Register Buy Tickets on Eventbrite About this Event In the fast lane of business life today, people spend more time on computers, smartphones, and conference calls than they do in face-to-face communication. We’re expected to piece together broken conversations, cryptic voicemails, and abbreviated text messages to figure out how to proceed. In this increasingly complex […]
Register Buy Tickets on Eventbrite About this Event The ability to design and facilitate effective and engaging meetings has always been a vital skill for Agilists. Your ability to facilitate virtual meetings and to engage your team members virtually is especially important today, as we are wrestling with the challenges of our collective new reality […]
Register Buy Tickets on Eventbrite About this Event Two fundamental things are embodied in that topic, what your team says to you when you try to drive process improvements and agile transformations in teams vs what you say when you observe those gaps and try to bridge them. There is an appreciable disconnect there and […]
Register Buy Tickets on Eventbrite About this Event We’ve been told, over and over again that estimation is a question of skill. That you can get better at estimation, and provide accurate estimates (at some point in the future). Well, let’s take that claim and analyze it. In the process, we will prove that project […]
Register Buy Tickets on Eventbrite About this Event The tech industry does a lot of hand-wringing over diversity and inclusion, but not much has changed. Prior to the pandemic, companies were awash with money, proclaimed to want diversity and inclusion, but the needle has barely moved. If we couldn’t make a dent when things were […]
About this Event For the last 17 years, most discussions of Agile have been focused around frameworks. Should we use Scrum? Should we use XP? Should we use Kanban? Should we use SAFe? In this presentation, I argue that this discussion is beside the point. In this presentation, I ask us to focus instead on […]
Register Buy Tickets on Eventbrite About this Event Dependency management is perhaps one of the final frontiers to be conquered for Agile teams. Developing a deep understanding of Kanban provides you with a rich toolset to reduce the impact dependencies have on your flow. There are generally two strategies for dealing with dependencies: Break the […]
Register Buy Tickets on Eventbrite About this Event Great leaps are being made in the development of Machine Learning (Artificial Intelligence) models that are capable of reading, identifying, and interpreting patterns in data; be they images, videos, words, or numbers. The systems that achieve this are complex by nature, and so are the teams that […]
Register Buy Tickets on Eventbrite About this Event In this session, we will explore the foundational principals of Gestalt Psychotherapy and how to integrate core concepts into your agile coaching practice. Theories and approaches will include: The definition of a Gestalt and how it relates to coach and coachee Self As Instrument Gestalt as truth-telling […]
Register Buy Tickets on Eventbrite About this Event Retrospectives are a critical element in a learning organization’s ceremonies. However, there have been a number of teams who have found themselves stuck in a rut where their retrospectives are no longer providing the value they once did. Isaac will walk through several areas of a retrospective […]