Speakers - Agile Get-Together 2022

Linda Rising

Linda Rising is an independent consultant who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She has authored four books and numerous articles and is an internationally known presenter on topics related to patterns, retrospectives, influence strategies, agile development, and the change process. With a Ph.D. from Arizona State University in the field of object-based design metrics, Linda's background includes university teaching and software development in a number of different domains.

Linda Rising: How to Talk to the Elephant

In speaking about better ways of thinking and problem-solving, Linda has introduced Jonathan Haidt's model for the brain. He proposes that the rational, conscious mind is like the rider of an elephant (the emotional, unconscious mind) who directs the animal to follow a path. In Fearless Change, the pattern Easier Path recommends making life easier to encourage reluctant individuals to adopt a new idea. Linda suggests that in conversations with others who see the world differently, we "talk to the elephant" instead of the "rider." That is, don't use logic or facts, but appeal to the emotional brain of the listener as well as making the path more attractive. There is always the question: What's the best way to talk to the elephant? This presentation will provide some answers. Linda will present the best elephant-speak and outline suggestions for providing an Easier Path.

Diana Larsen

Diana Larsen consults with leaders and their teams to create work environments where people flourish and push businesses to succeed. She is an international authority in Agile software development, team leadership, and Agile transitions. Diana co-authored Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great; Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams; and The Five Rules of Accelerated Learning. In collaboration with James Shore, she developed the Agile Fluency™ Model. She is a past Chair and former board member (2007–2013) of the Agile Alliance Board of Directors. Diana served on the board (2013-2016) of the Organization Design Forum and is chairing their 2018 conference. She is an associate of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute. Active on the organizing teams of various conferences, she is a founding and current board member of Agile Open Northwest , non-profit organization.

Diana Larsen: Building Resilient Learning Teams

Workplace finger-pointing stifles creativity, reduces productivity, and limits psychological safety. Although no one sets out to be judgmental, learning new habits is hard. By facilitating blame-free retrospective meetings, leaders chart a productive path forward. They amplify three essential motivators of purpose, autonomy, and co-intelligence within their team. Layered on with four resilience factors: inclusive collaboration, transparent power dynamics, collaborative learning, and embracing conflict. After applying these strategies, learning leaders will help their teams and themselves become more resilient and better equipped to handle any unexpected and challenging tasks that comes their way.

Mary Poppendieck

Mary Poppendieck’s first job was programming the #2 Electronic Switching System at Bell Labs in 1967. She programmed minicomputers to control high energy physics experiments at the University of Wisconsin during the 1970’s. Moving to 3M, Mary developed digital systems to control roll-goods processes, spearheaded one of the first Just-in-Time production systems in the company, and led new product development teams which commercialized products ranging from digital controllers to lighting systems. Upon retiring from 3M in 1998, Mary was surprised to discover that the typical software development process was quite different than the engineering-inspired approach she had found effective with control systems. So she wrote the now-classic book: Lean Software Development: an Agile Toolkit, proposing an approach which focuses on consumers, respects software engineers, concentrates on learning, and leverages flow. Mary is a popular writer and speaker. Sequels of her first book include Implementing Lean Software Development: from Concept to Cash, Leading Lean Software Development: Results are Not the Point and The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions.

Mary Poppendieck: Beyond Agile - Product Thinking and Software Engineering for the Future

Agile development was designed to solve the problems of Information Technology Departments struggling with the monolithic architectures and long release cycles of the 1990’s. Today, enterprises find themselves competing against small companies with cloud architectures that enable very short development cycles and rapid feedback. What does it take to successfully compete in this new age? There are no easy answers to this question, because what is required is a new mindset, a new way of thinking about software engineering This talk discusses the advantages of thinking Product instead of Project, the difference between Product teams and Feature teams, the importance of emphasizing Engineering rather than Process, and the role of Product Leaders.

Jeev Chugh

Jeev heads UST’s Business Agility practice in UK&I and is responsible for developing and executing client partners’ Digital and Agile strategy. He is passionate about creating synergies to unlock new opportunities, building high quality teams and partner ecosystems, and disrupting how people and organizations connect through technology and innovation. His experience has been gained across a diverse range of Fortune 500 organizations in the Financial Services, Retail and Telecoms sectors. You can connect with him at jeev.chugh@ust.com.

