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Perfect is bullsh*t

Ashik Ahmed, Deputy

Ashik Ahmed is the Co-founder, CEO and CTO at Deputy. In this presentation, Ashik will explore the meaning behind one of his companies’ mantras: ‘perfect is bullsh*t’. He’ll discuss the importance of building not just an Agile product, but a company that is Agile all round.

Ashik will talk through the challenges of creating Agile companies in an industry focused around rigid compliance. Additionally, he’ll share the decision-making matrix he uses within his high-growth scaleup. Most importantly, though, Ashik will talk about the role that the ‘Agile-self’ plays in bringing all the moving pieces together.

Ordinary people, extraordinary results

Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group

Marty Cagan has had the extremely good fortune to be able to work with many of the very best technology product teams in the world. People who are creating the products you use and love every day; teams that are literally changing the world.

What he’s learned is that there’s a profound difference between how the very best product companies create technology products, and the rest. Everything from how the leaders behave, to the level of empowerment of teams, to what is meant by Agile, to how the organisation thinks about funding, staffing and producing products, down to how product, design and engineering collaborate to discover effective solutions for their customers impacts on a team’s success.  

In this talk, Marty will give you a glimpse into some of the important differences that distinguish the best product teams from the rest.

The promiscuous PM

Jen Dante, Square

Every time you go to a Conference, there will be a speaker on stage that offers the ultimate framework to cure all your product ills. But when you go back to work you inevitably find that nothing is quite that easy, and practices can be good, but not always best. Jen Dante will explore the dangers of falling in love with a single perspective, and her experiences of mixing and matching frameworks to enhance her work as she moved from Netflix, to Google, and now Square.

Play more!

Mark Dodgson, UQ School of Business – University of Queensland

What will work look like in the future?

There are many – from Stephen Hawking to Elon Musk – who fear that AI and automation will bring massive social disruption, with extensive deskilling and unemployment. The search is on for ways of working alongside these technologies that are productive and meaningful.

In this presentation, Mark Dodgson will explore how important ‘play’ is in creating exciting and purposeful work. Such play isn’t frivolous, but serious. It is through play that we experiment and learn whilst expressing freedom in our work and having fun at the same time. Mark will discuss cases of highly successful ‘playful entrepreneurs’; people who provide lessons on how to adapt and thrive in uncertain and ambiguous circumstances. The implication for individuals and organisations is simple: play more!

Make strategy happen with Hoshin Kanri and Toyota Kata

Håkan Forss, Lean & Agile Enterprise Coach, Flow Behave FB

Lean and Agile software development can help your organisation deliver early and often, but that is not sufficient. Without clear and transparent alignment on a strategy, the organisation might still end up just keeping itself busy and not achieving the desired results.
Making your strategy happen have two major components that lives in symbiosis; strategy alignment and strategy execution.

Aligning on the right strategy can be a challenge in today’s complex world. Hoshin Kanri is an approach to meeting this challenge by drawing for the collective brain trust in your organisation.
Organisations also need to become laboratories, in which they are constantly running experiments, generating learning, and applying that learning to continually progress towards their strategy.
In this session you will learn how to create this symbiosis of strategy alignment and strategy execution using Hoshin Kanri and Toyota Kata as one system.

The key to high performing tech orgs

Jez Humble, Author, Speaker, DevOps Research and Assessment LLC

High performing organisations don’t trade off quality, throughput and reliability. Instead, they work to improve all these factors and use their software delivery capability to drive organisational performance.

In this talk, Jez Humble will present the results from DevOps Research and Assessment’s five-year research program. Jez will also explain the importance of knowing how (and what) to measure, so you focus on what’s important and can communicate progress to peers, leaders, and stakeholders. After all, great outcomes don’t realise themselves.

Just add play!

Hanna Karlsson, The Workshopper

Somewhat ironically, we’ve created a world that makes adaptability and creativity paramount, as well as harder. We need healthy organisations to survive and thrive, where playfulness is a key ingredient.

