Sydney Workshops

Learn by sharing in these hands-on, deep-dive Agile Australia workshops. Send your team for an enriching experience and the opportunity to discover new tools, approaches and training that they can apply the moment they get back to work!

Workshops will take place in MELBOURNE and SYDNEY.

Full-day workshops include morning and afternoon tea, and lunch. Half-day workshops include morning or afternoon tea, and lunch. Workshop registration is independent of conference registration.

The workshops will only go ahead if minimum numbers are met and will be confirmed by Monday 30 May 2016. Places are strictly limited and will only be guaranteed if payment has been received. Late bookings may be accepted based on availability of places.

Intentional Agility

With James Brett - Leadership Developer and Coach

Full-Day (9:00am-5:00pm)

Thursday 23 June

Cost: $800

In 2016 organisations are faced with ever increasing complexity, disruption and the need to deliver a first class, engaging experience, whilst driving efficiencies and innovation at the same time.

Organisations, leaders and teams that get the people elements right (collaboration, motivation and direction) are the ones that will succeed this decade and the next few to come. They are the ones that fight complexity, do more with less, create the leading edges of innovation and attract the best talent (from the global stage).

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The Toyota Kata Experience

With Håkan Forss - Agile Coach, King

Full-Day (9:00am-5:00pm)

Thursday 23 June 2016

Cost: $800

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle

You have been doing Agile for a few years now. With a regular cadence you have retrospectives and a lot of problems and great improvement opportunities are raised but you don’t seem to really improve. Let us put your retrospectives on steroids. Start using Toyota Kata!

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Agile Testing Techniques for the Whole Team

With Karen Greaves and Samantha Laing - Agile CoachES, Growing Agile

Half-day (9:00am-12:30pm)

Thursday 23 June 2016

Cost: $450

Experience how agile testing is different to traditional testing in this hands on workshop

Summary:
Agile testing is about more than how to squeeze enough testing in on the last few days of the sprint. However so many teams have adopted agile and not yet changed the way they test.

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Facilitation Skills

With Karen Greaves and Samantha Laing - Agile CoachES, Growing Agile

Half-day (1:30pm-5:00pm)

Thursday 23 June 2016

Cost: $450

Improve your meetings, workshops and training by mastering the art of facilitation.

Summary:
Agile is all about collaboration and this means more time talking with people and truly understanding requirements. Mostly this results in more meetings. You need to make every meeting productive and effective, and the way to do that is through facilitation.

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Blitz Planning

With Kelsey van Haaster - Lead Consultant, Thoughtworks and Adam Hope - Lead Consultant, Thoughtworks

Half-day (9:00am-12:30pm)

Thursday 23 June

Cost: $450

It’s not just about the stories.

This workshop teaches a technique which builds upon and extends the familiar (from XP) planning game. Blitz planning is a fast moving activity which supports the development of the first three month planning horizon for any technology project. Technical and business stakeholders work together to rapidly identify project dependencies and bottlenecks and out any potential hidden surprises in your project.

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Visual Management Masterclass

With Ben Hogan - Lean Kanban Coach | Certified LeSS Practitioner | SAFe Program Consultant

Half-day (1:30pm-5:00pm)

Thursday 23 June

Cost: $450

Energise teams and improve performance with Visual Management

How do we move beyond visualising “To Do, Doing and Done”? How can great visualisations support more energised and focused teams? How can the best visuals encourage better practices without management intervention?

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Collaboration Frameworks for Agile Teams

With Luke Hohmann - Founder and CEO, Conteneo

Full-Day (9:00am-5:00pm)

Thursday 23 June 2016

Cost: $800

Agile works, but can become repetitive in practice. Improve your team’s Agile performance by incorporating collaboration frameworks that make the common tasks more effective and fun.

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Self-selection: Minimising Chaos through Effective Team Design

With Sandy Mamoli - Co-founder, Nomad8 and David Mole - Agile coach, Nomad8

Half-Day (1:30pm-5:00pm)

Thursday 23 June 2016

Cost: $450

If the most important factor for team performance is the combination of skills, personalities and relations between team members, the crucial question is “How do we best design teams?”.

Here’s a radical idea: Trust people to know best and let them decide which team they should work in. Let them self-select! Drawing on our experience and our book “Creating Great Teams – How Self-selection Lets People Excel”, we will show you how to make this possible.
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The Essentials for Success as an Agile Business Analyst

With Jody Podbury - Head of Agile Delivery Services, Sydney, Elabor8

Half-day (9:00am-12:30pm)

Thursday 23 June

Cost: $450

True success comes when the responsibilities of a business analyst in an Agile team incorporates creating continued shared context for the Agile team whilst maintaining the role of the navigator/yardstick and asking “Are we there yet?” This workshop will focus on thinking beyond software through the entire process, from problem definition through setting business outcomes, building business value and user experience.

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