BETTERWAYS 2024
Sept 27, 2024
ATHENS CONSERVATOIRE ARTS CENTRE
Learn and Grow
Absorb game-changing insights from industry leaders on pivotal topics.
Connect and Collaborate
Join a network of change makers. Form meaningful, lasting connections.
Make an Impact
Your participation helps drive change. Grow professionally while contributing to societal good.
Meet our Guests
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Henrik Kniberg is Chief Scientist and cofounder of Hups.com and Flitig.ai, and consultant at Crisp. Henrik’s focus is the practical application of Generative AI in product development and other areas. He explores the frontiers of this technology, builds AI-powered products, and teaches courses and workshops on how to use this technology effectively. He made the video ”Generative AI in a Nutshell” and wrote the articles ”Are developers needed in the Age of AI” and ”WhoDunit – Ai product development on steroids”.
Henrik’s background is Minecraft gameplay design & development at Mojang, and agile/lean coaching at LEGO and Spotify and other product companies.
Henrik is well-known for his books ”Scrum and XP from the Trenches” and ”Kanban and Scrum, making the most of both” and ”Lean from the Trenches”. He is also well-known for viral videos such as ”Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell” and ”Spotify Engineering Culture” (commonly referred to as the Spotify Model), and silly metaphors like the skateboard metaphor for product development, and ping pong balls to demonstrate the concept of flow. Henrik has also been engaged in climate change – he created the video Friendly Guide to Climate Change and cofounded GoClimate.com.
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What is an AI coworker?
What happens when you take a powerful generative AI model and let it out of its box? What happens when you give it context, tools, and autonomy and make it part of your workflow, assigning it tasks and responsibilities?
This keynote is about practical real-life application of generative AI, beyond the hype, and beyond chat bots. We'll look at concrete examples of how AI agents can be integrated into your value stream as proactive collaborators rather than just passive tools.
I believe the future belongs to organizations that know how to effectively apply this technology, where humans and AI agents work together on a daily basis. The purpose of this keynote is to give you a glimpse into the future, using current technology, and inspire you to start experimenting with AI coworkers in your context.
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Heidi Helfand is author of the book Dynamic Reteaming. She’s passionate about helping companies build great products and high-performing teams, and she’s particularly interested in the people side of engineering. With over 20 years of experience in the tech industry, including roles at AppFolio, Procore and Expertcity/GoToMeeting,
Heidi has gained a deep understanding of how to help organizations successfully navigate change and scale their teams. She lives in Southern California, where she enjoys spending time with her family and exploring the outdoors.
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Organizational and Technological Change - Impacts Above and Below the Surface delves into the multifaceted effects of structural shifts within teams and organizations. This talk explores how these changes influence both the human dynamics and the underlying technical systems. We'll uncover the ripple effects that can occur in team interactions, code integrity, and system architecture. Additionally, we'll share practical coaching strategies to guide teams through these transitions, ensuring that people are equipped to succeed in evolving environments.
Heidi’s talk sponsored by Kaizen Gaming
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Michael Feathers is the founder and Director of R7K Research & Conveyance, a
company specializing in software and organization design. Michael is also the author
of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Prentice Hall, 2004).https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com
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Organizational and Technological Change - Impacts Above and Below the Surface delves into the multifaceted effects of structural shifts within teams and organizations. This talk explores how these changes influence both the human dynamics and the underlying technical systems. We'll uncover the ripple effects that can occur in team interactions, code integrity, and system architecture. Additionally, we'll share practical coaching strategies to guide teams through these transitions, ensuring that people are equipped to succeed in evolving environments.
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Joakim Sundén is a consultant with Crisp, a small Swedish consultancy featuring world-renowned product development experts who help develop customer-focused organizations. From 2011 to 2017, he worked as a Senior Agile Coach at Spotify, where he was part of a team collaborating with the CTO to develop the company’s approach to customer-focused product development at scale. This model would later become world-famous as ‘the Spotify Model’ of Tribes, Squads, Chapters, and Guilds. He now assists leaders in transforming and improving their organizations into models where employees are empowered to create innovative solutions that not only customers love but also drive business success.
