Presented by: Charles Suscheck
Leadership Track: 2:45pm-3:45pm
Presentation Materials: Slide Deck
There are a lot of presentations about Scrum, XP, Lean, and generally team based agile, but there’s more to agile than just a team. There’s a lot of other agile related management aspects that need to be addressed from the business side. This presentation is going to assume you know enough about Scrum and XP to practice it at a team level, but now your ready to have a go at the project or program level.
- What is vertical story slicing and why is it important?
- How do you create the product backlog and track features?
- What do you need to make a good portfolio and annual plan?
- What about support?
If you’re ready for the next level of agile – from a business and management side – this is the session you should take. If you’re looking for a technical talk – this is not the session.
Presented by: Barry Rogers
Leadership Track: 9:45-10:45am
Presentation Materials: Slide Deck
This session teaches several aspects of team dynamics and how they are critical in agile teams. It begins with an exercise that depicts the wisdom of crowds. That is, under the right circumstances groups are remarkably intelligent and will typically make better decisions than even the smartest individuals on the team. A discussion of the results will tie into common agile activities such as sizing and decision making. It will also discuss behaviors that could negatively influence the outputs of the crowd and will discuss self-organizing teams.
Presented by: Todd Girvin
Leadership Track: 1:30pm-2:30pm
Presentation Materials: Slide Deck
Join us as we explore four levels of agile adoption in this interactive session.
- Individual Adoption: The mindset of an agile team member and strategies for promoting agile within their team and beyond.
- Development Team Adoption: Strategies for a team that may not even have the support of the business and management.
- Project Adoption: Development and business strategies within an enterprise that may not support agile.
- Enterprise Adoption: Transitioning an organization from the top-down.
Along the way, we’ll cover topics such as: cross-team dependencies, non-dedicated teams, mapping existing roles to agile roles, matrix organizations, third-party dependencies, scaling agile, regulatory constraints, and any other challenges brought up by participants.
Presented by: Elaine McCormick & Robert Melchor
Leadership Track: 11:00am-12:00pm
Presentation Materials: Slide Deck
Many organizations dive into the process mechanics of Agile project execution losing sight of the point of Agile in the first place. This presentation focuses on Agile as a culture and is needed to make Agile successful for your teams.
