Post on 05-Aug-2015
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Summary
International event
Agile Tour is the biggest international event revolving around Agile project management and Agile management (80 cities, 25 countries).
Agile Tour is managed by the NGO Agile World University.
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About Agile Management
It is the dominant project management approach in ICT (USA and Europe)
It focuses on team empowerment, increasing the value of products delivered to the customers, and the reduction of the time to market in order to increase the ROI.
Community event
This is a low-cost community event involving volunteers self organizing the conference in their cities. The NGO Agile Lebanon for instance is the organizer of the event in Lebanon. In order to achieve a successful event, any kind of support is welcome (time, funds, or services).
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About Agile Lebanon
Agile Lebanon strives to support the agile community in Lebanon and the Middle East where it exerts efforts to improve the efficiency and performance of the knowledge industry.
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AGILE TOUR BEIRUT 2014KEY FIGURES
135 Attendees+60 companies
14 workshops 4 tracks
16 Speakers
Low Fees Event
69$
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International Speakers 2014
USACo-developer of the Scrum process Founder of Scrum.orgKen Schwaber co-developed the Scrum process with Jeff Sutherland in the early 1990s to help organizations struggling with complex development projects. One of the signatories of the Agile Manifesto in 2001
Scrum.org
Ken Schwaber
Luxemb0urgSenior Agile Lean Coach Change ArchitectPierre has tested unconventional Scrum coaching approaches outside the IT industryHe has developed several Agile custom frameworks like [sKale] (HR) and PLöRK (Leadership through games).
We&Co
Pierre E Neis
TurkeyAgile Enthusiast, Author, EntrepreneurFeatured as one of the successful young rising stars in business by Fortune Turkey’s 40 Under 40 for 2012 & 2013. Mehmet is the author of the Best Seller ”Scrum Bir Dönüşüm Hikayesi”, a transformation tale of an IT organization.
ACM
Mehmet Yitmen
FranceSoftware FreethinkerComputer addict since 1980, Christophe has done it for living for 20 years. He started as a developer, and was also a consultant, a trainer, a project manager, and now an agile coach.
Zenika
Christophe Addinquy
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International Speakers 2014
EgyptAgile Trainer & ConsultantOver the last 5 years, Amr’s primary role was to spread agile awareness & lean thinking in software organizations in Egypt & the Middle East. Amr is a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Six Sigma black belt, certified for IT and Software Engineering.
l.Agile Academy
Amr Norman
FranceCoach Agile & Facilitator Simon likes to describe himself as a convinced and active “Agilist”. He started his first Agile experience with Scrum 5 years ago. He is a facilitator at a banking IS company and a coach for teams and projects willing to implement collaborative practices.
Orange Business Service
Simon Jaillais
EgyptAgile Trainer & ConsultantMohamed is an Agile coach, trainer and consultant who’s passionate about inspiring and enabling individuals and organizations to achieve sustainable agility. He combines around 10 years of experience in software engineering, process improvement and Agile
Agile Academy
Mohamed Amr
FranceCoach Agile & Facilitator Enzyme (as catalyst) Agile. Aurélien went through all stages of agility – Agile Developer and Scrum master for a few years & coach / facilitator today.His areas of expertise are facilitation, human interactions, agility & serious games.
Orange Business Service
Aurélien Morvant
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Lebanese Speakers 2014
Serial entrepreneur
Kimberly is a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in the Energy sector. She specialized in launching start-ups and integrating them into large multi-national companies such as ABB, Alstom, GE & Areva.
Kimberly Samaha
Agile Lean Management Catalyst Pierre is a consultant with an extensive experience of over 25 years in management and IT. In 2009 He started to promote management approaches based on the Agile Lean mindset. He is the founder of the NGO Agile Lebanon.
Upward Consulting
Pierre Hervouet
Design Management ConsultantJoumana Mattar Moukarzel is the Principal Prototyper at Mirada Madrid, where she is engaging SMEs and NGOs in participatory processes to empower them to implement design-led solutions within their companies.
Mirada Madrid
Joumana Mattar
Head of Department ISSEA-CNAM Lebanon:Founder and activist of Open Source Lebanese movement he is also the Head of Computer Science Department at ISSEA-CNAM Lebanon.
ISSEA-CNAM Liban
Pascal Fares
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Lebanese Speakers 2014
Agile Project Manager Jad has been heavily involved in applying core Agile acting as a SCRUM master since more than 3 years from now.His last experience was a doorway to the captivating Agile world. He has always been enthusiastic to know more & more. He is an Agile Certified Practitioner from PMI.
