Intent-Based Leadership

Language: en

Abstract

Our old ideas of good leadership is where the leader knows all, tells all and is always in control. In fact, it’s difficult for us to change because those old habits are so hardwired in our brains! Intent-Based Leadership™ offers a way for us to rewire: to give control, trust and learn to be okay with not having all the answers. It’s a way of leading where the leader sets the environment for others to excel and act to the maximum extent of their creativity and intellect; where team members come to the leader describing what they see, what they think, and what they intend to do. The result: the culture of the organization shifts from one of permission and waiting, to intent and action, and people feel more valued and come to better solutions.

Jenni will share the principles of Intent-Based Leadership – what it takes to give control and achieve excellence in your organization. This way of leading is the key to successful Agile implementations in companies of all sizes.

Descaling Agile

Level:   Language: en Agile scale continuous improvement

Abstract

After the agile community solved how to do programming, testing, release and product management, the hot topic for our industry today seems to be scaling. In an ironic twist for a movement started with ‘people over process’, big consultancies today sell scaling models based on everything from tribes to witchcraft, offering to make agile disciplined and safe.

Gojko will help you cut through all the mess and separate out signal from noise.

Storystorming

Level:   Language: en DDD BDD Agile Collaboration Modelling

Abstract

Storystorming is a young and very lightweight set of methods to explore and understand user journeys, work procedures and whole business processes by telling visual stories and by focusing on natural language. It combines ideas coming from Event Storming, Domain Storytelling, User Story Mapping, Impact Mapping and Example Mapping in such a way that the result of one method serves as a starting point for others - or simply to validate the result of another method.

In this talk I will focus on the simplest aspect of Storystorming, which leverages the fundamental “Subject - Predicate- Object” structure of language, and enables domain experts to tell their stories in the most natural way, without requiring them to learn anything but five different colors (see https://medium.com/plexiti/story-storming-191756f57387). Software developers can assist with regards to the method, even if they at first do not get at all what the experts are speaking about, and even if they do not get it for a longer period of time.

It may sound like a contradiction, but Storystorming enables the “listening mode” through visualization of language - and this mode is its feature. Because the most natural way to learn a language certainly is to listen to the parents, to imitate them and then to speak the language yourself. Little children repeat what they have heard and receive feedback. Gradually, they understand more words, begin to form sentences and later tell their own stories. By asking experts to record and visualize their language with a very simple system, Storystorming enables a similar style of learning. Now that we see the stories, we will fail fast and learn even faster!

Wissenschaftlich belegt: Wohlfühl-Chefs führen erfolgreicher!

Level:   Language: de Führung Positive Psychologie Host Leadership Kommmunikation Kooperation

Abstract

Erfolgsdruck? Stress? Widerstände? Finden Sie auch, dass Führungskräfte heutzutage viel Kraft brauchen? Stimmt nicht, sagen Wissenschaftler. Erkenntnisse der modernen Gehirnforschung, der Positiven Psychologie und die Modelle der New Leadership-Bewegung deuten in dieselbe Richtung: Wohlfühl-Chefs sitzen am Ende am längeren Hebel – und im erfolgreicheren Unternehmen!

Wir haben uns in den letzten Jahren für Sie schlau gemacht und möchten Ihnen die spannendsten Erkenntnisse unserer Reise zum Thema Erfolgreich Führen in diesem Talk näher bringen.

How Test Automation Helped us to Reverse Engineer, Learn and Rewrite a Weird System

Level:   Language: en Test Automation Gherkin TDD Reverse Engineering

Abstract

What if your product is built around the feature of a standard software but its manufacturer decides to remove that feature?

With a 10+ years old internal customer product Paul and his teammates faced exactly that situation. To rewrite core parts of the product the team would have to know exactly how the system is supposed to behave in all the weird ways the product is used. But there were no helpful tests.

In this talk Paul will show us how his team utilizes test automation on different levels to gradually learn about the features of a complex system and to ensure that the new system produces semantically identical outputs as the old one.

Ein Lean Start-Up für Flüchtlinge oder Wie die Anwendung agiler Methoden den Non-Profit Sektor bereichern kann

Level:   Language: de refugees non-profit sector user journey agile mindset

Abstract

Between 2015 and 2016, over 130,000 asylum seekers requested asylum in Austria - taking our country by surprise. As politicians were reluctant to act, civil society jumped in and founded hundreds of grassroots initiatives intended to alleviate the integration process into Austrian society. However, seeing as there was no central coordination, high language barriers and little marketing budget, there was a missing link between the thousands of refugees and the surplus of offers by civil society. This is where radical innovation was needed and “I am Refugee” stepped in - our non-political, online platform that holistically depicts the user journey of a refugee on his path to integration in Austrian society.

