People+Tech: Agile is dead, long live agile! Join our (product) revolution!

Hi there People+Tech community,

This time around we are turning things up. In our in-person meetu up, first on the menu we have Kevin and Rikki, who will present you a great piece of work: our Product Manifesto. Come find out how it can help you and your product teams to become more effective.
After that, we will have a free time slot, where you can bring up your own topic for a talk or a discussion, up to you! Next, we will finish it up with some fun networking. Good food and drinks guaranteed, throughout the event. ;)

Here is exactly what's on the menu:

• 18:30 - Intro by METRO.digital
• 18:35 - ''Agile is dead, long live agile! Discover METRO's Product Manifesto...'' by Siu Lam Kevin Wong and Rikki Veeraganta, METRO.digital
• 19:00 - free slots (2x 5 min) for your topic!
• 19:15 - Round table on the topic of Product Manifest (presented earlier by Kevin & Rikki)
• 19:45 - Beer o'clock!

More about the speaker and the talk:

1. ''Agile is dead, long live agile! Discover METRO's Product Manifesto...''
In the last two decades, the Agile Manifesto brought pivotal changes to the way of working in product and even non-product teams. Dave Thomas, one of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto, proclaimed "agile is dead" in 2014. How can we bring agile "back to life"? What's the role of values in getting teams to be more effective? At METRO.digital we are starting a revolution to help teams become truly agile, via extending the sets of values that matter most, in conjunction with the original Agile Manifesto. These sets of values are derived from the current best practices on product and design thinking, and we are in the process of sharing these values with all product teams and stakeholders. During the talk I will let you know how that is going at METRO, and maybe we could inspire you to bring this set of values onto your team as well!

Kevin SL Wong is a product coach working full-time in METRO.digital, helping product managers and teams in embracing product thinking. Prior to this, he worked as a data analyst/scientist for 7 years, before he became a data product manager in various German companies such as Zalando and OLX for another 7 years. He is passionate about authentic leadership via improved interpersonal & intrapersonal communication skills, and outside work he is the organiser of a Berlin community that practices NonViolent Communication (NVC) and has offered paid trainings in partnership with HoustonNVC, an American non-profit.

Rikki Veeraganta is currently working with METRO.digital as an Agile Master. He has over 12 years of rich experience in IT management. He has played various roles in the IT eco system as a Business Development Manager, Project Manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner and Agile Coach. He worked in large enteriprises such as Hewlett Packard & PwC as well as in start-ups. Rikki brings together a comprehensive perspective of domain agnostic practices in Agile and Product development. He is also a passionate practitioner & teacher of mindfullness and yoga techniques and believes in creating enriched human interactions through his practice.

Join us on the 21th in our Berlin office and share with us some passion for food and hunger for tech!