Murex
Jad Harb
Agile Scrum Consultant Joanna’s passion is always to support clients and she loves to consult companies and executives going through critical situations or looking for improvements. She helps companies use Scrum successfully to improve teams’ productivity, increase profit, and create value.
Scrum Arabia
Joanna khoury
Business DesignerAs a Business Designer, Lilian focuses on using design as a means to drive business innovation. Having Graphic Design as her background, she gained experience in various fields over the past years, especially in luxury fashion retail.
Lebanese Arab University
Lilian Abou Zeki
Opera Singer & TeacherBaritone Fady JEANBART was born into a family of music lovers. He studied and worked in Paris for over 11 years. Back to Lebanon in 2012, he quickly became a sought-after teacher and is currently a voice professor at NDU University and EDAGY.
NDU University & EDAGY
Fady Jeanbart
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Opening Session
Pecha Kucha: “My Agile House” by Pierre Hervouet
The attendees were first introduced to Agile & Scrum through two short presentations in Pecha Kucha format (20 slides – each slide for 20 seconds). The two presentations were followed by another vibrant presentation by Kimberly Sahama revolving around the importance of face-to-face communication. Based on her research, Kimberly presented the elements that work well virtually, versus actions that absolutely need face-to-face contact.
Pecha Kucha: “Scrum” by Joanna Khoury
Lecture: “The best way to convey information” by Kimberly Samaha
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA
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Ice Breaker Because an Agile conference is about networking and fun, The conference was launched by a giant ice-breaker where the attendees has to team up based on the coaster (with the SHU – HA – RI symbols) they have received & agreed on a word than is representing agile for them, write it on their Stattys (type of Post It) , and finally put it on the door of the amphitheater.
Note: SHU stands for follow the rule, HA breaks the rules and RI be the rulesStattys are small piece of paper done in recyclable material that attaches naturally to almost any surface without glue. It can be removed and reused multiple times.
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA
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Buy a game – Let’s play seriously! Come and play as much as possible! Your
participation will impact the choice of the game to be played… you will have to “buy” them with other participants. In this session, everything will be organized with innovative and serious games! Games are increasingly valuable to help teams, to train them and to think out of the box.Benefits for attendees
Learn new games to improve communication, team building, and workshop facilitation. Participants will leave the session with a list of games and associated rules.
Aurélien Morvant & Simon Jaillais – France
30 Max
90mn
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA
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SnowflakesLean Startup simulation This session will introduce you to Lean startup
ideas using a simulation game of making and selling snowflakes. Participants will have to discover how the make a snowflake and unlock what customers like and dislike.
Benefits for attendees
Introduction of the concept of Lean Startup and innovation accounting (Source Eric Reis book lean startup)
Amr Noaman & Mohamed Amr – Egypt
30 Max
90mn
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA
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Take the Win Win Wave It is a serious game made to discover what needs
to be improved, what needs to be highlighted.
Benefits for attendees
Introduction of the concept of value stream mapping, and on its usage
Pierre Neis – Luxembourg
30 Max
90mn
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA
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Agility for Customer Delight Agility or being Agile is not just about being more
efficient, being more productive, being faster, being more qualified and etc. Yes, we may need these cool stuff in order to succeed but anyway, Agility or being Agile should be understood as a tool for enhancing customer experience. At the end, if you cannot satisfy your customer needs, it is no matter how efficient you are working in your office. So, the focus must be the customer first. Unfortunately, it is easy to forget about your customers and instead, focus on yourself and your processes. That's how some of the Agile transformations have failed.
Benefits for attendees
Discover how Agile mindset that focuses on customer satisfaction contribute to the success in your industry no matter what it is.
Mehmet Yitmen – Turkey
60+ 45mn
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA
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Shu Ha Ri ScrumStarting agility is not « doing agile », it’s being agile, it’s becoming agile. It’s not a destination, it’s a journey. Scrum is great, because it’s able to help you through the three main steps of this journey : the Shu, the Ha and the Ri.Shu is apprenticeship level : it’s about following Scrum right !Ha is about improvement : You adapt the practicesRi means being at the master level. This is the place to innovate and create your own way to be agile, based on agile values.
We will start the journey together and rediscover Scrum along the way, under a different perspective at each step.
Benefits for attendees
For the beginner:Handle correctly the agile mindsetUnderstand the progression / improvement of the agile process with ScrumGet a perspective on the axes of improvementsFor the seasoned agilist :Strengthen the fundamentalsGet some elements to evaluate the maturity levelReflections on the next step.
Christophe Addinquy – France
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA
60+ 45mn
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OpenAgile: Is Free And Open Source community Agile?
