Come test your Agile knowledge, impress your co-workers, and win fabulous prizes! For this lunch and learn session, we are going to take a break from listening to talks about Agile and instead play some game show-style quizzes with prizes and bragging rights for the winners. We'll cover topics from past lunch and learns, the Agile Manifesto, and maybe just a bit of random Christmas trivia thrown in for good measure. Hope to see you there!

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Team change is inevitable, especially when your company is hiring like crazy or when it is shrinking. Your teams might grow bigger and split. Some people might leave and then your teams merge together. What feels like tectonic shifts happen as you morph structurally to refocus people and work, continuously. It can be a wild ride. How can we bring a humanistic stance to this dynamic reteaming? How can the people be empowered to have ownership over their team change? How can we integrate the new people, honor who is already there and redefine our collective sense of “culture?” We will explore questions like these and will discover practical strategies to master dynamic reteaming.

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If Waterfall development represents one extreme of trying to plan ahead and Agile represents doing more planning just in time, what is the role of roadmaps in an Agile world? In this talk we look at the Agile principles that support and guide efforts in creating roadmaps and look at ways we can do enough planning to get value from our plan while avoiding the type of planning that is harmful.

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Agility starts (and possibly ends) with a mindset. With so many agile frameworks out there, some larger than others, how do you choose what is right for you? What heuristics do you use when choosing practices to implement? What are the risks associated with taking a bulk set of practices en-masse and applying them? Also, what does agility have to do with early 20th-century car manufacturers? Come find out as we talk about Ford's Frameworks and Toyota's Theories.

Prateek Singh has been leading and working on agile teams for almost two decades. Starting with XP, then Scrum and now working in Kanban system, Prateek has gained a breadth and depth of knowledge regarding agile techniques, practices, and implementation principles. Prateek has been a Director of Business Agility at UKG conducting training and coaching for teams regarding Kanban and Lean principles. Prateek has played the role of Software Engineer, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Manager of Software Engineering, Director of Engineering, and Director of Business Agility in his career. Prateek is currently the Head of Learning and Development at ProKanban.org. Prateek is also the co-host of the Drunk Agile podcast.

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This is going to be a 30-minute lunch and learn where we are going to do short summary of the book The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, walk through how some of the major points relate to Agile teams, do a quick gameshow to help remember the contents, and give away a copy of the book.

If you've read the book, it will be a good reminder. If you haven't, I hope it will encourage you to get (or win) a copy.

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One of the hallmarks of DevOps is making it possible to quickly and safely deploy new functionality to production. Doing so safely is dependent on a protective suite of automated tests that can check for any regressions in the intended functionality.

But who is looking out for the health and safety of those automated tests? Sure, they did their job when they were first written, but they need to keep doing that job as long as the application is in production. That should be years, if not decades. Those tests need to continue to provide safety even as the functionality shifts over time and team members who wrote them leave and are replaced.

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This session is going to be presented by guest, Matt Philip. Ted Lasso may be a fictional coach, but his coaching — imbued with humility and inquiry — is an example for anyone in real life. In the eponymously named hit series, Lasso — a head coach of a championship American football team — takes on the challenge of coaching in a totally different sport: football as it’s known in the rest of the world. This session draws out and applies the lessons from Lasso’s humility, trusting others and “beginner’s mind.” Attendees learn how humble inquiry can help our teams and the people we support and make us better teammates.

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Extreme Programming was born out of efforts to take beneficial practices in software development and "turn the dials to 11." Code reviews done in an extreme way turned into pair programming. Testing done in an extreme way became test-driven development. In this talk, we will examine Extreme Programming practices that create a "shift to the left" by moving quality-related activities toward the beginning of the development process. This shift creates a foundation for creating software efficiently and accurately. We will also look at how Extreme Programming provides a valuable model for finding other ways improvements to the quality of our software development processes.

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Flight Levels take off - literally. More and more organisations are moving away from local agile sub-optimisation. They are using Flight Levels to enable the entire organisation to act agile in the market. In this session, I will present how you can use Flight Levels to implement the corporate strategy so that you can make sure that the organisation focuses on outcomes and not just outputs.

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What does a cult that clears runways in the forest and wears coconuts like headphones have to do with Agile? You’ll find out in this talk that is a refresher of the foundation of Agile with a focus on the why behind all the different practices used by teams. No tales about pirates this time, but we’ve got stories about toothpaste tubes assembly lines, a manager who offered to buy a rocket for our Agile project, and a modern real-life version of the emperor who had no clothes fairy tale.

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