Jeev Chugh: Bringing Agility to Strategy

Why Strategic Misalignment is often a key stumbling block to enabling Business Agility? Today’s rapidly changing digital landscape demand organizations execute their strategy with unprecedented speed and agility. Enterprises are fighting for that competitive edge. The promise of a methodology that can swiftly respond to unpredictability has sent interest soaring in Agile adoption, and yet, business agility has remained elusive. We have observed that strategic misalignment in many of these organizations is often a key root cause for being stuck in the chasm. My session brings together the collective knowledge of UST in enabling strategic alignment for our Fortune 500 clients, and shares some key learnings from these engagements.

Omar Velasco

At UST Omar is globally responsible for the business transformation consulting services that expand across Canada, the US, the UK, Europe, India, China, HK, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan. Directly manages a portfolio delivery of Business Agility Transformations and Lean-Agile product development with a team of more than 150 management consultants and agile coaches engaged in agile transformations for Fortune 500 companies. Prior to UST he led agile consulting services at NTT Data, Deloitte-Roundarch, Razorfish and ABM-AMRO Bank.

For the last two decades, he has lead agile transformations across the globe, strategizing, coaching, mentoring and training thousands of executive, leaders and practitioners.

Omar Velasco & Noopur Julka: Scaling sustainable agile – the proven way

In any business, entrepreneurial spirit combined with customer centricity and a quick feedback loop can differentiate you in the marketplace. You deliver faster, with lower risk by embracing agility! AT UST, for over a decade, we have practised lean agile principles leveraging our unique business agility framework. We observed that our F500 clients are competing fast with the nimbleness of the start-up world. Our session talks about our observations on 3 vectors that matter and why; with proven examples of how they make a difference across the enterprise at all levels. And we leave you with food for thought on the path forward.

Noopur Julka

Noopur is a dynamic business leader with extensive professional experience working with F500 companies in solving significant, next-generation technology problems globally. Noopur is passionate about building cohesive relationships with Business and IT stakeholders earning trust by focussing on solid delivery and business outcomes.

Noopur had led several global agile teams, integrating a diverse set of technologies in a globally outsourced environment for some of the largest financial firms in the world.

She completed her executive MBA from Harvard Business School and is based out of London.

Omar Velasco & Noopur Julka: Scaling sustainable agile – the proven way

Simone Zecchi

I joined Morgan Stanley in 2019. As part of the Agile Centre of Expertise I led organisational change in equities, followed by transaction reporting. I am leading a development program to embed coaching skills in our divisions through upskilling existing leadership. I am an all-round agile specialist. I am motivated by creating productive, sustainable, and energetic work environments. My specialties are agile at scale and transformation, design, agile coaching of teams and individuals, agile delivery, and training. I have over 13 years of international industry experience, including management consulting, large financial services firms, technology companies and a fast-growing start-up. I started my career as a programmer. Over the years I played roles including systems integrator, security specialist, scrum master, internal consultant, and management consultant. I have worked in a variety of settings including a fast-growing start-up, small professional services firm, large technology company and management consulting. My formal education includes a Master’s in Computer Engineering and a Bachelor’s in Information Technology.

Simone Zecchi: Transformation Catalyst: The Leader as Coach

How do you allow agile transformations to scale and become business as usual? Getting engagement and embedded capabilities is critically important, but really difficult to achieve. Most organisations fund coaches to start, but that investment does not always last, so how do you proactively work to build and embed the skills you need? Our principle based, evolving approach, brought us to a simple answer: Leadership must evolve to support and sustain the new reality. Learn how we created a 9-week experiential leadership program to teach, experience, mentor and reflect with all Leaders on how to employ a coaching stance in their interactions, with our leaders delivering it, effectively kick-starting a virtuous cycle at the firm.

Zsolt Lukács

A native of Hungary, Zsolt holds MSc. degrees from the Technical University of Budapest (Electrical Engineering) and the University of Houston (Computer Science). He studied and worked in the Houston area for 20 years before returning to Hungary to join Morgan Stanley in 2012. Having spent over two decades in the software business first as developer then manager, his interests increasingly turned towards ways to improve outcomes and team performance. He established the Agile Catalysts group in Budapest to promote grassroots agile adoption starting 2013. As Morgan Stanley embarked on her Agile Transformation journey, Zsolt joined the Agile Center of Excellence, training and working as an agile coach in 2019. Just a few months ago Zsolt returned to the Technology side and is currently the Head of Wealth Management Technology @ Budapest, building fully co-located and cross-functional squads to participate the massive reengineering effort of the legacy Morgan Stanley Online and Etrade.com platforms.

