Agile Transformation Conference
Learn About Last Year’s Conference!
Where
When
Conference August 08 – August 11, 2023
About The Event
The Concept
Conference talks are normally appetizers for you to go home and dig deeper on your own. We help you do that digging as well as give you appetite on Agile Transformation. In our sessions attendees can pick and choose between in-depth topics, they are passionate about. And get a deeper understanding of the Agile Transformation with some of the best agile experts in the world.
We offer
1. Morning: Lightning talks by experts & trainers that focus on Agile Transformation
2. Afternoon: Attendees will choose the topic they are most interested in learning more about & then attend hands-on workshop that explores the topic in-depth.
Agenda 2023 August 8-11
Day 1
9:00-9:10 Jens Ostergaard
Welcome to the Conference
9:10-9:35 Jeff Sutherland (Founder of Scrum Inc.)
The Secret to a Successful Agile Transformation
9:35-10:00 Bob Schatz
“The Doctor will see you now” – Organizational Check-ups
10:00-10:20 Break
10:20-10:45 TBA
TBA
10:45-11:10 Gabrielle Benefield & Riccardo Mariti
Outcome Delivery in the Wild
11:10-11:30 TBA
11:30-Noon Panel Debate
Noon-1:00 Lunch and choice of track for the afternoon
1:00-4:00 Separate workshops from morning sessions
4:15 Closing Day 1
Day 2
9:00-9:10 Jens Ostergaard
Welcome to Day 2
9:10-9:35 Alistair Cockburn
9:35-10:00 Lachlan Heasmann
Self-organizing Leadership
10:00-10:20 Break
10:20-10:45 Cesario Ramos
Designing an Agile Organization
10:45-11:10 Joakim Sundén
Spotify – How we kept being Agile while Scaling
11:10-11:30 TBA
11:30-Noon Panel Debate
Noon-1:00 Lunch and choice of track for the afternoon
1:00-4:00 Separate workshops from morning sessions
4:15 Closing Day 2
Day 3
Certified ScrumMaster:
Jens Ostergaard (2 days)
Scrum@Scale:
Avi Schneier (2 days)
Certified Scrum Product Owner:
Stacia Viscardi & Bob Schatz (2 days)
Agile at Scale, Spotify Model:
Joakim Sundén(2 days)
Agile Team Launch with Agile Growth™
David Hartmann & Rick Regueira (2 days)
Certified LeSS Basics:
Cesario Ramos(1 day)
Collaboration aspect of Heart of Agile
Alistair Cockburn(1/2 day)
Elephant Carpaccio:
Alistair Cockburn(1/2 day)
Mobius Outcome Delivery Masterclass:
Gabrielle Benefield & Riccardo Mariti (1/2 day)
Day 4
Certified ScrumMaster:
Jens Ostergaard (2 days)
Scrum@Scale:
Avi Schneier (2 days)
Certified Scrum Product Owner:
Stacia Viscardi & Bob Schatz (2 days)
Agile at Scale, Spotify Model:
Joakim Sundén(2 days)
Agile Team Launch with Agile Growth™
David Hartmann & Rick Regueira (2 days)
Our Speakers
Jeff Sutherland
Lighting Talk | The Secret to a Successful Agile Transformation
Date: August 08, 2023 | Time: 9:10 am
Abstract:
In this presentation, Dr. Jeff Sutherland, founder of Scrum Inc., inventor and co-creator of Scrum and Scrum@Scale, discusses the importance of speed of innovation for the competitiveness of any company. He highlights examples of companies like Tesla, John Deere, and Rocket Mortgage, which have seen significant success with Scrum@Scale, delivering twice the value at half the cost and with greater speed. Dr. Sutherland also emphasizes the significance of the True Scrum and its implementation through the use of six team coordination patterns in Scrum@Scale. The presentation concludes with a discussion of the role of management and the transition from a manager to a leader in a Scrum company.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the importance of speed of innovation for a company's success.
Learn about the benefits of implementing the True Scrum and six team coordination patterns through examples of successful companies.
Understand the transition from a manager to a leader in a Scrum company and the significance of the role of management.
Gain insights into the application of Scrum in patient care and hardware industries.
Dr. Alistair Cockburn
Lightning Talk | The New Leadership
Date:August 9, 2023 | Time: 9:10 am
New leadership models are all over the place these days. Lateral, situational, guest, host, every possible variant. In this short talk, Dr. Cockburn will put a few of them in memorable diagram and talk about how listening better is the new black for leaders.
Workshop | Collaboration in the Heart of Agile
Date: August 9, 2023 | Time: 1 pm – 4 pm
Speaking of listening (see Alistair's morning Lightning Talk), there are actual actions every person can do to improve (or damage) collaboration in a group. In this afternoon session, we will learn and put into practice three small techniques for micro-improvements and over a dozen micro-movements that raise collaboration in a group. The purpose of the session is to introduce these techniques, which you can use in all situations, and help start to train your eyes to notice when you and others are using them. At the end of this workshop you will a certificate of completion from the Heart of Agile Academy for the half-day "Collaborate" course.
Masterclass | The resurgence of use cases in business modeling and agile development
Date: August 10th, 2023 | Time: 9 am to 12 pm
It’s a power play: Programmers tell their business people they will only read user stories, so the business people have no choice but to get busy chopping large, complex systems into hundreds of tiny post-it notes or lines in Jira. But where is the business itself represented?
Finally, some business people are pushing back: “Our business is held in use cases” We can slice those for you in story maps and user stories as needed.” But how are we to slice those use cases into slices that fit the agile micro-incremental delivery style?
That’s what this way-too-short workshop is for. To get to the answer, we need to pass through (1) How to write a use case (in the shortest, most readable way), and then, (2) how to pick out the early slices to develop. The later slices are easy, as you will see. Finally, (3) how to put the slices onto a story map and revisit the use cases to find the holes in the story map.
Given that the full course is takes two days, this can only be a taste test. Dr. Cockburn, master of both use cases and agile development, will show the basics of the techniques with some tiny practice problems, so that you can go home and practice them on your own. At the end of this workshop you will a certificate of completion from the Heart of Agile Academy for the half-day “Modern Use Cases” course.
Masterclass | Decisions as inventory and Elephant Carpaccio
Date: August 10th, 2023 | Time: 1 pm to 4 pm
In the Heart of Agile we learn that what we deliver into the world are decisions. It takes time to practice that concept in our ordinary lives.
In this workshop, you will practice detecting how you make decisions and how to prioritize them for market feedback. The ultimate exercise is the infamous “Elephant Carpaccio” activity, in which we will use spreadsheets to execute in detail a simple project with five 8-minute sprints (no kidding!). The exercise is to develop a small and simple spreadsheet or program to calculate prices for a product. There is nothing particularly hard about this assignment, it is an ordinary business problem cast into an ordinary spreadsheet. That is not the thrust of the exercise.