Joakim frequently speaks and teaches on topics such as the Product Model, the Spotify Model, Empowered Product Teams, Intent-Based Leadership, Strategy, and Objectives & Key Results (OKRs).
Joakim is the co-author of Kanban In Action (Manning, 2014).
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Beyond Scrum: How The Best Are Different From The Rest
Scrum can be really great, but it only gets you so far. Team based collaboration and delivering product increments every two weeks is no longer the competitive advantage it maybe once was, it’s more or less expected in a modern workplace. Sure, many bigger organizations still struggle with being able to release more frequently and consistently with high quality, but most are well aware of the problem and know where to shop for solutions.
In my experience, the biggest difference between great product companies, such as Spotify, and the not-so-great, is that the latter are busy delivering tons of stuff that they don’t know is going to make any difference whatsoever. And even worse – they don’t seem to care! At least that’s what it looks like as their teams are busy implementing requirements and specifications initiated by “business people” and calling it done as soon as the solution fulfills the specification (if even that). Teams simply don’t have the tools, the way of working, or the responsibility of making sure they are actually changing user behaviors, creating impact, and delivering business results.
On the other hand, in the best companies, teams have all this and they know that most ideas on a typical roadmap are going to fail. This is why the leaders in these companies focus on what objectives they need to achieve, then give the teams the context and information they need, and let them figure out how to actually reach results.
You should do this too. In this talk I explain why and share my view and experience of how to make that happen.
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Itamar is a coach, author and speaker specializing in evidence-guided product management and product strategy. For over two decades he held senior product management and engineering roles at Google, Microsoft and a number of startups. At Google Itamar worked at YouTube and led parts of Gmail.
Itamar is the author of the book Evidence-Guided: Creating High-Impact Products in the Face of Uncertainty. He also publishes a popular product management newsletter and is the creator of a number of product management methodologies including GIST Framework and The confidence meter.
Itamar is based in Barcelona, Spain.
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Evidence-Guided Product Development
In the past few decades we’ve made major leaps forward in the way we design, develop, and deploy tech products. Product management, however, hasn’t evolved as much. We still invest time and effort into untested ideas, often on the basis of opinions, consensus, and rank.
In this talk I’ll suggest ways to supercharge our judgment with evidence. We’ll look at evidence-guided alternatives to roadmaps, backlogs, and decision-by-committee. I’ll show you the Confidence Meter — a tool to evaluate ideas based on evidence — and how you may use it to improve the quality of discussions and decisions. We’ll discuss what leadership means when the opinions of leaders carry less weight, and how teams may gain trust and empowerment by using evidence. Finally we’ll touch on the role of product managers in this brave new world.
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Luxshan Ratnaravi, known for being the author of Comic Agilé, holds an M.Sc. in Software Engineering and is an independent Agile Coach. His mission is to help more people use humor actively address what really happens when the good intentions of agile meet the harsh reality of organizational contexts–and making it work. He has done this by articulating and visualising more than 280 antipatterns through Comic Agilé together with his business parter, Mikkel Noe-Nygaard, and now has expanded the brand into being a consultancy that offers workshops, courses and no BS consultants.
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What happens when agile meets reality (told through a comic strip)
In this talk, the writer of Comic Agilé, Luxshan Ratnaravi, will take the audience through a visual and provocative journey of agile anti-patterns and misunderstandings, told through his tragicomic strips in a highly entertaining fashion.
The presented content, points and lessons will be relatable to agile practitioners, developers and Management, as they'll center around topics such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Spotify and Product Management – and why implementing these approaches often fail miserably in a sea of bullshit bingo.
During his talk, Luxshan will also emphasize how to avoid the depicted mistakes, so the audience can reflect on their current agile practices and learn how to improve them
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Abeba Birhane is a cognitive scientist, currently a Senior Advisor in AI Accountability at Mozilla Foundation and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her research focuses on AI accountability, particularly on audits of AI models and training datasets – work for which she was featured in Wired UK and TIME on the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI list. Birhane also serves on the United Nations Secretary-General’s AI Advisory Body and the newly-convened AI Advisory Council in Ireland.
