The Lean Inception developed by Paulo Caroli who already helped a lot of people and companies to give life to their projects. It’s the complete step-by-step guide to you and your team achieve best product development possible right now. Lean inception is the effective combination of Design Thinking and Lean StartUp to decide the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). It is a collaborative workshop that will help a group of people — typically an agile team, a squad, or a product team — understand, align and plan the building of the lean product. The construction of a successful product starts with a Lean Inception. Since 2019 Agnieszka was trying this method at few projects in Aptiv, in 2020 Agnieszka and Klaudia sterted cooperation, an idea of new product was defined – it was the right moment to start Lean Inception with new team, stakeholders to build the vision of right product. That is what we did. Now we want to share with you our journey with Lean inception.

One achievement after another, step by step – how a platform team transformed from a bottleneck to… well, maybe not a highway yet, but we’re getting there.

The majority of organizations want to be Agile and act in an Agile manner. Yet, they are not aware of what it means or why they are moving towards the agile way of managing an organization. Agile Transformation is not the goal, but as a means to an end to become a learning, empirical organization. The process often requires changes, including in the mindset and strategy and organizational structure, and more. This lightning talk’s objective is to share my experience from Agility adoption in at least 30 organizations in the last few years and cooperation with top and middle management. To inspire and make awareness of what the process actually means. Implementing Agile frameworks on the teams’ level is not enough. We strive for learning, an empirical transformation process with visible results.

Working with Agile coaches can be awful! While we coach teams and leaders, we aren’t perfect people. Like any person, we Agile coaches also have our trials and tribulations, eccentric characters and chaos. Join us as we explore what it is that makes us tick and how we Agile coaches can work together. As coaches we are often looked up to as role models of what a zen or high performing team should look like – but is this really the case? Do we live the agile values that we preach, are we the best collaborators? Coaching isn’t for the faint-hearted, yet the empathy that we give others seems lost with other coaches. How do we leverage what we have as coaches, bringing in our skills, complementing each other to create an awesome coaching team.

A real life example of an agile transformation.Three years in the history of the department that changed a lot, shown in a systemic perspective. An experience worth sharing, even though it does not provide ready-made solutions

Despite saying we were ‘Agile’ and practiced ‘Scrum’, we followed Scrum in process only and viewed Agile as something you could simply do. In this session I’ll share an experiment we trialled on one team to demonstrate the value of the Scrum Roles and to start to shift the dial further from ‘doing Agile’ to ‘being Agile’ and kick start our second agile transformation. How did this experiment come about? What specific hypotheses did we set out to test? Where did we start? What did we do? What did we achieve? What happened afterwards? Come along to find out!

Working in Scrum/Agile is like baking a cake. Scrum Guide is like a receipt, people are ingredients, workplace culture is kitchen. What to do when not all indegiendies are matching recipe? Product Owner is not of “scrum” type PO? Kitching has a huge waterfall in the middle instead of a simple sink? Throw away all not matching puzzle pieces or should we mess-up the recipe and directly GO TO to scrum hell? ” Sit down comfortably and listen our story about the Scrum Master who wanted to follow the Scrum Guide as much as possible and Manager who wanted to achieve the goal. We met halfway.

Why investing and building the Agile Coaching capabilities in your organization is a much better approach then looking for large external support. We will discuss what it takes to build internal Agile Coach centers of excellence from selection of the right people, to training them, and finally empowering them in the organization. What are the key learnings from three completely different Agile transformations in Europe. Please come with your question and let’s have a discussion.

It has been 20 years since the Agile manifesto was introduced. Our software development industry has been changing so fast since 2001. Nowadays it has changed even more impacted by a pandemic world. In my talk I would like to reflect on how the Agile approach has evolved over these years. I will share with you the experience I gained while transforming IT organisations towards Agile. Together we are going to discover the future of Agile movement especially in the context of the post-pandemic world.

“Have you ever been alone at night? Thought you heard footsteps behind. And turned around and no one’s there?”. Join me in a journey through mindset transformation that I have experienced over past years as a Product Owner. It is commonly said to learn from your own mistakes. Why don’t you learn from somebody else’s mistakes or pitfalls? Answers will not be provided. Ideas, items, thoughts to think about will.

The Lean Inception developed by Paulo Caroli who already helped a lot of people and companies to give life to their projects. It’s the complete step-by-step guide to you and your team achieve best product development possible right now. Lean inception is the effective combination of Design Thinking and Lean StartUp to decide the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). It is a collaborative workshop that will help a group of people — typically an agile team, a squad, or a product team — understand, align and plan the building of the lean product. The construction of a successful product starts with a Lean Inception. Since 2019 Agnieszka was trying this method at few projects in Aptiv, in 2020 Agnieszka and Klaudia sterted cooperation, an idea of new product was defined – it was the right moment to start Lean Inception with new team, stakeholders to build the vision of right product. That is what we did. Now we want to share with you our journey with Lean inception.

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”, said Peter Drucker. Why? Because the organizational culture, a concept studied and elaborated, among others by Edgar Schein and (independently) Geert Hofstede, is the operational materialization of the organization’s values. It is the soul and heart of the organization. I will share my experience on building a high performing engineering culture in organizations that is a key to keep people engaged.

Human beings suck at committing anything. That is – committing part is easy, fulfilling the promises – not any more. Anger, frustration, disappointment – sounds familiar? In this lecture you will hear about: – traditional commitments and complex systems friction – extreme approaches to commitments – binary VS probabilistic commitments – Cyberpunk 2077 – Practices and tools for making your commitments smarter All based on my personal experience from large scale organizations. I see you there!

Agile organizations strive to continuously improve. Not just scrum teams, but their leadership, stakeholders and more. How do we improve scrum teams? Through retrospectives. How do we improve organizations as a whole? Well… the same way? If you have already tried large scale retrospectives, you probably know how challenging they are. In this presentation I will share my experience on setting up large scale retrospectives, including: retrospective design, process flow, facilitation techniques, tips and tricks and more!

Working with Agile coaches can be awful! While we coach teams and leaders, we aren’t perfect people. Like any person, we Agile coaches also have our trials and tribulations, eccentric characters and chaos. Join us as we explore what it is that makes us tick and how we Agile coaches can work together. As coaches we are often looked up to as role models of what a zen or high performing team should look like – but is this really the case? Do we live the agile values that we preach, are we the best collaborators? Coaching isn’t for the faint-hearted, yet the empathy that we give others seems lost with other coaches. How do we leverage what we have as coaches, bringing in our skills, complementing each other to create an awesome coaching team.

Working in Scrum/Agile is like baking a cake. Scrum Guide is like a receipt, people are ingredients, workplace culture is kitchen. What to do when not all indegiendies are matching recipe? Product Owner is not of “scrum” type PO? Kitching has a huge waterfall in the middle instead of a simple sink? Throw away all not matching puzzle pieces or should we mess-up the recipe and directly GO TO to scrum hell? ” Sit down comfortably and listen our story about the Scrum Master who wanted to follow the Scrum Guide as much as possible and Manager who wanted to achieve the goal. We met halfway.

Working with agility since 2014 as a Software Engineer, Scrum Master and Agile Coach. I graduated as MSc in Mechatronics and Project Management. Started my career as Design Engineer for the company offering automotive research and providing new technologies based on the outcomes. Quickly moved to the software world, and since then I was lucky to work with people who inspired my development, like Product Owners acting as sponsors, Agile Coaches with different backgrounds and managers at various levels of the organizations. I am fascinated with Product Management and focusing on the outcomes of everything we are doing.