The thrust of the exercise is how to slice that little problem into 15-20 growth stages, which reduce risk, deliver value, produce income, provide market learning points, and allow pivoting the business all with the smallest energy. This is the most effective exercise I know to convince people to deliver in small steps and look for feedback and pivot moments.
At the end of this workshop you will a certificate of completion from the Heart of Agile Academy for the half-day “Deliver” course.
Stacia Viscardi
Stacia Viscardi is Executive Director, Product Manager at JPMorgan Chase & Co and Author of “The Professional’s ScrumMaster Handbook” at AgileEvolution Inc.
Stacia has primarily found herself in the role of business agility and transformation coach, but has also played the role of ScrumMaster and Product Owner countless times over her career.
MasterClass | Certified Scrum Product Owner
Date: August 10-11th, 2023 | Time: 9 am to 5 pm
This is a rare opportunity to learn from the very best! Bob and Stacia, along with their colleagues unknowingly started a journey that began 20 years ago at Primavera Systems in Philadelphia. It was one of the earliest large-scale adoptions of Scrum in a company that was not only using traditional methods but creating software to manage it…think Gannt Charts!! However, things were a real mess for the organization. Poor quality, constant overtime, everyone angry with them was the norm. Bringing Scrum and XP in was a last-ditch effort to turn things around. It was not popular, not proven, not to be taken seriously. This was, as Ken Schwaber said, “…one of the smartest things you’ve ever done, or the dumbest. Only time will tell…”. This journey took them on separate paths to teach and coach others on the true meaning of Scrum and the practical, pragmatic approach to making it stick for the long term. They have collectively taught tens of thousands of people and countless organizations. This is the first time they are bringing this vast experience together. You won’t find two people with more direct experience than them.
As more companies adopt agile methods, the role of the Product Owner becomes ever critical in the rapid development of products.
Agile changes this in that the Product Owner directly and continuously works with the development team members throughout the course of the product in its lifecycle, as well as manages the stakeholder community of users, customers, and other departments within the organization. Whereas a traditional project manager would make decisions about scope, time and cost of a project, Product Owners now own these decisions real-time in order to appropriately place and pivot their products within their respective contexts.
This course clarifies the Product Owner to Scrum as well as helps them understand their role and responsibilities in helping the team deliver high-quality software that meets users’ needs. We will explore the product lifecycle, design thinking techniques, prioritization frameworks, and story-writing, as well as critical feedback loops and how they enable better product decisions. You will work collaboratively to learn, explore, and practice proven techniques to make you an effective Product Owner. This course results in the Certified Scrum Product Owner™ (CSPO) Certification from the Scrum Alliance.
Jens Østergaard
Jens Østergaard was the first Certified Scrum Practioner (CSP) and one of the first Certified Scrum Trainers (CST) worldwide. Jens have successfully certified over 10 000 people and helped numerous companies on their agile journey. He is the longest serving CST having more than 25 years of experience as developer, dba, team manager, project manager and ScrumMaster. Primarily in financial organizations he has worked with all aspects of software development. And last but not least, Jens is the brain behind this conference. Heart of Scrum.
Masterclass | Certified ScrumMaster with Jens Østergaard
Date: August 10 & 11, 2023 | Time: 9 am to 5 pm
The more an organization understands Scrum, the better the implementation will be. This course will focus on the ScrumMaster, the Product Owner, and the Development Team in a software development organization. However, the course is useful to everyone in a company using Scrum.
A Certified ScrumMaster understands Scrum values, practices, and applications and provides a level of knowledge and expertise above and beyond that of typical project managers. CSMs also protect the team from both internal and external distractions.
This two day hands-on training will teach you the essentials of working as a Scrum Master or Scrum team member in this course and includes a two-year membership of Scrum Alliance
Gabrielle Benefield
Lightning talk | Outcome Delivery in the wild
Date: August 9, 2023 | Time: 10:45 am
Riccardo Mariti of Riccardo’s restaurant in London has an amazing story of multi-loop learning. The first Scrum restaurant in the world, Riccardo takes us on a journey from being a traditional, barely profitable business, to one of the most successful restaurants in the industry.
Riccardo is a natural outcome-driven thinker. He does by instinct what others need to be trained to do. When the pandemic struck, U.K. restaurants were given a day’s notice and told they had to close the doors. Riccardo had to move fast to pivot his business model overnight.
How Riccardo responded is a result of creating an adaptive organization, having a deep understanding of customer needs, and being willing to take risks where others would falter.
Workshop | A Beginner’s Guide to Outcome Driven Customer Discovery
Date: August 8, 2023 | Time: 1 pm – 4 pm
‘Agile teams can go extremely fast. If they are heading in the wrong direction, they simply fail faster.’
While ‘failing fast’ is better than failing slowly, what if you can improve your odds of success by understanding what your customers need before you jump into solution mode? Join us for a 3 hour hands-on workshop to build an outcome driven customer map.
Working in teams you will capture customer problems, uncover the desired outcomes and identify the barriers that prevent customers from reaching their goals.
MasterClass | Mobius Outcome Delivery
Date: August 10, 2023 | Time: 9 am to 12 pm
Discover. Decide. Deliver.
Are you delivering the outcomes that matter or simply delivering the wrong thing faster?
If you are wondering…
- How do I make a difference and deliver the outcomes that matter?
- How do I measure the outcomes and create ‘good’ OKRs?
- Which tools and frameworks should I use to solve complex problems?
Then you are in the right place.
Mobius is a radically simple outcome accelerator and decision navigator that cuts through the noise to solve complex problems and deliver outcomes fast.
It is simple, visual, and intuitive.
What you’ll learn
- How to design a holistic outcome driven process customized for your environment.
- The key activities linking strategy to delivery.
- How to use the Mobius kit which includes the visual maps, trigger cards and navigator.
Our Mobius Outcome Delivery workshop offers an interactive and engaging experience. Working in teams, you’ll learn to capture customer problems, uncover desired outcomes, and turn these into actionable experiments. With real-life examples and hands-on exercises, you’ll come away with practical tools to help accelerate outcome delivery in your organization.
- Focus on the right problems
- Steer your efforts by clear and measurable outcomes
- Apply a visual language to align your organization
- Innovate rapidly to bring new ideas to market
- De-risk your investments to deliver what you need, when you need it
Detailed overview
Session 1
Mobius for Momentum
Radically speed up your outcome delivery using the Mobius Outcome Accelerator toolkit. We give you a quick walkthrough of the navigator and innovation tools to use throughout the session.
We are customer obsessed
Get hands-on with outcome driven customer discovery. Uncover the pain points and essential outcomes using visual customer mapping.
Session 2
It’s desirable, but is it viable?
You have a good idea, but will it fly in the market? Create an actionable business model to connect customer needs to business success.
Outcomes at light-speed
Stop wasting time on unnecessary tasks and focus on what really matters. Learn how to quantify outcomes and OKRs to generate ideas with impact.