This talk will show you how we used elements of the Lean Start-Up to go from domain name to wireframes to a registered society and an up-and-running website within just 4 months. How we built a story map around the integration journey of a refugee. How we gained and integrated our users’ feedback to pivot and grow our product portfolio. How the agile elements of a strong vision, transparency, team work, iterations and pull principle are the best mechanisms for managing and leading an intercultural team of volunteers. How we dealt with our diverse variety of impediments ranging from governmental funding to right-wing trolls. And you will hear about how our culturally-adapted and yet solution-focused coaching approach makes our product range more than unique.

This talk will not only show you how Agile methods are great for starting an innovative initiative in a low-to zero-budget sector, it will also show you how you can use Agile to make a difference in this world.

The New Way of Learning

Level:   Language: en young talent Learning School Agile Learning Studying

Abstract

Digitization has influence on the way we study. Online courses, YouTube and Distance Learning are our reality. But is combining technology with a century-old school system really the right way? Of course, it’s not! Hear about how students like to conquer the rigid structure with Agile Learning. Share your ideas to help create a beneficial environment for development.

Lifelong learning is the future, and it starts with the educational system – because this affects all of us.

"RBI Adaptive Organisation" als Erfolgsmodell im Zeitalter des digitalen Darwinismus?

Level:   Language: de young talent Digital Banking Retail Scaled Agile Scrum Kanban Metrics

Abstract

Mobile Banking is part of our Life. How is this connected to Agile?

The Ability to constantly and quickly deliver Business Value to our Customers ensures that we stay competitive in this rapid changing world.

To be or not to be a Technical PM

Level:   Language: en young talent scrum master communication soft skills personal agility growth

Abstract

It’s a question that the community has been asking itself for a long time now. Does a PM/PO/SM (you name it) have to be a technical person? What is easier: to teach a good communicator about tech or to teach a technical person how to communicate effectively? Or maybe you are looking for a purple squirrel?

Based on my personal experience, coming from a strongly humanistic field (graduated Polish philology as my first choice), I will speak about what is important in a project manager’s role and how to easily dive into the IT world without a technical background. I’ll also talk about what can help you, how to overcome your struggles, and why I strongly believe that there should be more people with humanistic skills in the community.

Abstract

Schachmatt - Mob Testing live erleben!

Level:   Language: de workshop Hands-on Agile Mindset Mob Testing kollaboratives Testen Schwarmintelligenz

Abstract

In agilen Teams testen nicht nur Testexperten. Mit kollaborativen Testmethoden können verschiedene Teilnehmer mit ins Boot geholt werden. Dadurch entsteht die Möglichkeit, einen frischen Blick von Stakeholdern aus Fachbereich oder Management zu nutzen - und das mit Spaß! Beim Mob Testing testen Kollegen aus möglichst vielen Abteilungen und Spezialisierungen gemeinsam und haben dabei unterschiedliche Rollen. Wir haben dies in unterschiedlichen Kontexten eingesetzt. Zum einen zur Wissensvermittlung und zum anderen zur gemeinsamen Fehlerfindung.

Bei dieser interaktiven Session erleben Sie gemeinsam mit den anderen Teilnehmern eine Mob Testing Session live. Anhand einer Partie Schach demonstrieren wir Ihnen, wie die Methode funktioniert und welche Herausforderungen Ihnen begegnen können. Sie haben keine Ahnung von Schach? Perfekt! Dann erleben Sie am eigenen Leib, wie gut Wissensvermittlung durch Mob Testing erfolgen kann. Seien Sie gespannt.

Personal Agility and experiments with brewing beer and building garden offices

Level:   Language: en personal agility agile beyond IT self-development personal alignment and clarity

Abstract

Personal Agility is a method that allows you to apply agile principles and techniques in your own life. It helps create focus to progress on things that really matter in your life.

This will be an interactive, funny, engaging conversation with a couple of guys talking about their experiments with brewing beer, building garden offices and exploring the concepts of personal agility. We are not just talking about kanban boards on our walls or fridges. We are talking about the bigger and deeper questions in our lives.

