Schedule 2020

Life is made of choices, but we don’t choose very often. We take the path of less resistance, the default option.  We cling to old habits, we conform. Arguably, we... Read More

if you are in a position of championing agile change – regardless of your official title – you can appreciate the myriad of challenges that agile change represents to organizations.... Read More

I once heard someone say that data scientists “don’t know” what’s happening under the covers of an artificial intelligence program. This sounded like a challenge. Piqued with curiosity, “How does... Read More

Urban planner Horst Rittel used the term “wicked problems” in the 1960’s to describe problems that spring from many diverse sources, which are emergent, evolving, shifting, and will never have... Read More

Change is tough. Growing complexity has made change a near constant pressure. Effective leadership asks and requires we expand how we respond to change. Leading People in Change and Complexity... Read More

High-performance teams are masters of mindfulness. The individual team members have high self-awareness. They know who they are, how they feel, and what they want. They always know the right... Read More

Life is about experiences. We are going to have good experiences and bad experiences. People say experiences throughout our lives make up the person who we are. Sometimes we feel... Read More

Business as usual, the way things have always been done, too busy to improve! Sound familiar? The art of critically removing the noise from transformations creates focus for high impact... Read More

This session is for agile transformation leaders, coaches and other champions who in their work often encounter a key obstacle to agile organizational development – the organisational culture being at... Read More

In order to achieve business Agility, Agile has to be applied in a certain context. You have to be able to form the right kinds of teams, build the right... Read More

Many people break their relationships because of ineffective listening. After traveling around the world to run my Agile workshops, I have found that my attendees did not listen carefully, and... Read More

The concept of a Product Owner was introduced in Scrum to differentiate this role from a traditional product manager or project manager role, both of which were inadequate to fully... Read More

How to self-organize a path through the mine-field of status, without blowing yourself up.

As we enter a new decade, we have an amazing range of frameworks, libraries, drivers and other tools to help with test automation. Yet there are many teams out there... Read More

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) have been well known for decades now, and John Doerr’s book on Measuring What Matters became a hit immediately after it was published. However, while... Read More

We are in crisis. And we are not saving it. From dehumanizing workplaces to a planet that is becoming more and more uninhabitable each year. As Agilists, we know how... Read More

Remote labor is the new reality. Successful agility at scale means successfully dealing with remote teams, and remote, distributed talent. It means having a very clear plan and a very... Read More

Does creating change seem like a constant uphill struggle? Are you blocked by relentless resistance? Do you feel lost and alone in your efforts to create positive change? It turns... Read More