Session 3
The Mash-up
Pick up some new techniques for generating ideas with teams. Explore novel ways of combining ideas with fast paced ideation sessions. Decide which ideas help customers reach their desired outcomes faster and which segments will deliver the greatest growth potential.
The Lab
Take your ideas and turn them into actionable experiments. A rapid-fire walkthrough of the top 10 experiments to validate your ideas.
Session 4
Put it to the test
Put your ideas to the test by diving into outcome-driven prototyping. You’ll get hands-on experience as you work in teams to build and test your prototypes.
Adapt – Measure what matters
Adapt rapidly using multi-loop learning. Measure your outcomes progressively and use evidence to drive decision making.
What’s your pitch?
Get your ideas ready with a compelling pitch that captures the essence of your idea. Pitch it back to the class and see how your idea flies.
Our actionable learning model helps you develop your skills to apply the Mobius to your real-world challenges.
Who is this for?
The skills you learn can be applied to any problem, product or organization interested in applying outcomes successfully to their innovation strategy. Whether you are a developer, designer, product manager, or leader, this class is for you.
What others say about Mobius Outcome Delivery
“Mobius was the 1st real post-agile framework I saw, already in 2013 – It assumes full agile teamwork as a natural way of working, and builds from there how your initiative should operate. It embodied the Heart of Agile imperatives already, before the Heart of Agile was codified. Reflective improvement, delivering outcomes that matter.”
— Dr. Alistair Cockburn, Co-author of the Agile Manifesto, creator of the Heart of Agile.
Mobius is the most effective way to help people learn Scrum. It takes Discover, Decide, Deliver and embeds John Boyd’s OODA loop in the way they think about Agile and helps double or triple their productivity in a few Sprints.
Jeff Sutherland, inventor and co-creator of Scrum
A great interactive session which demonstrates practical methods that deliver the outcomes you want fast!
Krishna Panicker, VP Product @ Airbase
Mobius Outcome Delivery is the one-stop-shop for design thinking, lean startup, business modeling and Agile. It connects all the dots to create awesome experiences and the outcomes that matter.
Jamie O’Shaunessey, Skype Snr Product Manager
Mobius Outcome Delivery helped me understand that defining the true outcomes for a product is the only way to make considered decisions and determine success.
Claire Boissiere, Production Manager, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
What you’ll get
You will acquire the skills and toolkit to create effective innovation culture and attendees attending the full course will receive an Outcome Delivery practitioner certificate.
Cesario Ramos
Cesario Ramos strongly believes that fun at the workplace is essential for success. He guides large scale agile adoptions and training, worldwide. In 2010 he founded AgiliX, an international network organisation.
Over the years Cesario wrote numerous papers on agile development and is the author of the books Creating Agile Organizations, EMERGENT – Lean & Agile adoption for an innovative workplace and co-author of the book A Scrum Book.
Lightning talk | Creating Agile Organizations
Date: August 9, 2023 | Time: 10:20 am
What is most important for management to understand about creating an Agile organization (video)? That you understand that an organizational design is a primary factor in supporting or limiting the people’s possibility to adapt to customer demand effectively When an organization concludes that it needs to become an Agile organization, many of its current capabilities might no longer be needed or sufficient for success. In that case, the employees need to redesign the organization into one that allows it to build the necessary capabilities over time. A redesign includes rethinking:
- Structure: Which organizational units, such as departments, groups, and teams, are required? How are work and responsibilities divided among those units?
- Processes and integration: How do the units and roles relate to each other and collaborate?
- People: Which behaviours and values bring the structure to life? Which team and employee skills and capabilities are needed?
Workshop | Creating Agile Organizations
Date: August 9, 2023 | Time: 1 pm – 4 pm
What is most important for management to understand about creating an Agile organization (video)? That you understand that an organizational design is a primary factor in supporting or limiting the people’s possibility to adapt to customer demand effectively When an organization concludes that it needs to become an Agile organization, many of its current capabilities might no longer be needed or sufficient for success. In that case, the employees need to redesign the organization into one that allows it to build the necessary capabilities over time. A redesign includes rethinking:
- Structure: Which organizational units, such as departments, groups, and teams, are required? How are work and responsibilities divided among those units?
- Processes and integration: How do the units and roles relate to each other and collaborate?
- People: Which behaviours and values bring the structure to life? Which team and employee skills and capabilities are needed?
Masterclass | Certified LeSS Basics
Date: August 10, 2023 | Time: 9 am to 5 pm
The Certified LeSS Basics masterclass is an introductionary training covering the LeSS principles, framework and rules. It provides essential information for understanding LeSS and how LeSS can help your product development group.
LeSS
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework for scaling agile development to multiple teams. LeSS builds on top of the Scrum principles such as empiricism, cross-functional self-managing teams and provides a framework for applying that at scale. It provides simple structural rules and guidelines on how to adopt Scrum in large product development.
The Certified LeSS Basics masterclass covers the basics of LeSS so that you can understand if LeSS is suited for you and how to start using some if the LeSS principles and techniques.
Agenda:
- Why LeSS?
- LeSS Principles Overview
- The LeSS Frameworks
- Feature Teams
Who should attend the LeSS Basics Masterclass?
The Certified LeSS basics course is for anyone who is involved in a LeSS effort. Basic Scrum knowledge is expected and can be achieved by attending a Professional Scrum Master course, or thoroughly reading Scrum introduction material such as the Scrum Primer and practicing Scrum.
Official LeSS Basics Certification All participants will receive the LeSS Basics certification and will get an account on less.works. Here they can find additional information about LeSS, share course information and stay in contact with the other course participants.
Preperation for the LeSS Basics training Basic Scrum knowledge is expected and can be achieved by attending a Professional Scrum Master Training, Professional Scrum Product Owner Training or thoroughly reading Scrum introduction material such as the Scrum Primer and practicing Scrum.
Avi Schneier
Avi Schneier is a Principal Consultant for Agile Transformations, where most of my work is with the Fortune 500. Additionally, he is a contributor and editor of the Scrum@Scale Guide and a fellow in our program for people who want to become Scrum and S@S Trainers .
Certifications: SM & PO, S@S. Scrum@Scale Trainer, scruminc Licensed Agile Coach & Licensed Agile Coach Trainer.
Specialities: Facilitation, Training Agile Coaches and Trainers, Scaling Scrum from Teams through the Executive Suite, Using Scrum beyond IT, for example, in Sales & Marketing, Procurement, and Operations.
Lightning talk |
Date: August X, 2023 | Time: X
Workshop |
Date: August X, 2023 | Time: 1 pm – 4 pm
Masterclass | Scrum@Scale with Avi Schneier
Date: August 10 & 11, 2023 | Time: 9 am to 5 pm
Price: $1995
From Fortune 100 companies to start-ups, Scrum@Scale® transforms organizations into Agile enterprises. The Scrum@Scale framework is the brainchild of Dr. Jeff Sutherland, the co-creator of Scrum and the founder of Scrum Inc.
