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Global Scrum Gathering® Prague 2015 SESSION DESCRIPTION

TABLE OF CONTENTS SESSION TIMETABLE

Monday, November 16th – AM Sessions

WELCOME & OPENING KEYNOTE – 9:00 – 10:30

Welcome Remarks

Mark Layton & Zuzi Sochova

Opening Keynote

Organizing for Complexity Niels Pflaeging

ROOM

Congress I, II, III

AM BREAK – 10:30 – 10:45

45 MINUTE SESSIONS – 10:45 – 11:30

SESSION & SPEAKER TRACK ROOM

User Stories are Fun! Capture the Magic with Story Cubes® & Innovation Games®

Carlton Nettleton

Touch [Beginner]

Vienna/Madrid/Roma

Bust the Sprint Busters With Kanban Laurence Hewitt

Touch [Advanced]

Congress I

Agile Compensation David Baer

Visual [Advanced]

Congress III

Proving Value with Agile Performance Improvement Bob Winter

Visual [Advanced]

Athens/Barcelona

From Non-Violent Communication to Potential-Focused Communication

Ralph Miarka

Auditory [Advanced]

Berlin/Brussels

The Power of Feedback Loops Luca Mezzalira

Auditory [Beginner]

Palmovka/Rokoska

Agile and Automated Testing in Scrum Implementations Helmut Steineder

Touch [Advanced]

Hercovka/Tyrolka

Transition – 11:30 – 11:45



Freedom from Broken Values Dejan Pažin

Touch [Beginner]

Vienna/Madrid/Roma

Looking Beyond Agile - Using Customer Experience Management (CEM) to Build the

"Right" Product Biase De Gregorio

Touch [Advanced]

Congress I

Housebuilding with Scrum Wolfgang Richter, Elisabeth Richter

Visual [Advanced]

Congress III

Information Radiators On A Portfolio Level Joanne Perold, Niels Verdonk

Visual [Beginner]

Athens/Barcelona

User Story Refactoring Kasia Mrowca

Auditory [Advanced]

Berlin/Brussels

Neuro-diverse Workspaces: One Size Doesn't Fit All

Sallyann Freudenberg

Auditory [Advanced]

Palmovka/Rokoska

User Story Smells and Anti-Patterns - The Art of Storytelling

Fadi Stephan

Touch [Beginner] Hercovka/Tyrolka

Monday, November 16th – PM Sessions

LUNCH – 12:30 – 13:30



From ScrumMaster to Agile Coach - Where is the Map?

Samantha Laing, Karen Greaves Touch

[Advanced] Vienna/Madrid/Roma

Principles to Practices for Building Your Scrum Mastery

Rowan Bunning

Touch [Beginner]

Congress I

Automated Testing in Agile Development Jonas Allared, Petter Osterling

Visual [Beginner]

Congress III

Bootstrap your Business Model: Business Agility on the Back of a Napkin

Bernie Maloney

Visual [Advanced]

Athens/Barcelona

Facilitation Dojo Andreas Schliep, Peter Beck

Auditory [Advanced]

Berlin/Brussels

Empower Teams to Own Their Improvement Culture

Niels Verdonk, Joanne Perold

Auditory [Advanced]

Palmovka/Rokoska

Continuous Improvement in Your DNA Els Verkaik, Jasper Lamers

Auditory [Advanced]

Hercovka/Tyrolka

Monday, November 16th – PM Sessions (continued)

PM BREAK – 15:00 – 15:30



Product Owner Value Game Dajo Breddels

Touch [Advanced]

Vienna/Madrid/Roma

Estimating Business Value Laura M. Powers

Touch [Beginner]

Congress I

Make Your Visuals Rock! Jef Cumps, Kris Philippaerts

Visual [Beginner]

Congress III

Lean Products and the Validation Board Rodrigo De Toledo, Marcos Garrido

Visual [Advanced]

Athens/Barcelona

Introduction to Coaching Skills for SMs and Leaders Gary Bamberger

Auditory [Advanced]

Berlin/Brussels

Beyond Managing Emotions in Teams David Papini

Auditory [Advanced]

Palmovka/Rokoska

Picturing a Problem Shaun Smith, David Putman

Visual [Beginner]

Hercovka/Tyrolka

Tuesday, November 17th– AM Sessions

KEYNOTE – 9:00 – 10:15

Tuesday Keynote

Value

Andrea Provaglio

ROOM

Congress I, II, III

AM BREAK – 10:15 – 10:30

PECHAKUCHA – 10:30 – 11:15


Now Hiring - Scrum Master Wanted Simone Zecchi

Touch [Beginner]

Congress I, II, III

Avoid Losing Implementation Momentum Ofer Cohen

Touch [Advanced]

Congress I, II, III

The Economics of Continuous Integration Adrian Perreau De Pinninck

Touch [Beginner]

Congress I, II, III

A New Visual Paradigm for Uncertainty in Agile Projects

Han Van Loon

Visual [Advanced]

Congress I, II, III

Product Owner Must BE's Anu Smalley

Auditory [Beginner]

Congress I, II, III

Transition – 11:15 – 11:30



Invite Your Tester to the Party Allen Rennebo Jepsen

Touch [Beginner]

Vienna/Madrid/Roma

More with LeSS: Introduction to Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)

