a role to play - especially the team members who are providing the mentoring and coaching day by day.

This session is about experience sharing - through roundtable conversations we will hear the stories from those who are doing it, and to hear the questions from those who are keen to try.

The insights from the session will be combined with work being undertaken by RMIT FORWARD (Centre for Future Skills and Workforce Transformation) who are exploring this space and are seeking to create a shared resource for our community.

‘Industrial Revolution 4.0’ and ‘exponential change’ are two concepts that are creating a lot of buzz lately, and for good reason. Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and Internet of Things are being adopted at a staggering pace. Platforms companies such AWS have lowered the barrier to entry, and are enthusiastically supporting organisations to experiment and propel forwards into a new way of doing business.

At DiUS we are fortunate to have a front row seat as this wave of change arrives. With our in-house specialists in areas such as AI and IoT, we have formed broad cross functional teams - including engineers, experience designers and agile delivery leads - to help our customers solve their business problems using emerging technologies.

Through this talk I will provide insights based on case studies of DiUS's recent project experiences. We'll contrast the dynamics with the digital software world that many of us are accustomed to working within, and highlight the constraints introduced by factors such as hardware manufacturing, acquiring training sets for machine learning, and navigating the complex systemic challenges associated with entering immature markets. Finally, we will discuss what we as a community need consider as to how we apply the agile practices and mindset in this new context going forward.

Creating meaningful and lasting change in organisations is hard. It requires aligning many different people, from different walks of life, and with different perspectives. But how do we enable a shared understanding of these multiple perspectives?

This challenge is especially real when seeking to introduce agile ways of working. For experienced agile practitioners the rituals, goals and mindset can feel obvious. However, for many people these things can be difficult to grasp, and are sometimes at odds with their perspective and goals.

Through this workshop we will introduce some Systems Thinking frameworks as tools to explore different perspectives and “see” the system and the relationships between the different parts. These systems thinking approaches support us to develop a closer view of reality and take more sensible, purposeful action. Supporting Practitioners to build capability to seek, listen, and co-ordinate different stakeholder perspectives, this workshop will create space for inquiry, exploration and sense-making.

Pete Cohen is a Principal Consultant at DiUS Computing and has extensive experience leading agile projects in diverse organisations ranging from large banks and telcos to startups..

Cass Spong is the founder of Entheos Consulting where she uses systems thinking based approaches to cultivate more effective, sustainable and inspiring organisations. She is also and Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Positive Psychology.

Pete and Cass will draw from their personal experiences and case studies to highlight the differences in perspectives from either side of the agile fence, and will demonstrate how they have gone about establishing alignment in organisations.