Agile Xpertise

Join Jenny Martin for an immersive session about kindness in the workplace.

Agenda:

6:30pm - ⌚ Arrivals and pre-networking
6:35pm - 🎤 Jenny takes centre stage
7:30 pm - 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ Q&A
8.30pm - event concludes.

About the session:

This talk explores the critical role of kindness in the workplace, showcasing it as a crucial driver for innovation, productivity, and collective well-being.

Jenny challenges the misconception of kindness as a weakness, illustrating its powerful impact on business outcomes and team cohesion. Attendees will learn practical strategies for fostering a genuine culture of kindness, underpinned by understanding and compassion.

The session emphasises the transformative power of kindness in leadership, offering insights into creating a supportive and motivated workplace.

Encouraging leaders to embrace kindness as a core philosophy, the call to action, "Go beyond nice, go be kind," aims to enrich team dynamics and performance. Join this session to harness kindness in your leadership journey, fostering psychological safety and team flourishing

About Jenny
Jenny is an independent trainer and facilitator in collaborative agile and product development techniques and behaviours of high performing teams. She works with teams of all kinds, helping them unlock their individual and collective potential. Jenny is passionate about inclusivity and fascinated by all kinds of brains. She delivers immersive and playful learning experiences and workshops which are designed to help everyone contribute to their fullest and have fun. She is a massive fan of Lego Serious Play, and into anything to do with positive psychology, flourishing and personality science.

At the moment, she’s studying a post grad cert in the Psychology of Kindness and Wellbeing at Work.

Jenny is motivated by seeing teams and individuals flourish - when their collective intelligence and diverse experience come together to achieve awesome things, and when their individual strengths can shine.

Jenny is passionate about inclusivity and fascinated by all kinds of brains. She delivers immersive and playful learning experiences and workshops which are designed to help everyone contribute to their fullest and have fun. She is a massive fan of Lego Serious Play, and into anything to do with positive psychology, flourishing and personality science.
Jenny is active in the Agile community as an expert in team collaboration and effectiveness and a regular speaker at events across Europe.
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Join David Michel for an immersive session that focuses on the importance of Value Driven Delivery.

Agenda:

6:30pm - ⌚ Arrivals and pre-networking
6:35pm - 🎤 David takes centre stage
7:30 pm - 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ Q&A
8.30pm - event concludes.

About the session:

The ability for a team to deliver value end-2-end is crucial for agility.

However, most organisations encounter challenges with dependencies on other teams, departments, or even key individuals, making it very difficult, if not impossible, for a single team to own the entire value chain.

What, then, do we mean by ownership?
How does it differ from responsibility or accountability?

Understanding these nuances will help development teams clarify roles and expectations within the organisation:
Are we merely coding monkeys, or are we striving to be a product team?

Do we only focus on producing code or do we also care about the business outcome?

Ideally, we want to eliminate the pesky dependencies that hinder proper end-to-end ownership. But, are they perhaps inevitable? If so, what then?

Can we still own the end-2-end value chain and have dependencies to other teams? And could some dependencies actually be a good thing?

We will address these questions in this session, focusing on actionable exercises and workshop activities that you can implement in your organisation tomorrow to demystify end-to-end ownership.

Through the lens of an e-commerce payment team's experiences as a case study, we will explore:
- How to assess a team's current level of ownership
- How to map a team's current and desired state concerning engineering autonomy and breadth of shared ownership across the product domain.
- How to devise actions and strategies to enhance ownership

This session will offer valuable insights for agile coaches, team leads, and agile team members aiming to elevate their delivery process.

By the end of this session, you'll be equipped with the tools necessary to foster discussions on end-to-end ownership, empowering your team to move beyond the 'it's not my job' mindset towards a culture of collective success and continuous improvement.

About David

Dr. David Michel is an agile coach with 12 years of experience, blending a scientific background in theoretical physics with deep expertise in agile methodologies.

He has navigated various roles, from developer to Business Analyst, Product Owner and eventually Scrum Master and coach, focusing on value delivery and product thinking.

He actively engages with the agile community, sharing insights through his LinkedIn and "The Agile Broadcast" on YouTube, where he discusses agile concepts and strategies.

Follow the link and subscribe.
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAgileBroadcast
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GDPR NOTE: For the benefit of members who cannot attend, we will be recording our talks and we kindly request that only those who consent to being recorded, accept an RSVP to recorded events.

Recorded events will be added to our new YouTube channel formagility and you can subscribe to it right here:

https://youtube.com/@formagility?si=tf528wT1BtVtml1y

Looking forward to VIRTUALLY seeing you there!