Bas Vodde

Touch [Advanced]

Congress I

Silicon Gym - Workouts for Agile Microchips John Barry

Visual [Advanced]

Congress III

To Pay or Not to Pay: Agile and Technical Debt Taghi Paksima

Visual [Beginner]

Athens/Barcelona

Bottom Up Scrum Requires Top Down Will Frank Eberhard, Stefan Waschk

Auditory [Advanced]

Berlin/Brussels

Sabotaging Agility Fred Williams

Auditory [Beginner]

Palmovka/Rokoska

Don’t Refactor. Rebuild. Kinda. Wouter Legerweij

Touch [Advanced] Hercovka/Tyrolka

Tuesday November 17th – PM Sessions

LUNCH – 12:15 – 13:15


Session & Speaker Track Room

Scrum Economics 101: Contracts, Budgets, Capitalization

Pavel Dabrytski

Touch [Beginner]

Vienna/Madrid/Roma

Being Scrum at Heart to Adopt Lean Theofanis Giotis

Touch [Advanced]

Congress I

Adaptive Organizations - Balancing The Known and The Unknown

Mike Leber

Visual [Advanced]

Congress III

Scrum At Home Klaus Bucka-Lassen

Visual [Beginner]

Athens/Barcelona

Managing Software Development in the Age of Agile

Karen Greaves, Samantha Laing

Auditory [Beginner]

Berlin/Brussels

Moving In Harmony: The Psychology Behind Change

Henrik Zätterman

Auditory [Advanced]

Palmovka/Rokoska

Scaling Scrum by LeSS and SAFe Ari Tikka

Touch [Advanced]

Hercovka/Tyrolka

Transition – 14:00 – 14:15



Where Do You Want To Get To? A Goal-Based Approach to Adopting Scrum

Jim York

Touch [Advanced]

Vienna/Madrid/Roma

Fearless Journey Martin Heider

Touch [Advanced]

Congress I

The Legal Side of Scrum Jürgen Hoffman, Torsten Culmsee

Visual [Beginner]

Congress III

Inspect and Adapt: Measuring Kaizen Sacha Storz

Visual [Beginner]

Athens/Barcelona

When Your Agile Transformation Team *Is* The Primary Barrier To Your Agile Transformation

Daniel Gullo

Auditory [Advanced]

Berlin/Brussels

Bring Down the Wall of Confusion with Chocolate, LEGO and Scrum Simulation Game

Dana Pylayeva

Auditory [Beginner]

Palmovka/Rokoska

Exploit Core Scrum Practices at the Program Level Jeff Lopez-Stuit

Visual [Advanced]

Hercovka/Tyrolka

Tuesday, November 17th – PM Sessions (continued)

PM BREAK – 15:45 – 16:15

Lightning Talks – 16:15 – 17:00

Lightning Talks Room

Congress I, II, III

Wednesday, November 18th

Opening The Space – 9:00 – 9:45

Open Space

Martin Alaimo and Olaf Lewitz Congress I, II, III

AM Break – 9:45 – 10:00

Open Space 10:00 – 10:45 All Session Rooms

Transition – 10:45 – 11:00


Lunch – 11:45 – 12:45


Transition – 14:15 – 14:30


PM Break – 15:15 – 15:45

Closing Keynote

Holocracy: A Radical New Approach to Management

Brian Robertson

ROOM

Congress I, II, III

Opening Keynote

Niels Pflaeging – “Organize for Complexity”

When: Monday November 16th - 9:00-10:30

Where: Congress I, II, III

How our organizations will become agile, radically decentralized, and networked. Sooner than we think

Niels Pflaeging - influencer, author, advisor on leadership transformation, management exorcist

Business, markets and societies have changed, but the principles, methods and concepts of organizational

leadership and haven’t, by and large. Rigid and erratic performance management processes like planning,

budgeting, project management, fixed-target setting, individual employee appraisal, and so-called “pay for

performance”-pay, combined with autocratic decision-making, org charts and micro-management from the top

– these techniques from the industrial age are still widely established standards. But are they still adequate?

And if not, how can we adapt our organizational models to the ever-changing environments of the information

age and do things better?

In this session, you will learn how any organization, by moving beyond command and control, and by

abolishing the entire mindset of management, of functional organization, planning and bureaucratic hierarchy,

can become sustainably more successful and profitable. Niels shows how the transformation towards an

organization model for the complexity of the knowledge economy really works and how people, teams and

organizations can be unleashed from the burdens of bureaucracy - freed from management by command and

control.

Niels Pflaeging is a passionate advocate for a “new breed“ of leadership and profound change in organizations.

He is founder and associate of the BetaCodex Network, and president of his own consulting firm based in

Barcelona/Spain and Wiesbaden/Germany. Prior to the BetaCodex Network, Niels was for five years a director

with the prestigious Beyond Budgeting Round Table. Niels´ second book, Leading with flexible Targets.

Beyond Budgeting in Practice was awarded the Financial Times Germany Best Business Book award, in 2006.

Both this book and his latest one entitled, Organize for Complexity: How to Get Life Back Into Work to Build

the High-Performance Organization were lauded by critics and readers and became bestsellers. Since 2006,

Niels has been strongly involved in transformational change projects for firms both in Europe and the

Americas. Niels has more than 10 years of consulting experience with companies large and small, and

frequently teaches at several academic institutions in Europe.

