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Monday, July 25
 

10:45am EDT

Finding Agreement When Everyone Is Right (Michael Tardiff)
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Are you a good agree-er? Do others agree with you often? Do you know how to make agreement spread?
Have you ever tried to have lunch with a group of five or more coworkers and had trouble agreeing on where to go? Or come to the end of a sprint and been unable to agree on which of the many things the team could do to experiment or change the team will do? Maybe the folks ordering your backlog can’t agree which of the twenty-five number-one priorities is the real number one.
Agreement is at the heart of agility and lean practice, yet we often have trouble finding it. Drawing on decades of experience helping people agree” and collaborative governance methods, this practical and interactive discussion explores what it means to be “right” and how we can help ourselves and those with whom we work find agreement on matters small and large.
Learning Outcomes:
  • What it means to find agreement
  • Why making decisions is hard or impossible when everyone is certain and different.
  • The four ways of making decisions and finding agreement
  • What’s the best way for us to find agreement
  • Experience through exercises on how agreement is both easier and harder to find than we may think
  • A renewed belief that agreement starts with you
  • Tools for helping you find common ground with your colleagues
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Michael Tardiff

Senior consultant, SolutionsIQ
Running light without overbyte, as Dr. Dobbs Journal of Computer Calesthenics and Orthodontia used to say. Open Space. Lean Coffee. Systems thinking and leaning out process. All those other agile-y things. Sailing.

Monday July 25, 2016 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Hanover DE
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Talk

10:45am EDT

From Kickoff to Liftoff: Don’t Forget Context! (Ellen Grove, Steve Holyer)
Limited Capacity seats available
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Although a good Agile Charter has three components – Purpose, Alignment, and Context – we often fail at building an awareness of context in our teams. Perhaps it's because we've taken the time to teach Product Owners a little bit about purpose, and Scrum Masters a little bit about alignment, and then we threw out all the Project Managers who understand context. (Ok, we're kidding about that. Don't throw out your Project Managers!)
Your team needs to understand their context so that they recognize that they are one part of a complex adaptive system. Contextual awareness helps the team to make better product decisions as they will understand how their work fits into the greater whole.
In this hands-on workshop we'll give you three concrete tools you can take home and use with your team to facilitate awareness of their context. You will use these tools to:
  • understand team boundaries and interactions with stakeholders and product partners
  • identify dependencies
  • identify opportunities, risks, and benefits through prospective analysis
Learning Outcomes:
  • Describe the importance of chartering context to support systems thinking in the project community
  • Facilitate team discussions around boundaries and interactions, dependencies, and risks and opportunities
  • Create lightweight documentation to capture context elements within an Agile charter
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avatar for Ellen Grove

Ellen Grove

business agility coach, Agile Partnership
Ellen Grove is an Agile coach and trainer who helps teams to do better work by coaching them to cocreate the circumstances in which they can work productively and effectively. Her Agile coaching practice is founded in over 18 years’ experience leading software testing, development... Read More →
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Steve Holyer

Agile PO Coach and Trainer, engage-results.com
Steve Holyer is a product ownership coach, trainer, facilitator and consultant helping product organisations unleash value and deliver results. Principal consultant at Steve Holyer and Associates in Zurich Switzerland; he is an international speaker and trainer on Scrum and Agile... Read More →

Monday July 25, 2016 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Regency VII
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Workshop

2:00pm EDT

Games for Doing (Don McGreal)
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This fun, energetic, and interactive session will explore how games and other exercises can help teams better collaborate to get things done. Games are not just child's play, we will discuss how games are a serious technique for facilitating and accelerating creative work. The audience will participate in a series of games that can be applied in their day-to-day work to make collaboration more engaging and meaningful.
This session is for Product Owners, Facilitators, Product Managers, Development Teams, or anyone involved in creative, collaborative work. After a quick introduction on the power of play, the audience will participate in four or five games selected to demonstrate different styles and work outputs.
All games and instructions will be made available on TastyCupcakes.org for reference.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Create better meetings through more engagement and collaboration
  • Learn how a team can work together more effectively with games
  • Learn a new set of facilitation tools for:
  • - Creating Business Models
  • - Creating Vision
  • - Creating Product Backlogs
  • - Prioritizing
  • - Sizing
  • Have fun
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avatar for Don McGreal

Don McGreal

VP of Learning Solutions, Improving
In his role as VP of Learning Solutions at Improving, Don McGreal is a hands-on agile consultant and instructor. And...* Author of the book: 'The Professional Product Owner: Leveraging Scrum as a Competitive Advantage'.* Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer who has authored and taught... Read More →

Monday July 25, 2016 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Regency VI
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Workshop

