Agile on the Beach 2019
Talks
Rewrite, Rework or Refactor
“Let’s just rewrite this” is a common refrain in the software industry and even newly written code can quickly come to be seen as Legacy Code. It is often seen as the easy option, but can lead to months and even years of effort to replicate a syst...
David Legge
Agile
Design your thinking
Justyna explores the concept of Design Thinking - how to change your mindset and the way you perceive the system that you work in. Design Thinking is not only for creative professions but for everyone in the organization. Combined with the Lean St...
Justyna Pindel
Agile
It’s Agile Jim, but not as we know it!
Whether you’re building a Klingon Bird-of-Prey or Robot Vacuum cleaner, Agile software delivery for physical products is hard. When you are bringing together the development of an embedded software platform, robotics and machine learning algorithm...
Andrew Nesling
Agile
How we used an Agile Mindset to deliver a complex user focussed product...
Scott Fulton delivers a talk on how he used an Agile mindset to to deliver a complex user focussed product with no estimates, no projects, no developers and not a project manager in sight. Avon and Somerset Police’s digital workspace was delive...
Scott Fulton
Agile
Turning the Oil Tanker
Like many IT organisations Cornwall Council IT is told by the business areas it serves that it is; bureaucratic, not customer focused, too expensive, not innovative, is dis-jointed and never seems to deliver what is expected. This talk from Agi...
Suzanne Manson, Mark Rudge
Agile
Liberating Structures
What would be made possible if you could unleash the intelligence and creativity of everyone? Liberating Structures are a collection of easy-to-learn facilitation patterns that make this possible. They’re field tested, rooted in complexity science...
David Heath
Agile
Resilience – How to bring your best through the worst
Shall we be honest? Agile isn’t all glamour, manifestos and medals. If you’ve found a new way of doing things, its hard getting people to listen, never mind do. As leaders, coaches and reluctant change agents we find ourselves campaigning throu...
John Clapham
Agile
A spoonful of sugar: harnessing language to achieve your goals
We want to work to our best, and if we have teams, we want them to do the same. In Ceri Newton's Agile On The Beach 2019 session she looks at words and how they can improve your outcomes and propel you and your team to where you want to be. Ski...
Ceri Newton
Agile
The User Journey of A Refugee
Between 2015 and 2016, over 130,000 asylum seekers requested asylum in Austria – taking the country of 8.7 million people completely by surprise. As politicians were reluctant to act, civil society jumped in and founded hundreds of grassroots init...
Stephanie Gasche
Agile
The Good Testing, The Bad Testing and The Ugly Testing
Sadly not only do those outside of the testing industry often misunderstand what good looks like, so do those within testing as well. As tools vendors and service companies push their own agenda’s and universities push out more and more graduates ...
Stephen Janaway
Agile
Innovation Is A Wicked Problem
Dr Tendayi Viki shares the lessons he has learnt from working with large companies to move them from linear to non linear working practices and the challenges that people working with an Agile mindset have in these linear environments. BIOGRA...
Dr Tendayi Viki
Agile
Real World Iterative Database Development
Incremental delivery is now a fundamental skill for developers. Understanding how to produce working code, small step by small step, is at the very core of successful software development. Yet the area of incremental, well-structured database desi...
Chris Pitts, Ron Ballard
Agile
In Search of the Perfect Cloud Native Developer Experience
All of us are creating software to support the delivery of value to our customers and to the business, and therefore, the developer experience from idea generation to running (and observing) applications in production must be fast, reliable, and p...
Daniel Bryant
Agile
Pair Programming: Better Than Adderall
For years Matt Kleiman’s Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and other learning disabilities deterred his success on traditional software development teams. Working alone, on globally distributed teams, and on amorphous tasks, Matt found himself stru...
Matthew Kleiman
Agile
How much do you trust the team?
