Starting and Stopping Your Mind - Presentation By Wayne Hetherington

Abstract - You’ve been working with a team for a while now and you’ve noticed that planning meetings always go overtime, we can never seem to agree on an estimate, design discussions always go down a technical rabbit hole, and the requirements are always too sparse.

On the other hand, the end of the sprint feels like a giant rush, there’s always unfinished work that bumps to the next sprint, and the customer is still complaining about not having their product yet. What is going on? Where are all these issues coming from?

It could be that your team has trouble starting, and trouble stopping. Join this session to learn about what happens in our minds as we think about our work and how to get started, and stopped - with some fun along the way.

Bio - Wayne is a seasoned Agile professional who believes that work should be fun as well as productive. Drawing on a wide variety of experience, he is able to help individuals, teams, and entire organizations to see measurable improvements in their efforts. He has a background in software development and has worked with startups to enterprise organizations, in healthcare, media, retail, government, transportation, and financial sectors and has noticed that common patterns emerge which can be leveraged to our advantage. He will use coaching and mentoring techniques to help you explore options and choose paths to make your work great!