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AI: potential benefits, proven risks
The past number of years have seen peak excitement, enthusiasm, and inflated optimism around AI, mostly predicated upon yet to materialise “benefits”, “potentials”, and “promises”. Actual deployed systems however continue to fail to live up to their promises, leading to numerous downstream impacts including erosion of public trust in AI.
In this talk, we survey current state-of-the-art AI systems and their downstream impact on society and present recommendations geared towards reliable and equitable AI systems as well as mechanisms for accountability.
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Eleanor is a foresight and innovation specialist whose career has spanned legal policy, money laundering investigations, innovation and future thinking. She designed, built and led KPMG’s Future Institute in the UK and have worked with the senior leadership teams of organisations spanning multiple sectors and industries from healthcare through to mining, logistics and financial services.
Today she's the owner of Foresightfully, a boutique consultancy, which specialises in supporting C-suite leaders to think and act differently in the face of rapid and unpredictable change; that might include refreshing strategy, motivating the leadership team, bringing the ‘outside-in’ perspective or providing one to one challenge. She brings experience, insight and provocation around global trends, future ready leadership, scenario planning, strategy, innovation and disruption.
Using value as the anchor, how it is built, sustained and lost, She helps you to understand the impact of external change on your sector and industry dynamics and, critically, to react by developing clear short and long term action plans. -
The future is not what it used to be. Foresight as an agile capability
In highly uncertain times, it pays to be foresightful, anticipating change and adapting - before it's too late! Where can we enhance Agile approaches to better navigate disruption?
Vision - how to create and communicate a vision and story of change that resonates and that others can be part of
Purpose - what's happening around the world in the way that organisations define and align around purpose - and what can we learn for our own teams
Reimagining the 'usual' - how to think creatively and even disruptively to create radical opportunities for your business
Through stories, examples and practical tools, this session will set you up to understand, debate and exploit the opportunities that present themselves in times of flux.
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Holding an MSc in Electrical & Computer Engineering and an MA in Design for Interactive Media by the early 00s, Sotiris set out on his professional career in the wild world of online applications, developing interactive software and gaming engines for major accounts in London. For the best part of that decade, Sotiris continued expanding his experience in software development in a wide range of industries in Greece and in the UK before the gaming world finally won him over. Since then, Sotiris spends most of his time building and operating large-scale distributed systems, while working with great teams trying to make continuous delivery the norm.
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Interesting solutions to mundane problems
Software and organizational changes needed for a back-office lift and shift project
A brief presentation on Novibet’s journey migrating their back-office to a new architecture and the technical and organizational challenges we faced. By combining best engineering practices with unconventional organizational strategies, this presentation highlights how seemingly mundane tasks can be addressed with innovative approaches to achieve significant improvements.
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As an engineer, Georgios prides himself for being pragmatic and a generalist - engineering at its best is meant to bring an intention to life. To build a system that fulfills specific requirements over time. With over 12 years of experience working with or for startup organizations, he really knows what it takes to kickstart a project without sacrificing long-term goals like maintainability or scalability. Since he co-founded Zero to MVP in 2019, Georgios and his team have built over 25 systems that can pivot and scale.
Beyond technology, he is interested in the human body - he has certified as a Flowfit and Clubbell instructor and has attended a 5-day live dissection!
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State of health for IT workers: A call to action
“You just sit all day” - how many times have you heard that? Is working from a chair and in front of a screen less demanding than physically-challenging jobs? What is the true impact of our work on our health?
My journey began the moment I first sat on a chair. Over the past 30 years I have explore exercise modalities from weights, yoga, gymnastics and CrossFit, eventually leading me to attend a live dissection of a human cadaver, all in pursuit of answering this crucial question:
“What I need to be doing NOW, to ensure I can play with my grandchildren when I’m 80?”