3:45pm EDT

How to Get Your Whole Team Talking (Gil Broza)
Limited Capacity full
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“Agile has too many meetings.” “Our meetings are a waste of time.” “It’s always the same two people talking while everyone else is on their phones or laptops.” Indeed, meetings are often pretty bad… but they are also necessary. Agile teams can’t fully implement the 3 C’s (communication, collaboration, and consensus) only by inhabiting an open space or using a messaging tool. As it turns out, it doesn’t take much to make meetings effective, collaborative, and something to look forward to. Come to this experiential session to learn 10 simple changes you can make – without having to become a professional facilitator – to make your meetings matter.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Identify the elements of meeting design and flow that encourage everyone to participate helpfully
  • Apply a simple yet powerful process for designing collaborative conversations
  • Upgrade your facilitation style with small changes that make a big difference
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Monday July 25, 2016 3:45pm - 5:00pm EDT
Hanover DE
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Workshop

3:45pm EDT

Insights and Connections: Using Sense Making to Think & Decide in Uncertainty (Lynne Cazaly)
Limited Capacity full
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If machines can think, understand and recognise, cars don’t need drivers, holograms make real what’s not and the internet of things is in everything … what is left for us humans to do?
What can we do in our agile team roles that will bring the greatest value? According to the Institute for the Future (IFTF), Sensemaking is the #1 skill for 2020 and beyond.
Great news! As humans, we have a unique capability to make sense. Sensemaking is the "ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed.” (IFTF)
Sensemaking helps us connect the dots, gain insights and gather up the requirements to make decisions and act. It requires us to think, map and then act.
So if we are to adapt to the VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) that constant change brings (both in our teams and organisations and in the wider world) we need to generate insights, use our ingenuity and create ideas like never before.
Whether you're picking up a subtle cue, have got a hunch, are generating ideas or seeing things from another person’s perspective, sense making is the skill that helps you join the dots to then ‘move on’ and make decisions.
This workshop session presents you with models, templates, discussion questions and practical tools to apply sense making in your role. You’ll be able to use these sense making skills alone, in teams, and with stakeholders, project sponsors, colleagues, clients and users to gain greater insights and connections.
Learning Outcomes:
  • - Understand the benefits to using sense making approaches in today’s rapidly changing environment
  • - Identify individual and team/collaboration applications for sense making in project, scrum and agile environments
  • - Identify the three key elements of contemporary sense making practice
  • - Learn 3 thinking techniques for sense making
  • - Learn 4 visual mapping techniques for sense making
  • - Learn 2 action approaches for sense making
  • - Identify sources for further learning and application

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avatar for Lynne Cazaly

Lynne Cazaly

Owner, Lynne Cazaly
Lynne Cazaly helps individuals, teams and organisations transition to new ways of working. Lynne is an international keynote speaker, author and a master facilitator. She is the author of 6 books: ish: The Problem with our Pursuit for Perfection and the Life-Changing Practice of... Read More →

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Monday July 25, 2016 3:45pm - 5:00pm EDT
Inman
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Workshop
 
Tuesday, July 26
 

9:00am EDT

Design your Agile Organization using SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) principles (Catherine Louis, Raj Mudhar)
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Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides principles for designing software applications as suites of independently deployable services with a bare minimum of centralized management of these services. Benefits of SOA include the ability to learn/combine/grow/deliver these services to please customers, anticipating failures and handling change.
If your organization struggles to deliver fast across multiple teams, fails to anticipate failure or handle rapid change, the 14 principles behind Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) applied to organizations offer a solution. We call this Service Oriented Teams (SOT).
In this session we will learn the benefits of modeling your organization in Services Oriented Teams (SOT). This includes improved information flow, ability to expose internal functionality, organizational flexibility, service re-use, lower development and management costs, configuration flexibility. We will do this by applying SOA principles and methods to Agile teams in an all-hands-on-deck workshop, using LEGO®’s as team modeling tools, and SOA methods as teams’ interfaces.
Learning Outcomes:
  • In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn:
  • - an introduction to Services Oriented Architecture and how applying this to organizational design helps to promote high performing, learning and highly effective teams
  • - how SOTs operate as self-orchestrated ecosystems of teams that are, in fact, Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)
  • the benefits of modeling organizational structure to influence the architectural direction of your product (Conway’s law)
  • - why SOA principles are as relevant for teams as they are for software architecture
  • - how to design organizations to maximize flow of product - with fewer handoffs and better communication
  • - why change management is no longer needed with teams’ ability to adapt “baked in” to the organization
  • - how to define smart team interfaces to accelerate independent delivery
  • - how SOT teams can configure/reconfigure so that other teams are not impacted
  • - how to build teams to promote knowledge, knowledge reuse, and growth
  • - how to focus on the bare minimum of centralized management of SOT.
  • - how investing, nurturing, developing high performing teams is mandatory
  • - when standard patterns for org design should be broken to remove bottlenecks
  • - the benefit of avoiding Conway law silos by organizing teams in service oriented teams responsible for development and delivery
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Catherine Louis