While the benefits of play have been recognised in fields such as psychology and neuroscience, a resistance still remains. Play is often seen as a frivolous activity, less valuable than ‘productive time’. However, play enables us to increase engagement, create psychological safety and it can allow us to embrace ambiguity and creativity.

In this interactive talk, Hanna Karlsson will speak to the importance of playfulness at work, what play indeed is and how it works it’s magic. Anticipating this will leave you inspired to bring the much needed creativity and silliness into your organisation – play it forward!

The evolution of the Agile coach

Erin McManus and Fiona Siseman, Spotify

Spotify’s Engineering Culture videos highlight Agile Coaches as an integral part of their way of working.  What does that really look like and what does it take to do it successfully?

During this session, Erin McManus and Fiona Siseman will talk about Agile coaching at Spotify: how it is evolving, some of the struggles and pitfalls along the way, how coaches are set up for success and where they believe coaching is headed to ensure the future success of Spotify. You will leave this talk with learnings to apply in your context.

Mindset rules

Emma Murray, Richmond Football Club

Emma Murray will share the key mindset rules she introduced in Richmond Football Club, propelling them to premiers in under 12 months.

Emma’s rules give you an understanding of the machine in your minds: helping you control your attention to achieve more, perform better and feel happier. These rules are designed to stand up under the extreme pressure of high performance, high expectation environments—giving you real life tools to apply for immediate impact in your jobs and lives. Emma will share examples and stories from her time at Richmond, individual elite athletes’ journeys and her own life experience with spinal cord injury to give weight to her teachings.

Creating a culture of autonomy

Sharda Nandram, Nyenrode Business University and Buurtzorg

Industries are increasingly experimenting with self-managed approaches, but they’re missing the most important point: the notion that it all starts with having the right mindset.

Drawing on practical experiences, including her leadership role in teal organisation Buurtzorg, Sharda Nandram will define and explore the value of an integrative intelligent mindset. Further, she’ll demonstrate how you can adopt this mindset within your organisation to create a culture where trust, autonomy and self-management come naturally.

Evolutionary architecture

Rebecca Parsons, ThoughtWorks

Is your architecture fit for purpose in a rapidly changing world? With business needs and models changing so rapidly, it’s crucial to have an architecture that is responsive to change. Historically, this responsiveness has been sought by anticipating the areas where a system must be adaptable. Recent experiences, however, have shown that current approaches need to evolve, given the pace and magnitude of changes in the technology landscape and expectations for features and performance.

In this talk, Rebecca Parsons will unpack how the traditional approaches of evolutionary architecture are evolving and show you how to:

• Use fitness functions to govern software development efforts
• Balance the needs of architects and development teams
• Implement techniques that enable evolutionary architecture
• And make the transition to an evolutionary architecture – even in the face of legacy systems!

Ethics of gravity

Ben Rimmer, Independent consultant and advisor

Ben Rimmer has been faced with some significant challenges in recent years, leading him to think deeply about the ‘ethics of gravity’ and connections between community, decision makers and teams. Being grounded in real problems is a key feature of new ways of working and offers real hope for teams to engage more effectively. As a senior public servant, he argues the need for everyone to build working practices that involve stronger, more connected relationships to inform better decision making for all that will be impacted.

Come along to this talk to hear Ben’s take on how we should approach the solutions we are building for the constituencies we serve and those that we work for. You will leave with new ideas on how to raise the conversations that matter in regard to nurturing the communities in our workplaces, neighbourhoods, cities and country!

Technical work in the product roadmap

Erica Smith, StarRez

Technical initiatives can be tricky beasts. Everyone agrees that the tech is important, but trying to compare a major technical initiative to a new user feature in a roadmap discussion can feel like comparing apples and sports cars. Then, even after you’ve found the time in your plan to start that work, the project is constantly questioned and challenged by stakeholders who are frustrated by its opacity, struggling to see progress towards the company’s goals.

This talk will explain why these issues happen so often, and provide several lenses to help identify and name the business value of technical work, using terms and metrics that make it easy to fit into your company’s road map. It will also include some effective strategies to keep stakeholders engaged in your technical project throughout its entire life cycle.