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Tuesday Keynote

Andrea Provaglio – “Value”

When: Tuesday, November 16th - 9:00-10:30


In Agile we like to deliver valuable software to our customers on a regular basis. However, while it’s pretty clear what “software” means, we cannot really say the same about “valuable”. The definition of Value in a project (with an uppercase “V”) is frequently fuzzy and confused.

Even within the same project, asking different stakeholders what Value means to them produces different answers; and the same stakeholder will likely provide different definitions of Value, depending on their perception and role in the project.

Most stakeholders will naturally associate Value to money, sometimes through surprisingly creative correlations; but there are other dimensions, equally valid, such as strategic positioning, company image, innovation and learning, and so forth.

Understanding the multidimensional nature of Value becomes therefore critical to drive the project to success.

In this talk we’ll address what Value means in Agile for different stakeholders; how to map and categorize the stakeholders; how to describe Value on different dimension and how to track it. We’ll also see what happens when we don’t do that. Also, assuming different stakeholders on the same project have different and multifaceted perceptions of Value, how can we coordinate the production effort in a balanced way? Which kind of corporate culture and corporate values (plural) support that?

As an independent consultant, Andrea helps knowledge-based organizations to implement better ways of doing business; and he coaches teams and individuals who want to improve technically, relationally and culturally. His main contribution is in assisting executives, leaders and managers who appreciate the business advantage of effective knowledge work, helping them evolve their companies into healthier organizational and cultural models (which includes, but it's not limited to, adopting Agile and Lean). In over two decades of professional experience, Andrea had clients in three different continents and worked with a wide range of companies and organizations, both in the private and in the public sector, ranging from the United Nations’ FAO and large multinational corporations, to small and dynamic IT companies. As part of his activities, Andrea enjoys sharing what he knows at major European and international conferences, where he’s a regular speaker. Currently Andrea works in Europe. He also worked in the USA as an independent contractor for four years, on a O-1 visa for "extraordinary abilities in Sciences".

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Closing Keynote:

Brian Robertson – “Holocracy: A Radical New Approach to Management”

When: Wednesday November 18th – 15:45 – 17:00


Organizations are the most powerful force on the planet, and the management hierarchy has been the

dominant mode of organizing them for the past century. But this "social technology" wasn't designed for the

fast-paced, interconnected world we live in today, and when would-be leaders are stifled by an obsolete

bureaucracy, everyone suffers.

Holacracy is an alternative - a complete, scalable system for structuring a company without a traditional

management hierarchy, yet with more clarity, accountability, & agility. Holacracy's governance process allows

a company to continually evolve its structure and rules, in response to an ever-changing world and the wisdom

of its workforce. And Holacracy's distributed structure empowers everyone to be a leader of some part of the

company, with clear autonomy yet clear responsibilities.

Hundreds of companies around the world have now adopted Holacracy; come learn why and experience a

radical new way to structure an agile, purpose-driven company.

Brian Robertson is a seasoned entrepreneur and organization builder, and a recovering CEO -- a job he now

helps free others from with Holacracy. Generally regarded as the primary developer of the system, Brian's

work allows leaders to release the reins of personal power and persuasion into a trustworthy and explicit

governance process. Brian also serves as the drafter and steward of the Holacracy Constitution, which

captures the system's unique "rules of the game" in concrete form. Beyond joyfully crafting legal documents,

Brian's creative expression takes many forms - he co-founded HolacracyOne to support Holacracy's growth,

and he fills and loves a broad variety of the company's roles. He's particularly grateful to hold no fancy titles

and wield no special powers, so he can show up as just another partner doing his part to support something

he cares about.

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Monday, November 16th – AM Sessions – 45 MINUTE SESSIONS - 10:45 – 11:30

User Stories are Fun! Capture the Magic with Story Cubes® & Innovation Games®

Carlton Nettleton

Track: Touch [Beginner]

Room: Vienna, Madrid, Roma

Type: Talk

Summary: Need something better than 'As a USER, I want…'? Learn how to tell

engaging stories. Do something fun. Write killer stories now!

Learning Objectives:

Identify five characteristics that make up a good user story.

Name four templates for writing a user story.

Use the Innovation Game® “Start Your Day” to find hidden requirements

by varying user story context.

Use Story Cubes® to facilitate deeper customer understanding.

Have fun and do something interactive.

Bust the Sprint Busters With Kanban

Laurence Hewitt Track: Touch [Advanced]

Room: Congress I

Type: Talk

Summary: If support issues and changing priorities are killing your sprint

commitments, learn how Kanban can help.


How to identify the type of work that distracts software developers from

their committed stories that may be better handled by a Kanban

framework, i.e.; support, maintenance.

Why Kanban can better handle a more dynamic environment.

How to implement a Kanban framework, in parallel to their software

development Scrum framework.

Agile Compensation

David Baer

Track: Visual [Advanced]

Room: Congress III

Type: Talk

Summary: Imagine a compensation scheme with calculated and transparent salaries and teams that distribute bonus within themselves.


Prove to the audience (by example) that different compensation models

are possible.

Show how important salaries are to culture and how it shapes the culture

of a company.