At technical conferences like this one, we spend days dissecting complexities of the systems we build, yet we often overlook the most intricate system of all: our own bodies. This presentation, drawing from anatomy, fascia research and my own experimentation, will:
Provide insights into how our bodies work and the impact of desk work.
Unpack common logical fallacies that hinder our long-term wellbeing.
Offer practical suggestions to invest in a lifetime of ability, free from pain and injury.
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Petros Plakogiannis lives in Greece. He has graduated from the University of Piraeus and the Technological Educational Institute of Crete. He has been working professionally as a software tester since 2009, with a strong focus on automated testing using various tools like QTP, Selenium, Cypress, etc. He also has significant experience in white box, application, and security testing. He travels a lot and supports customers onsite by providing information regarding automation testing. He is also a Cypress Ambassador and the main organizer of the Ministry of Testing Athens meetups, and he is very active in the testing community
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To BDD or Not to BDD
Behaviour-driven development attempts to solve the problem of implementing poorly defined requirements. Our client is in the chemical industry. Hence, it was quite difficult for my team to adapt quickly to the corresponding business. To be more precise, in order to build the product, we needed to understand mathematical models, equations and the glossary of chemical terms. BDD was the solution. The management team heard the magic buzzword “BDD” and hoped that it would solve our challenges. However, nobody was following the principles of BDD and BDD became just another “automation tool”. Business users continued to send documents and emails with the requirements, Developers never used the BDD approach, the Analysis team did not follow the patterns to write correct Gherkin syntax as prescribed by the BDD creators etc. The result for the project was just a big mess. In order to address the problems, we had some mini training sessions for all our team regarding the correct principles of BDD. We also trained customers with webinars and showed them how they could write Gherkin files. Also, we have introduced the pre-flight checks concept. Hence, my proposal is this: Do you want to use BDD? Use it as intended or it will just create more complexity.
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Konstantinos Giamalis is the Chief Product Officer of efood, the leading online food delivery in Greece. He has a background in Performance Marketing & Analytics. You can read more about him in his personal blog (kgiamalis.co) where he shares valuable lessons.
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Coach decisions & Product Management
In this talk Konstantinos will share a football story with a very important lesson for every Product professional out there. Really, what can we learn as PMs from a football coach?
Talks
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Welcome
Community Impact Spotlight: MSF Greece and KETHEA STROFI
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What happens when you take a powerful generative AI model and let it out of its box? What happens when you give it context, tools, and autonomy and make it part of your workflow, assigning it tasks and responsibilities?
This keynote is about practical real-life application of generative AI, beyond the hype, and beyond chat bots. We'll look at concrete examples of how AI agents can be integrated into your value stream as proactive collaborators rather than just passive tools.
I believe the future belongs to organizations that know how to effectively apply this technology, where humans and AI agents work together on a daily basis. The purpose of this keynote is to give you a glimpse into the future, using current technology, and inspire you to start experimenting with AI coworkers in your context.
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In the past few decades we’ve made major leaps forward in the way we design, develop, and deploy tech products. Product management, however, hasn’t evolved as much. We still invest time and effort into untested ideas, often on the basis of opinions, consensus, and rank.
In this talk I’ll suggest ways to supercharge our judgment with evidence. We’ll look at evidence-guided alternatives to roadmaps, backlogs, and decision-by-committee. I’ll show you the Confidence Meter — a tool to evaluate ideas based on evidence — and how you may use it to improve the quality of discussions and decisions. We’ll discuss what leadership means when the opinions of leaders carry less weight, and how teams may gain trust and empowerment by using evidence. Finally we’ll touch on the role of product managers in this brave new world.
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“You just sit all day” - how many times have you heard that? Is working from a chair and in front of a screen less demanding than physically-challenging jobs? What is the true impact of our work on our health?
My journey began the moment I first sat on a chair. Over the past 30 years I have explore exercise modalities from weights, yoga, gymnastics and CrossFit, eventually leading me to attend a live dissection of a human cadaver, all in pursuit of answering this crucial question:
“What I need to be doing NOW, to ensure I can play with my grandchildren when I’m 80?”