The team mind

Ali Walker, Centre for Social Impact

Why do we click with some people and clash with others? This talk explores what connects us based on unique human connection and leadership types. Understanding how we connect and lead is the foundation of high-performing groups and teams.

Scaling product organisations for growth

Herry Wiputra, hipages

There are many ways to structure your team to deliver greater and faster value to your customers. Yet, more often than not, this actually goes backwards. As an organisation grows, everything becomes slower and the company loses momentum. One of the main reasons this is the case is because people are still adopting Frederick Winslow Taylor’s way of thinking: where managers do the thinking and the people on the ground do the ‘doing’. Almost every big corporate is structured in this way. The result is a huge silo-ed organisation, where everyone is pulling in different directions and management becomes the biggest bottleneck.

In this talk, Herry will draw on lessons from Lean and Edward Deming’s way of thinking. He will focus on the key foundational block for building successful product development organisations: self-organising teams. Rather than creating more hierarchies, organisations should scale and transform by creating more self-organising teams. Herry will cover five different areas of focus in creating high-performing self-organising teams: Culture, People, Structure, Process and Architecture.

Avoiding zombieland in Agile teams

Dave Bales, AgileMe

Rule #34: Know Your Zombie. They look human. Talk like humans. They might even have a board that they stand around and point to occasionally. But don’t be fooled. A closer look reveals that it’s all for show. A once innovative team now reduced to a huddled mass of disengaged undead who no longer think for themselves, have an insatiable instinct to consume, and hold a delusional belief that they are still high performing.

Avoiding Zombieland is a quick tour of the evolution, symptoms and the possible remedies for long running teams that exhibit the first signs of infection.

Upon retrospective: the Board went Agile

Sandra Davey & Alan Kirkland, CHOICE

Someone recently said they’d be dead before Boards and Board of Directors become Agile! But, at CHOICE, they feel optimistic.

A 60 year old social enterprise, CHOICE is largely funded through a digital business that has undergone significant transformation. While much of this transformation has been within CHOICE, it’s been supported by a transformation at Board level. This is a Board that has learned to focus on what the organisation is trying to achieve rather than how, and favours OKRs over traditional business plans. Most of all, it’s a Board committed to continuous learning and improvement.

Board Chair Sandra Davey and CEO Alan Kirkland will talk about their ‘accidental’ Agile journey, and how and why they’re practicing new ways of working. If you’ve ever thought that Boards don’t think about user needs and will never understand Agile, this is the session for you.

Rapid decision making and learning in startups

Nish Mahanty

This talk is a case study of how irexchange launched their startup product into the market in seven months by building alignment on their product road-map, technical architecture, and  prioritisation process.

Nish Mahanty will share how they applied Agile techniques such as User Journey Mapping, Impact Mapping, Product Canvases, and Experiment Cards to build shared learning and alignment and agree on what to deliver to customers. Nish will explore how irexchange built autonomous self-organising teams andensured teams had enough context to make decisions. He’ll discuss the importance of trust in ensuring teams can experiment, learn and fail as they deliver outcomes. Nish believes the best learning comes from mistakes – attend this talk to   hear the mistakes they made and how they course-corrected from these situations.

How I tried holacracy and lived to tell the tale

Sandy Mamoli, Nomad8

This is the story of introducing holacracy at a New Zealand tech company, whose CTO gave Sandy Mamoli a one-line instruction: “I’d like you to make it happen.”

Come along and learn from Sandy Mamoli’s successes and failures in her team’s quest to create a truly self-organising organisation. Learn what worked and what didn’t, and find out how the team resolved the question of whether they had joined a cult or actually improved their business.

Event storming our way to success

Kristi Salmi, Moneycatcha

In this talk, Kristi Salmi will present a case study of a project she was involved in last year that used the Domain Driven Design (DDD) technique of event storming. The project was the introduction of the National Payment Platform (NPP) requirements. The project had been worked on for a couple of years but hardly any progress had been made in regard to being able to implement NPP. It was clear things needed to change to be able to make it happen.