Founder, cll group
Product Strategy, Lean Innovation, Business Agility: nurturing an innovation culture with teams who can rapidly sense and respond. Certified Scrum Trainer, Certified Agile Leader trainer, Lean Innovator trainer. For extra fun, K9 trainer and handler with WCSAR.
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Raj Mudhar

Deloitte Canada

Tuesday July 26, 2016 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
Hanover DE
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Workshop

9:00am EDT

Escape a collapsing Temple and learn about Agile team dynamics (Martin Heider)
Limited Capacity seats available
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Do you want to experience and observe the dynamics of an Agile Team? Do you accept the challenge to escape a collapsing temple? This session runs two iterations with the affordable collaborative game “Escape” for providing the opportunity to experience team dynamics from different perspectives as team member and observer. In two iterations all teams work for themselves and try to escape a collapsing temple. Each round is followed by a reflection, in which team members and observers discuss and learn about the recognized behaviors and how to improve the next round. It’s a great simulation for teams starting with Agile in order to experience and reflect the probable team dynamics within ten minutes. And it's a fun and energizing format, which is well suited for team liftoffs and retrospectives.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Effects of distance on the effectiveness of team communication
  • Positive and bad impact of time pressure
  • Realizing the power of observing, listening and reflecting
  • Experience the difference of being within a team or its observer
  • Get an affordable collaborative game that can be used to simulate and reflect on Agile Team Dynamics
  • Workshop format that can be used in team liftoffs and retrospectives
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Martin Heider

Owner, infomar software
With 20 years of professional IT background I’m coaching projects, teams and companies to improve their way of working since eight years. I create waves to push my clients out of their box in order to help them to get better. Doing this I try to keep the balance between avoiding... Read More →

Tuesday July 26, 2016 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
Regency VI
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Workshop

10:45am EDT

A Path to High Performance: A Team Culture and Identity Building Game (Joshua Rowell, Arturo Robles Maloof)
Limited Capacity full
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Team culture defines a team: their identity, their behaviors, their effectiveness. High performing teams know how to work together, and either consciously or subconsciously understand their team culture. Identifying team behaviors and building team culture is something that gamers have done for 40+ years. Individuals work together as a team in table-top games in order to go on a journey. These teams are high performing. Not only do they have a shared vision and direction, but also understand how to leverage each other's skills.
In this session, Joshua and Arturo will utilize a framework from tabletop games that can help you build your team's world view. This world view weaves together skills, behaviors, and vision. Using this world view, we will foster a culture of collaboration by allowing the team to visualize their journey.
Allow a professional game master and a professional visual artist to help your teams paint a picture of openness and joy. Learn to utilize the frameworks that gamers use to have fun and be successful.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Drive effective teamwork by establishing a team's world view
  • Build solid teams by visualizing team identities and capitalizing on a holistic, balanced team vision
  • Setup teams for success by balancing skills and behaviors
  • Foster a culture of Agility based on teamwork and collaboration by shaping and influencing positive team chemistry
  • Use role playing to improve trust, honesty, respect, safety
  • Bring joy to teams
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avatar for Arturo Robles Maloof

Arturo Robles Maloof

Solutions Architect Executive Manager, Walmart de México y Centroamérica
Agile Evangelist, Photog and Geek that happens to work as an Executive Manager for Walmart on the Tech Division.
avatar for Joshua Rowell

Joshua Rowell

Product Manager, Coach, and Game Master, Walmart, Inc
With a love of games, I find constant joy in helping others work better together and fighting the dragons of the real world. This leads to removing waste, automating boring tasks, and uncovering complex problems that require creative teams to solve. It also means building great teams... Read More →

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Tuesday July 26, 2016 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Hanover DE
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Workshop

10:45am EDT

Dealing with Dysfunction – Using couples counselling patterns to manage conflict (Matthew Hodgson)
Limited Capacity full
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Asimov's Laws of Robotics help man and machine get along. So, where are the laws that stop teams from hurting themselves either by action or inaction?
Come and learn about the Gottman Method – a psychological research-based approach to creating stronger relationships – and an example of its use with Asimov's Laws of Robotics to deal with agile team dysfunction, strengthen collaboration and help build happier teams. The presentation will help you:
  • Define trust and commitment – applying couples therapy to team and inter-team dynamics
  • Manage conflict over resolving conflict – understanding the critical differences in handling perpetual problems and solvable problems.
  • Create shared meaning – visions, narratives, myths, and metaphors about your relationship with team members.
  • Create emotional investment in the team – strengthening admiration, and expressing appreciation and respect for others.
  • Strengthen team relationship – building empathy by understanding others history, worries, stresses, joys, and hopes.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Applying the 3 Laws of Robotics Pattern at a Retrospective
  • The Gottman Method for managing healthy relationships applied to team dynamics
  • Understanding the psychological aspects that make happy team relationships
  • Identifying and quantifying stress and flooding and teaching your teams to do it themselves
  • Applying the Gottman patterns from relationships counselling to manage team dysfunction
  • How to recognise the physiological aspects of stress and interpersonal conflict
  • How to manage dysfunction versus resolving conflict