Andy Eley looks at teams and how we can build better, trusting relationships with them and our external stakeholders. Why? Because you work with them day in, day out, spending the majority of your waking life with them. But how much do you trust...
Andy Eley
Agile
How evolutionary psychology validates the Agile mindset
David Michel explores how psychology works to validate the Agile mindset, drawing from personality psychology and evolutionary biology to shed some lights into why we behave the way we do and why the agile mindset might be either easier or harder ...
David Michel
Agile
Agile Flack to Hack - Adventures of an Agile journalist
As UK feature writer to the Scrum Alliance’s magazine, Agile Vox, Rachel Picked is tasked with assignments across the country, reporting on how organisations implement Agile. Watch Rachel deliver her Agile On The Beach 2019 talk about her adventu...
Rachel Picked
Agile
Neuroscience for Product Managers
We usually underestimate how difficult the Product Manager or Product Owner role is. If we think about how much energy and how much brain they need to be able to generate creative ideas, be full of insights and handle market feedback – this is def...
Anna Obukhova
Agile
Sustaining Remote - First Teams
With more engineers working from home or travelling than sitting at a desk in the London office this talk covers how she organises cross-team initiatives to sustain this way of working. BIOGRAPHY Rachel Davies is a world-renowned expert in Agi...
Rachel Davies
Agile
Healthy Governance of Agile Delivery
Steve conducted a discovery to explore the needs of stakeholders from governance processes in government digital projects, to understand how their needs might be met in other ways that are more compatible with agile ways of working. As a result h...
Steve Parks
Agile
Establishing Business Agility at the Bank
Increasing organisational effectiveness through the adoption of Agile principles and practices is far more common for IT than for the business. Ideally, the business and IT should work as one, but as it is rarely the case, change planning needs to...
Julian Holmes, Dee Wauchope
Agile
Pragmatic Agile at scale with safety-critical products
BIOGRAPHY Rick Crawford's session from Agile On The Beach 2019. Rick has been in the nuclear industry since 2002, doing mathematical and computational modelling and quietly introducing little bits of Agility here and there. Since February 20...
Rick Crawford
Agile
Web Components: Maintaining and Reusing your Frontend
Reinventing the wheel is no fun and, in her entertaining session Joy uses an example to share her design process for developing web components that are accessible, pretty, and easy to reuse. She also shares her tips and tricks for maintaining and...
Joy Heron
Agile
Reaching out to Cornwall
The Software Cornwall lunchtime talk at Agile On The Beach 2019 looked at what the organisation is endeavouring to achieve for the software industry in Cornwall. By engaging with students in Cornwall, Software Cornwall’s aim is to improve the real...
Tony Edwards, Robert Wiltshire
Agile
Coal Miners, productivity and socio-technical teams
Watch Ilam Kirschenbaum and Laurence Wood deliver a true story about a unique mining community and what it teaches us about creating a culture of productivity and hyper-productive teams at Agile On The Beach 2019. Together, Laurence and Ilan take...
Ilan Kirschenbaum, Laurence Wood
Agile
Digital Transformation and our challenges
HM Land Registry’s strategy is to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and open approach to data. To achieve this HMLR needs to take bold steps to modernise by transforming our organisation, our people, ways of working an...
Kim Bird ad Jayne Walked
Agile
Re-designing a service for vulnerable users in a digital age
Healthy Start is a Government scheme that helps eligible families on low incomes to eat healthily, by providing vouchers to buy vegetables, fruit, milk and infant formula. The team has worked on a service overhaul by digitising the service and cha...
Healthy Start
Agile
Thinking more product: Moving from Scrum to dual-track Agile
Suze explores a case study from her recent work in a London agency, where, working for a large retail client, the programme of work moved from a project-based delivery model incorporating Scrum to a more product-based model. Drawing on aspects of ...
Suzanna Haworth
Agile
OKRs for Product Management
Semen Arslan looks at OKR (Objective and Key Results) and how the framework can be used to set goals that connects Agile product management practices with organisations performance metrics. It has started to be used by companies such as Google, Or...