Effectiveness Through Agile

Morgan Stanley’s scaled Agile adoption has been underway for almost 4 years now. As we have reached a point where most of the target population – over 20K cross-functional members – are now “in the water,” we are shifting our focus to becoming better swimmers. One of our main Technology 2022 strategy pillars is Effectiveness, by which we mean optimizing how we deliver value for our business. Applied to our way of working, effectiveness requires internalizing Agile as “just how we work now,” which means two things: 1. Leaders at all levels have taken full ownership for how they work, building the capability to coach and guide their teams. 2. All members have internalized that our way of working requires that we be permanently unsatisfied, always seeking to be ‘better tomorrow than today’ in what and how we deliver for our stakeholders - no matter how good we are today. Just as adopting Agile meant a change in thinking, this latest evolution requires yet another shift in which Agility is simply a vehicle - and one of many, including DevOps, Design Thinking, Lean etc. - for working more effectively as the true goal.

Gabriel Jank

Gabriel(Gabe) Jank
Speaker and Head Agile Coach LATAM at John Deere.
20+ Years in a vast range of roles in IT.
Registered Scrum Trainer™ and Scrum@Scale(by ScrumInc) and Kanban Management Professional(KMP)

Gabriel Jank: Thriving Through Chaos: John Deere’s Adaptive Approach With Agility

Gabe works as Head Agile Coach and ScrumInc Trainer and will bring John Deere perspective on the transformation, known as Agile Operating Model (AOM), and what it looks like from the inside. Adaptability during the Pandemic times and a vision on our Smart Industrial journey through a case study on how we can experiment Agility while at the same time we kept our 185-year-old business running. Agenda: John Deere and Our Higher Purpose, Agile Operating Model (AOM), Our versions of Agile Practices, Output or Outcome?, Case Study: Agile in Brazil Marketing, Closing comments

Zoltán Csiszár

I am responsible for the delivery of solutions (with the focus of development and testing of products and customer specific solutions) and professional services (consulting, project management, business analyses, etc.) to our airline customers. My organization has 350 employees. Besides I am the general manager of Lufthansa Systems Hungária where I am responsible for the day to day operations of the company, to maintain a professional environment for our colleagues and partners, implementation of our strategy and so on.

Global agile journey with Scrum@Scale at Lufthansa Systems

In the recent years Lufthansa Systems started to change its way of working incrementally into Scrum@Scale in order to answer the external and internal challenges. Started with a bottom-up approach, the company gathered tons of experience concerning how to transform such a complex global IT company in the aviation industry. In our presentation we will explain why Scrum@Scale was chosen, and how we approached the challenges caused by the high variety of products, processes and customer expectations. Furthermore, we share our vision about the future of Global Agile Practice, coordinating the implementation and harmonisation of agile transformation and operation of enterprise agile delivery.

Zoltán Csaba

Zoltán is a strategic innovation leader and agile coach for large companies. He has 10 years of IT/telco experience, since 2014 he has been involved in the planning and implementation of agile transformation strategies, as well as in the methodological preparation of innovative start-up companies.

Global agile journey with Scrum@Scale at Lufthansa Systems

Tamás Vajda

My whole life has been dedicated to expertise, both in telecommunications and in airline IT. Continuous learning and development helped by excellent colleagues, mentors and managers. I dare to dream big, I see opportunities even when others are only tasting the new. As an agile enthusiast, I feel myself capable to build operating models on enterprise level which lead companies to the future.

Global agile journey with Scrum@Scale at Lufthansa Systems

Seb Rose

Seb has been a consultant, coach, designer, analyst and developer for over 40 years. He has been involved in the full development lifecycle with experience that ranges from architecture to support, from BASIC to Ruby.

During his career, he has worked for companies large (e.g. IBM, Amazon) and small, and has extensive experience of failed projects. He's now Developer Advocate with SmartBear Advantage, promoting better ways of working to the software development community.

Regular speaker at conferences and occasional contributor to software journals. Co-author of the BDD Books series "Discovery” and "Formulation" (Leanpub), lead author of “The Cucumber for Java Book” (Pragmatic Programmers), and contributing author to “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly).

Seb Rose: DevSecOps - what does it mean and how will it impact agile teams?