From Values to principles : Ideas about Agile teams and Open Source Communities business and management model.After a brief reminder of Agile and open source values. You will see a return of experience of managing open source communities (Aimed to produce) by adapting a scrumban process to the community.The challenge is to find a king of “OpenAgile” business and production model that make the “Free” (Freedom for customers), Open and agile to make a better added value projects.Benefits for attendees
See the common ground between agile & open source, and the challenge of applying agile in a open source communities
Pascal Fares – Lebanon
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA
60+ 60mn
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Agile Animal FarmThis original creation for Agile Beirut. This serious games use the metaphor of animals to explain and light up behavior and organizational dysfunctions. It will be a lot of fun, all together to make Agile Animal Farm into life.
Benefits for attendees
Pierre Neis – Luxembourg
30 Max
60mn
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA
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I want everything now! How overcome the prioritization challenge. Based on real examples we are going to introduce
& play to the innovation game®And see how they can be used to achieve the prioritization challenges that we are facing at different level of the project (portfolio, features, and tasks)
Benefits for attendees
Get tools, and insights about way to prioritize by using the collective intelligence
Pierre Hervouet – Lebanon
30 Max
60mn
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA
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Improve your public Speaker During this workshop, you will become aware of
the impact of your breath and movement on your public speaking capabilities, through a set of fun and unexpected exercises.
Fady Jeanbart – Lebanon
40 Max
60mn
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA
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Carpaccio GameDuring this workshop, Attendees train theirselves to split features to the extreme with a hard constraint on realization duration. Because, we will not only talk and imagine slicing, we will also argue about it and put it in practice through a programming episode led into very small slices.
Benefits for attendees
• How to slice large applications into 1-day to 1-week requests, from the business perspective• How to slice application requests into 15-30 minute work slices, from both the business and programming perspective• What Carpaccio is (have you already learned that while browsing this page?)
Christophe Addinquy – France
30 Max
90mn
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA
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The facilitator toolboxPlease come and experience in this session, through various forms of workshops, practices and tools for use by any facilitators. ScrumMasters, facilitators or agile coaches can use such tools in many collaborative situations to be developed.Benefits for attendees
Getting to know new practices and changing attitudes. Discussing and sharing views on this valuable position in today’s companies.
Aurélien Morvant & Simon Jaillais – France
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA
60+ 45mn
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Walk the Talk
Want to come up with innovative products? Know who you are developing for? Eager to exceed user expectations?
In this hands-on workshop, participants learn to work with constraints and different users. The focus of the exercise is to identify the different needs of the user groups and develop product solutions that are acceptable to them while brainstorming in a new collaborative way.
Benefits for attendees
How to interpret a brief from different user perspectives, new ways to brainstorm and collect insights.
Joumana Mattar & Lilian Abou Zeki – Lebanon
30 Max
90mn
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA
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Delegation Poker
Let’s play to with delegation poker cards, you will discover that:
Delegation is not a binary thing. There are plenty of “shades of grey” between being a dictator and being an anarchist.
Delegation is a step-by-step process. You hand over accountability to other people, in a controlled and gradual way.
Delegation is context-dependent. You want to delegate as much as possible; but if you go too far, chaos might unfold.
The seven Levels of Authority
This game has been created by Jürgen Appelo and is part of his book Management 3.0
Jad Harb – Lebanon
30 Max
90mn
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA
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How to fail with Agile
Are you failing with Agile? What exactly are you doing that failed? Was it set up to fail? Did others (who tried what you have failed to do) also fail? Are there any fundamental reasons behind such bad experiences while adopting Agile? All these are valid questions that every organization should answer before it funds the next Agile adoption/transformation initiative.
Amr Noaman & Mohamed Amr – Egypt
Benefits for attendees
Learn about the most important challenges that the teams and organizations face while transforming their way of work towards Agile.Discover some of the most famous reasons behind failure, and some other critical success factors.
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA
60+ 45mn
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Closing Session:Definition Of Done Ken Schwaber co-developed the Scrum made an
interactive video conference about the Definition of Done (DoD).
As Scrum Teams work together using the Scrum framework to develop a product, it is important for stakeholders and Scrum Teams to understand when a product Increment can be called "Done." This means that before a piece of functionality is in a potentially releasable state, it must adhere to a common understanding of completion by those working on the Increment
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA
Ken Schwaber– USA
30mn
Benefits for attendees
Importance of Having a clear Definition of Done that helps Scrum Teams work together more collaboratively, increases transparency, and ultimately results in the development of consistently higher quality software. critical success factors.
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Breaks The Agile conference is also about sharing ideas and knowledge in an informal way. Therefore, the attendees got advantage of the sunny weather to have a break in the garden and gather for a lunch on the nice sea-view terrace.
Agile Tour Beirut 2014 - ESA