Polar Expeditions and Agility: The 1911 Race to the South Pole and Modern Tales

A polar expedition and an IT project have much in common. They both share a goal, a team, and constraints. They share risk management issues, as failure is always a possibility even if the stakes are different. They also share a special relation with tooling and the influence of leadership style. But they mainly share the importance of the philosophy under which each project is undertaken.

We will see how the approach taken to face a challenge can have tragic outcomes. And how the fantastic race to the South Pole in 1911, or modern polar explorers methodology, can relate to our daily IT experience.

My personal life as a software developer, a data scientist, a team leader and what not is every day influenced by ten years experience as a polar skier, and even more by the giants on whose shoulders I stood.

Vision, team, leadership, decision making, continuous improvement, tooling… The source of inspiration never ends.

Speaker: Alexandre Masselot (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexmass)

Agenda
17h - 18h - Keynote Presentation
18:00 - 18:30 - Open Discussion