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avatar for Matthew Hodgson

Matthew Hodgson

Lead Partner for Enterprise Agile Transformation, Zen Ex Machina
Matthew has been using psychology to further ICT cultural change goals for 20 years. He is a contributing author to the books 'The Emergence of the Relationship Economy' and 'The Psychology of Aid' and continues to publish in international journals in the fields of psychology on the... Read More →

Tuesday July 26, 2016 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Hanover FG
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Workshop

2:00pm EDT

Battling Scrum fatigue (Gavin Coughlan)
Limited Capacity full
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Scrum can be incredibly motivating and produce great results, an exciting environment, and help people thrive whilst maintaining a good work/life balance. But what happens when a Scrum project continues for a long duration? How do you stop burnout or fatigue from setting in?
The Scrum framework allows for a lot of flexibility, but the repeated cadence and ceremonies can become monotonous over time and occasionally seem relentless. I have been working with a Scrum team that has been in place for 7 years (possibly New Zealand’s longest running Scrum team) and in that time I have seen all the ups and downs of long-term Scrum project.
As a result, we have seen what works and what doesn’t work in terms of keeping a team engaged over a long period of time. We have focussed our efforts on three factors that are most important to a team, and have seen great results. This allowed is to minimize our efforts in the areas that had no real impact on the team’s motivation, freeing up time for the good stuff!
During my talk we you will learn:
  • The three factors the team considered the most motivating, and what you can do to help these thrive
  • The three factors the team considered the least motivating, and what can be done to make sure these are in place with minimal effort
  • how to measure a team's engagement level
  • The hygiene factors (stuff the team didn’t care about unless they were suddenly absent) that need to be maintained
Learning Outcomes:
  • Discover techniques to measure what motivates a team
  • Learn how to help a team stay engaged over a long period of time
  • Determine what hygiene factors should be in place
  • Understand the most valuable things a Scrum Master can do for the team
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avatar for Gavin Coughlan

Gavin Coughlan

Agile Coach and trainer, Boost
As an Agile Coach, my aim is to help teams set themselves up to build useful things that change people's lives, and have fun doing it. I have worked in the web industry for over 17 years as a Front-end Developer, Project Manager and, since 2011, Agile Coach and Trainer. You... Read More →

Tuesday July 26, 2016 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Dunwoody
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Talk

2:00pm EDT

The Five Dysfunctions of an Improvised Comedy Group (Paul Hammond, Daniel Attfield)
Limited Capacity seats available
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"Here's a good one - what do software teams and improv comedy groups have in common?"
If you want to know the punchline, you'll have to come to our lively and fun workshop ...
The core principles of Improvisation, when followed, create magic on stage. The funniest improv teams consist of individuals that support unconditionally, listen actively, accept and build on each others' ideas, and make each other look good. They produce amazing results.
This is also true for software teams.
In Patrick Lencioni's book "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team", he underscores the importance of trust, constructive conflict, commitment, and accountability, as a team works towards producing outstanding results.
Join us for a fun-filled, highly active workshop in which we use Improv Comedy exercises to draw clear parallels between the Improv Principles and the Five Dysfunctions model.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Practical techniques and exercises to build trust and unconditional support among team members, promote active listening and acceptance, and encourage a "team-first" ethos.
  • An understanding of the core principles of theatrical and comedy improvisation, and their parallels with The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.
  • Resources to take this further, and implement these and other exercises within their teams.

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avatar for Dan Attfield

Dan Attfield

Dan is a professional comedian, musician, and improviser. He tours internationally with comedy hip hop improvisers Abandoman, and YouTube sketch team The RH Experience. When not on stage, he provides business and technical consultancy services, using his performance skills combined... Read More →
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Paul Hammond

Director of Development, eBay

Tuesday July 26, 2016 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Centennial 1
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Workshop

3:45pm EDT

Cultivate Brainstorming Commandos for Creative Problem Solving!!!! (Pradeepa Narayanaswamy)
Limited Capacity full
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Brainstorming in its truest sense is intended to be a practical approach towards creative problem solving as a team. But, do you find that often the team members with dominant personalities hijack these meetings? Do your teams truly brainstorm 'outside the box'?
The term brainstorming, coined by Alex Osborn, is defined as "Using the brain to storm a creative problem…in commando fashion". Utilizing the team's collective creative power in your meetings is a powerful way to enhance collaboration and idea creation among team members.
In this highly practical workshop, Pradeepa Narayanaswamy will introduce the audience to a variety of brainstorming games. Attendees will practice and take back variety of ideas and concepts to facilitate a fun and effective brainstorming session.
To name a few, these games are intended to:
-- Get the creative juices flowing
-- Think outside the box
-- Comfortable with bad ideas
-- Identify and Zap negativity
This session is targeted towards Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Managers or any team members who are looking to add more facilitation tools to their tool belt and put them to immediate use in their teams and meetings.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Audience will:
  • --Learn and practice the true meaning, intent and principles of Brainstorming
  • --Understand the usage of games being a vehicle for engaging teams towards effective brainstorming
  • --Recognize the drawbacks of their traditional brainstorming practices
  • --Practice these games within the session as a medium to improve collaboration with their real life teams
  • --Apply these games to uplift their team’s capability to solve problems in a creative manner