There is no easy way to implement this in another context. Therefore I

want to help by giving other examples and embedding the topic with

relevant literature to give the attendees the capability to come up with

their own unique solution for a more agile compensation scheme.

Proving Value with Agile Performance Improvement

Bob Winter Track: Visual [Advanced]

Room: Athens/Barcelona

Type: Talk

Summary: Learn techniques for monetizing the value of delivered stories and quantifying your team’s continuous improvement


After attending this session, participants should be able to: Accurately diagnose performance gaps using Gilbert’s Behavior Engineering Model, quantify team

efficacy using the success metrics of Agile Performance Improvement, and monetize the output of the development team using the Taxonomy for Proving

Value.

From Non-Violent Communication to Potential-Focused Communication

Ralph Miarka

Track: Auditory [ Advanced]

Room: Berlin/Brussels

Type: Talk

Summary: You know and like the four steps of non-violent communication? Even

if not, you will love and value the solution-focused twist to it.


Participants will know the basics about the four steps of resource-focused

communication

Participants will experience this resource-focused technique

Participants should be able to use it in their environment

The Power of Feedback Loops

Luca Mezzalira

Track: Auditory [Beginner]

Room: Palmovka/Rokoska

Type: Talk

Summary: As you know creating software is an empirical process during this

session we'll understand the power of feedback loops and how to use them.


Recognize the feedback loops inside Scrum framework

implement methodologies to retrieve metrics

Analyze metrics in order to improve your projects

Agile and Automated Testing in Scrum Implementations

Helmut Steineder

Track: Touch [Advanced]

Room: Hercovka/ Tyrolka

Type: Talk

Summary: This talk provides an overview about changes from traditional to agile

testing and challenges and solutions for automating testing.


The audience will understand the paradigm change behind agile testing and

required skills for agile testers. Certain examples from implementations in our

company and in client projects will be shown.

For automated testing the differentiation between valuable and potentially too

much automation will be shown. In addition the switch from the 2nd wave of IT in

the 80ies and 90ies and the 3rd wave of IT in the last 15 years will be explained.

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Monday, November 16th – AM Sessions – 45 MINUTE SESSIONS – 11:45 – 12:30

Freedom from Broken Values

Dejan Pažin


Room: Vienne, Madrid, Roma

Type: Talk

Summary: Learn to spot core agile values being broken. Get a chance to test your

abilities during the presentation and take active part at it.


Learn to spot core agile values being broken before the damage is done.

Core agile values discussed are: Respect

Commitment

Trust

Transparency

Courage

Best practices learned are:

Do not rush the adoption of Scrum

Make sure everyone involved have the knowledge they need to

understand the whole process Take steps in the adoption of Scrum that are small enough to keep them

under control

Make room for exceptions in your sprints

Be proactive and take charge

Looking Beyond Agile - Using Customer Experience Management (CEM) to Build the "Right" Product

Biase De Gregorio Track: Touch [Advanced]

Room: Congress I

Type: Talk

Summary: Looking beyond Agile - Using Customer Experience Management (CEM) and Agile to build the right product with high value, fast


To emphasise the common challenges with regards to deriving customer

value To obtain an overview of ensuring that we are building the

“right product”, correctly as fast as possible to obtain early

customer feedback

To obtain an understanding of Customer Experience Management (CEM)

To obtain knowledge of techniques used within CEM to assist in creating a

product vision that will translate to a product backlog that meets customer

needs including role of the PO

User Story Refactoring

Kasia Mrowca Track: Auditory [Advanced]


Type: Talk

Summary: Backlog filled up for 2 next years with a meaningless User Stories?

There is a cure for that! Join my talk to find out more!

Learning Objective:

What you'll learn: 1. Step one: size. What to do if backlog is too big? (And so there

is too many user stories to refactor). 2. Step two: size^2: What to do with 'fat'

user stories? 3. Step three: content. Delete or not delete, it's a question! 4. Step

four: identify value <-> feature relation. 5. Step five: write it down!

Housebuilding with Scrum

Wolfgang Richter, Elisabeth Richter Track: Visual [Advanced]

Room: Congress III

Type: Talk

Summary: In 2013 my family and I was challenged with a jumpstart to expand our

house. This is about how we used Scrum to do it.


This is mainly a case-study about agility in a non-IT environment. For the audience

the main aspect will most likely be, that agility and Scrum is applicable in other

environments than IT, too, but there are certain adaptions necessary and certain

limitations. Especially if it comes down to tools, which Scrum does not cover other

than talking about artifacts, their selection requires more attention.

Information Radiators On A Portfolio Level

Joanne Perold, Niels Verdonk Track: Visual [Beginner]


Type: Talk

Summary: Capacity planning is efficient and not effective. This talk focuses on

techniques for visibility and effectiveness, making decisions on value


Participants will: Gain understanding of the problem of capacity planning over value

planning.

Learn about methods for visibility and creating information radiators at a

portfolio level. Practices and tools to expose less valuable items in a portfolio

Tools to help quickly get enough information about value and how to

identify high value work.

practical examples of how we have seen this work

Neuro-diverse Workspaces: One Size Doesn't Fit All

Sallyann Freudenberg Track: Auditory [Advanced]


Type: Talk

Summary: Software development needs neuro-diversity. Understand how we can

adjust our practices and workspaces for different kinds of minds.