New software development approaches continue to be promoted. You may be aware of waterfall, RUP, 4GLs, 3-tier client server - all still alive and kicking in some domains. You will be familiar with some (or all) of Agile, Kanban, DevOps, SAFe, No Code/Low Code and many others. A new kid on the block is DevSecOps. What does that mean? Why is it important? How will it affect agile software teams? If we adopted the tenets of DevSecOps without calling it DevSecOps would it “smell just as sweet”? What would it “smell” like if we spun up a DevSecOps team, without understanding the fundamental challenges that DevSecOps was intended to overcome? In this session I’ll explore the origins of DevSecOps before going on to demonstrate how there’s often a distance between the label and the intent of DevSecOps. Finally I’ll discuss the impact that DevSecOps can have on our agile teams and organisations based on my perspective gathered over a 40 year career in software.

Alberto Tordesillas Illán

Alberto leads the Business Transformation Practice at UST Spain&Latam, helping organizations improve their business results by adapting to complexity through an Agile mindset. During the last 10 years he has worked with senior management to define the transformation strategy, organizational design and operating models that reshape core and enabling functions and create a culture that builds better and more resilient organizations.

Alberto Tordesillas Illán: Agility from strategy to execution

Every new development in the world accelerates the need for organizations to respond quickly and be able to pivot, from strategy to structure and execution, without losing momentum. Adaptation and continuous improvement are a must in order to survive and thrive. Agile has become a mainstream buzzword and is seen as the solution for all of these challenges. Every organization is launching transformation programs where every team is organized around agile practices and frameworks, but that’s clearly not enough to achieve enterprise agility. In this talk I will share my experience about what the traits of a truly Agile Organization are and how the strategic processes and layers need to evolve.

Gábor Erényi

Gábor is an Agile consultant, trainer and coach at Sprint Consulting, with 20+ years of experience in IT project and program management in various business segments and project/program sizes. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Gabor is passionate about sharing his experience, best practices and helping teams and individuals to find new ways to constantly improve.

Gábor Erényi: You don't need an Agile Transformation - Why focusing on the transformation steps won't help you in solving your problems, and what to do instead

A lot of organisations are experiencing problems with their efficiency, time to market, product quality and assume that an agile transformation is the solution to their issues. However, still many such transformations fail to provide the expected benefits. This talk, based on assessing a number of organisations who faltered through unsuccessful transformations, sheds light upon some of the possible reasons behind these failures.

Andrea Török

Andrea Török is an Agile consultant, trainer and coach at Sprint Consulting. She is a global expert in Business Agility with over 10 years of hands-on experience crafting and leading mid- and large-scale agile and cultural transformations in manufacturing, finance and telecommunication domains. Her specialties are leadership development, executive coaching, organizational design and product strategies.

Andrea Török: More than an Agile Transformation - Organization design that leads to success

As Gábor Erényi's talk enlightened, many organizations struggle to reach the expected benefits of agility and there are many reasons for that. In this talk Andrea will show you there is life beyond Scrum and S@Fe. She'll introduce Lean Portfolio Management as a way to designing your organization for success.

Zoltán Schweinitzer

Zoltán Schweinitzer, after graduating from both engineering and economics, gained experience in securely protected systems and data management, as well as launching quality management systems. Later he ran into requirement management and project management in logistics, heavy industry, ore-mining areas, and industrial production-technology. He worked for almost a decade in e-health and telemedicine areas and has been building and launching agile projects for robust products for clients from various business areas for 10 years, mostly in multinational environments. He is also an experienced trainer of practical use of agile methodologies.

Resource driven vs. Team based agile culture: Shape Game

The main goal of this game is to represent the different daily living of product creation in traditional and in agile universe. It can highlight how transparency and self-organisation ensure a better outcome in addition to wellbeing. This game shows the different experience of change management as well. Target groups: Product engineers: developers, QA, integration; Requirement engineers; Project leads, Middle management.

Aditya Vadaganadam

I help technology and business teams/departments pursue smarter ways of working. My career since 2000 has spanned across modern and legacy stacks, development, QA, prog. management and infra; and lucky enough to live, travel and work across Asia, Africa and Europe. I am passionate about core system agility - enterprise infra and mainframes.

Enterprise Infrastructure Agility: Time to adapt or face extinction!

