Breakfast and a talk about the growing pains of agile teams - mad, sad or glad?

We would like to invite you for breakfast in Covent Garden and join our guest speakers Julien Lavigne du Cadet and Damien O'Connor.

Our guests will introduce you to some key behaviours that surface when teams embark on an agile transformation and introduce solutions you can then try with your own teams.

After the talk, a discussion panel with our experts will open and we invite you to join in and ask questions on the growing pains you might be facing within your agile teams or, share a success story about your agile team.

Agenda

8:00am to 8:30am - Arrivals and breakfast
8:30am to 8:50am - Damien and Julien present
8:50am to 9:30am - Panel discussion with the audience
9:30am to 10:00am - Networking

About Damien

Damien supports organisations to succeed in a dynamic market by helping them to develop awareness and ways of working that are contextual to their needs.

He advises and guides organisations to gain a new set of competencies so they can continuously re-optimise to an ever-changing business landscape. He co-develops change to remove organisational debt to create the focus for innovation.

In order to achieve this, as a Transformation Coach, his role is to support business transformation programmes and develop new ways of working across departments. He teaches departments, and coach & mentor individuals.

Damien started his agile journey working alongside Thoughtworks as a software developer. From there he moved into project and programme management positions using various delivery methods, approaches, and techniques ultimately helping teams develop great software.

In his 15+ years of leadership experience he has seen the difference agile practices can make to individuals, teamwork, and organisations. He advises, coaches, and guides teams and organisations to adopt a new set of competencies so they can adjust to their changing situation, plans, and goals.

About Julien

Julien has 15+ years of experience in software development. He is leading a team of ~20 people in a fast-paced environment, building a data platform handling billions of events per day. Experienced agilist, he led several teams through an agile transition over the years and has always been focusing on values and principles over frameworks. He has seen first hand the impact of these transitions over a multi-year period.

His current team learned flexibility the hard way by being constantly faced with tough decisions on priorities due to the very high number of stakeholders they are working with. They have embraced this challenge and have developed a real taste for experimentation, coming up with new ways to organise their system of work.

See also https://medium.com/@julien.lavigne