Fast Flow of Essent

Name: Fast Flow of Essent
Start: 2024-01-25T17:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-01-25T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Essent headquarters

Hosted By

Thomas K. and 2 others

Details

Time to Flow at Essent! We are very happy to partner with Essent, who will be providing the venue, dinner and drinks, for our second meetup of the Fast Flow group in the Netherlands. Join us for an evening with two great speakers covering Team Topologies, Socio-Technical Systems, agile (lower case a) and of course Fast Flow.

🚪17:30 - Doors open
🍲 18:00-19:00 - Dinner
🎤 19:00 - Building Peaceful Teams: Integrating Non-violent Communication into Socio-Technical Design - Lindy Hutz
🚽 19:45 - Short break
🎤 20:00 - How to Organize Your Teams for Long-term Planning: Uncovering the Do's and Don'ts - Arjen de Ruiter
🍺 Afterwards, plenty of time for some networking and idea exchanges.

Abstracts:
Building Peaceful Teams: Integrating Non-violent Communication into Socio-Technical Design
In the fast-paced world of software delivery, effective communication is key to successful collaboration. In this interactive session, we'll not only discuss the theory behind Non-violent Communication (NVC) and how they enhance your ability to navigate complex team dynamics, but also engage in a couple of hands-on exercises from the book by Marshall Rosenberg and discuss its practical applications in IT to create more harmonious collaborations and improving the wiring of the organization.
Join us to explore the art of temporarily parking your own needs to truly understand and address the needs of others, and discover the profound impact it can have on your team dynamics, creating more peaceful and productive communication. Let's build vibrant, inclusive teams that thrive on understanding and compassion!

How to Organize Your Teams for long-term Planning: Uncovering the Do's and Don'ts
Essent has 30 software development teams that do product development aligned with various technical business strategies. We prefer to work in small iterations to minimize dependencies between teams, but also need some level of long-term predictability to plan for larger product launches. So how do we balance long-term project planning with creating flow? We found that certain team structures help us, while others don't. In this talk we'll share the trade-offs between different ways of organizing teams and how we ended up organizing ours based on what worked and what didn't.

Speakers:
Lindy Hutz, Technical Product Owner and DDD Coach
Lindy has a background as a Solution Architect and Developer. Residing near Eindhoven with a loving family, Lindy is passionate about learning more about effective communication in both professional and personal spheres. Beyond tech, Lindy is an avid reader, enjoys crafting beer, and unwinds with a wee dram of good whiskey. Connect with Lindy via https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindyhutz/

Arjen de Ruiter - Head of Delivery at Essent
Before Essent, Arjen worked for software driven organizations like Sendcloud and bol.com. Arjen is co-host of the Engineering Leadership Meetup. He lives in Den Bosch with his family. Connect with Arjen via https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjenderuiter/

Media Disclaimer
Both talks will be recorded and published to https://www.youtube.com/@Fast-Flow. We will also take pictures for our social media channels. By attending the meet-up, you give us permission to take photos of you. If you do not wish for your images to be used, please let us know beforehand so we can make sure that you are not included in any of our footage.

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