Over the last decade, every aspect of the enterprise technology world has been disrupted thanks to Agile, Cloud and DevOps. But, enterprise infrastructure remains the last bastion of traditional practices. In my talk, I am keen to share my experience of agile and devops transformations in enterprise infrastructure space. In the light talk, I plan to be interactive and touch on practical ideas, patterns and anti-patterns that can help the attendees apply them back in their roles whenever they interact with Enterprise Infrastructure. Business users are genuinely looking at Infrastructure as equal partners on this journey and not a subservient IT function. So, what has caused this shift in thinking? Since 2000’s – there have been three game changers in the technology world - agile and devops ways, adoption of Cloud by enterprises and rise of start-ups. One by one, the barriers to infrastructure agility will break down. The three drivers are New Operating Models, Legacy technology transformation and culture. The closing part of the presentation will focus on practical advice that agile practitioners can use when they set out to help enterprise infrastructure departments - covering patterns and anti-patterns as well - How language matters, User experience - Infra and Ops users are also users, Appropriate choice of agile constructs, Leverage ITIL 4 and Leadership & culture change.

András Lóki

As an agile coach, I'm dedicated to connecting theory with hands-on experience. Being involved in software development for almost 3 decades, my goal is to help with the expertise I gathered all around the organizations from portfolio level to the trenches.

Transformation towards agile leadership in an enterprise environment

Working together by introducing the transformation of leadership through a personal journey, where everyone can see the challenges, obstacles, but also the bright side of being an agile leader. Exchange of the experiences about Psychological safety, existential crisis, organizational blindness and other areas of leadership transformation.

Nóra Hegyi

Throughout my 15+ years as a coach, I have built broad experience in organizational development as well as aligning strategy, structure and culture to enhance learning, growth and effectiveness within an organizational setting. I wholeheartedly believe in the power of purpose and people’s ability to co-create innovative, future proof solutions. I support scrum teams and individuals on their agile journey to learn and embrace systemic thinking, to live by their values and discover their potential.

Transformation towards agile leadership in an enterprise environment

Gábor László Tóth

I'm a Scrum Master and Agile coach with IT and economic studies, having solid experience in agile transformation in large organizations.

As I saw during my professional career fear of change is mostly based on lack of knowledge or misinterpretation of information. Therefore one of the most important missions for me is to show organizations and the people within how to be prepared by continuous learning for barvely face with the challenges of change without fear.

Transformation towards agile leadership in an enterprise environment

Gábor Nahlik

Gábor is a servant leader of Agile Teams, and has more than 15 years experience as a product manager / project manager in the waterfall world. He walks confidently in telecommunication, automotive software development and banking industries. Gábor has a very good instinct to understand and support teams / individuals and build up agile teams.

Gábor Nahlik: Is your Scrum Master the next Agile coach?

Scrum Master, Senior Scrum Master, Junior Agile Coach, Agile Coach. Is this a natural line of evolution or something else? Which one does an organisation need? What is difference between these roles apart from the experience, if any? We'll share the recently updated Agile Coaching Growth Wheel and explain each of the Wheel’s wide variety of stances and deeper competencies in detail. As an agile practitioner this talk will set you up for an exciting journey towards mastery. As a leader this talk will guide you to understanding these roles and help you identify the one you need in their agile journey.

Haran Rasalingam

Haran is an Agile Coach with over 20 years’ experience in the Agile space with a background in Psychotherapy. His research in Psychology has focused on racial, ethnic and cultural identity and has recently published a paper on unconscious racial bias. Haran is a passionate believer in the importance of intercultural understanding to enable us all to live and work together better.

Unlocking the Power of Cultural Diversity for better teams… and a better world!

Cultural difference, diversity, distributed teams – we so often talk about these as things we need to work around and to cope with. In this session, we’ll take a different view – by not tapping into the wonderful variety in your team, you are missing a great opportunity. Come along to this workshop to embrace this difference in an experiential way.

Amir Peled

Amir became the first Scrum Alliance Certified Team Coach (CTC) in Eastern Europe in 2018 and served as a volunteer on the European Gathering Team (EUGT) for planning Global SCRUM GATHERING® Vienna 2019 and Global SCRUM GATHERING® Lisbon 2022. Additionally, he is a CTC Review Team Member and Women in Agile 2020 mentor. Lastly, he is also the founder of the first Scrum Alliance User Group in Romania called Agile Coaching and Beyond.