The decision was made to run the project through an Innovation Lab with Red Hat, which is something they’d done previously. Part of the lab process involved using event storming to obtain a shared understanding between business and technical experts and to develop a common language. This occurred in a very short period of time and the focus was on outcomes rather than solutions. The outcomes from the Event Storming session were then used to drive requirements. After a 12 week period they were able to deliver a working prototype that meet the Product Owner’s MVP – much more than had been achieved in the last two years of the project.  

Bruce Lee honesty and other lessons

Sarah Traynor, ANZ

In 2017, ANZ announced that it was moving to ‘New Ways of Working’ (NWOW) and introducing Agile practices at scale. Now, ANZ has~9000 people working inNWOW Tribes, Tech Areas and Centres of Expertise. At the heart of this change is their desire to build a culture of learning and to make ANZ a truly great place to grow. 

Sarah Traynor will commence the talk by sharing her experience working in a squad and observing the key ingredients needed for a team to continuously learn and grow. She’ll share anecdotes and examples of things that worked and things that didn’t! You’ll gain insights that can be applied at a micro level – working with a team to build a strong, cohesive culture – and a macro level, instituting principles, processes and structural enablers for large-scale cultural change.

DevOps: “you build it, you run it”

Roger Almeida, Tyro

How can banks work with software developers to evolve towards full adoption of DevOps?  In developing a strategy to use DevOps and leverage Agile benefits, Roger Almeida presents his insights on how you can evolve your services and organise teams in new ways to break glass procedures, post-mortems and more.

Iterative dashboards and monitors

Carmel Hinks, Atlassian

Atlassian is all about Agile development—iteratively developing everything from their code to their processes. However, when it came to their dashboards and monitors, they noticed they had a tendency to define but not refine. In this talk, Carmel Hinks will share how Atlassian applied Agile approaches to solve various challenges surrounding the definition and maintenance of some of their operational tooling. She’ll also provide tips to help you do the same.

Instrument Flight Rules – CyberSec in the cloud

Richard Miller, Prospa

Today, more and more of our digital assets are moving out beyond the company borders. Flexible working means access from home, public wifi hotspots, airport lounges and now even from 30,000 feet above the ocean. VPN tunnels into the company was all that was required to enable remote access, but today key data resides outside of the company, rendering the VPN tunnel virtually useless.

Cloud technologies provide incredible agility and scale and the ability to roll out new products and services at a pace that was simply not achievable twenty years ago. Those that are not embracing these technologies risk being left behind in the ever more competing landscape. However, as with all new technologies, new challenges arise and cyber security in the new world is no different. In this talk, Richard Miller will look into the differences between cyber defence before and after the cloud. He’ll look into just how much of your data exists beyond the firewall, even for companies that believe they have not yet moved to the cloud. He’ll also look at what can be done holistically to protect your data and discuss technologies that are specifically designed to address cloud security challenges.

Complex is easy, it’s simple that’s hard

Sarah Taraporewalla, ThoughtWorks

It’s easy to find a complex solution to a complicated problem. But it takes another level of expertise to craft a simple solution. There is a direct relationship between the complexity of a system to its cost of ownership. Complex systems are difficult to understand – they take time for new team members to learn them. Diagnosing critical issues in them at 3am, when you’re half asleep, takes many cups of coffee. However, when we focus on discovering a simple solution, all that changes for the better.

Simple solutions require different approaches than the ones we usually use to create complex systems.

In this session, Sarah Taraporewalla will describe these approaches, which include Domain Driven Design (DDD) and its adoption of Ubiquitous Language; an understanding of how cognitive biases interfere with complexity, and modelling tools which help simplify and aide in communication. By sharing some examples of complex systems she has seen, you will learn the reasons behind the complexity, and what approach she used to help simplify them.

Picking up the pieces – post-incident reviews

Klee Thomas, nib

The world of software is like a basketball balanced on a Jenga game. It’s fine while it’s fine, but all it takes is a misplaced semicolon, a bad database failover or some unlucky road worker cutting a cable and the whole world comes crashing down. Fortunately, when the pieces are on the floor we pull together and get it balanced again. But then what? Examining what went wrong and identifying contributing factors helps us prevent and preempt issues from re-arising.