Understand basic concepts in the psychology of programming: Chunking, Beacons,

Schema and the software development process. Marvel at the rich mental imagery programmers and software designers describe. Understand the basic stages in the

creative process and how to help it. Look at some disorders prevalent in I.T. and understand what challenges they hold. Consider how our practices and workplaces

help and hinder. Come away with some ideas of how to change your working

environment.

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Monday, November 16th – PM Sessions – 90 MINUTE SESSIONS - 13:30 – 15:00 From ScrumMaster to Agile Coach - Where is the Map?

Samantha Laing, Karen Greaves



Type: Workshop

Summary: What do you need to know as a ScrumMaster and how do you progress

to being an agile coach? Together we will create a learning map!


Understanding and appreciating how much is out there to learn

Creating a map of learning artifacts that can be used to structure your

career path

Understanding what a ScrumMaster should know

Understanding what an Agile Coach needs to know

User Story Smells and Anti-Patterns - The Art of Storytelling

Fadi Stephan Track: Touch [Beginner]

Room: Hercovka/Tyrolka

Type: Talk

Summary: A looks at common anti-patterns and mistakes that teams unknowingly

employ when writing user stories


Spotting user story smells and anti-patterns

Understanding that not everything is a user story

Properly sizing user stories

Understanding when and how to split user stories

Importance of Definition of Ready

Progressive Story elaboration

Principles to Practices for Building Your Scrum Mastery

Rowan Bunning


Room: Congress I

Type: Workshop

Summary: Take a real-world problem, find Scrum, Agile or Lean principles to guide

you to identify well-aligned implementation actions & interventions.


Increased familiarity with important Scrum, Agile and Lean principles

Improved fluency with using principles to guide improvement actions

Increased aptitude for differentiating more Scrum-aligned options from

less Scrum-aligned options

Increased awareness of the trade-offs being made in particular

implementation choices

Automated Testing in Agile Development

Jonas Allared, Petter Osterling Track: Visual [Beginner]

Room: Congress III

Type: Workshop

Summary: A LEGO-based workshop on the benefits of tests and test automation and how to fit their development into your agile process.


During our test themed workshop you will not only have fun with LEGO, you will

also gain a deeper understanding of the value of testing, automated as well as

manual. In addition to these insights we will also discuss some real life examples

on how to successfully incorporate test automation into your agile process,

providing you with a toolbox with which to act on your newfound love of testing.

Bootstrap your Business Model: Business Agility on the Back of a Napkin

Bernie Maloney Track: Visual [Advanced]


Type: Workshop

Summary: Want to test/iterate a business plan almost on-the-fly, ahead of code?

Learn how Business Agility can begin on the Back of a Napkin.


How to amplify Agile’s power of Inspect & Adapt by applying it in business

layers

How to Paper Prototype a Business or a Product Definition ahead of

development

How to “unit test” a Product to find Minimum Viable Product

How to “system test” a Business Model to find Product Market Fit

Experience creating a Business Model for a simple product, and exploring

how the same product could be used to solve multiple customer problems

Facilitation Dojo

Andreas Schliep, Peter Beck

Track: Auditory [Advanced]


Type: Workshop

Summary: We provide this Facilitation Dojo as a platform for safe learning and exchange about facilitation techniques, pitfalls und secrets.


Provide an engaging and inspiring environment for an event

Deal with disturbances and interruptions

Address conflicts and help the parties to navigate through them

Collect ideas and organize them into topics

Understand the origin of the word facilitate and live to it

Empower Teams to Own Their Improvement Culture

Niels Verdonk, Joanne Perold Track: Auditory [Advanced]


Type: Workshop

Summary: When teams have a structured approach to continuous improvement,

they will own their process, and they can start real self-organisation.


Self-organisation cannot happen when teams do not own their process

To achieve real process improvement, teams need to learn to think as a

team

Concrete examples you can use with teams in your own organisation

A new structure to support Scrum Masters to help teams improve on

topics they have identified

The prerequisites for starting self-assessments in teams.

What not to do with team assessments

Continuous Improvement in Your DNA

Els Verkaik, Jasper Lamers



Type: Workshop

Summary: How to deal with “Yes, but” behavior and create responsible and adaptive mindsets needed to get a continuous improvement culture?


Become aware what is blocking Agile transformations and our journey to

get continuous improvement in our DNA. Recognize different ways of resistance during the transition to Agile

Recognize patterns in behavior and mindset

Techniques you can use to help people getting insight in their behavior

and mindset and what is needed for continuous improvement

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Monday, November 16th – PM Sessions – 90 MINUTE SESSIONS – 15:30 – 17:00

Product Owner Value Game

Dajo Breddels



Type: Workshop

Summary: Looking for tools that can help Teams & PO's to be the best they can

be? Play the game and experience value-driven backlog refinement


Participants will play the game and learn about backlog ordering,

refinement and value-driven development

Participants will receive the game to play it with others, and will have the

knowledge to facilitate it

Estimating Business Value

Laura M. Powers


Room: Congress I

Type: Workshop

Summary: Learn simple techniques to estimate the business value of each of your user stories.

Learning Objectives: After completing this workshop, participants will be able to...