At technical conferences like this one, we spend days dissecting complexities of the systems we build, yet we often overlook the most intricate system of all: our own bodies. This presentation, drawing from anatomy, fascia research and my own experimentation, will:
Provide insights into how our bodies work and the impact of desk work.
Unpack common logical fallacies that hinder our long-term wellbeing.
Offer practical suggestions to invest in a lifetime of ability, free from pain and injury.
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Organizational and Technological Change - Impacts Above and Below the Surface delves into the multifaceted effects of structural shifts within teams and organizations. This talk explores how these changes influence both the human dynamics and the underlying technical systems. We'll uncover the ripple effects that can occur in team interactions, code integrity, and system architecture. Additionally, we'll share practical coaching strategies to guide teams through these transitions, ensuring that people are equipped to succeed in evolving environments.
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Software and organizational changes needed for a back-office lift and shift project
A brief presentation on Novibet’s journey migrating their back-office to a new architecture and the technical and organizational challenges we faced. By combining best engineering practices with unconventional organizational strategies, this presentation highlights how seemingly mundane tasks can be addressed with innovative approaches to achieve significant improvements.
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Scrum can be really great, but it only gets you so far. Team based collaboration and delivering product increments every two weeks is no longer the competitive advantage it maybe once was, it's more or less expected in a modern workplace. Sure, many bigger organizations still struggle with being able to release more frequently and consistently with high quality, but most are well aware of the problem and know where to shop for solutions. In my experience, the biggest difference between great product companies, such as Spotify, and the not-so-great, is that the latter are busy delivering tons of stuff that they don't know is going to make any difference whatsoever. And even worse – they don't seem to care! At least that's what it looks like as their teams are busy implementing requirements and specifications initiated by "business people" and calling it done as soon as the solution fulfills the specification (if even that). Teams simply don't have the tools, the way of working, or the responsibility of making sure they are actually changing user behaviors, creating impact, and delivering business results. On the other hand, in the best companies, teams have all this and they know that most ideas on a typical roadmap are going to fail. This is why the leaders in these companies focus on what objectives they need to achieve, then give the teams the context and information they need, and let them figure out how to actually reach results. You should do this too. In this talk I explain why and share my view and experience of how to make that happen.
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Behaviour-driven development attempts to solve the problem of implementing poorly defined requirements. Our client is in the chemical industry. Hence, it was quite difficult for my team to adapt quickly to the corresponding business. To be more precise, in order to build the product, we needed to understand mathematical models, equations and the glossary of chemical terms. BDD was the solution. The management team heard the magic buzzword “BDD” and hoped that it would solve our challenges. However, nobody was following the principles of BDD and BDD became just another “automation tool”. Business users continued to send documents and emails with the requirements, Developers never used the BDD approach, the Analysis team did not follow the patterns to write correct Gherkin syntax as prescribed by the BDD creators etc. The result for the project was just a big mess. In order to address the problems, we had some mini training sessions for all our team regarding the correct principles of BDD. We also trained customers with webinars and showed them how they could write Gherkin files. Also, we have introduced the pre-flight checks concept. Hence, my proposal is this: Do you want to use BDD? Use it as intended or it will just create more complexity.
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In this talk, the writer of Comic Agilé, Luxshan Ratnaravi, will take the audience through a visual and provocative journey of agile anti-patterns and misunderstandings, told through his tragicomic strips in a highly entertaining fashion.
The presented content, points and lessons will be relatable to agile practitioners, developers and Management, as they'll center around topics such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Spotify and Product Management – and why implementing these approaches often fail miserably in a sea of bullshit bingo.
During his talk, Luxshan will also emphasize how to avoid the depicted mistakes, so the audience can reflect on their current agile practices and learn how to improve them
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Panelists: Abeba Birhane, Henrik Kniberg, Michael Feathers, Diomidis Spinellis
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In this talk Konstantinos will share a football story with a very important lesson for every Product professional out there. Really, what can we learn as PMs from a football coach?
