Name: Leadership Matters with Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick!
Start: 2019-03-19T18:30:00Z
End: 2019-03-19T21:00:00Z
Location: Skills Matter at CodeNode

At this month's Leadership Matters, we are excited to be joined by Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick, co-hosters of the year's #1 agile podcast, 'Troubleshooting Agile'.
Don't miss your chance to soak up words of wisdom from these leading experts in agile!
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PROGRAMME

18:30-19:00 Sign-in and get settled
19:00-19:45 Douglas and Jeffrey's presentation
19:45-20:00 Q&A
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Sprinting In Place: The Cost of Missing Leadership Conversations

Are you missing the promised benefits of Agile? Douglas and Jeffrey believe that the biggest key to improved performance has been holding effective conversations on difficult topics like Trust, Fear, Why, Commitment and Accountability. Failure to have these conversations can lead to a wide range of symptoms, such as: resentment of external deadlines, failure in balancing quality vs speed, confusion over product direction, and conflict over estimates. Unfortunately most people have never learned the skills to have these difficult conversations effectively. In their talk they'll explore how and why human brains default to ineffective strategies, the value of skill development for conversations, and teach you two of their favourite techniques to get started on the road to dramatic improvements: Coherence Busting and Test-Driven Development for People.
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About the Speakers:

Douglas Squirrel
Douglas Squirrel has been coding for 40 years and has led software teams for 18 of them. A London-based executive coach and consulting CTO, Douglas makes use of his extensive experience growing teams to advise startup founders and senior managers at companies such as Nested, Lostmy.name, DueDil, Trussle, and MarketInvoice. His previous roles include founding CTO at TIM Group and vice president of engineering at ecommerce startup Secretsales.

Jeffrey Fredrick
Jeffrey Fredrick is internationally recognised for his expertise in software development and has 25 years’ experience as a manager and leader. An early adopter and advocate of agile techniques, he has been a regular speaker, coach, and independent consultant on topics including agile software development, corporate strategy, product management and interaction design. His roles have included VP of Product at software-testing startup Agitar, founder at SaaS startup OpenAvenue, and CTO & Head of Product at recently-acquired fintech startup TIM Group. He co-organises the CITCON international series of software conferences with hundreds of attendees on five continents.

Megan

Tashko

Mary Woodworth

Nicole Pereira

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Java

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JavaScript

HTML5

Haskell