Facilitate exercises with stakeholders to define and quantify business value

Articulate key components of business value beyond basic monetary terms

Apply two different methods for assigning numeric business value to user

stories Understand how product backlog ordering and sprint planning are

enhanced by the assignment of numeric business value to user stories

Make Your Visuals Rock!

Jef Cumps, Kris Philippaerts Track: Visual [Beginner]

Room: Congress III

Type: Workshop

Summary: Learn some essential drawing skills and create awesome visuals to

support your workshop, training or Scrum meeting!


In this session, participants will:

Understand the power of visuals when working with teams, customers and

management. Learn when and how to use visuals while working with Scrum teams

Learn and practice the essential drawing techniques needed to create

powerful visuals, flip charts and notes for trainings, workshops and

(coaching) conversations.

Lean Products and the Validation Board

Rodrigo De Toledo, Marcus Garrido



Type: Workshop

Summary: Why, even with Agile, we find products and features not useful? We

invite attendees to experiment the Validation Board, a Lean Startup tool.


Learn how to use the Validation Board;

Learn how to use Lean Startup concepts in practice;

Learn different ways to validate business hypothesis;

Be aware of different ways to pivot the product;

Be motivated to develop Lean Products

Introduction to Coaching Skills for SMs and Leaders

Gary Bamberger



Type: Workshop

Summary: Learn and experience coaching skills and techniques Scrum Masters and leaders require to effectively support high-performing agile teams


The primary objective of this session is to inform Scrum Masters and organizational leaders about coaching techniques. Another important benefit is that participants

will experience coaching techniques that they can then apply when they return from the Scrum Gathering. And, the exercises can be leveraged in the participants’

organization.

Beyond Managing Emotions in Teams

David Papini



Type: Workshop

Summary: Managing emotions is an illusion: instead, you can create and transmit

emotions as a way to increase freedom.


This session goals are to provoke fresh thoughts about the role of emotions in

team performance. We'll see how emotions are necessary to understand any team

development process model and we'll apply them to well-known team

development models. We'll experiment with a basic set of team protocols capable

of activating and processing emotional information in a team.

Picturing a Problem

Shaun Smith, David Putman

Track: Visual [Beginner]


Type: Workshop

Summary: Learn a powerful systems thinking technique for visualizing and solving

problems. We'll also look at common patterns and tools for change.


Learn how to use and draw simple Causal Loop Diagrams

Be able to use the diagrams in a group setting to build a shared mental

model

Understand the role of Feedback, Delays, Limiting Factors, Goal Seeking

and Lock-on in Systems Thinking and Modelling.

Understand the role of perception and human emotion in Systems

Thinking and Modelling.

Identify common Systems Archetypes and understand relevant and

counter-productive interventions

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PechaKucha

When: November 17th, 2015


Now Hiring - Scrum Master Wanted

Simone Zecchi


Type: PechaKucha

Summary: Is evaluation only on the company’s side? Sure not! Make sure They are

ready for You!


Highlighting common mistakes and misunderstanding on the Scrum Roles and of

the Scrum framework, encourage learning and evaluation of companies,

encourage companies to be more bold about Scrum adoption.

Avoid Losing Implementation Momentum

Ofer Cohen


Type: PechaKucha

Summary: How to create agile implementation momentum and how to maintain it


Main checkpoints for initiating agile implementation

How to maintain the momentum without losing it

Importance of Management Support

The Economics of Continuous Integration

Adrian Perreau De Pinninck Track: Touch [Beginner]

Type: PechaKucha

Summary: Agilists know how important CI is for an Agile team. We present an

economic model to help you convince management.


Understand the benefits of Continuous Integration. Quantify the costs of deferred

integration and how Continuous Integration tackles them. Be able to use a model to describe the ROI of putting Continuous Integration in Place.

A New Visual Paradigm for Uncertainty in Agile Projects

Han Van Loon


Type: PechaKucha

Summary: The Estimation bubble - a new visual paradigm for uncertainty, agility

and estimation.


Provide Scrum'mers with the ability to explain how uncertainty is handled in Agile

projects so that agility is enhanced, while estimation and progress are well

managed.

Product Owner Must BE's

Anu Smalley


Type: PechaKucha

Summary: What should a Product Owner must “BE” and not just “DO”


Learn a simple way to understand the role of a Product Owner Learn 6 things a Product Owner must BE

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Tuesday, November 17th – AM Sessions – 45 MINUTE SESSIONS - 11:30 – 12:15

Invite Your Tester to the Party

Allen Rennebo Jepsen Track: Touch [Beginner]


Type: Talk

Summary: Most developers don't interact directly with testers, and even if they do

the tester is rarely made part of the daily work. Sounds familiar?


Get practical inspiration on how you can include the tester - starting

Monday morning.

Be able to help eliminate the need for "Quality Control".

Be able to turn the battle between developers and testers into a

collaborative process.

More with LeSS: Introduction to Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)

Bas Vodde Track: Touch [Advanced]

Room: Congress I

Type: Talk

Summary: Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is an minimalistic Agile framework for scaling

Scrum to multiple teams. Bas shares how it works and was created.


What is LeSS?

What are the LeSS Principles?

How do the two LeSS Frameworks work?