Antidotes to Team Toxins - Visual Edition

"Do you have experience with teams that resorted to unskillful communication occasionally or during some challenging times? You are not alone! It's time to acknowledge that when these unskillful communications persist without being addressed, they become toxic to relationships and eventually erode performance, trust, and morale within the team. In this practical and highly visual workshop (posters drawn by Amir Peled) you will: • Become aware of the 4 team toxins most people use from time to time • Comprehend how using them on a daily basis can destroy teams and relationships • Review the antidotes which counteract team toxins • Pick up an antidote and practice Do not miss this learning and sharing opportunity! You can help the team to take responsibility for toxic communication and to consciously design their own agreement for constructive conflict. The team deserve it. And you deserve it too!"

Tamás Kókai

Tamás is an Agile Team coach, with full-stack developer background, gathering experiences in IT for 20 years. Passionate about finding connected and versatile solutions to problems, learning new tech and sharing knowledge to develop others. Actively builds Agile and Developer communities through experimentation and ignites innovation for products, teams and organizations.

Cultural Revolution – Agile Transformation Challenges in a Fortune 10 Company

ExxonMobil has formally been on a journey in pursuit of agility since 2012. Since then, we've pivoted multiple times as we've understood the complexities of transforming a $391B enterprise (or a large enterprise with over 130 years of history). Often associated with digital transformation, agile transformation is not just a technological transformation. It is a cultural transformation that profoundly changes the way teams and managers’ work, the way the company is organized and operates, and the way products and services are designed. It is an engine of a permanent adaptation to a constantly changing environment where employees need to understand and embrace the change and adopt to a new norm. Join us to explore some of the unique takes on tackling the challenges of culture shift whilst keeping the people at the heart of our Transformation Journey.

László Borsics

Laci is a Transformation Consultant based in Budapest having 20 years of experience in Total Quality Management (TQM), Project Management and Agility. He has helped several major software implementations over the last 15 years, believer of continuous improvement and teaches and coaches agile principles and values which helps leaders and organizations become more future proof.

Cultural Revolution – Agile Transformation Challenges in a Fortune 10 Company

László Bodó

Laci is an Agile Team Coach based in Budapest having 20+ years of experience working with multinational and SME organizations in IT Management, Project Management and Agile roles. He has experience in IT transformation, IT Operations Improvement and Software development projects.
He is passionate about developing high performing teams, sharing his experiences, coaching / mentoring teams and individuals to empower them for continuous improvement. Regardless of tools, systems, methods there are always people behind who will need to make the most out of them. I’d like to be there to help them understand how they can do this.

Failing Forward: How to turn Agile failures into success

The road to success is often filled with failures, join ExxonMobil in this interactive session to discover key landmines and failures through the lenses of different roles (Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Developer) we encountered in our 10 years of Agile journey and how we failed forward. Target Audience: Developers, QA, Analysts, Scrum masters, Agile coaches, Release Train Engineers, Project leads and middle management.

János Szőke

János Szőke, after graduated from electronics and computer engineering he worked in several projects as a lead or contributor in data security, electronics, software development, infrastructure design and implementation. Ha earned 30+ years of experience in training and mentoring peers and partners, even in waterfall style development and projects too. He joined to ExxonMobil Budapest in 2006. He has 4+ experience as Agile/DevOps trainer and being Scrum Master. Currently he is a Certified Agile Team Coach for ExxonMobil.

Failing Forward: How to turn Agile failures into success

Obed Mensah

Paks has 2.5 years of experience as a Scrum Master working with 2 different teams in different regions across the globe. He is passionate about agile, mentoring and using the agile mindset to help teams become more productive.

Failing Forward: How to turn Agile failures into success

Iana Bybina

Iana is a Certified Scrum Master with the background in PR and Marketing. She is passionate about agility and helping other Scrum Masters across organization to find the right balance of being a Servant Leader and enthusiastic about the empowering aspects of the agile way of working. Adept at optimizing and developing teams through employment of velocity, capacity, and quality metrics. Thrives in fast-paced environments providing forward-thinking, innovation and professionalism always.

Failing Forward: How to turn Agile failures into success

Masa Maeda

Masa K. Maeda, Ph.D. is a senior agile coach with UST with over 40 years of industry experience. Prior to UST, Masa was the founder and principal of Valueinnova LLC where he brought transformations to companies of the caliber from Fortune 100 to startups worldwide in diverse industries. A pioneer in Kanban, Collaboration frameworks, and XSCALE, he is also one of the co-founders of the Lean-Kanban University, XSCALE steward, Steering committee member for the DevOps++ Alliance, Steering committee member for the Kanban for Knowledge Work Alliance, and for the Agile Testing Alliance. Masa has over 94 publications and public appearances at international conferences.

