Powering outcomes, not output: Product & Value Streams in Action

📍 Hosted by Legal & General
🗓 Thursday 9th October
📍 1 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AA
⏰ Doors from 6pm, Talks kick off at 6:30pm

Agile Roundabout is our community for product thinkers, delivery leaders and transformation specialists – a space for honest lessons, shared experiments and conversations that reflect the real complexity of scaling teams.

This edition explores how organisations are making the shift from output-driven delivery to product-led, value stream-aligned ways of working – with real-world stories of what’s working, what’s hard, and how to make it stick.

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### 🎤 Talks on the night:

Ben Smith
Product Director @ AutoTrader
“Autotrader Product & Technology – The Eras Tour”
From humble beginnings to a constantly evolving operating model, Ben will take us on a whistle-stop tour of the eras of Product & Technology at AutoTrader. This talk will explore:

• How Autotrader’s team structures have evolved over the last decade
• The principles that have shaped their transformation
• Key challenges they’ve faced and how their model has adapted
• Their new ‘Community Era’ and what it means for scale and culture
• Reflections on leading and organising tech communities through change

Expect honesty, insight, and some Taylor Swift-level reinvention.

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Olya Kosousova
Head of Delivery @ Times Media, News UK
“From Silos to Flow: Restructuring Teams to Accelerate Value”
News UK recently restructured its delivery model around outcome-led “North Stars”. Olya will cover how they:

• Designed and iterate cross-functional teams
• Developed T-shaped skills and collective ownership
• Identified the right metrics to drive delivery
• Removed blockers to unlock speed

A real-world look at how to turn vision into velocity.

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Victoria Leslie-Kent
Transformation Director @ Lloyds Banking Group
Talk title TBC
Victoria brings deep experience leading transformation at scale. Full details coming soon — but expect an enterprise view on embedding product models in complex organisations.