1 Year Remote Agile | Panel Discussion

It’s been over a year now that the pandemic has disrupted our lives. Before the pandemic started, many companies were working in an agile way, presuming that working remotely would be hard for agile teams. Co-location was the norm and team cohesion a priority.

Once the pandemic had hit, however, remote work became reality for everyone. No matter the context, personality or school of thought. Some teams struggled more, others less and some really enjoyed the freedom and luxury of working from home. After one year it’s about time to reflect and share experiences within the community.

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We look forward to having this interactive panel discussion with some of the most senior experts of the agile ecosystem and would like to welcome our panel:

Jürgen De Smet
Before, during and after an Agile adoption, large organizations often find that they need to de-scale and simplify organizational structures and processes. I function as their Simplification Officer!
We address specific pain points in the system so management can learn to enable emergent solutions. For example:
➸ Horizontal complexity- consolidating functions across the enterprise
➸ Vertical complexity - shedding obsolete roles, layers and reporting structures
➸ Spatial complexity - preparing distributed / remote teams for success
➸ Technical complexity - removing technical debt by decoupling, applying XP and Dev(Sec)Ops practices
My engagements with clients achieve greater organizational alignment with fewer dependencies left to manage. Transparency with access to good data ensures empirically-sound decision making. As a result, the system becomes leaner, more customer-centric and ready with each successive change wave to build its greatest products yet.
"For companies that endure, simplicity brings its own rewards" - https://simplificationofficer.com

Michael Laussegger
Founder of Silicon.Garden, digital product person, remote-first advocate, agile native, user happiness champion, bff with UX design & arts, dad of two teenagers.
https://www.silicon.garden/

Gitte Klitgaard
Agile Coach and Owner of Native Wired
Gitte has been an agile coach at leading companies like Spotify, LEGO and IBM for more than a decade and have been independent since 2013. Her main focus the last years have been communication and implementing psychological safety as well as responsibility and accountability. It is essential for Gitte to be authentic, to cut to the chase, and help people become themselves, so they can succeed at work and outside.
She also spends time being a speaker, mentor, and trainer and have so far keynoted on three continents - often about the things that we forget to talk about.
Gitte describes herself as “curious, hippie, friend, hugger, geek and learner”
http://www.nativewired.com/

Ralf Kruse
Ralf Kruse is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) by the Scrum Alliance based in Hamburg. In his job as Enterprise Agile Coach he is helping organizations to master their challenges through the use of agile approaches. Ralf has extensive experience from helping teams & small organizations up to supporting international corporations in their holistic agile transitions & using agile at scale. Ralf is engaged in educating and coaching other Agile coaches and teams at an enterprise level.
https://enablechange.de/

Mike Leber
Mike Leber is an international thought leader on Agile and Business Agility. Working in this space since more than 20 years his main topics are business transformation, innovation, leadership and adaptive ways for change.
Located in Vienna, Austria, with a strong presence in the German speaking are, Mike works globally as Executive Consultant, Business Agility Coach and Trainer. As founder and CEO of Agile Experts e.U., he and his teams work with large international groups as well as with startups in disruptive business domains.
https://agileexperts.at/