Taking your scrum practice to the next level through lean-based practices

As practical as Scrum is, there's always room for more. This workshop will introduce you to a set of lean-based practices that are 100% compatible with Scrum that will take your teams to the next level for sure. I have successfully applied this at over 40 organizations of all sizes worldwide. The sweet spot is that you can apply only one, or all of the practices I'll show you and still be benefitted.

Jean-Michel Lavoie

As a software engineer, Jean-Michel has been working in the finance industry since 2007 both in Europe and North-America. He played various roles - Scrum master, tech lead, business analyst - in distributed agile environments before being involved with the Morgan Stanley Agile transformation in 2019 as a fulltime Agile Coach.
He is currently based in Montreal, Canada, is a father of two girls, a passionate sketchnoter and is currently learning keyboard.

Clarify decision making to empower people better

"Fostering autonomy while ensuring people are making the best decisions is an everyday struggle for leaders at every level of an agile organization. How do you refrain from pushing your solutions and trust the team to find their own? How do you make sure people don't take bad decisions? How can teams know when a decision is not safe for them to make alone? This talk is introducing a decision-making canvas that helps making things more explicit, providing more clarity and freedom to leaders and team members."

Tamás Vajtó

Tamás is the lead agile consultant at thyssenkrupp Components Technology Hungary with 10 years of experience in IT project management in various business segments and project sizes.
He has experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner as well as Coach and is currently dedicated to promoting agile collaboration in vehicle development.
Since July 2021, Tamás has been active as an Agile Coach at thyssenkrupp. His focus is on the holistic implementation and further development of an agile culture, agile methods and leadership approaches.

Automotive vs. Agile

"Agility in Automotive? What is it like the agile mindset in the production of a safety-critical product? In the life of any company, it is important to develop the organisation and depending on its maturity, agile mindset should be introduced. We stumbled, we made mistakes, but we also set out on a journey. We are constantly improving and improving our operations."

Emese Sándor-Dobos

Emese is an Agile Coach and Organizational Psychologist who focuses on mindset, motivation, teamwork, and leadership, recognizing the importance of Organizational Culture within the Agile Transformation Strategy. Experienced with Fortune 500 as well as start-up clients across industries and with various levels of geographically distributed teams. Known for successful collaboration enablement as well as building synergies between Business and Development Teams – firm believer and ambassador of ‘Agile for Non-Software’. Advocate for forward-thinking models of future organizations such as Humanistic Management and Evolutionary-Teal.

Break the silence: Drive engagement in a team

This lightweight workshop is designed to demonstrate a facilitation technique from Liberating Structures in order to drive engagement in a team. In this interactive session we are going to invite the participants to co-create a joint bucket list using a method that allows for more participation than regular brainstorming meetings – while we also learn about each other and have some fun. The session also represents a unique collaboration between Sprint Consulting and UST as the facilitators will represent the two hosting companies.

János Megyeri

János has been an international agile consultant and trainer at Sprint Consulting since 2018. He has also worked as a personal agile and executive coach since 2015, mainly in the telecommunications, banking & finance and software development industry. His roles also included project manager, Scrum Master, agile coach and agile transformation manager. His experience in the field of continuous improvement and quality management makes him able to facilitate changes on organization level with consideration of company culture. His philosophy is that empowering people to understand each other and to communicate is the way to improve efficiency and moral.

Break the silence: Drive engagement in a team

Simon Roberts

Simon is an agile and leadership coach and Certified Scrum Trainer based in Scotland. He has used lightweight/agile methods since the late 1990s and works with organisations large and small to help them achieve better results by leveraging the power of self-organising teams. He has consulted for and led several large-scale agile transitions at DAX companies in Germany, is the author of several articles and speaks regularly at conferences on the subject of agile leadership. Simon holds an MBA specialising in Creativity, Innovation and Change from the Open University Business School.

ScaleAgility - Actionable principles for scaling

Principles are there to help you navigate where you are today to scale your organisations’ agility more effectively. Rather than being a prescriptive framework with concrete practices, it provides options to fit different contexts and apply for continuous evolutionary improvement. - ScaleAgility guidelines provide a set of principles for sustainable scaling with options and examples. - Unlike other scaling approaches, these guidelines are non-prescriptive and recognise that there is value in elements of many of them.