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In highly uncertain times, it pays to be foresightful, anticipating change and adapting - before it's too late! Where can we enhance Agile approaches to better navigate disruption?
Vision - how to create and communicate a vision and story of change that resonates and that others can be part of
Purpose - what's happening around the world in the way that organisations define and align around purpose - and what can we learn for our own teams
Reimagining the 'usual' - how to think creatively and even disruptively to create radical opportunities for your business
Through stories, examples and practical tools, this session will set you up to understand, debate and exploit the opportunities that present themselves in times of flux.
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The past number of years have seen peak excitement, enthusiasm, and inflated optimism around AI, mostly predicated upon yet to materialise “benefits”, “potentials”, and “promises”. Actual deployed systems however continue to fail to live up to their promises, leading to numerous downstream impacts including erosion of public trust in AI. In this talk, we survey current state-of-the-art AI systems and their downstream impact on society and present recommendations geared towards reliable and equitable AI systems as well as mechanisms for accountability.
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Parallel Workshops
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Luxshan Ratnaravi
Workshop Description
Many organizations can increase the return of their investments in going agile by articulating and removing their agile pains (i.e., misunderstandings, conflicts and antipatterns born out of implementing agile ways of working), as well as becoming aware of the consequences of having them. Agile antipatterns are sub-par solutions to challenges, and they occur when the intentions of working agile meet the limitations of the organizational reality. When the changes required to go agile are too big or difficult, organizations might take “pragmatic” shortcuts that, on the surface, seem appropriate and sensible, but in the long run can decrease the benefits of the investment—thus, the organization creates agile antipatterns (or “agile debt”).
This workshop teaches the participants to identify, describe, communicate and remove these agile pains by using the humorous format of Comic Agilé strips.
Examples of agile antipatterns:
#1: Product Owners only prioritize business features and not technical enablers and process improvement initiatives. Consequence: Reduced quality of the product and no culture of continuous improvement.
#2: Scrum Masters “do” instead of teaching and coaching. Consequence: The team is ineffective because it doesn’t learn self-management and to grow as a team, but keeps being dependant on the Scrum Master to facilitate it.
#3: Dependencies are not broken, but instead coordinated through a scaling framework. Consequence: It takes longer than needed for each team to deliver value because of the need for cross-team coordination.
Workshop participants will learn:
How to identify and articulate the biggest agile pains of their organizations, inspired by the creative Comic Agilé way of thinking, structuring and presenting points
How to communicate agile pains, and their impact, to decision-makers
How to remove the causes of their specific agile pains
Take-away:
Your own Comic Agilé strip (per group) based on an actual, current agile pain from your organization that you can communicate to decision-makers to inspire change.
Workshop Disposition
Introduction to the theory behind agile pains, how they can be identified and prioritized based their impact, and how creating them can be an unconscious choice—combined with loads of the instructor’s own experienced agile pains presented humorously through the Comic Agilé format.
Workshop where the participants, in groups, identify, break down and articulate their own relevant and actual agile pains in the form of a four-panel comic strip (no drawing skills needed).
Sparring with the instructor and each other on the root causes of the chosen agile pains, how their organizations can eliminate them, and how to decide which agile pains to keep for now.
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Valadis Novakovits
Workshop Description
Feeling like your team is constantly stuck?
Many organizations split into teams and adopt microservices with the promise of agility, but struggle to achieve true flow.
During this workshop, we will get our hands dirty and redesign our socio-technical system as co-workers in the same company, going step by step through different milestones.
We will freeze time to surface different problems and break free using, among other principles, Domain Driven Design superpowers that will crush common roadblocks.This workshop is ideal for developers, architects, team leads, as well as agile coaches interested in unleashing better socio-technical ways in order to accelerate and boost effective collaboration.
