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
Previous Transformation Director @ Lloyds Banking Group
"Organising for Speedy Value Release"
Victoria brings deep experience leading transformation at scale. Full details coming soon — but expect an enterprise view on embedding product models in complex organisations.

Heads up!
We’ve hosted over 100 Roundabouts events, and one thing we’ve consistently seen is a high drop-out rate — it’s totally normal. Because of that, we slightly oversubscribe to make sure the room feels full and buzzing. That said, the space holds 100 people max, so in the very unlikely event that everyone actually shows up (which has never happened before), there’s a small chance we might not be able to let everyone in. Appreciate your understanding!