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Melissa Perri on Experimenting and Preventing Bad Ideas from being Built
Melissa Perri speaks about the importance of stopping bad ideas from becoming products and how an experimentation and learning mindset can ensure the best products that meet customer needs get built. She discusses the importance of knowing who your real users are and using simple tools such as paper prototypes to conduct experiments and get feedback quickly.
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Jake Calabrese on Building Antifragile Teams and Relationships
Jake Calabrese speaks about creating a culture and environment of antifragility - one in which the relationships and interactions between the people are strong and able to not just cope with external pressure but actually gain from disorder or from healthy conflicts. Teams need to agree on not just their social contracts but how they respond to violations and challenges.
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Michael Hamman, Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd on Integral Agile and Coaching for Teams, Management and the Enterprise
Michael Hamman, Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd of the Agile Coaching Institute talk about Integral Agile and the personas of Agile Coach, Enterprise Agile Coach and Organisational Leader.
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Chad Wathington and Suzie Prince on Team Collaboration, Mingle and ThoughtWorks Studios
Chad Wathington and Suzie Prince spoke about the importance of feedback and collaboration in teams and keeping feedback going when scaling agile beyond single teams into larger organisations. Designing feedback into the process and keeping the processes people centric. They also discussed new capabilities coming in Mingle.
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Scott Ambler on Agile BI and Disciplined Agile 2.0
Scott talks about Disciplined Agile Development 2.0, the Agile Scaling panel at the Agile Executive Forum and data warehousing and BI using agile approaches.
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Transformation Services Director at CA Technologies (formerly Rally Software)
Eric talks about the Help Track which helped proposers fine tune their presentations for the Agile 2015 conference and about how the social and cultural aspects are so important when organizations attempt to scale their agile adoptions to larger teams and across organizational groups. The scaling frameworks can be useful for the mechanics of scaling, but the social aspects are critical.
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Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory on (More) Agile Testing, Learning and New Approaches
Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory talk about how they came to collaborate on the "Agile Testing" books, the testing skillset and approaches to learning, and new and interesting approaches to testing.
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Steve Ropa on Three Paths to Technical Excellence
Steve Ropa shares his passion for technical excellence and craftsmanship in software development. He presents some ideas on how to help teams achieve excellence and mastery of their various crafts.
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Em Campbell-Pretty on the Journey of SAFe and Thawing Middle Management
Em Campbell-Pretty shares her journey from being a business leader to an Agile Coach and early adopter of the Scaled Agile Framework, as well as how to best thaw middle management in organizations.
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Mark Kilby, Stephanie Davis and Rick Regueira on Effective User Groups & Remote Agile
Mark Kilby, Stephanie Davis and Rick Regueira share their tips around reinvigorating their respective user groups and together building a statewide learning network as well working remotely Agile.
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Patric Palm on Hansoft and HansoftX
Patric discusses the state of agile adoption, the challenges faced by combined hardware & software organisations, features in the latest release of the Hansoft product and the launch of HansoftX, a cloud based fremium service planning tool.
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Anders Wallgren on the State of Agile & DevOps and the Vital Role Culture Plays
Anders reflects on the state of agile, the importance of DevOps and the critical role that culture plays in successful organizational transformations. He also discusses the Electric Cloud products.