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Pradeepa Narayanaswamy

Agile and Life Coach, Possibilities- Lives Transformed LLC
As an Agile Coach, I am a self-proclaimed “Agile Passionista” who strongly believes in agile values & principles to help organizations delight their customers. I help teams and leaders understanding & aligning with their organizational vision and support in their transformation... Read More →

Tuesday July 26, 2016 3:45pm - 5:00pm EDT
Dunwoody
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Workshop
 
Wednesday, July 27
 

10:45am EDT

Stop talking to a Brick Wall - how culture impacts conversations about Agile (Peter Green, Jake Calabrese)
Limited Capacity seats available
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Many Agile advocates struggle to convince others in the organization of its benefits. "Why can't they just see how this better - it seems so obvious!". At best, this results in a slow adoption of Agile principles and practices. At worst, frustration and misunderstanding makes people resistant to Agile in general.
In this session, we will start by explaining what's behind the common cultural stage frameworks, including the color models described in Spiral Dynamics and the related Laloux culture framework. Maybe you've heard about these colors, and are wondering how that can help you in your efforts to increase the level of Agile adoption in your organization.
After the introduction to the color models, we will use examples from our own work, as well as some persona based role playing, to explore how people's dominant worldview affects what they hear when you're talking about agile, and your ability to say what you intend.
Agile provides compelling benefits for people with each of the dominant worldviews (colors). The challenge is that it's difficult to see the world how others see it. Come to this engaging session where you'll have a chance to experience each of these perspectives and will walk away with some ideas of how to better reach your Agile goals.
Learning Outcomes:
  • * Describe various cultural stage models like Spiral, Laloux, etc.
  • * Explore how people and organizations from different cultural perspectives see the world and value different things
  • * Describe the benefits of an Agile approach from multiple different perspectives
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Jake Calabrese

Leadership & Team Coach & Trainer, Agile For All
Jake Calabrese is a coach, trainer, and coach-consultant working to help organizations meet the promise of agile by going beyond agile practices to address culture challenges and help teams and leaders reach and maintain high performance. He has unique expertise as an Organization... Read More →
avatar for Peter Green

Wednesday July 27, 2016 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Centennial 4
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Workshop

2:00pm EDT

Reinventing culture as your team changes (Csaba Patkós)
Limited Capacity seats available
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I believe there is an amazing journey when you grow up as part of a junior team. Having the opportunity to influence the actions that will lead to the definition of your development processes will be a really memorable experience. This experience will continue as your processes morph into your culture. And when your team has a solid culture, every member feels limitless, empowered, and productive. It is magical… until new members arrive.
While we were growing up as a team, we faced two interesting challenges. How to integrate new members into our evolving team so that we can define our culture together? How to board new members into our team after we reached an established culture?
Let's analyze the failures and successes of our team. Then, find answers to all these questions. At each point in a team’s evolution there are specific type of processes and methods. These processes evolve with the team. They are formal and visible at the beginning. With time they turn into simple known facts. Finally they become reflexes nobody thinks about.
In this session, expect to understand what team culture means and how to break it down into teachable processes. Take what is considered common knowledge and produce documents that are easy to publish, read, and teach to new team members. Any change in a team means turbulence of performance and culture. You want new members to learn your ways fast and best, so they can contribute real value to the next iteration of your team culture.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Understand what team culture means from different perspectives.
  • Discover a relation between psychology, sociology, business, and culture.
  • How to face the challenges of continuous cultural growth while adding new members to your team.
  • What to do when you have to teach your culture to new team members.
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avatar for Csaba Patkós

Csaba Patkós

Software Engineering Team Lead, Syneto
Really good technology must help us from our grumpy morning wakeup until we fell asleep at night. This is why I go to work every day. By being the lead software developer at Syneto I contribute to the building of the next generation storage devices, and hopefully a technologically... Read More →

Wednesday July 27, 2016 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Regency VI
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Talk

3:45pm EDT

Build Strong Teams through Trust & Alignment (David Hawks, Doc List)
Limited Capacity seats available
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One of the key aspects of high performing Agile teams is trust. Trust is hard to define, and sometimes hard to earn and to give.
In this session, as a group we explore common team dysfunctions, such as lack of trust and alignment. You will learn a number of techniques for coaching teams such as journeylines, personal maps and market of skills. After exploring and learning, you will conduct two exercises in groups: Moving Motivators, and a Team Values Exercise. These tools help teams work through conflict and change, and are valuable tools in your toolbox. These exercises also empower you to create and commit to an action plan that strengthens your team through trust and alignment.
Learning Outcomes:
  • List three or more common team dysfunctions
  • Identify five techniques for building team trust
  • Feel comfortable facilitating a “team trust and alignment” exercise
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avatar for David Hawks

David Hawks

Founder, Agile Velocity
Founder and CEO of Agile Velocity, David Hawks is a Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer who is passionate about helping organizations achieve lasting organizational agility beyond the basic implementation of Agile practices. David’s primary focus is to guide leaders... Read More →
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Doc List

Agile Coach, Trainer, AnotherThought
Doc spends time on passion projects to expand his style, skills, and experience. The rest of the time he's photographing weddings, portraits, head shots - people. Doc loves people.

