While everyone likes the idea of radiating information instead of creating lots of reports, many teams aren’t working in a way that actually allows information to be radiated. Other teams could but haven’t found a good way to actually radiate the information. Both situations leave in you a position where creating reports can take a great deal of time and effort without producing a lot of value or even transparency. Any small step we can take to make information more transparent and more meaningful simply in the way we organize our work is a worthwhile investment. When teams organize their work around the goal of transparency and accountability, it reduces the dependence on costly reporting which frees more time for doing the actual work.

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In this online version of my popular interactive token flipping workshop, we are going to simulate some work, do some experiments to optimize the flow, and then talk about the principles we can apply to the way we deliver software. We'll also look at the story of how the namesake of Lowell Observatory "discovered" Martians building canals on Mars and talk about how that relates to the way we deliver software.

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Work-In-Progress limits are a powerful but unintuitive technique that can lead to rapid improvements in performance and processes. Teams using Ryan Latta's simplified approach often deliver work 4x to 10x faster. In this talk Ryan will cover what they are and a simplified approach to using them so you can see results in less than two weeks and common pitfalls.

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Retrospectives are an important part of most Agile teams driven by the principle of reflecting and improving the way the team works. Not all retrospectives achieve that goal. Some teams have trouble coming up with anything actionable and degrade into regularly scheduled sessions to complain about things outside their control. In this session, we are going to look at ways to help teams succeed in making retrospectives a useful positive tool that drives the self-improvement process.

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When most people see ChatGPT, they think the main use case for it is new write new code. In this talk, Jason Swett will show us that just because ChatGPT can write code doesn’t mean all the benefits of TDD are somehow invalidated. Tune in to see the way Jason does TDD with the assistance of ChatGPT.

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User stories drive the process of creating software. Good user stories help develop software efficiently, but poor user stories can lead to lower return on investment and even cancelled projects. We will look at a number of example user stories from robotic milking machines to online shoe stores to discover the key to creating stories that effectively represent complex work with simplicity.

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In this Test Driven Development and Pair Programming Benjamin and Mark are going to create a simple algorithm using TDD and pair programming. Come see how developers can use pair programming and test driven development to create code faster and with higher quality than when they work alone.

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Awesomely Simple is a book that takes strategies gleaned from successful companies and distills them down to six simple principles. These principles aren't just for huge companies. They are also very present on successful Agile teams and notably absent on teams that fail to deliver for their customer. We'll go over the 6 principles, show how they apply to your Agile team, and give a copy of the book away--all in 30 minutes.

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Some software projects fail because of things outside the team's control. However, most of what makes a project succeed or fail comes down to what the team decides to do each day. In this talk we are going to look at some of the habits that lead to success as well as some of the practices that frequently cause failure.

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Continuing our journey of doing a deep dive with each Agile principle, this session is going to be focused on Agile Principle #6: "The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation." Come hear examples and stories about how teams have used and abused this principle.

We will kick the session off with the premier of a new Agile cartoon illustrating Principle #6 with scuba divers and sharks.

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