What are the most important things for you in your life? With whom do you have the most important relationships in your life? Are you and your goals in alignment with these people and with those things? Are you working towards achieving your goals? How can you overcome some of the more ‘human’ aspects of life, such as fear and procrastination, that may be slowing or preventing you from achieving your potential? Discovering the answers to these questions can be both intimidating and scary, yet liberating and empowering.

Join us in this conversation in discovering the power of applying the agile principles and values to our lives.

As participants, you will

• Learn about Personal Agility

• See how we have applied agile frameworks to create clarity and alignment in our lives

• Explore what matters most to you

• Use the agile frameworks and tools you are already familiar with to start working on what matters most

• Come away with actions to better align yourself with the people, ideas and goals that matter most to you

Persönliches Wachstum fördern... in agil!

Level:   Language: de Leadership personal growth self-organization motivation

Abstract

Herausragende Teams fallen nicht vom Himmel. Sie müssen lernen und wachsen. Und um dieses persönliche Wachstum zu fördern braucht es vieles: Ziele, Sicherheit, Herausforderungen, Scheitern, Reflexion, das richtige Mindset, und, und, und…

Ich möchte in meinem Talk die Lektionen zusammentragen, die ich und andere Führungskräfte bei Catalysts über die letzten Jahre gelernt haben und die uns heute dabei helfen, junge, selbstorganisierte Teams zur Exzellenz zu führen. Begleitet mich auf der lehrsamen Reise durch Verantwortung, Feedback, Scheitern und Leadership.

Die Lektionen sollen auch aus der Sicht einiger Bücher beleuchtet werden. Darunter:

• Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

• Turning the ship around

• The one-minute manager

• The responsibility process

• How to win friends and influence people

How we combine Agile & Regulatory to ensure patient safety

Level:   Language: en Autonomy Processes Safety Regulations Modern Agile

Abstract

If you want to deliver valuable software for a medical condition, such as diabetes, you need to be mindful of “a couple” of regulations that are out there. Meaning that you will have to be compliant with different laws and standards in order to prove that the software you produce is safe for usage.

What I can tell you is that regulations are strict and not fun at all, but we actually made them work for us!

Still, when it comes down to regulations in software development you soon get to understand that Agile and bi-weekly releases was not what they had in mind. Instead what the authors held dear, was SAFETY, and in order to prove that your software is safe to use, you need to have a very thorough review process and documentation of your work.

We at mySugr understood that! And we made it our mission to make safety a prerequisite not only for our users, but most importantly for our colleagues, or as we call ourselves monster tamers.

Furthermore we figured out that a good release process is more than just a JIRA Workflow and a couple of states that one has to transition. We believe that by developing a safe release workflow and by providing clear context, we create an environment where learning is free of pain.

Modern Agile helped us to ask one simple question: How can we make safety a prerequisite, make people feel awesome, at the same time give enough space for learning and experimenting while delivering value continuously?

If you want to find out what we’ve discovered, what challenges we encountered. how we solved them, our A-HA moments and more, join the session, it will be fun.

Cultivating Architecture in an Agile World

Level:   Language: en Software Architecture Evolutionary Architecture Architectural Thinking Techincal Leadership

Abstract

Change is inevitable. So is software. Thus, agile practices and a DevOps mindset took over, driven by the need to holistically speed up the software development process. At the same time, we strive to establish autonomous development teams who can move as independently of each other as possible.

When the goal is to achieve speed and scalability, how does architecture governance look like in such a decentralised setup? If everything seems to change all the time, how to spot “the parts that are hard to change” and can they even exist? Why do architectural approaches sometimes become bottlenecks instead of providing value and why has “software architect” become a negative term for so many people?

There is no one-size-fits-it-all architecture and there is no dogmatic pseudo-agile “no architecture”. Good architectural work is still crucial, especially if we need to go fast. Prefering evolvability over predictability is key, but requires deep understanding how differnt dimensions of software projects interact with each other. We’ll discuss how to support the mechanics of evolution and we’ll look at some of the most common pitfalls that lead to disasters - and how to avoid them.

Perspectives at Help

Level:   Language: en workshop Perspectives Integral Questions Mindset Awareness

Abstract

Do you find yourself asking questions like what did “just” happen, what does it mean, without getting satisfying answers? No matter a role we are in, we work with individuals, teams, and organizations where we observe different events and situations in different contexts. How can we make sense out of all of these events and situations? What tools can we use in getting more clarity and understanding? What are the right questions?