Wednesday July 27, 2016 3:45pm - 5:00pm EDT
Regency VII
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Workshop

3:45pm EDT

The Toyota Kata - Retrospectives with a Purpose (Inger Dickson)
Limited Capacity full
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Are your retros starting to feel tired? Is nothing really changing? Are you curious about an approach that you might want to add to your toolbox?
We all have likely seen that “you get what you measure”. Our experience has also shown that you improve what you practice. The Toyota Kata is an approach to cultural change that brings these ideas together.
Come hear about the Toyota Kata, how we used it to help shift the culture of an entire department, and how and when to implement it in yours.
In this session, we will:
  • Cover the basics - What is it? Why do it?
  • Talk through an example - How has it worked in a practical example of cultural change?
  • Work through an experiment - How might you structure a kata in your organization?
  • Get a kit
Learning Outcomes:
  • An improved understanding of the Toyota Kata, its role in culture change, and how to use it.
  • The kit walks through the structure piece by piece to:
  • - Create your own experimental starting points
  • - Evaluate what change would make the most impact
  • - Analyze how to proceed
  • - Get equipped to apply the new understanding when you return to your teams

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avatar for Inger Dickson

Inger Dickson

Lead BA, ThoughtWorks

Agile2016 Toyota Kata pdf
Wednesday July 27, 2016 3:45pm - 5:00pm EDT
Hanover C
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Workshop
 
Thursday, July 28
 

9:00am EDT

Building Cultural Agility (Nicola Dourambeis)
Limited Capacity seats available
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Abstract:
Agile teams can do some amazing things in any organization. But they become super powered when they are able to flourish in an agile organization. Organizationally agility is a much higher bar than team agility. It means that an enterprise has embraced the culture of agility, rather than simply the mechanics. Agile cultures push decisions to the lowest responsible level, embrace deep transparency and are constantly inspecting to improve. It takes a mature, courageous team - at all levels - who can build or transform their culture in this way. In this talk, we’ll walk through the steps to uncovering the culture of an organization and what steps, changes or tradeoffs need to occur to reach a sustaining culture of agility.
Learning Outcomes:
  • --learn how to find culture cues in an organization and build from them
  • --pragmatic approaches to transformation given three specific company examples
  • --how to bring about long lasting, positive change in any environment
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avatar for Nicola Dourambeis

Nicola Dourambeis

CEO, Purple Agility
Agile Transformation expert - I care deeply about culture and people in order to build long lasting, healthy change. I ran agile @ salesforce for 6 years, expanding to over 200 teams and maintaining at 94% approval rating from the teams & leaders for 5 years in a row.

Thursday July 28, 2016 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
Regency VII
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Talk

9:00am EDT

Performance Appraisal MAKEOVER: Stop measuring people & Start evaluating your ecosystem (Omar BERMUDEZ)
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Abstract:
Performance appraisals are one of the most frequently criticized talent management practices in agile organizations. The criticisms range from their conflict with the agile values to their having a destructive impact on the relationship between managers and their subordinates. Let's talk about how we can transform this huge "individual" process in a "ecosystem" process that respects the agile values, gets people happy & engaged, and last, but not less important, allows to improve the organization ecosystem.
I will share my experience and observations from the latest 4 years working on this matter, what went well and how I solved the major hurdles along the way.
By attending this session you will learn major resistance point in HHRR department (and why), how evaluate your ecosystem in an efficient way, how to break the "status-quo" in your organization and allow your people ecosystem improve, how to help HHRR department in this journey, how management level could help HHRR department, games dynamics to get teams involved and engaged, and avoid a boring process.
Learning Outcomes:
  • By attending this session you will learn major resistance point in HHRR department (and why), how evaluate your ecosystem in an efficient way, how to break the "status-quo" in your organization and allow your people ecosystem improve, how to help HHRR department in this journey, how management level could help HHRR department, games dynamics to get teams involved and engaged, and avoid a boring process.
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avatar for Omar BERMUDEZ

Omar BERMUDEZ

Principal Consultant - Creator of Happiness & Change Artist & People Wiz, Zettago Consulting Group
My passion is working with people and help them to become better leaders. I love to see people growing, and tackling down their blockers. Said this, I am available to help you with your next challenge. Are you ready to confront your fears? Don't be shy, and approach me at any time. See... Read More →