Semen Arslan
Agile
OKR
Let Me Tell You A Story: The Power of Storytelling in Product Design
Picture the last time you were told a great story about change…how did it make you feel? Were you inspired or moved to action? As Product Designers, storytelling is critical in how we create experiences for our users. During this interactive tutor...
Mark Cruth
Agile
Unlearning: The Challenge of Change
The world we live in requires us to acquire new skills and absorb new knowledge in order to stay afloat. We must learn to SHIFT as things around us are changing. We see this on an individual, team, and organizational levels. However, we are leavin...
Jessie Shternshus
Agile
Let’s build sustainable and empathetic cross-functional teams
In this talk, Denise covers how we nurture cross-functional teams, what philosophies and rituals support this outcome, and how to measure your success. Product Management Twitter has been buzzing over the “Balanced Team” pattern lately. Balanced ...
Denise Yu
Agile
Visualising software architecture with the C4 model
It’s very likely that the majority of the software architecture diagrams you’ve seen are a confused mess of boxes and lines. Following the publication of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001, teams have abandoned UML, discarded the...
Simon Brown
Agile
Imagining work: using physical space to visualise, plan and track work
In it Dee discussed how, in her work with clients, she typically use a lot of post-its and ‘decorate’ many walls to visualise and track work. Dee introduces a number of different visualisation approaches that she's used and that any participant co...
Dee Wauchope
Agile
The art of Agile
A fully interactive, hands-on workshop that helps people understand complexity in either small or large organisations. This session has been run extensively in a large complex organisation as part of the ‘why’ proposition for increasing engagemen...
John Clapham, Kylie Yearsley
Agile
The Magic of Mentorship: Becoming Dumbledore
Many of today’s students are unsure of where they want to go in tech - Jordan wants to inspire and show how mentorship is not only useful for a student but the teacher also. Follow her journey of how he became a mentor using Agile practices such a...
Jordan Barkway
Agile
Security by Stealth
Security isn’t very fun for development teams to think about. In her talk from AOTB 2019 Gwen Diagram looks at how to change the perception and approach to security. It’s complex and something that isn’t brought to mind when considering requirem...
Gwen Diagram
Agile
Security
Creative Coding for Kids .. (and Teachers and Parents)
Being able to code is an important life skill. Inspiring children to learn to code means making it fun and relevant – and that’s not easy. Tariq focuses on creative coding as a successful way of engaging children. He shares lessons learned from...
Tariq Rashid
Agile
Taking Agile to the Enterprise – strategy lessons from seven years in transformation
A transformation is a large-scale change programme that is often assumed to be something much less significant or wide-reaching than it actually is. This session was aimed at Agile change agents and leaders who are involved in adopting Agile at an...
Matt Hosking
Agile
Learning from industry: Product Management practices for the win
The practice of product management has evolved massively in the last 10-15 years. During that time, companies have learned how to use a lean roadmap to communicate strategy, and have learned how to adapt their plans to produce the best possible ou...
Liz Love
Agile
How to value a story?
We have it drummed into us: order work by business value, “do the most valuable stuff first.” But how many of us put a value on the work we are doing? How many of us attach business value to stories? Why not? Because its damn difficult. Far easier...
Allan Kelly
Agile
Mind the gap - incorporating the change agenda into scaled Agile
More and more organisations are turning to scaled Agile methods and frameworks to understand dependencies between development teams when delivering complex in-house products. Even though scaled agile is not explicitly limited to delivering just IT...
Lynda Girvan
Agile
Continuous Delivery and the Theory of Constraints
How should you actually implement Continuous Delivery? In Steve Smith's AOTB 2019 talk he explains how easy it is for a Continuous Delivery programme to be unsuccessful, how the Theory Of Constraints works, how to apply the Five Focussing Steps t...
Steve Smith
Agile