If you do find yourself asking those questions, this session will help you discover one approach on how to deal with such situations by combining Michael Spayd’s and Michele Madore’s Integral Agile Transformation FrameworkTM and powerful questions. The workshop will address the perspectives of leadership and mindset, practices and behavior, organizational architecture, and organizational culture and relationships. And in the combination with powerful questions give the opportunity to experience the creation of clarity and understanding.

Agile Family – Wie agile Werte und Methoden das Familienleben verbessern können.

Level:   Language: de Agile Methoden Familie Family Meetings Daily Family Syncs Agile Family Mindset Happiness

Abstract

In dem Vortrag präsentiere ich aktuelle Prinzipien und Werkzeuge der agilen Welt, die von Pionier-Familien weltweit genutzt werden, um ihr Familienleben in den Bereichen Kommunikation, Stress-Niveau und Selbstverantwortung zu verbessern. Zusätzlich werde ich die interessantesten Erfahrungen von vier Familien (inklusive meiner eignen) vorstellen, die diese Methoden anwenden, um alle Zuschauer mit Ideen für das eigene Familienleben zu inspirieren.

Sei mutig und stark, und fürchte dich nicht: Survival Guide für Scrum Masters.

Level:   Language: de Scrum Master Courage Learning Survival Guide

Abstract

Scrum Master sein ist nie einfach. Wenn du neu in der Rolle des Scrum Masters bist und in einer Organisation arbeitest, die langsam versucht Agilität zu verstehen und zu umarmen, kann es besonders herausfordernd sein. Doch der Erfolg deiner Organisation hängt von dir und deinen Kollegen ab!

In diesen großen Transformationen ähnelt Scrum Mastery einer Überlebensreise. Es gibt Überraschungen und Schwierigkeiten an jeder Ecke, und du musst vielleicht alte Verhaltensmuster ablernen, um neue zu erlernen.

In dem Survival Guide wird es Überlebenstipps geben, die die Reise erleichtern:

• Beobachten: damit du weißt, worauf du dich zuerst konzentrieren könntest.

• Survival Partner finden: damit ihr einander beim Wachsen unterstützen könnt.

• Freude teilen: anderen helfen, Freude am Lernen und Verbessern zu finden.

Enable local decision making with clarity of roles and clear boundaries

Level:   Language: en Leadership self organization organizational clarity autonomy

Abstract

Have you faced the situation where the organizational hierarchy and agile team roles collide and there is no clarity about who is enabled to do what? You are supposed to be an autonomous team now but do not know what your decision boundaries are? This talk will show how a combination of RACI matrix and delegation poker help to continuously work on organisational clarity.

An important aspect of my talk will be that this is not a one-of task, but a continuing discussion between the relevant parties always with the goal to enable better and more informed local decision making.

"From Zero to Test! in 10 Minutes". Don't let your test infrastructure be your bottleneck. A practical report how we avoided it.

Level:   Language: en test data test environment scaling

Abstract

It does not matter, if you work in a waterfall or agile working environment, at one point the focus of continuous improvement (you do improvements, right?) becomes your test infrastructure. It needs to grow, evolve and scale with you, otherwise it will slow you down and become a bottleneck.

I had the opportunity to observe and participate over three years how a company changed their test infrastructure in terms of overarching concept and underlying technology base.

In this talk I focus on “test data” and “test environments” as two enablers in an agile working culture. Let me tell you, how a company of over 25+ agile teams used a mix of central control & guidance and team autonomy & freedom to establish a fast and reliable infrastructure for every team member.

If you want to know, how you could get “From Zero to Test! in 10 Minutes, visit this report from the trenches.

Diving into the Unknown – Was wir aus unserer Business Agility Journey gelernt haben

Level:   Language: de Business Agility Agile beyond IT Modern Agile Agile Evolution Agile Organisation

Abstract

In diesem Practitioner Report erzählen wir unsere Geschichte, wie wir als Organisation – und als Agile Coaches selbst – auf unserer Reise in Richtung Business Agility gelernt haben, agile Werte, Prinzipien und Denkweisen neu zu entdecken, zu erfahren und zu begreifen.

Wir beleuchten, was wir, als Change Agents, aus der Agilisierung von Bereichen gelernt haben, mit denen wir es normalerweise nicht zu tun haben: Non-IT-Teams und Abteilungen (z.B. HR, Finance, Sales und Marketing).