Scrum@Scale naturally extends the core Scrum framework to deliver hyper-productive results across industries and disciplines, including software, hardware, services, operations, and R&D. In our Registered Scrum@Scale Practitioner (RS@SP) training, you will learn how to apply fundamental Scrum and Lean product development skills to scale Scrum from one to many teams across any sized initiative.
Recommended Experience: A Scrum Master Course or comparable real world experience implementing Scrum. Completion of a Product Owner course is encouraged but not required. We recommend reading the official Scrum@Scale Guide prior to the class.
- Facilitate cross team collaboration and release planning with tens, hundreds or thousands of people
- Create and prioritize a transformation Backlog to overcome impediments to scaling
- Measure and improve key Scrum metrics at an Enterprise level
- Deliver 5 times as much work without adding new teams
The Scrum@Scale® course teaches the responsibilities of the Product Owner, individual Scrum teams, and enterprise leadership in a variety of large-scale contexts.
Speaker Bio:
Avi Schneier is a Principal Consultant for Agile Transformations, where most of his work is with the Fortune 500. Additionally, he is a contributor and editor of the Scrum@Scale Guide and a fellow in theprogram for people who want to become Scrum and S@S Trainers .
Certifications: SM & PO, S@S. Scrum@Scale Trainer, scruminc Licensed Agile Coach & Licensed Agile Coach Trainer.
Specialities: Facilitation, Training Agile Coaches and Trainers, Scaling Scrum from Teams through the Executive Suite, Using Scrum beyond IT, for example, in Sales & Marketing, Procurement, and Operations.
Dr. Bob Schatz
Dr. Bob Schatz is the owner and Senior Consultant of Agile Infusion, LLC. He has 40 years of high-performance leadership experience. Bob has served in many roles from a developer to CTO in various industries and organizations. He has been a CST since 2006.
Bob has helped many companies in their transition to agile development methods. Working with teams, management, and executives, he has a pragmatic, direct approach to address issues, challenges, and changes necessary to help drive results in complex enterprise environments.
Lightning Talk | “The Doctor Will See You Now” – Organizational Check-ups
Date: August 8, 2023 | Time: 9:35 am
This is an introduction to my workshop on effective organizational check-ups. Using the model of a doctor’s office, we’ll explore the characteristics of a good doctor, a good patient, and good practice in the context of organizational agility. How do you know you need a doctor? How do you find a good one? What are your expectations of the doctor-patient relationship?
Workshop | “The Doctor Will See You Now” – Effective Organizational Check-ups
Date: August X, 2023 | Time: 1 pm to 4 pm
There are two primary reasons you go to a doctor. You either have a problem, or you are getting a check-up. When you have a problem, you communicate it to the doctor, and they use their skills, knowledge, experience, tests, and other resources that are available to diagnose the problem and then recommend an initial course of action and then follow-ups to ensure the issue is resolved (an iterative approach!).
When you go for a check-up, the doctor goes through a series of general tests, makes observations, checks basic systems making sure there aren’t any issues and that you are in good general health. You might be nervous about your check-up, thinking they might discover something. That often leads to procrastination, and thus greater risk. Your doctor doesn’t live with you, following your every move. Neither of you would likely enjoy that. These regular visits are an essential part of good health. The doctor provides guidance on diet, exercise, habits, general well-being, and other recommendations for good quality of life.
Organizations need check-ups too. Self-diagnosis, like when you start searching WebMD for diagnosis and treatment of a medical problem, is not the most effective approach. Being too close and familiar with the current practices clouds your view of how things are really going. You need an objective outsider to give you critical feedback about your overall organizational health, and you must be able to listen to the advice, taking responsibility for you own health choices.
This workshop will look at the different critical functions, diagnosis approaches, and data points that the organizational agility doctor examines to provide their patients with the best advice.
MasterClass | Certified Scrum Product Owner
Date: August 10-11th, 2023 | Time: 9 am to 5 pm
This is a rare opportunity to learn from the very best! Bob and Stacia, along with their colleagues unknowingly started a journey that began 20 years ago at Primavera Systems in Philadelphia. It was one of the earliest large-scale adoptions of Scrum in a company that was not only using traditional methods but creating software to manage it…think Gannt Charts!! However, things were a real mess for the organization. Poor quality, constant overtime, everyone angry with them was the norm. Bringing Scrum and XP in was a last-ditch effort to turn things around. It was not popular, not proven, not to be taken seriously. This was, as Ken Schwaber said, “…one of the smartest things you’ve ever done, or the dumbest. Only time will tell…”. This journey took them on separate paths to teach and coach others on the true meaning of Scrum and the practical, pragmatic approach to making it stick for the long term. They have collectively taught tens of thousands of people and countless organizations. This is the first time they are bringing this vast experience together. You won’t find two people with more direct experience than them.
As more companies adopt agile methods, the role of the Product Owner becomes ever critical in the rapid development of products.
Agile changes this in that the Product Owner directly and continuously works with the development team members throughout the course of the product in its lifecycle, as well as manages the stakeholder community of users, customers, and other departments within the organization. Whereas a traditional project manager would make decisions about scope, time and cost of a project, Product Owners now own these decisions real-time in order to appropriately place and pivot their products within their respective contexts.
This course clarifies the Product Owner to Scrum as well as helps them understand their role and responsibilities in helping the team deliver high-quality software that meets users’ needs. We will explore the product lifecycle, design thinking techniques, prioritization frameworks, and story-writing, as well as critical feedback loops and how they enable better product decisions. You will work collaboratively to learn, explore, and practice proven techniques to make you an effective Product Owner. This course results in the Certified Scrum Product Owner™ (CSPO) Certification from the Scrum Alliance.
Joakim Sundén
Joakim Sundén is now a consultant at Crisp and co-author of Kanban in Action. He has worked as a leadership and team coach at Spotify during a period of massive growth for the company, guiding teams in Stockholm, San Francisco, New York and Boston towards a smoother Agile methodology that allowed for greater business alignment between teams and more effective software delivery.
Lightning Talk | Discover Weekly – How an empowered squad built one of Spotify’s most loved features against all odds | Joakim Sundén
Date: August 9, 2023 | Time: 10:45 am
“I would have killed that if it was just me, 100%,” said Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek about Discover Weekly, a feature that would become one of Spotify’s most loved product features, almost a brand in itself. Designers and senior engineers were equally skeptical, but the team was still able to ship the feature. In this talk, you’ll learn how Spotify’s culture of autonomous/empowered squads enables innovation, using the Discover Weekly feature as an example.
Workshop |
Date: August X, 2023 | Time: 1 pm to 4 pm
MasterClass | Agile at Scale, Spotify Model
Date: August 10th-11th | Time: 9 am to 5 pm
Price: 1495
This course will give you inspiring real world examples of how Spotify grew a dynamic learning organisation that continually reinforces a high-trust culture and supports highly engaged and empowered product teams.
