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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In this session, we are going to look at the differences between estimating and forecasting. We will start out looking at examples of sizing work to make sure there aren’t hidden parts and then look at estimation approaches and finally at ways to produce forecasts that let us better predict the future. If you are looking to create more transparency and drive more efficient software development, this session will give you some good theory as well as simple concrete steps to accomplish your goal.

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This is a panel with two long-time Agile practitioners. They will share their reflections on Agile currently not delivering the level of success its creators and early adopters experienced, nor the level of success they feel it should. They are puzzled by several aspects of the current Agile Industry Complex. They will share their ideas, suggestions, and tips for Agile practitioners, Agile professionals, CEOs and decision-makers to improve this situation and get the expected benefits of genuine Agile.

The panel:

Chris Matts

Chris Matts is retired. He used to care about Agile. Now he really only cares about people and that's why he thinks the work Dan and Luca are doing around the Agile Industrial Complex is so important. He is just delighted to be allowed to see his name alongside these two chaps.

• https://twitter.com/PapaChrisMatts
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-matts-9a7b531/

Daniel Mezick

Coaching executives and teams in Agile since 2006, Daniel Mezick leads Improving Agility. Daniel has guided dozens of organisations in the art and science of Agile improvement. An author and co-author of three books on organisation change, Daniel is a frequent keynote speaker at industry conferences and events.

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielmezick/
• https://twitter.com/DanielMezick

Luca Minudel

Luca Minudel is an Agile practitioner and member of the Agile Community since the beginnings of the movement. He is a Lean-Agile Coach & Trainer, Transformation lead, and author of Living Complexity, with 20+ years in professional software delivery and digital product development, most of them with Lean and Agile.

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaminudel/
• https://twitter.com/lukadotnet

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Agile narrows what "Dependencies" means, often saying "just don't have any." This session explains why that isn't possible or wise by making a broader examination of what dependencies are in software development. We will also discuss some quick wins; ways of improving an organization's ability to live with the needed dependencies while purging our processes of others.

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This session is going to look at some techniques for managing user stories for tracking development work. We will look at the use of story points for sizing work, planning poker for creating quick consensus, alternative approaches to sizing work, splitting techniques to deliver small pieces of value, and common pitfalls in the definition of done.

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People have been programming computers for more than 80 years, but there is little agreement on how to design software or even what a good design looks like. As a community, we talk a lot about tools and processes, but hardly at all about design. In this talk I will describe my recent work to identify and communicate a set of software design principles, including a new software design course at Stanford that is taught more like an English writing seminar than a traditional programming class, and a book on software design, which is based on the concepts from the class. I will also present a few of the design principles, such as "classes should be deep" and "define errors out of existence."

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In this short ultra-focused 30 minute session, we are going to discuss ways to create a sense of urgency that will help create a healthly working environment for your team. We'll also look at pitfalls -- things to avoid that create unhealthy urgency and drive counterproductive behavior.

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