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Speaker: Christiaan Verwijs | Co-founder of The Liberators, organizational psychologist, and Professional Scrum Trainer for Scrum.org

What makes Scrum teams effective? And how do you reliably measure this? Although there are many opinions and models about this in our profession, very few are based on robust, scientific evidence. With The Liberators, we are on a mission to bring more science to our field. Together with Prof. Daniel Russo from the University of Aalborg, we analyzed thousands of Scrum teams to identify the core factors that drive their effectiveness. With these insights, we created the Scrum Team Survey to help teams diagnose their process and improve where it matters most. It’s easy to use and free for individual teams. Hundreds of teams use the Scrum Team Survey every day.

In this session, we explore key insights from our research. We also show how teams use the Scrum Team Survey to drive improvement across one or many teams.

Speaker: Wilbert Seele | Independent Consultant, PST, PKT & Keynote Speaker

Many in the Agile field tend to be adamant that Agile and long-term strategies, plans and roadmaps don’t work together. This can be very threatening to those people involved in setting and guarding the organizational strategies, as it can easily be perceived as chaos, and certainly not something shareholders are likely to tolerate for very long. This, obviously, results in a lot of pushback. Sometimes explicit, often implicit, and always harmful to the organization.

In this talk, we’ll explore why this conflict originates from flawed assumptions on both sides, and why Agility is often the most effective means of enacting Strategy, in terms of outcomes, costs and risk management.

Speaker: Glaudia Califano | Agile & Lean Practitioner –  PST – AKT

Do meetings sometimes feel like a waste of time? Do you find that the same issues come up time after time and nothing is ever done about them?

If so, you are not alone. Research shows that 50% of people find the meetings they attend unproductive.

In this talk we will be addressing how facilitating with purpose can help to make your meetings more effective.

Speaker: David Pereira | Product Management Coach, Content Creator, Speaker

I constantly observe teams struggling with gigantic product backlogs, user stories, estimations, the balance between discovery with delivery, and many other items. Most of the time, Scrum isn’t the problem, but our misconceptions get in the way. Yet, Scrum has become the scapegoat for many anti-patterns caused by us.

Over a decade, I learned what traps teams and what unlocks them. Scrum isn’t a trap but a way of empowering the team. I want to share with you why teams are trapped and how Scrum can help them escape from dreadful anti-patterns.

By the end of this talk, you will have a better idea of what blocks and what helps. You can expect to gain insights to apply immediately.

Speaker: Cesario Ramos  |  Consulting large scale agile adoptions worldwide. Certified LeSS Trainer & Professional Scrum Trainer. Author of the books Creating Agile Organizations, Emergent and A Scrum Book.

What is most important for management to understand about creating an Agile organization? 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?

Based on Cesario’s latest book: Creating Agile Organizations, in this session, we explore three critical Agile organization design guidelines that help during transformation initiatives.

Speaker: Michael Küsters| Coach, developer, change agent, author and blogger. Thought Provoker.

Are you fed up that “Agile” is often just a term for business as usual with Scrum, and that your “Inspect and Adapt” sessions don’t produce anything memorable? If that’s you – you’re not alone: Thousands of Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters worldwide feel with you.

Many “Agile Transformations” institute “Agile” as a new status quo that’s only superficially different from former ways of working, so I felt the need to provide a fundamentally different approach that doesn’t focus on process or practice, and instead addresses the problems that matter, without the need for carpet-bombing an entire development organization with trainings or cutting down existing social bonds in a big bang reorg.

The TOP Structure is an apparently small, incredibly powerful compilation of human-centric principles and patterns built on the first Agile Value, “People and Interactions over Processes and tools.” It respects that people are at the heart of everything we do in development. TOP provides an entirely different view on your team and company – and it asks the questions that should have been asked, but never were – and answers you were looking for, but never got. The TOP Structure invites you to make a maximum difference with minimum effort, so that your teams get beyond business as usual into hyper-performance.

TOP is both scale-free and framework neutral, and synergizes well with anything you are using today.

In our session, we will explore the high-level TOP principles that will expand your horizon on what makes your organization tick and how you can use these principles to make change that matters.

After the session, we will provide additional resources that let you kickstart change with the TOP Structure right away!

Speaker: Nigel Thurlow | Executive Coach, Co-Creator of The Flow System and Creator of Scrum The Toyota Way

Join Nigel Thurlow as he bust some Agile myths, takes on the pretenders to the throne and examines the modern format wars. Listen as he introduces you to some new thinking with assemblages theory. Learn why Ginger is the key to true Agile and why frameworks are nothing more than a tree. He’ll cover what Lean metrics really are, how scaling should work, take you into queuing theory, and then back to the Genba where the real improvements happen. Learn what a real value stream is and how to uncover the real costs of doing business.