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Eleni Dimitropoulou & Dimitris Papageorgiou
Workshop Description
In this workshop, you will learn how to apply next-generation developer techniques throughout your software development lifecycle and you will gain practical insights into how generative AI can significantly enhance your efficiency. Through hands-on sessions, you will use generative AI tools to generate high-quality, context-specific guidance. You will also understand how to utilise generative AI to automate repetitive and well-defined development tasks, setting aside time to focus on high-value innovative aspects of your day- to-day work. Lastly, you will have the chance to get acquainted to generative AI tools, using Amazon Q developer directly in your IDE as a developer companion.
In this workshop, you will learn how to apply next-generation developer techniques throughout your software development lifecycle and you will gain practical insights into how generative AI can significantly enhance your efficiency. Through hands-on sessions, you will use generative AI tools to generate high-quality, context-specific guidance. You will also understand how to utilise generative AI to automate repetitive and well-defined development tasks, setting aside time to focus on high-value innovative aspects of your day- to-day work. Lastly, you will have the chance to get acquainted to generative AI tools, using Amazon Q developer directly in your IDE as a developer companion.
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Spyros Lambrinidis
Feeling overwhelmed by product requirements and struggling to build a clear direction for your team? In today's fast-paced digital world, leaders need a strategic approach to navigate the sea of possibilities.
This session explores the power of Focus, Flow, and Win as the cornerstones of your product roadmap. We'll delve into techniques for prioritizing requirements, harnessing the power of agile methodologies, and fostering a state of flow within your team.
This session will equip you with:
A framework for translating business requirements to product requirements
Filtering and prioritizing product requirements.
Strategies to cultivate a focused and collaborative team environment.
Actionable steps to build a dynamic roadmap that drives both business impact and tech excellence.
Leave the distractions behind and unlock the rhythm for success! Join us and discover how to build a winning product roadmap that fuels both business growth and cutting-edge technological innovation.
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Elena Chronopoulou, Byron Georgantopoulos, Vasilis Gennaris, Giannis Theocharis
Workshop Description
The Cynefin LEGO Game is an excellent hands-on workshop for teams to understand Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework and its decision-making processes in action.
The Cynefin framework is a sense-making model that helps individuals and organizations understand and respond effectively to complex situations. It provides a taxonomy for different types of problems: simple, complicated, complex, chaotic, and disorder.
After identifying which domain a situation belongs to, the appropriate response or strategy based on that domain should be applied.
Workshop Structure:
Introduction, Icebreaker, LEGO game explanation (20 minutes): Brief introduction and an icebreaker activity to energize participants. Present the Cynefin concepts, domains and types of challenges each domain represents. Explain the flow and rules of the game. Participants will work in teams and build different models based on the scenarios provided.
Game Execution and debriefing (70 minutes): Present various scenarios drawn from the four Cynefin domains (Simple, Complicated, Complex, Chaotic). Formed teams with will build their LEGO models based on the given scenarios. After each scenario, a discussion to reflect on team’s approach, challenges and lessons learned will follow. Teams will present their LEGO model and explain their decision-making process.
Participants will
Improve their Understanding of the of the Cynefin framework and its practical application.
Develop stronger collaboration skills through the hands-on LEGO game experience.
Be equipped with tools and techniques to improve their decision making strategies especially in complex and uncertain situations.
Generate actionable insights that can be applied to real-world Agile practices within their organisations
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Striking a harmonious balance between technical excellence and human collaboration is the cornerstone of success. It is not just about implementing robust architectures or intricate design patterns. We will present a modular architectural paradigm where cross-cutting concerns are elegantly decoupled from core business logic and seamlessly managed across multiple teams working on a shared codebase, employing a combination of layered and vertical slices architecture.
We have used this approach to empower teams to iteratively enhance or replace implementations of cross-cutting concerns without disrupting the core application, all while stream-aligned teams focused on delivering business value within their own vertical slices. We will also demonstrate the alignment mechanism we used, so that collaboration, maintainability and cognitive load are not mere afterthoughts but integral components of the development process.
The workshop will guide you from a simple empty base project to a real-life production system, ensuring each step adheres to the original architectural decisions through the use of ArchUnit, reflection, source generators, and ADRs.
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