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These days, almost every organization is showing interest in Agile. We seem to have all the ingredients for effective transformations: well-known practices, detailed processes, ever-improving tools, extensive literature, myriad certifications, and many consultants. How is it, then, that so few organizations are truly agile?

Gil Broza, author of “The Agile Mindset” and “The Human Side of Agile”, thinks that one particular ingredient has been overlooked in the mad rush to adopt Agile. In this session, he leads us on an exploration of that ingredient and its crucial place in an Agile transformation.

Gil Broza helps organizations increase their agility and team performance with minimal risk and thrashing. Close to 100 companies seeking Agile transformations, makeovers, or improvements have relied on his pragmatic, modern, and respectful support for customizing Agile in their contexts. His services include strategic assessments, Agile mind-set and skills training, key event facilitation, keynotes for internal conferences, and coaching at all organizational levels. He is the author of three acclaimed books, The Agile Mind-Set, The Human Side of Agile, and most recently the ground-breaking Agile for Non-Software Teams. Get a taste of his approach at 3PVantage.com/free_resources.

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Many of the greatest product creations in our lifetime were born out of finding ways to solve a difficult issue or fighting through failure and making discovery sometimes intentional, other times by sheer coincidence. How can we leverage failure in our personal and professional lives to build a stronger and more resilient person. Join us for this session where we review some of the world's worst failures and the impact they have on our lives today. Come with an open mind and leave blown away! 

Lee Henson’s 15 years of experience spans a broad array of roles and responsibilities. He is currently one of just over 220 Certified Scrum Trainers worldwide. He is also a SAFe Scaled Agile Program Consultant, Project Management Professional, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, and a Certified Lean Agile Professional. His client list includes over 44 Fortune 100 companies.

Lee is a graduate of the Disney Management Institute and has served as Chairperson for the Scrum Alliance Certification Advisory Board. He is a published author, awarded public speaker and the inventor of Rapid Release Planning.  Lee also hosts The Daily Standup Agile Podcast. He is continually looking for ways to uplift organizations, teams, and individuals in an effort to advance the Agile & Scrum community.

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Here’s the opportunity to learn the Bikablo visualization technique which thousands of people apply to create better meetings and projects. Explore basic marker skills for your flip chart or whiteboard. Develop your visual vocabulary—pictograms, figures, and containers. Use simple combination techniques to create thoughtsketches. Learn to make ideas, differing views, problems, questions, processes, and project progress visible to accelerate results. Bring two chisel tip, black, permanent ink markers, e.g. Neuland, Mr. Sketch, Sharpie… A few light colors for shadow, chisel tip yellow, pink, orange, lime green, etc.

Dr. Jill Greenbaum helps leaders across the globe to create responsive environments in corporate, government, nonprofit, and educational settings, by accessing the strengths of their communication styles. Jill utilizes her expertise in instructional design, training, facilitation, and coaching to deliver stellar offerings that transform participants, their relationships, and their work. She leverages her strengths as a graphic facilitator to support clients in gaining greater clarity, perspective, and depth, about the issues and challenges they are facing, enabling accelerated, richer, and long-lasting results. Jill is the only member of the Bikablo Global Training Team in the United States.

Modern Professional Scrum using Flow and Kanban - Leverage Kanban and Flow to improve Scrum?

Should you use Scrum, Kanban, or maybe even DevOps? You don’t have to choose: Scrum teams improve when they look at flows inside and outside their sprints from a Lean/Kanban perspective. In this session, we will talk about Kanban-related myths prevalent in the Scrum world and identify common ground between them. We will look at ways to bring Kanban flow into your Scrum: the Kanban-based Sprint/product backlog, flow-based daily Scrum, visualizing aging work, and flow-based Sprint planning. We will describe ways to wrap Scrum with a Kanban flow system, and at the higher-level picture of a DevOps culture and process.

You’ll leave with a better understanding of how Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps relate to each other and with ideas for experiments to try when back at work.

Yuval Yeret is a Professional Scrum Trainer at AgileSparks, a Steward for the Scrum.org Professional Scrum with Kanban class and has been practicing Scrum with Kanban since 2007. 

MVP: And why we confuse building to learn with building to earn

Minimum viable product is one of the most misunderstood, misused, and abused terms in contemporary software development. In this talk Jeff will explain the misunderstandings made by thought leaders that lead to confusion we all deal with today. You’ll learn the counter-intuitive concepts hidden in the term and why really using them is so hard. You’ll learn about techniques that will ultimately help you find smaller successful releases, test your ideas faster, develop higher quality software more predictably, and release more confidently than ever before. Because hidden in this nasty little term are clues that can help you do all that.