Thursday July 28, 2016 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
Hanover DE
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Talk

10:45am EDT

Agile Contracts - Doomed from the Start (Fadi Stephan)
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Abstract:
"Customer collaboration over contract negotiation" is one of the 4 values of the Agile manifesto. However, this remains a challenging value to adopt in practice especially when dealing with a client/vendor relationship. Many organizations and contracting officers still rely on traditional contracting arrangements that directly conflict with the 4th value of "responding to change over following a plan". Others adopt more creative Agile contracts that have their own pitfalls that may result in counterproductive behavior that negatively impacts collaboration. In this interactive session we will look at such contracts. We will compare and contrast different types of contracts and learn how some enhanced customer collaboration while others destroyed the client/vendor relationship. We will go over specific contract clauses and discuss the intent behind the clauses and compare expected team behavior vs. observed team behavior. We will look at clauses from 2 different perspectives, understand why they are included and highlight potential pitfalls that can doom a project from the start. We will then compare it to alternate approaches that truly resulted in enhanced collaboration. Come to this session to learn about Agile contracts. Learn how to identify contract clauses that will result in anti-Agile and non-collaborative behavior. Learn what aspects encourage collaboration and how to structure contracts that results in a win-win for both client and vendor.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Learn different types of Agile contracts
  • Understand how certain clauses negatively impact collaboration
  • Understand which contracts types to use based on client organization's Agile maturity
  • Learn how to re-structure a contract to rescue a client vendor relationship
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avatar for Fadi Stephan

Fadi Stephan

Consultant, Excella
Fadi Stephan is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Agile coach, and consultant with Washington DC-based Excella Consulting. Fadi has more than fifteen years of professional experience as a product manager, project manager, software developer, ScrumMaster and consultant at both Federal... Read More →

Thursday July 28, 2016 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Hanover DE
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Talk

10:45am EDT

The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback (kenny melancon)
Limited Capacity full
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Abstract:
Teams cannot perform effectively in an Agile environment without using feedback effectively. Agile simply does not work without good feedback. So how can you improve your use of feedback?
We’ll explore concepts and very specific techniques around both giving and receiving feedback.

We will look at how the practice of Assuming Positive Intent can dramatically improve the art of feedback for you. We will talk about how Walmart has used the art of feedback for a competitive advantage for years. We will explore Diversity and Feedback. And we will challenge you to start a movement in your company.
The audience will walk away with thought-provoking ideas they can use to improve themselves beginning today!
This session is ideal for change agents, leaders, facilitators, Scrum Masters, team leads, managers, and coaches; really anyone that would like to improve giving and receiving feedback. Come join us for a lively discussion!
Learning Outcomes:
  • • Concepts around Collaboration skills required in a team environment
  • • Specific techniques for improving both giving and receiving feedback
  • • Understanding of how Diversity affects feedback
  • • How to start a movement around using feedback better on your team
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Kenny Melancon

Senior Process Engineer, Walmart

Thursday July 28, 2016 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Courtland
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Talk

2:00pm EDT

Meeting resistance and moving forward (Linda Rising)
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Abstract:
It's "those skeptical people" who are most annoying. They don't seem to listen to our ideas. They usually start raising objections before we have even finished describing what we are thinking. They have a counterargument for every argument. What's to be done with "those people"?
In this presentation, Linda will pull patterns from the Fearless Change collection plus the latest research in neuroscience to help you in the challenges you face with resistance. Throughout this session, participants will work on their own personal challenges in meeting resistance to Agile, so they can move forward.
Learning Outcomes:
  • Participants will be introduced to a set of strategies or patterns to help address their personal challenges.
  • Participants will learn new ways of looking at resistance and resistors that should help them label others less.
  • Participants will, hopefully, see a new way forward in working with others who see things differently.
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Linda Rising

Computer Software Consultant and Professional, Linda Rising LLC
Linda Rising is an independent consultant who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She has written and contributed to many books and numerous articles, with her latest book published last year – More Fearless Change co-authored with Mary Lynn Manns.Linda is an internationally known presenter... Read More →

Thursday July 28, 2016 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Centennial 4
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Talk

2:00pm EDT

Moose on the table: Enabling you to use LEGO techniques to improve your retrospectives (Mike Bowler, Ellen Grove)
Limited Capacity full
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Abstract:
In order for teams to step into high performance. it's critical that they develop the practice of having effective conversations about what is and isn't working. Yet in practice, the retrospective meeting is often the least-valued of the agile events: team members feel that their retros are boring, repetitive, and superficial.
In this workshop, we will teach participants how to design and deliver a really useful retrospective using LEGO SERIOUS PLAY. We'll cover the basics of this powerful facilitation technique, and give advice about how to build your own SERIOUS PLAY kit using pieces easily available at the local toy store. We'll also offer practical suggestions for how to design a retro that gets everyone talking (and building), and results in the team agreeing on action.
The participants will leave with a powerful retrospective technique that they can immediately use with their teams.
Learning Outcomes:
  • - How to plan a retrospective that includes each of the 5 steps needed to foster effective conversations
  • - Warm up activities to encourage full participation
  • - The foundations of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY (enough to be able to run an exercise with their teams)
  • - Retrospective questions to stimulate powerful conversation about deeper issues
  • - How to put together a basic kit for LEGO Serious Play