Wir fassen jene Praktiken und Ansätze zusammen, die wir – inspiriert von “Modern Agile” – übernommen haben. Zudem beleuchten wir, wie wir eine kontinuierliche „Learning Experience“ für unsere eigene Organisation entwickelt haben und wie diese unsere Arbeitsweise bis heute verändert.

Reviewlution: Die Entwicklung von einer One-Man-Show zum Review als Teamevent

Level:   Language: de Insurance Review Presentation Skills Scrum Story Telling Teambuilding

Abstract

Das UNIQA Team Digital ist ein internationales Team, das ein Kundenportal für Versicherte unter Verwendung des Scrum Frameworks entwickelt. Das Besondere an diesem Team ist die außerordentlich hohe Veränderungsbereitschaft, die seit Beginn des Jahres stark zugenommen hat. Vor allem die Entwickler trauen sich zunehmend öfter aus ihrer Komfortzone, was man am besten an den sich stetig verbesserden Review-Terminen sieht. Diese haben sich von einem Product Owner Reporting hin zu einer Team-Präsentation des Produkts an die Stakeholder entwickelt.

In diesem Vortrag berichten wir, wie wir als Scrum Master und Agile Coach aktiv die Rahmenbedingungen angepasst haben, um dem Team diese Entwicklung zu ermöglichen und geben euch Impulse, wie ihr mithilfe von Gamification, Story Telling oder auch Visualisierungen den Rahmen für eure eigenen Teams optimieren könnt

Boost your team's productivity with a powerful visual management!

Level:   Language: en agile lean scrum kanban teams mindset informationRadiator examples tips tricks

Abstract

How do you visualize your task board and what is hanging around the team’s work space? How easy it is to understand the information presented on your walls? Have you heard about concepts such as OBEYA, information radiator, 5S, Visual Facilitation, User Story Mapping and others?

Visual management is very important to create shared understanding, provide clear and fast information, align towards the same goals and yes, tackle problems! Because we cannot improve what we cannot see.

Thus, in this session, we will understand better the key elements of a powerful visual management, see what worked well for the teams I’ve coached and what actually didn’t, learn many tips, tricks and real examples so you can (co-)create a powerful visual management and boost your team’s productivity!

Confidently Releasing Microservices with Consumer Driven Contract Testing

Level:   Language: en cdc testing tdd microservices agile

Abstract

“Many teams working with microservices need confidence they don’t break functionality when making changes. System integration tests, functional tests, and sometimes manual tests are older ways to obtain that confidence. These processes may take more than 1 day or even more if different teams or a different company own the services.

To ensure the same level of confidence and speed up delivery, we can create Contracts for integrations between consumers and providers. Contracts created by consumer services need to pass with every build going in production to guarantee the integrations between systems/services work fine. Checking these contracts in a CI/CD pipeline makes feedback loops even faster.

A Contract is a collection of agreements between a Consumer and a Provider that describes the interactions that can take place between them. Consumer Driven Contracts (CDCs) is a pattern that drives the development of the Providers from its Consumer’s point of view. It is TDD for microservices.

This talk covers an end to end demo of contract testing between two microservices to show how to release microservices with confidence, get early feedback, speed up delivery, and comparison with other testing strategies.

Happy CDC!

Warum die Meeting-Formate aus Holacracy für jedes (agile) Team hilfreich sind!

Level:   Language: de workshop Holacracy Kommunikation Commitment Decision Making Effektive Meetings

Abstract

Holacracy als Betriebssystem für Selbstorganisation enthält eine Reihe von Konzepten, die auch für sich alleine genommen hilfreich sein können, um in einem (agilen) Team die Kommunikation effektiver und die Verteilung von Verantwortung transparenter zu gestalten. In diesem Workshop werden wir zwei Meeting-Formate kennenlernen und ganz konkret probieren.

How agile principles saved a hospital - the inside story

Language: en

Abstract

The hospital is not making money, it does not have a valid permit and it pays their staff too little… at this point, the roof falls in. Literally! Would you give up? Most would. But we did not. Instead, we used the principles of agile, lean and kanban to make the hospital amazing.

In this keynote, I will tell you how we applied these principles in practice and about the transformations we created. You will also meet 3 women who helped us turn the hospital around and whose lives were transformed in the process.