This talk examines strategies for Post-Incident Reviews. Starting with commonplace practices, Klee shows how leveraging modern monitoring practices alongside ChatOps can identify contributing factors, not just a single cause. These contributing factors give rise to actionable outcomes that prevent the same thing reoccuring and feedback into the incident lifecycle: helping the team detect, respond to, remediate and analyse the next incident.

Fireside Chat – Transforming an enterprise – sponsored by ThoughtWorks

Mark Angrish, ANZ  & Julian Lim, ThoughtWorks

What is the journey to ‘Quality at Speed’? How do you scale Continuous Testing to the enterprise? How can you eliminate testing as the bottleneck in your Software Delivery Lifecycle? And how do you know you are on the right path?

Tricentis has developed the Elements of Continuous Testing – their proven capability model. They’ll show you what elements are required to scale Continuous Testing, what phases you need to go through to achieve those desired business outcomes, and how QA becomes the orchestrator of your Software Delivery Lifecycle. In this talk, you’ll go on a journey through the different phases of transformation, learning how the elements work together from a people, process and technology perspective. And, even more importantly, you’ll learn how to leverage the model to measure your successes and to define your next steps along the journey.

Building Agile teams: A fireside chat with Slack – Sponsored by Slack

Mark Angrish, ANZ & Allan Leinwand, Slack

During this fireside discussion, Allan Leinwand, SVP of Engineering at Slack, will share his experience building and scaling teams, drawing on experience from his most recent roles as CTO of ServiceNow, and now leading the Engineering Team at Slack.  

This is an informal discussion about the challenges of building and scaling Agile teams.  Allan will share his perspectives and experience on scale, culture and performance. In particular, Allan will explore the characteristics of high-performing teams. He’ll also discuss managing cultural change when adopting agility, plus how to balance agility with security and stability.

Are you ready for the third wave?

Adam Asch, Accenture

Organisations are striving to use Agile to unlock customer value and competitive advantage. Many organisations focus only on scaling frameworks and adopting Agile practices. While these are important, they’re not enough on their own.  We must look to the third wave of Agile: business agility.

Adam Asch will explore how Agile has evolved through three waves and what each has contributed to the industry… and the world. You’ll gain an understanding of the organisational capabilities that make up business agility, such as Delivery Agility, Product Innovation, Organisational Adaptability and Leadership Effectiveness. Adam will also stress the importance of holistic thinking in business agility, raising key questions you should consider: what are the business outcomes? What capabilities are needed to achieve these outcomes? What activities and initiatives should businesses engage in to develop and mature these capabilities?

The many faces of leadership

Andrew Blain & Gendry Morales, Elabor8

The art of management requires an appreciation of context. As a founder of a company, you lead a team of pioneers without a map, but as the company becomes established your leadership style must change to get the best out of your team in different situations.

Andrew Blain and Gendry Morales have had very different leadership journeys. Gendry was a general manager in a leading financial services company before establishing a startup in emerging technology. Andrew went from leading small teams to founding a consultancy that now employs over 100 people. Join them as they offer a founder’s guide to contextually appropriate leadership, sharing the frameworks they’ve developed to help leaders to navigate different problem domains. They’ll apply these frameworks to their own dilemmas; analysing how they may have better approached scenarios with the benefit of this context-sensitive leadership framework.

ANZ’s Agile learning journey

ANZ Panel: Jen Brice, Janice Dias, Sharon Greenwood, Rob Marchiori & Darien Nurhadi

ANZ is getting huge benefit from New Ways of Working (NWOW), and this is only possible through honest self-reflection, people speaking up about what should be evolved, and real and effective action being taken. A panel of ANZers will share on NWOW – and talk about what’s going well, what’s changing and why.

Agile strategic planning for executives

Mia Horrigan and Matthew Hodgson, Zen Ex Machina

Can you predict the future? Can it really be planned in the 21st century?

