A&E Presents: Henrik Kniberg: Agile @ Lego & Alan Stanbridge: Swarming in Scrum

We are very excited to announce that our April Meetup guest speaker will be the amazing Henrik Kniberg! Henrik is a well known keynote speaker at many Agile conferences including Scrum Gathering, created the must-see Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502ILHjX9EE) and has worked extensively with Spotify and Lego in recent years! He will join us live via Skype to talk about his journey so far with Agile @ Lego and answer your questions.

Guest Speaker #1: Henrik Kniberg (live via Skype)

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Agile @ Lego - Lessons Learned So Far

How does agile program management work at an 84-year old toy manufacturing company?

Lego Digital Solutions is on a journey. For over a year now we have been experimenting with how to apply agile program management across 20 teams, how to keep teams in sync without central planning, how to interface with other not-so-agile departments, and how to run 2-day planning meetings with 150 people based on principles of self-organisation. In this talk, Henrik will share some insights from this ongoing journey.

About Henrik Kniberg

Henrik Kniberg (https://www.crisp.se/henrik.kniberg) is an Agile/Lean coach at Crisp (http://www.crisp.se/) in Stockholm, working primarily with Lego (http://www.lego.com/) and Spotify (https://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-culture-part-1/). He enjoys helping companies succeed with both the technical and human sides of software development. During the past 15 years he has been CTO of 3 Swedish IT companies and helped many more get started with Agile and Lean software development.

Henrik is former board member of the Agile Alliance (http://www.agilealliance.org/) and works regularly with Mary Poppendieck, Jeff Sutherland, Alistair Cockburn, and other thought leaders. He is the author of “Scrum and XP from the Trenches (http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/scrum-xp-from-the-trenches-2)” and “­Kanban and Scrum, making the most of both (http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/kanban-scrum-minibook)” and “Lean from the Trenches (http://pragprog.com/book/hklean/lean-from-the-trenches)“. These books are available in over 12 languages, have over 500,000 readers, and are used as primary guide to Agile and Lean software development by hundreds of companies worldwide.­

Guest Speaker #2: Alan Stanbridge (live & in-person)

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Swarming in Scrum (and a bit about remote teams)

In an effort to improve software quality and reduce technical debt we applied the concept of swarming. The theory says that we (the entire team) should work only on a single, highest-priority backlog item at a time. Alan will present the practicalities of that and tools that make it (almost) possible. Also, with team members in Boston, Chicago, Orlando, Chennai, Sarajevo, Belgrade, London and Dublin, we’ll look at the challenges of remote scrum and ways to make it work.

About Alan Stanbridge

Alan is a Scrum Master at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has previously worked at IBM and Deloitte. He knows little about Scrum but will share with us the bit that he does and is passionate about. Alan makes amazing pancakes and this might form the topic of his next picture book!

This is a Meetup not to miss!

Below is the running order for the night. We are currently looking for contributors to give 30 second Elevator Pitches. If you are looking for a job, looking to hire, looking to promote your business or promote your product please let us know. Please note - this is what it says on the tin, only 30 seconds per person. :)

There will also be complimentary tea, coffee and sandwiches for everyone who comes along.

Agenda:

• 5.59 pm Registration, complimentary tea, coffee & sandwiches

• 6.27 pm Welcome: Dave, Rob & Anto

• 6.29 pm Henrik Kniberg (live via Skype) - Agile @ Lego - Lessons Learned So Far

• 6.49 pm Audience Q&A with Henrik Kniberg

• 6.59 pm Elevator Pitches

• 7.09 pm 2nd Guest Speaker (live & in-person) - Alan Stanbridge - Swarming in Scrum (and a bit about remote teams)

• 7.39 pm Wrap-up and thank you - Dave / Rob / Anto

• 7.41 pm Drinks and follow-on conversations Cafe Bar H (next-door)

Please let us know if you can make it, if you would like a Elevator space and if you have any questions.

See you there!

Anto / Dave / Rob

The A&E Meetup Organisers.