The ”Spotify Model” of agile at scale has had a huge amount of attention in the agile community since it was first shared widely in 2012. Though never originally intended as a framework or model, the case study of Spotify’s approach to agile working has become a hit with a large number of organisations who have opted to imitate the method.
This course will help leaders and teams to understand how and why it was optimized, the challenges that come with the method, and how companies can adapt and continue to evolve while employing this strategy of agile at scale. You will gain a deep and wide knowledge of how Spotify works under the hood, which will enable you to see more options for improving organisational design with regards to your context and boundaries.
You will learn why Spotify made the decisions they made, other options which were considered, and which changes were intentional and which were emergent. This hands-on workshop will explore underlying principles and go into specific practices and mechanisms. You will learn how to combine small, autonomous teams with strategic business alignment, how to work with leadership and growing leaders, innovation and the values and beliefs which shape the culture which created ”The Spotify Model”
Joakim Sundén, the teacher of the course, has long experience from working at Spotify and was directly involved in developing several of the key concepts of “the Spotify Model”.
Example topics covered in the course:
- The history of the ”Spotify Model”
- How to build great autonomous teams (a.k.a. Squad or Empowered Product Teams)
- Organisational structures to support the squads (Chapters, Tribes and Guilds)
- How the Spotify Rhythm strategic framework and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) can be used to create alignment instead of control
- Servant Leadership in practice – developing and supporting empowered people and teams
- The culture, principles and core beliefs that are fundamental to succeed with this model
- Think It, Build It, Ship It, Tweak It – The Spotify Product Development Framework for Discovery and Delivery
- What radical transparency and communication looks like and strategies to share knowledge and ideas in a network organization
- Challenges, failed experiments, and lessons learned
Goals
The goal of this course is to provide tangible examples of how to create a great place to work that enables agile at scale. Participants will leave inspired with ideas on how to redesign their organization to better engage employees and leverage the power of empowered autonomous teams.
This course is for…
- Progressive leaders, and managers
- Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, Product Managers, Project Managers and Agile Practitioners
- Organisational change agents, consultants, and HR
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge in Agile principles and practices, e.g., experience with Scrum, will help you better understand some of the content.
Lachlan Heasman
Lachlan Heasman has worked in the Australian software industry for over 20 years across many different sectors and in roles from development to management. He started using Scrum over 15 years ago and has worked in delivery and on several major and many small Agile change programs in Australia. Lachlan uses his experiences in his training sessions to give everyone some real examples of the successes and challenges that come with Agile.
His curiosity into how and why Scrum works has lead him to complete many certifications and years of university study. He is researching modern team leadership as part of a PhD at University of Newcastle and has written a book on Scrum with many international gurus including two of the founders of the framework. In his spare time he helps out with the Agile Australia conference.
Lightning Talk | Self-organizing leadership
Date: August 9, 2023 | Time: 9:35 am
Scrum has been with us since the mid-1990s, and the way we lead has been with us since the mid-1890s. Let’s reset how we lead to a way that allows leadership to emerge and self-organize, so we can tap into the diversity that can lead us to outstanding innovation and collaboration.
This lightning talk will introduce you to how leadership can be self-organizing and the impact of supporting this in your organization.
Workshop | Self-organizing leadership
Date: August 9, 2023 | Time: 1 pm to 4 pm
The afternoon workshop will extend on the concepts of self-organising leadership introduced in the lightning talk. Explore four different approaches to increasing how our colleagues share leadership. Focusing on the team’s culture, we will dive into how to use shared purpose, social support and voice to help team members share leadership.
Masterclass | Agile Coaching
Date: August 10th , 2023 | Time: 9 am to 5 pm
In this workshop, Lachlan will teach you the secrets of coaching and getting organisations and managers to change how they work.
Using scenario-based learning, this workshop will teach you how to make change “sticky” using psychology and the 8 stances of advanced coaching.
You’ll explore topics including:
- Applying the International Coaching Federation (ICF) framework to an Agile and digital transformation context
- Coaching the enterprise – beyond teams to Product Owners, managers and executives
- Agile leaders as a coach, mentor, change agent and counsellor
- Liberating Structures and advanced facilitation techniques
- Designing scalable and repeatable coaching strategies using the science of organisational culture and change.
By the end of this workshop you will be able to:
- Distinguish group coaching from individual coaching dynamics and structure
- Identify and practice the skills necessary for building a safe, inclusive coaching space for growth
- Describe the steps required to establish, promote and run a successful coaching group
- Refine techniques for deploying coaching skills, ICF core competencies and the Code of Ethics in a group setting.
Who should attend?
- Agile coaches and change agents
- Managers and leaders
- Experienced Scrum Masters.
Prerequisites?
2+ years in an Agile or digital transformation context is recommended for people planning to attend this workshop.
David Hartmann
David Hartmann is CSM, Founder & CEO of The SilverLogic (tsl.io), architects platforms and innovative technology solutions for startups and enterprises in a variety of industries combining APIs and cutting-edge technologies, such as RPA, AR, IoT, and Blockchain, in a truly agile fashion.
His mission is to streamline the process of bringing innovative ideas to life enabling more people to build amazing user experiences. Before becoming CEO of TSL, he worked as a senior software engineer on a variety of projects granting him a deep technical background and understanding.
At TSL, he has built multiple scrum development teams exploring and building technology. In the last years, he has led his teams to multiple separate hackathon wins, at the Bitcoin Miami, eMerge Americas (for 5 consecutive years), and money20/20 hackathons.
Masterclass | Agile Team Launch with Agile Growth™
Date: August 10 & 11, 2023 | Time: 9 am to 5 pm
Welcome to Agile Growth™! In this workshop, we will guide you on how to transform your company to build highly effective agile teams from embracing agile value to learning the Agile Growth™ methodology that promotes continuous improvement, collaboration, and adaptability in career development.
Agile Growth™ involves breaking down career paths into smaller, achievable milestones. These milestones are designed to help employees gain knowledge and responsibilities in a way that is valuable for both them and their organization and at the same time structuring those career paths so individuals obtain cross-functional knowledge.
By adopting Agile Growth™, you solve the issue caused by removing job titles and hierarchy that are at the Heart of Scrum. This approach allows for clearly defined goals that are aligned with the company’s vision, helping both employees and employers to work towards a shared sense of purpose.
Join us in taking your teams to the next level with agile values and career paths that inspire growth!
Rick Regueira
Masterclass | Agile Team Launch with Agile Growth™
Date: August 10 & 11, 2023 | Time: 9 am to 5 pm
Welcome to Agile Growth™! In this workshop, we will guide you on how to transform your company to build highly effective agile teams from embracing agile value to learning the Agile Growth™ methodology that promotes continuous improvement, collaboration, and adaptability in career development.
Agile Growth™ involves breaking down career paths into smaller, achievable milestones. These milestones are designed to help employees gain knowledge and responsibilities in a way that is valuable for both them and their organization and at the same time structuring those career paths so individuals obtain cross-functional knowledge.