Why should you scale up rather than tailor down?

Silicon Gym - Workouts for Agile Microchips

John Barry Track: Visual [Advanced]

Room: Congress III

Type: Talk

Summary: Maximizing the impact of Agile adoption in digital hardware designs entails more than copying and pasting software successes


How to deal complex interdependencies between a large number of very

specialised functions in an Agile way Identifying the attributes of functional areas where Agile adoption can be

pioneered, those where transitions are more complex and options for

mitigating common issues How to maximise efficiency by adapting the process over the course of a

development cycle

How to deal with ambiguities in the definition of consumers and shippable

product

Slowing Down to Speed Up: Agile and Technical Debt

Taghi Paksima



Type: Talk

Summary: Learn how to use Agile techniques and metrics to manage and control technical debt, hence boosting team productivity.


Technical debt, if not managed properly, will have technical and economic

implications on software projects as well as psychological impact on teams. Learn

how to use Agile techniques and metrics to detect, control, and systematically

reduce technical debt, thus contributing productivity gain and focusing on

delivering business value.

Bottom Up Scrum Requires Top Down Will

Frank Eberhard, Stefan Waschk



Type: Talk

Summary: Introducing scrum at Volkswagen IT, from a group of innovators in 2011 to an agile center of excellence providing agile craftsmanship.


Learn how to organize a powerful community in order to promote agile

thinking Learn how small impulses over a long time can make a big change

Learn when and how to approach senior management

Learn how to secure a sustainable speed in agile rollout

Sabotaging Agility

Fred Williams Track: Auditory [Beginner]


Type: Talk

Summary: Is your project being sabotaged? Fred Williams explains the classic

patterns of sabotage, giving examples from the CIA Sabotage Manual.

Learning Objectives: Identify project sabotage

Act to prevent sabotage

Don’t Refactor. Rebuild. Kinda.

Wouter Lagerweij



Type: Talk

Summary: Even starting teams with a legacy codebase can succeed with quality (XP) practices using architecture and process to set them up for success.


Even a world class team is slowed by a big, messy code-base. For a starting team,

it can be hopeless. Learning all the XP practices is hard enough without a Big Ball

(of Mud) and Chain holding you back.

A loosely coupled architecture around an existing system lets us replace parts

while it’s running. Then we’re free to use all our quality practices for the new

parts, and start Continuous Delivery from Day One.

So let's rebuild. The Agile way: incrementally, iteratively, and value driven.

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Tuesday, November 17th – PM Sessions – 45 MINUTE SESSIONS – 13:15 – 14:00 Scrum Economics 101: Contracts, Budgets, Capitalization

Pavel Dabrytski Track: Touch [Beginner]


Type: Talk

Summary: How much money is one story point? Is Sprint 0 an expense or an

asset? Can you run Scrum with a fixed-cost contract? Find the answers!


This session provides overview of multiple approaches to:

Agile contracts

Agile project budgets

Agile project capitalization

Being Scrum at Heart to Adopt Lean

Theofanis Giotis


Room: Congress I

Type: Talk

Summary: Using Scrum as the Pumping Heart to Bring Down the Wall with Management and Effectively Adopt Lean in an Auditing Firm (Case Study).

Learning Objectives: After this session attendees will be able to:

Understand why upper management made the wrong decisions on

changing the company culture

Know better why Lean was selected as an antidote to financial crisis and

why Lean failed Understand why partial adoption of principles leads to disasters

Get inside info of how external coaches helped implementing Scrum

Learn how to avoid similar failures

Adaptive Organizations - Balancing The Known and The Unknown

Mike Leber Track: Visual [Advanced]

Room: Congress III

Type: Talk

Summary: The future is still uncertain, but it arrives faster than ever. Learn what it

takes to emphasize your existing business and build innovation in


Participants learn, how they can approach current contextual boundaries, deal with modern management and change for succeeding in a growing competitive

landscape. They understand what it takes to focus on both engines of the

enterprise - exploration as well as exploitation. And they understand how to establish leadership towards building up the capability for customer focus, learning

and innovation at every level into their organization.

Scrum at Home

Klaus Bucka-Lassen Track: Visual [Beginner]


Type: Talk

Summary: How I use certain elements of Scrum at home to motivate my kids

(from age 4) to do their chores


How to reduce the morning stress in getting the kids out the door

Ditto for the evening stress when sending kids to bed

Learn about kid-friendly KPIs, family meetings, definition of done and

much more

Be inspired to experiment with Scrum in your own home

Managing Software Development in the Age of Agile

Karen Greaves, Samantha Liang



Type: Talk

Summary: How can managers create happy, productive, motivated agile teams?

We will share 7 key elements from our own experience as dev managers.


Be able to describe the mindset an agile manager needs to adopt and how

their role changes.

Understand 7 key elements necessary to support hyper productivity and

growth as well as retaining developers in a highly competitive

marketplace.

Learn about specific practices like hiring, performance reviews and

salaries, and how these need to change to support an agile team.

Moving In Harmony: The Psychology Behind Change

Henrik Zätterman Track: Auditory [Advanced]


Type: Talk

Summary: Making changes in organizations takes time and energy and still we fall

back into bad behavioral patterns. Why and what can we do about it?