Speakers
avatar for Mike Bowler

Mike Bowler

Agile & Technical Coach, Gargoyle Software Inc.
Mike is a coach and trainer who helps software teams improve the way they work. He's been writing code for over thirty years and has been an active member of the Agile community for the last fifteen. He blends his strong technical background with a deep understanding of Agile and... Read More →
avatar for Ellen Grove

Ellen Grove

business agility coach, Agile Partnership
Ellen Grove is an Agile coach and trainer who helps teams to do better work by coaching them to cocreate the circumstances in which they can work productively and effectively. Her Agile coaching practice is founded in over 18 years’ experience leading software testing, development... Read More →

Thursday July 28, 2016 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Dunwoody
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Workshop

3:45pm EDT

Communicating and Collaborating: How Distributed Agile Teams Can Thrive (David Horowitz, Mark Kilby)
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Abstract:
Working distributed can be tricky! Just coordinating and communicating between 10 or fewer people in the same room can be a challenge some days. Spread them out across time and space and it can become a nightmare! Join us for a fun, interactive workshop that will shed some light on the "phenomena" your team will encounter while working remote and retrospecting. Learn to better navigate your distributed team’s communication to achieve the learning and growth you’re after. Seeking active participants for this workshop only! Bring your own laptop or smart device!
Learning Outcomes:
  • Understanding the REAL challenges of connecting and communicating in distributed teams
  • Where agile principles can be applied to distributed and dispersed teams
  • Some techniques and tools to make distributed retrospectives more successful

Speakers
avatar for David Horowitz

David Horowitz

CEO and Co-Founder, Retrium
David Horowitz is co-founder and CEO of Retrium. Retrium is the market leading platform for effective agile retrospectives. Prior to co-founding Retrium, David spent nearly a decade between The World Bank and International Finance Corporation as a software developer turned Agile coach... Read More →
avatar for Mark Kilby

Mark Kilby

Agile Coach, K5Labs LLC
Mark Kilby coaches leaders, teams and organizations on how to work more effectively, whether they are distributed or collocated.  For over two decades, his easy-going style has helped his client learn to collaborate and discover their path to success and sustainability.Sometimes... Read More →

Communicating and Collaborating How Distributed Teams Can Thrive Kilby Horowitz v3 pdf
HANDOUT CLUSTERS teams pdf
HANDOUT NEBULA teams pdf
HANDOUT SATELLITE teams pdf
Thursday July 28, 2016 3:45pm - 5:00pm EDT
Regency VI
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Workshop

3:45pm EDT

Self-selection: Minimising Chaos through Effective Team Design (Sandy Mamoli, David Mole)
Limited Capacity seats available
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Abstract:
If the most important factor for team performance is the combination of skills, personalities and relations between team members, the crucial question is “How do we best design teams?”.
Here’s a radical idea: Trust people to know best and let them decide which team they should work in. Let them self-select!
Self-selection is the simplest, fastest and most efficient way to form stable teams, based on the belief that people are at their happiest and most productive if they can choose what they work on and who they work with.
In this workshop we will share learnings and experiences from more than two years of running self-selection processes in large organisations. We will show you a repeatable process for how to establish efficient teams and will answer questions such as “Why would I do that?” and “How do I convince management?”.
Come along and take part in a large-scale simulation exercise which involves participating in a self-selection event for a fictitious company.
Learning Outcomes:
  • After this session participants will be able to:
  • -Run their own self-selection events
  • -Explain why self-selection is the best way to ensure the best team design
  • -Describe a tried and tested process for self-selection that scales to hundreds of people
  • -Anticipate and address people's questions and concerns before asking them to self-select into teams
  • -Create a plan that includes a number of pre-requisites for self-selection success
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avatar for Sandy Mamoli

Sandy Mamoli

Me, Nomad8
I'm a former Olympian, a geek, a gadget junkie, international speaker and author of "Creating Great Teams - How Self-Selection Lets People Excel". I have a masters degree in artificial intelligence and I know quite a lot about Agile.
avatar for David Mole

David Mole

Agile Coach, Nomad8
After speaking about Self-Selecting teams at last year's conference, this year I will be speaking about how we used Daniel Pink's work around Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose to create happier more motivated teams. @Molio https://nz.linkedin.com/in/davidmole

Thursday July 28, 2016 3:45pm - 5:00pm EDT
Regency VII
  Collaboration Culture & Teams, Workshop
 
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