Using robots from Mark's hands on "BDD with Robots" workshop, this demonstration of Behavior Driven Development will demonstrate all the elements of the BDD process without requiring an understanding of a particular programming language. Regardless of your role, this talk will give you a good feel for what the BDD process looks like and how Agile teams can use it to collaborate in ways that enable the delivery high quality software rapidly and with low risk.

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During WWII British Security Service MI5 ran operation Double-Cross (XX). XX was responsible for getting double-agent spies accepted and trusted by the Nazis that would provide misinformation to help the Allied efforts in the war while protecting British intelligence from similar counter-espionage. Now think about your Agile team. How would you identify a double-agent who was trying to make you trust them without having your teams best interests at heart? In this talk you will learn how to identify Agile double-agents.

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Most (if not all) of us are tasked with solving wicked, complex problems using some kind of technology products that may or may not be good fits for the problems we are solving. It’s stressful! In this session with agile coach Dave Marsh, we’ll explore the nature of complexity and how some agile approaches can help us solve these seemingly ever-morphing problems we are tasked with. Dave will demonstrate practices you can use and provide a bit of theory (the “why’s”) that make them useful when dealing with complex problems. These practices include maximizing the diversity of opinion on your teams, a “shift-left” approach to reducing risk and enabling the kind of transparency needed to make decisions effectively, even under uncertainty."

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You've probably heard about "splitting" user stories, but often the idea is mentioned without any real concrete idea of what it involves. In this talk we are going to look at why splitting user stories is valuable, some theory about how to do it, and then look at some real world examples of splitting users stories.

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What does your software project have in common with the Sphex Wasp and Sumo Robots? They both exhibit complex behavior that can be defined using simple examples. In this session, we will look at how behavior driven development works and how it can be used to help build quality into the software development process.

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Are your retrospectives producing value for your team? Have they turned into unfocused complaining sessions? Or have people stopped coming altogether? Understand what's going wrong and learn how you can bring value back to your retrospectives (hint: it doesn't have to do with incentivizing with food or popular TV show themes).

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Agile says that we need to prioritize collaboration with the customer. It also says that the best way to communicate is face-to-face. These principles and values are behind the creation of team rooms and daily 15 minute face-to-face meetings to coordinate work. But what does that mean for teams in hybrid environments where not everyone is co-located or where everyone has been sent home to work? Even post COVID lockdowns, we are likely to have more people working from home. How do we follow the Agile principles with a new way of working, leverage technology for the reality of working from home, and create strong team cultures in this new environment?

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I’ve worked with a number of incredible Scrum Masters over the years. For this talk I asked several what they feel is the most important secret behind their success. This talk covers the things they identified as well as my observations about some of the things that made them successful.

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Are you tired of having the same conversations, delivering "late" and being put under pressure for decisions you didn't even make? In this session, I'll walk through how we managed to flip the script in a highly regulated, risk-averse, financial institution by introducing probabilistic forecasting and flow metrics as well as ditching wasteful estimations.

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To kick off the first Agile LnL of 2023, we are going to take an example driven tour of the Agile principles. With real world stories of projects that both succeeded and failed, we are going to see how teams follow Agile principles for success and ignore them to their peril.

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