A toolbox for Coaches/Scrum Masters/other Agile Practitioners for increasing chance of a successful organizational/process change by:

Understanding the process of change

Identifying state of change

Identifying change readiness

Finding your own role in the change: How do you effect the change?

Learning basics for how to coach/talk about change

Scaling Scrum by LeSS and SAFe

Ari Tikka Track: Touch [Advanced]


Type: Talk

Summary: Case Nokia shows the fundamental challenges in scaling Scrum. Know

the paramount questions to check before choosing LeSS or SAFe.


Understand the fundamental problems of scaling Scrum in every big

organization.

Hear Nokia's long-term real-life experiences in using both LeSS and SAFe.

Understand the differences in the SAFe and LeSS approaches. What are

their strengths and challenges?

Know the most important questions to study before choosing the scaling

approach.

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Tuesday, November 17th – PM Sessions Continued – 90 MINUTE SESSIONS – 14:15 – 15:45

Where Do You Want To Get To? A Goal-Based Approach to Adopting Scrum

Jim York



Type: Workshop

Summary: If you don't care where you want to get to, any path will do. But if you do care, join us to connect Scrum practice to your desired outcome.


Participants will be able to: Identify and articulate goals for their Scrum Adoption

Select Agile practices to complement their Scrum adoption that are best

matched to specific desired outcomes

Fearless Journey

Martin Heider


Room: Congress I

Type: Workshop

Summary: Renew confidence to overcome obstacles outside your control! See http:/fearlessjourney.info


You will learn: Knowing some Fearless Change influence patterns and increased curiosity

to learn more

Experience the Fearless Journey game for your challenges

Get new ideas to help unblock impediments for your challenging goals

Learn how to use Fearless Journey in your own environment / organization

(e.g. for blocked teams, retrospectives, community of practice meetings, leadership teams, etc.)

The Legal Side of Scrum

Jürgen Hoffman, Torsten Culmsee Track: Visual [Beginner]

Room: Congress III

Type: Workshop

Summary: We - a lawyer focused on IT law and an experienced CSC and CST - will

show in this session how to avoid legal pitfalls when working agile.


How to avoid pitfalls in contracting when developing products with agile

development. This is an interactive session for Product Owners and people

carrying responsibilities for projects with external contractors.

Inspect and Adapt: Measuring Kaizen

Sacha Storz



Type: Workshop

Summary: How do we find relevant areas and appropriate measurable variables

for our Kaizen initiatives? How do we constantly improve?


To improve your Kaizen approaches be aware of all stakeholders (build

stakeholder map)

Find measurable variables for most relevant areas of improvement for

most relevant stakeholders

Build assumptions on what you have to do to achieve those improvements

(build impact map) Derive (safe2fail) experiments

Measure outcome and repeat

When Your Agile Transformation Team *Is* The Primary Barrier To Your Agile Transformation

Daniel Gullo Track: Auditory [Advanced]


Type: Workshop

Summary: Is your Agile Transformation Team the biggest impediment to your

Agile Adoption? Come hear about 5 techniques to resolve this issue.


How to identify when your Agile Transformation has begun to stall

How to identify that the problem is actually the Transition Team

How to reboot a stalled Agile Transformation using Five Proven

Techniques

Bring Down the Wall of Confusion with Chocolate, LEGO and Scrum Simulation Game

Dana Pylayeva



Type: Workshop

Summary: Bring your systems thinking: expand boundaries of a Scrum team,

collaborate with Ops and learn to optimize the flow with Chocolate and LEGO!


Understand and learn to address a traditional misalignment of goals of the

three major groups in product development (business, development and

operations).

Understand how effective communication and collaboration with

Operations and Security teams can have a positive impact on Scrum teams

ability to eliminate the constraints and improve the flow of work.

Experiment with increasing frequency of releases, amplifying feedback

loop and moving towards early and continuous delivery of value.

Exploit Core Scrum Practices at the Program Level

Jeff Lopez-Stuit



Type: Workshop

Summary: Learn how core Scrum practices support visibility, remove impediments, and promote flow for programs with many teams and hundreds of people.

Learning Objective:

Why Scrum practices are valuable at the program level, when many teams

and hundreds of people are working together.

The background and history of traditional approaches to program level

work.

Introduce four core Scrum practices for program-level work:

Impediment Board; Stand-up; Kanban; Retrospectives

Engage in some elementary experience of these practices through a

simulation exercise

Methods for evaluating whether program-level practices are being

effective.

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Lightning Talks

When: November 17th, 2015


Six talks will be chosen and all talks will be 5 minutes each. Speakers will be chosen onsite. Have a great idea/topic? Submit and you could present your topic.

1. How do I submit a Lightning Talk?

All Gathering attendees will have a chance to submit once onsite at the Prague Gathering. We will have a board, where you will post about your session topic. Your posting will include your name, title of the talk and (3) words/adjectives describing your talk.

2. How are Lightning Talks chosen?

Each attendee will get a certain number of votes [stickers]. Each attendee will have a chance to vote and apply a sticker onto the talk they would like to hear presented. All votes will be tallied for Tuesday morning.

3. How do I find out who is presenting?

Lightning Talks will be announced on Tuesday morning. Chosen speakers are responsible in bringing their own supplies, if required [such as a laptop, handouts, slides].

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