Trust Over Control: Leading, Failing and Learning Together🌱 at AWS

Exploring Leadership, Trust and a Blameless Culture at AWS

Dearest Agilists,
As we hit the last quarter of the year it’s about time to join our next event.

What if better leadership meant giving up control? And what if making mistakes wasn't the problem – but how we deal with them?
Trust is easy to talk about, but much harder to put into practice. Especially when things go wrong, deadlines are tight, or our instinct tells us to take control. So, how do we build teams where people feel empowered to make decisions, take ownership, speak up, and learn from mistakes without fear?

This is what we’re going to dive into while teaming up with AWS in Dresden. 🎉
So join us at another great location to explore two related topics: leading by trust over power and creating a blameless culture of learning from fails.
Our valued host and speaker, Andreas Stieger, Senior Software Development Manager at AWS, will share insights and real-world experiences from his leadership journey, drawing on two of his talks presented at DecompileD. As manager at AWS, Andreas is interested in building high performance teams based on trust and enjoys sharing his experiences.

And as you know us, we're not here just to sit and listen. 😉
We'll combine short impulses with interactive reflections, discussions, and hands-on group activities. You'll have plenty of opportunities to share your own experiences, challenge assumptions, explore different perspectives, and turn insights into ideas worth trying.

Whether you're a Lead, manager, coach, Scrum Master, team member, or simply just curious about better ways of working together – your perspective matters, and we'd love to have you join us!

The event in short

• 🎤 Two short impulses provided by an experienced speaker (Thanks to Andreas!)
• 💬 Interactive reflections to share your own experiences
• 🧩 Group discussions to exchange perspectives and derive valuable insights
• 🥨 Networking & refreshments Enjoy drinks and finger food snacks, kindly provided by AWS, while having good conversations.
• 📅 Doors Open: 5:30 PM on Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at AWS Development Center Germany GmbH
• ⏰ Event Start: 6:00 PM – Registration will take some time upfront. Help us to start on time.
• 🎤 Language: Impulses will be held in English. Facilitation will be in English or German, depending on participants' needs.
• 📸 Pics: While visitors are not allowed to take pictures in the office, we might take some snapshots of the event only. Those may be used for Social Media posts on Meetup, LinkedIn or potential pages the event host is owning. If you don’t want to appear, please let us know.
• 👥 Participation: The event is free and open for interested community members. Please register for this event here, as the seats are limited.

Important: Mandatory Access & Visitor Registration
As we're meeting at an AWS office, a few security requirements apply:

• Please bring a valid photo ID. You'll need it to register at reception.
• A photo will be taken at check-in to create your temporary visitor badge.
• Reception is located in the inner courtyard. Follow the “Amazon” signage.
• Visitors must be accompanied outside the designated event area.
• Photography is only permitted within the designated event space.

We're looking forward to an evening full of enlightening perspectives, honest conversations, shared learning, and maybe a few wonderfully counter-intuitive ideas…

See you there!