By adopting Agile Growth™, you solve the issue caused by removing job titles and hierarchy that are at the Heart of Scrum. This approach allows for clearly defined goals that are aligned with the company’s vision, helping both employees and employers to work towards a shared sense of purpose.
Join us in taking your teams to the next level with agile values and career paths that inspire growth!
Riccardo Mariti
Lightning talk | Outcome Delivery in the wild
Date: August 9, 2023 | Time: 10:45 am
Riccardo Mariti of Riccardo’s restaurant in London has an amazing story of multi-loop learning. The first Scrum restaurant in the world, Riccardo takes us on a journey from being a traditional, barely profitable business, to one of the most successful restaurants in the industry.
Riccardo is a natural outcome-driven thinker. He does by instinct what others need to be trained to do. When the pandemic struck, U.K. restaurants were given a day’s notice and told they had to close the doors. Riccardo had to move fast to pivot his business model overnight.
How Riccardo responded is a result of creating an adaptive organization, having a deep understanding of customer needs, and being willing to take risks where others would falter.
Workshop | A Beginner’s Guide to Outcome Driven Customer Discovery
Date: August 8, 2023 | Time: 1 pm – 4 pm
‘Agile teams can go extremely fast. If they are heading in the wrong direction, they simply fail faster.’
While ‘failing fast’ is better than failing slowly, what if you can improve your odds of success by understanding what your customers need before you jump into solution mode? Join us for a 3 hour hands-on workshop to build an outcome driven customer map.
Working in teams you will capture customer problems, uncover the desired outcomes and identify the barriers that prevent customers from reaching their goals.
MasterClass | Mobius Outcome Delivery
Date: August 10, 2023 | Time: 9 am to 12 pm
Discover. Decide. Deliver.
Are you delivering the outcomes that matter or simply delivering the wrong thing faster?
If you are wondering…
- How do I make a difference and deliver the outcomes that matter?
- How do I measure the outcomes and create ‘good’ OKRs?
- Which tools and frameworks should I use to solve complex problems?
Then you are in the right place.
Mobius is a radically simple outcome accelerator and decision navigator that cuts through the noise to solve complex problems and deliver outcomes fast.
It is simple, visual, and intuitive.
What you’ll learn
- How to design a holistic outcome driven process customized for your environment.
- The key activities linking strategy to delivery.
- How to use the Mobius kit which includes the visual maps, trigger cards and navigator.
Our Mobius Outcome Delivery workshop offers an interactive and engaging experience. Working in teams, you’ll learn to capture customer problems, uncover desired outcomes, and turn these into actionable experiments. With real-life examples and hands-on exercises, you’ll come away with practical tools to help accelerate outcome delivery in your organization.
- Focus on the right problems
- Steer your efforts by clear and measurable outcomes
- Apply a visual language to align your organization
- Innovate rapidly to bring new ideas to market
- De-risk your investments to deliver what you need, when you need it
Detailed overview
Session 1
Mobius for Momentum
Radically speed up your outcome delivery using the Mobius Outcome Accelerator toolkit. We give you a quick walkthrough of the navigator and innovation tools to use throughout the session.
We are customer obsessed
Get hands-on with outcome driven customer discovery. Uncover the pain points and essential outcomes using visual customer mapping.
Session 2
It’s desirable, but is it viable?
You have a good idea, but will it fly in the market? Create an actionable business model to connect customer needs to business success.
Outcomes at light-speed
Stop wasting time on unnecessary tasks and focus on what really matters. Learn how to quantify outcomes and OKRs to generate ideas with impact.
Session 3
The Mash-up
Pick up some new techniques for generating ideas with teams. Explore novel ways of combining ideas with fast paced ideation sessions. Decide which ideas help customers reach their desired outcomes faster and which segments will deliver the greatest growth potential.
The Lab
Take your ideas and turn them into actionable experiments. A rapid-fire walkthrough of the top 10 experiments to validate your ideas.
Session 4
Put it to the test
Put your ideas to the test by diving into outcome-driven prototyping. You’ll get hands-on experience as you work in teams to build and test your prototypes.
Adapt – Measure what matters
Adapt rapidly using multi-loop learning. Measure your outcomes progressively and use evidence to drive decision making.
What’s your pitch?
Get your ideas ready with a compelling pitch that captures the essence of your idea. Pitch it back to the class and see how your idea flies.
Our actionable learning model helps you develop your skills to apply the Mobius to your real-world challenges.
Who is this for?
The skills you learn can be applied to any problem, product or organization interested in applying outcomes successfully to their innovation strategy. Whether you are a developer, designer, product manager, or leader, this class is for you.
What others say about Mobius Outcome Delivery
“Mobius was the 1st real post-agile framework I saw, already in 2013 – It assumes full agile teamwork as a natural way of working, and builds from there how your initiative should operate. It embodied the Heart of Agile imperatives already, before the Heart of Agile was codified. Reflective improvement, delivering outcomes that matter.”
— Dr. Alistair Cockburn, Co-author of the Agile Manifesto, creator of the Heart of Agile.
Mobius is the most effective way to help people learn Scrum. It takes Discover, Decide, Deliver and embeds John Boyd’s OODA loop in the way they think about Agile and helps double or triple their productivity in a few Sprints.
Jeff Sutherland, inventor and co-creator of Scrum
A great interactive session which demonstrates practical methods that deliver the outcomes you want fast!
Krishna Panicker, VP Product @ Airbase
Mobius Outcome Delivery is the one-stop-shop for design thinking, lean startup, business modeling and Agile. It connects all the dots to create awesome experiences and the outcomes that matter.
Jamie O’Shaunessey, Skype Snr Product Manager
Mobius Outcome Delivery helped me understand that defining the true outcomes for a product is the only way to make considered decisions and determine success.
Claire Boissiere, Production Manager, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
What you’ll get
You will acquire the skills and toolkit to create effective innovation culture and attendees attending the full course will receive an Outcome Delivery practitioner certificate.
Master Classes
The resurgence of use cases in business modeling and agile development
Teacher: Alistair Cockburn
Date: August 10 | Time: 9 am to 12 pm
Price: $395
It’s a power play: Programmers tell their business people they will only read user stories, so the business people have no choice but to get busy chopping large, complex systems into hundreds of tiny post-it notes or lines in Jira. But where is the business itself represented?
Finally, some business people are pushing back: “Our business is held in use cases” We can slice those for you in story maps and user stories as needed.” But how are we to slice those use cases into slices that fit the agile micro-incremental delivery style?
That’s what this way-too-short workshop is for. To get to the answer, we need to pass through (1) How to write a use case (in the shortest, most readable way), and then, (2) how to pick out the early slices to develop. The later slices are easy, as you will see. Finally, (3) how to put the slices onto a story map and revisit the use cases to find the holes in the story map.
