Go Agile! Stand with Ukraine 💙💛

Six months of the Russian war in Ukraine. Russia’s invasion has affected the tech industry in countless ways, many companies and individual entrepreneurs had to react to disruptive changes and get back into action in a very short notice.

We, an Agile community in Sweden, don’t want to stay indifferent to the challenges our colleagues are facing in Ukraine and would like to support Ukrainians with a series of online events to invite some of them to share their own stories of adapting to the new challenges when it comes to life-work balance, planning when it’s hardly possible to plan, retaining and finding new clients etc. We are also looking for volunteers in our local community who would be willing to share their very own experience, for example, in finding your first job in Sweden or cultural aspects of working within a multinational environment.

Whilst we remain completely free of charge, we would like to encourage you to help and donate to the list of the small charities of your choice as a gratitude for the speakers of this event. Details will be shared soon.

In our first online event we are hosting 2 speakers from Ukraine:

Talk #1: Growing your freelance agile coaching practice into a consulting agency.

Yuriy Koziy,
Executive Agile Coach, Managing Partner @ agiledrive

- Beyond employment: legal ways to develop your impact (and income) as an agile coach
- Are there any better ways of contracting rather than an hourly/daily rate model? And what impact do they make on clients’ results?
- How have my role, responsibilities and level of impact changed during my agency growth from 1 to 8 coaches

Yuriy is one of the pioneers of Business Agility in Ukraine going far outside of IT domain. He left successful career in IT to teach and coach teams in various industries (Vodafone, UKRSIBBANK, eva, banda, Borjomi, OTP Bank etc).
As a Managing Partner for agiledrive, Yuriy and his fellow coaches run organizational Agile transformations in Ukraine and beyond, helping people regain meaning, purpose and joy in complex enterprise environments.
Yuriy's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yurkoziy/

Talk #2: Work-Life balance while working in Iterations

Victoria Kovero,
Scrum Master at Alfa Laval

Nowadays we hear more about Work-Life Balance but at the same time in an era where expectations are growing, we can find ourselves not keeping that balance even though we working with new Agile methodologies (agile manifesto promotes that people should be highly valued in an organization). Why Iterations (Sprints) instead of bringing flexibility to our development process at the same time can bring burnout to some of the employees?

Discussion points/themes:
What we mean by Work-Life Balance and the new term War-Life Balance
Agile Burnout
Factors that influence Work-Life Balance
How to maintain Work-Life Balance better
And much more.

Victoria Kovero is a Ukrainian IT professional who recently arrived in Sweden and was employed by Alfa Laval as Scrum Master. She works now with SAFe Framework and helps scrum teams on their way to Digital Transformation.
Prior to that she consulted US-based companies such as Visme and Digital Edge Ventures and helped to implement agile practices across organizations. She was able to achieve sustainable value delivery to end customers and continuously improve products with early user feedback.
Areas of interest: Sustainability, Self-organized teams, Agile-Lean mindset, User-centered design, Product Management.
Victoria's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-kovero-78075b51/

Event will be hosted on the Zoom platform, the link to join will be shared shortly before the event.

Thanks and hope to see you soon!