Jeff makes use of over 20 years of product design and development experience to help companies create great products.

Jeff started in software development in the early 90s as a project leader and senior developer for a small software product company. There he learned that well written code, and fast delivery isn’t the secret to success, it’s just table stakes. It’s actually deep understanding of your customers and users coupled with a desire to create a product that’s really valuable to them that makes the biggest difference.

In 2000 Jeff worked as a product manager at one of the first companies adopting Extreme Programming. It was there he built a strong appreciation for the discipline that Agile thinking brings to software development and a deep concern for what seemed to be left out, specifically good product thinking. Since then Jeff has been an evangelist championing the inclusion of strong product design and user experience practice in Agile development. Today Jeff teaches and coaches a contemporary blend of practice that incorporates Lean and Lean Startup and Design Thinking all directed at helping organizations build products their customers love.

Jeff’s a Certified Scrum Trainer, and winner of the Agile Alliance’s 2007 Gordon Pask Award for contributions to Agile Development.  Jeff is author of the bestselling O’Reilly book User Story Mapping which describes a simple holistic approach to using stories in Agile development without losing sight of the big picture. 

Andrea Chiou: Making the Most of the Wisdom of the Team using Clean Language

When taught to everyone, Clean Language (non-leading) questions elevate and amplify the inherent diversity of skills, knowledge, and styles of working in the team. It’s incredibly powerful in getting folks to pay exquisite attention to one other and in creating a system of learning, listening, inquiry and mutual support!

You will be introduced to and practice some of the basic techniques of Clean Language. Clean Language is a set of 12 core questions that are non-leading and assumption free. When everyone learns to listen exquisitely to others, the questions become a powerful amplifier of attention.  Group communication becomes a platform for cohesion, sustainable inquiry, learning, trust, self-awareness and engagement. 

In this intro, you’ll get to learn the structure of Clean Language questions and put them to use in small groups using some of the tools of Clean for Teams, such as:

• Working At Your Best - create and share how you work ‘at your best’. We’ll use the questions on each other to learn each other’s best state for working.
• Problem/Remedy/Outcome – notice the differences in language people use, to know which question to ask next. 
• Clean Feedback - you’ll learn to separate observation from meaning, and meaning from impact. This can be used to reflect back on both positive and negative and to think forward about what might work better.

You and your team members will have a helpful tool to use to diffuse conflict and misunderstandings and give effective clean feedback. You’ll be able to celebrate different opinions and ways of working, and to help enhance each other’s thinking and working styles.

Simple enough to start using right away, rich enough that if practiced with others, it will start to amplify your collective results at work.

Andrea Chiou is an Agile Coach from Virginia in the USA, working in IT for over 25 years. Her company, Connections-At-Work, offers a variety of facilitation ‘tools’ to businesses looking for unique ways to increase engagement, alignment and agility. These include inquiry tools, such as Clean Language (non-leading questions), group modeling tools such as Systemic Modeling (team discovery, tacit knowledge transfer and collaboration practices), and Agendashift TM strategy workshops. Andrea’s mission is to help people at work connect to one another so that the best possible outcomes are available not only in the moment, but over a sustained period of time.

Topic: Beyond Agile Pilot Stage? Time to Embrace Agile Budgeting, Planning, and Cost Accounting

Traditional forms of budgeting, planning, and cost accounting do not align well with agile-based development. For example, detailed up-front annual budgets and business plans, utilization-based planning and execution, and large budgeting and planning batches can thwart or even compromise the downstream agile development process. And cost accounting measures that are based on standards that assume development will proceed in a waterfall fashion don’t work well and can have severe economic consequences when agile is the predominant development style.

This presentation offers sound strategies to help fiscally responsible companies reap the real benefits of agility by better aligning high-level budgeting, planning, and cost accounting with downstream agile development. Learn how to avoid the damage caused when senior management operates the company using one set of principles and downstream teams develop with a different set of principles. 

Ken Rubin is the author of Amazon’s #1 best selling book Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process. As an agile thought leader, Ken founded Innolution where he helps organizations thrive through the application of agile principles in an effective and economically sensible way. He has coached over 200 companies ranging from startups to Fortune 10, and is an angel investor and mentor to numerous exciting startups. As a Certified Scrum Trainer, Ken has trained over 25,000 people in agile / Scrum as well as object-oriented technology. He was the first managing director of the worldwide Scrum Alliance, a nonprofit organization focused on transforming the world of work using Scrum.