Given that the full course is takes two days, this can only be a taste test. Dr. Cockburn, master of both use cases and agile development, will show the basics of the techniques with some tiny practice problems, so that you can go home and practice them on your own. At the end of this workshop you will a certificate of completion from the Heart of Agile Academy for the half-day “Modern Use Cases” course.
Decisions as inventory and Elephant Carpaccio
Teacher: Alistair Cockburn
Date: August 10 | Time: 1 pm to 4 pm
Price: $395
In the Heart of Agile we learn that what we deliver into the world are decisions. It takes time to practice that concept in our ordinary lives.
In this workshop, you will practice detecting how you make decisions and how to prioritize them for market feedback. The ultimate exercise is the infamous “Elephant Carpaccio” activity, in which we will use spreadsheets to execute in detail a simple project with five 8-minute sprints (no kidding!). The exercise is to develop a small and simple spreadsheet or program to calculate prices for a product. There is nothing particularly hard about this assignment, it is an ordinary business problem cast into an ordinary spreadsheet. That is not the thrust of the exercise.
The thrust of the exercise is how to slice that little problem into 15-20 growth stages, which reduce risk, deliver value, produce income, provide market learning points, and allow pivoting the business all with the smallest energy. This is the most effective exercise I know to convince people to deliver in small steps and look for feedback and pivot moments.
At the end of this workshop you will a certificate of completion from the Heart of Agile Academy for the half-day “Deliver” course.
CSM
Teacher: Jens Ostergaard
Date: August 10 & 11 | Time: 9 am to 5 pm
Price: $1295
Jens Østergaard is the founder of Scrum Training Institute, Heart of Scrum, Agile Transformation Conference, and an agile developer consultant who has delivered CSM/CSPO classes to more than 10k people worldwide.
Description
Following the course, each participant is enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where additional Certified ScrumMaster-only material and information are available.
Prerequisite
We expect you to have some prior knowledge about Scrum and we expect you to have read the “Scrum Guide” on www.scrumguides.org prior to class. It would also be beneficial for you if you read one of Ken Schwaber’s books.
Course Material
Participants will receive printed and bounded material on the first day of class. The material is in English and will change from Training class to Training class. The material will be enhanced by more slides, videos and other pictures in case the trainer find this useful during class. Being a ScrumMaster demands a lot of skill and can at first sight look like a trivial challenge. However, once starting the journey to transform the organization there will be impediment after impediment that will challenge the implementation of Scrum. So to use Scrum, using “The Art of the Possible”, there needs to be skilled ScrumMasters to take on this challenge.
Goal
Each individual is trained to be able to assume the following responsibilities:
- Remove the barriers between development and business (ProductOwner) so the business directly drives development
- Teach the business how to maximize ROI and meet their objectives through Scrum
- Improve the lives of the development team by facilitating creativity and empowerment
- Improve the productivity of the development team in any way possible
- Improve the engineering practices and tools so each increment of functionality is potentially shippable
Training
The training is done with many team exercises. Be prepared to do hard work. The training will give you the feeling of Scrum itself. The first day is dedicated to the Why and the Philosophy, the Meaning of Scrum. The second day hand over the tools and the How of Scrum. Using anecdotes and experience, teaching the Scrum framework, and how to use it to be an effective Agile leader – you will learn to be a great ScrumMaster.
Speaker Bio:
Jens Østergaard was the first Certified Scrum Practioner (CSP) and one of the first Certified Scrum Trainers (CST) worldwide. Jens have successfully certified over 10 000 people and helped numerous companies on their agile journey. He is the longest serving CST having more than 25 years of experience as developer, dba, team manager, project manager and ScrumMaster. Primarily in financial organizations he has worked with all aspects of software development. And last but not least, Jens is the brain behind this conference. Heart of Scrum.
Deliver Outcomes at Light Speed with the Mobius Outcome Navigator
Teacher: Gabrielle Benefield & Riccardo Mariti
Date: August 10 | Time: 9 am to 12 pm
Price: $495
Join us for a transformative 3-hour, hands-on Master Class that will revolutionize the way you approach delivering outcomes.
Are you tired of simply delivering things faster without making a real impact? If so, this Master Class is tailored for you.
The Mobius Outcome Navigator is simple, visual, and intuitive. It will guide you in cutting through the noise to solve complex problems and achieve outcomes rapidly.
Learn how to:
Apply the Mobius Outcome Navigator to your real-world challenges
Identify the core problems that truly matter and discover innovative solutions to solve them effectively.
Create measurable outcomes and OKRs that enable better decision-making.
Who should attend?
This Master Class is designed for individuals at any level within the organization who aspire to achieve impactful outcomes, whether at the team level, portfolio level, or the C-suite.
Included in the workshop:
Receive the Mobius Quickstart Kit, enabling you to continue your outcome-focused journey beyond the workshop.
Join us for an engaging Master Class where you’ll learn practical techniques for achieving impactful outcomes.
Certified LeSS Basics
Teacher: Cesario Ramos
Date: August 10 | Time: 9 am to 5 pm
Price: $895
The Certified LeSS Basics masterclass is an introductory training covering the LeSS principles, framework and rules. It provides essential information for understanding LeSS and how LeSS can help your product development group.
LeSS
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework for scaling agile development to multiple teams. LeSS builds on top of the Scrum principles such as empiricism, cross-functional self-managing teams and provides a framework for applying that at scale. It provides simple structural rules and guidelines on how to adopt Scrum in large product development.
The Certified LeSS Basics masterclass covers the basics of LeSS so that you can understand if LeSS is suited for you and how to start using some if the LeSS principles and techniques.
Agenda:
- Why LeSS?
- LeSS Principles Overview
- The LeSS Frameworks
- Feature Teams
Who should attend the LeSS Basics Masterclass?
The Certified LeSS basics course is for anyone who is involved in a LeSS effort. Basic Scrum knowledge is expected and can be achieved by attending a Professional Scrum Master course, or thoroughly reading Scrum introduction material such as the Scrum Primer and practicing Scrum.
Official LeSS Basics Certification All participants will receive the LeSS Basics certification and will get an account on less.works. Here they can find additional information about LeSS, share course information and stay in contact with the other course participants.
Preperation for the LeSS Basics training Basic Scrum knowledge is expected and can be achieved by attending a Professional Scrum Master Training, Professional Scrum Product Owner Training or thoroughly reading Scrum introduction material such as the Scrum Primer and practicing Scrum.
Scrum@Scale
Teacher: Avi Schneier
Date: August 10 & 11 | Time: 9 am to 5 pm
Price: $1995
From Fortune 100 companies to start-ups, Scrum@Scale® transforms organizations into Agile enterprises. The Scrum@Scale framework is the brainchild of Dr. Jeff Sutherland, the co-creator of Scrum and the founder of Scrum Inc.
