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 Stieneder
Touch [Advanced]
Hercovka/Tyrolka
Transition – 11:30 – 11:45
45 MINUTE SESSIONS – 11:45 – 12:30
SESSION & SPEAKER TRACK ROOM
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
Sally 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
90 MINUTE SESSIONS – 13:30 – 15:00
SESSION & SPEAKER TRACK ROOM
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
Impact-Driven Scrum Delivery Sara Léren, Ingrid Domingues
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
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
90 MINUTE SESSIONS – 15:30 – 17:00
SESSION & SPEAKER TRACK ROOM
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
SESSION & SPEAKER TRACK ROOM
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
45 MINUTE SESSIONS – 11:30 – 12:15
SESSION & SPEAKER TRACK ROOM
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
45 MINUTE SESSIONS – 13:15 – 14:00
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
45 MINUTE SESSIONS – 14:15 – 15:45
SESSION & SPEAKER TRACK ROOM
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
Open Space 11:00 – 11:45 All Session Rooms
Lunch – 11:45 – 12:45
Open Space 12:45 – 14:15 All Session Rooms
Transition – 14:15 – 14:30
Open Space 14:30 – 15:15 All Session Rooms
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
Where: Congress I, II, III
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
Where: Congress I, II, III
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.
Learning Objectives:
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.
Learning Objectives:
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
Learning Objectives:
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.
Learning Objectives:
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.
Learning Objectives:
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.
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Touch [Beginner]
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.
Learning Objectives:
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
Learning Objectives:
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]
Room: Berlin/Brussels
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.
Learning Objectives:
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]
Room: Athens/Barcelona
Type: Talk
Summary: Capacity planning is efficient and not effective. This talk focuses on
techniques for visibility and effectiveness, making decisions on value
Learning Objectives:
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]
Room: Palmovka/Rokoska
Type: Talk
Summary: Software development needs neuro-diversity. Understand how we can
adjust our practices and workspaces for different kinds of minds.
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Touch [Advanced]
Room: Vienna, Madrid, Roma
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!
Learning Objectives:
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
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Touch [Beginner]
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.
Learning Objectives:
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
Impact-Driven Scrum Delivery
Sara Lerén, Ingrid Domingues Track: Visual [Beginner]
Room: Congress III
Type: Workshop
Summary: Learn how to let impact be your guiding star towards great products when change is the only constant and resources are limited.
Learning Objectives:
The workshop will give a hands-on walk-through of the method with engaging
examples from real life development projects. You will learn about how to define
the Business Impact and User requirements in such a way that it can be used for
managing design and builds in Scrum development as well as in the creation of
User Stories and their acceptance criteria.
Bootstrap your Business Model: Business Agility on the Back of a Napkin
Bernie Maloney Track: Visual [Advanced]
Room: Athens/Barcelona
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.
Learning Objectives:
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]
Room: Berlin/Brussels
Type: Workshop
Summary: We provide this Facilitation Dojo as a platform for safe learning and exchange about facilitation techniques, pitfalls und secrets.
Learning Objectives:
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 Track: Auditory [Advanced]
Room: Palmovka/Rokoska
Type: Workshop
Summary: When teams have a structured approach to continuous improvement,
they will own their process, and they can start real self-organisation.
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Auditory [Advanced]
Room: Hercovka/Tyrolka
Type: Workshop
Summary: How to deal with “Yes, but” behavior and create responsible and adaptive mindsets needed to get a continuous improvement culture?
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Touch [Advanced]
Room: Vienna, Madrid, Roma
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
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Touch [Beginner]
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!
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Visual [Advanced]
Room: Athens/Barcelona
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.
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Auditory [Advanced]
Room: Berlin/Brussels
Type: Workshop
Summary: Learn and experience coaching skills and techniques Scrum Masters and leaders require to effectively support high-performing agile teams
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Auditory [Advanced]
Room: Palmovka/Rokoska
Type: Workshop
Summary: Managing emotions is an illusion: instead, you can create and transmit
emotions as a way to increase freedom.
Learning Objectives:
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]
Room: Hercovka/Tyrolka
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.
Learning Objectives:
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
Where: Congress I, II, III
Now Hiring - Scrum Master Wanted
Simone Zecchi
Track: Touch [Beginner]
Type: PechaKucha
Summary: Is evaluation only on the company’s side? Sure not! Make sure They are
ready for You!
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Touch [Advanced]
Type: PechaKucha
Summary: How to create agile implementation momentum and how to maintain it
Learning Objectives:
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.
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Visual [Advanced]
Type: PechaKucha
Summary: The Estimation bubble - a new visual paradigm for uncertainty, agility
and estimation.
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Auditory [Beginner]
Type: PechaKucha
Summary: What should a Product Owner must “BE” and not just “DO”
Learning Objectives:
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]
Room: Vienna, Madrid, Roma
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?
Learning Objectives:
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.
Learning Objectives:
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
Learning Objectives:
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
To Pay or Not to Pay: Agile and Technical Debt
Taghi Paksima
Track: Visual [Beginner]
Room: Athens/Barcelona
Type: Talk
Summary: Learn how to use Agile techniques and metrics to manage and control technical debt, hence boosting team productivity.
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Auditory [Advanced]
Room: Berlin/Brussels
Type: Talk
Summary: Introducing scrum at Volkswagen IT, from a group of innovators in 2011 to an agile center of excellence providing agile craftsmanship.
Learning Objectives:
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]
Room: Palmovka/Rokoska
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
Track: Touch [Advanced]
Room: Hercovka/Tyrolka
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.
Learning Objectives:
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]
Room: Vienna, Madrid, Roma
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!
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Touch [Advanced]
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
Learning Objectives:
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]
Room: Athens/Barcelona
Type: Talk
Summary: How I use certain elements of Scrum at home to motivate my kids
(from age 4) to do their chores
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Auditory [Beginner]
Room: Berlin/Brussels
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.
Learning Objectives:
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]
Room: Palmovka/Rokoska
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?
Learning Objectives:
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]
Room: Hercovka/Tyrolka
Type: Talk
Summary: Case Nokia shows the fundamental challenges in scaling Scrum. Know
the paramount questions to check before choosing LeSS or SAFe.
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Touch [Advanced]
Room: Vienna, Madrid, Roma
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.
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Touch [Advanced]
Room: Congress I
Type: Workshop
Summary: Renew confidence to overcome obstacles outside your control! See http:/fearlessjourney.info
Learning Objectives:
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.
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Visual [Beginner]
Room: Athens/Barcelona
Type: Workshop
Summary: How do we find relevant areas and appropriate measurable variables
for our Kaizen initiatives? How do we constantly improve?
Learning Objectives:
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]
Room: Berlin/Brussels
Type: Workshop
Summary: Is your Agile Transformation Team the biggest impediment to your
Agile Adoption? Come hear about 5 techniques to resolve this issue.
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Auditory [Beginner]
Room: Palmovka/Rokoska
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!
Learning Objectives:
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
Track: Visual [Advanced]
Room: Hercovka/Tyrolka
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
Where: Congress I, II, III
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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