Scrum@Scale naturally extends the core Scrum framework to deliver hyper-productive results across industries and disciplines, including software, hardware, services, operations, and R&D. In our Registered Scrum@Scale Practitioner (RS@SP) training, you will learn how to apply fundamental Scrum and Lean product development skills to scale Scrum from one to many teams across any sized initiative.
Recommended Experience: A Scrum Master Course or comparable real world experience implementing Scrum. Completion of a Product Owner course is encouraged but not required. We recommend reading the official Scrum@Scale Guide prior to the class.
As a Registered Scrum@Scale Practitioner™ you will be prepared to:
- Facilitate cross team collaboration and release planning with tens, hundreds or thousands of people
- Create and prioritize a transformation Backlog to overcome impediments to scaling
- Measure and improve key Scrum metrics at an Enterprise level
- Deliver 5 times as much work without adding new teams
The Scrum@Scale® course teaches the responsibilities of the Product Owner, individual Scrum teams, and enterprise leadership in a variety of large-scale contexts.
Speaker Bio:
Avi Schneier is a Principal Consultant for Agile Transformations, where most of his work is with the Fortune 500. Additionally, he is a contributor and editor of the Scrum@Scale Guide and a fellow in theprogram for people who want to become Scrum and S@S Trainers .
Certifications: SM & PO, S@S. Scrum@Scale Trainer, scruminc Licensed Agile Coach & Licensed Agile Coach Trainer.
Specialities: Facilitation, Training Agile Coaches and Trainers, Scaling Scrum from Teams through the Executive Suite, Using Scrum beyond IT, for example, in Sales & Marketing, Procurement, and Operations.
CSPO
Teacher: Stacia Viscardi & Bob Schatz
Date: August 10 & 11 | Time: 9 am to 5 pm
Price: $1295
This is a rare opportunity to learn from the very best! Bob and Stacia, along with their colleagues unknowingly started a journey that began 20 years ago at Primavera Systems in Philadelphia. It was one of the earliest large-scale adoptions of Scrum in a company that was not only using traditional methods but creating software to manage it…think Gannt Charts!! However, things were a real mess for the organization. Poor quality, constant overtime, everyone angry with them was the norm. Bringing Scrum and XP in was a last-ditch effort to turn things around. It was not popular, not proven, not to be taken seriously. This was, as Ken Schwaber said, “…one of the smartest things you’ve ever done, or the dumbest. Only time will tell…”. This journey took them on separate paths to teach and coach others on the true meaning of Scrum and the practical, pragmatic approach to making it stick for the long term. They have collectively taught tens of thousands of people and countless organizations. This is the first time they are bringing this vast experience together. You won’t find two people with more direct experience than them.
As more companies adopt agile methods, the role of the Product Owner becomes ever critical in the rapid development of products.
Agile changes this in that the Product Owner directly and continuously works with the development team members throughout the course of the product in its lifecycle, as well as manages the stakeholder community of users, customers, and other departments within the organization. Whereas a traditional project manager would make decisions about scope, time and cost of a project, Product Owners now own these decisions real-time in order to appropriately place and pivot their products within their respective contexts.
This course clarifies the Product Owner to Scrum as well as helps them understand their role and responsibilities in helping the team deliver high-quality software that meets users’ needs. We will explore the product lifecycle, design thinking techniques, prioritization frameworks, and story-writing, as well as critical feedback loops and how they enable better product decisions. You will work collaboratively to learn, explore, and practice proven techniques to make you an effective Product Owner. This course results in the Certified Scrum Product Owner™ (CSPO) Certification from the Scrum Alliance.
Agile at Scale, Spotify Model
Teacher: Joakim Sundén
Date: August 10th | Time: 9 am to 12 pm
Price: $1495
Getting agile practices right can sometimes seem very elusive. Approaches like Scrum, Kanban and the like are designed to be simple frameworks to address complex problems. There are tremendous gaps between what is learned in the classroom and what is witnessed in practice. When that happens, there is no shortage of blame in the organization. And in true form the blame is directed in just about every direction, making it challenging to make the right adjustments. Defensive postures and creative excuses become the dark side of “agile”.
With over 20 years teaching and coaching Scrum Masters and Product Owners you certainly begin to see common problems that could be solved with practical, pragmatic approaches. Seems simple, but when things go wrong, we often don’t want to accept responsibility. Blame is much easier to dish out. We must break the cycle of employees blaming management and management blaming employees, and when that doesn’t work, blaming the customer! That’s not getting us anywhere.
The focus of this class will be on looking at the roles of Scrum Master and Product Owner and the common failures encountered that prevent the realization of benefits that everyone expects. But we won’t stop there…we’ll explore the diagnosis of those failures and the possible remedies to help get things moving in the right direction. This is not a session to find more ways to blame these two critical roles, but to understand what the roles demand, getting the right people for the roles, and the establishing daily habits to make them successful.
Agile Coaching
Teacher: Lachlan Heasman
Date: August 10th , 2023 | Time: 9 am to 5 pm
Price: $895
In this workshop, Lachlan will teach you the secrets of coaching and getting organisations and managers to change how they work.
Using scenario-based learning, this workshop will teach you how to make change “sticky” using psychology and the 8 stances of advanced coaching.
You’ll explore topics including:
- Applying the International Coaching Federation (ICF) framework to an Agile and digital transformation context
- Coaching the enterprise – beyond teams to Product Owners, managers and executives
- Agile leaders as a coach, mentor, change agent and counsellor
- Liberating Structures and advanced facilitation techniques
- Designing scalable and repeatable coaching strategies using the science of organisational culture and change.
By the end of this workshop you will be able to:
- Distinguish group coaching from individual coaching dynamics and structure
- Identify and practice the skills necessary for building a safe, inclusive coaching space for growth
- Describe the steps required to establish, promote and run a successful coaching group
- Refine techniques for deploying coaching skills, ICF core competencies and the Code of Ethics in a group setting.
Who should attend?
- Agile coaches and change agents
- Managers and leaders
- Experienced Scrum Masters.
Prerequisites?
2+ years in an Agile or digital transformation context is recommended for people planning to attend this workshop.
Agile Team Launch with Agile Growth™
Teacher: David Hartmann & Rick Regueira
Date: August 10 & 11 | Time: 9 am to 5 pm
Price: $1495
Description
Welcome to Agile Growth™! In this workshop, we will guide you on how to transform your company to build highly effective agile teams from embracing agile value to learning the Agile Growth™ methodology that promotes continuous improvement, collaboration, and adaptability in career development.
Agile Growth™ involves breaking down career paths into smaller, achievable milestones. These milestones are designed to help employees gain knowledge and responsibilities in a way that is valuable for both them and their organization and at the same time structuring those career paths so individuals obtain cross-functional knowledge.
By adopting Agile Growth™, you solve the issue caused by removing job titles and hierarchy that are at the Heart of Scrum. This approach allows for clearly defined goals that are aligned with the company’s vision, helping both employees and employers to work towards a shared sense of purpose.
Join us in taking your teams to the next level with agile values and career paths that inspire growth!