In the face of relentless technological change, disruptive forces in industry after industry, global competition, and so on, strategic planning often seems like pointless wishful thinking. And yet, planning is clearly essential for any company of any size. For teams who have embraced Agile ways of working, the paradigm shift is a powerful enabler of adaptability to such change. Planning at the tactical level is integral to the way these teams work in two-week sprints.

So how can strategic planning adapt to become Agile and guide whole organisations towards higher levels of business agility? Attend this talk to find out!

The Cabcharge digital transformation – sponsored by Hypothesis

Nina Huchthausen and Deon Ludick, A2B 

In the modern economy where all businesses are undergoing disruption, Cabcharge, a well-established brand was no exception. In a market in the midst of massive change with new and disruptive entrants, they knew it would take a radical shift in approach to delivery and an unwavering focus on the customer to remain successful.

Hear Deon and Nina share their story and get insight into their lessons learned on how to:

•    Do things right – when building cross-functional, customer-focused delivery teams
•    Do the right thing for the business – when aligning teams to the business vision, using OKRs and shared insights
•    Do the right thing for the people – bringing everyone along for the journey, even when teams are distributed across the country

Strangling the monolith

David Julia & Amjad Sidqi, Pivotal

This is a real-life story of how one team successfully rewrote a legacy health insurance system with thousands of unknown business rules so complex that no one could make heads or tails of them – and a tiny mistake could put millions of dollars at risk.

Through an analysis of the scenario, Amjad Sidqi and David Julia will share how you can:

• Build statistically significant confidence in your system with data-driven testing
• Take a Lean approach to legacy rewrites to strangle the monolith safely
• Validate your system’s accuracy when you don’t know the legacy business rules
• Get business and QA buy-in to leverage continuous delivery in a legacy environment
• Demonstrate progress on your legacy rewrite so that your project doesn’t get cancelled.

From Screaming to Streaming: Agile & ALM

Tal Levi Joseph, Micro focus

Digital transformation changes the way people do business, and accelerates the delivery of high-quality, innovative solutions that delight customers and outpace competitors. This shift puts greater emphasis on business value over individual releases, and connecting and measuring end-to-end activities. Join Tal Levi Joseph for an interactive session that illustrates common “screaming” moments and how the Micro Focus Lifecycle and Product Management portfolio converts them to “streaming” activities. During the presentation, you’ll gain insight into application delivery trends, how to align value streams with strategy, and the integrated roadmap across the Micro Focus Lifecycle, Project and Portfolio, Requirements, Source Code, Functional Testing, Performance Testing and Release Management solutions.

Speed is the new currency

Jori Ramakers, Tricentis

What is the journey to ‘Quality at Speed’? How do you scale Continuous Testing to the enterprise? How can you eliminate testing as the bottleneck in your Software Delivery Lifecycle? And how do you know you are on the right path?

Tricentis has developed the Elements of Continuous Testing – their proven capability model. They’ll show you what elements are required to scale Continuous Testing, what phases you need to go through to achieve those desired business outcomes, and how QA becomes the orchestrator of your Software Delivery Lifecycle. In this talk, you’ll go on a journey through the different phases of transformation, learning how the elements work together from a people, process and technology perspective. And, even more importantly, you’ll learn how to leverage the model to measure your successes and to define your next steps along the journey.

Agile your way

Eoin Ryan, Atlassian

Every team in the world is unique and, at Atlassian, they believe each and every team’s best way of working needs to be molded to its unique circumstances – type of software, customers, industry, tooling, goals, experience and skillset. That’s why Jira Software Cloud has been completely rearchitected from the ground up to empower teams to find their best workflow and deliver better software faster.

Whether you’re a lean startup with aggressive growth goals or a more established business with an established Agile methodology in place, you’ll learn tips and tricks directly from Eoin Ryan – a Jira Software Product Manager –about how the tool can help your team find its most effective way of working. Because, after all, project management software should work with your team, not against it!

Join a select group of distinguished panellists as they explore the challenges and opportunities arising from disruption, trust in a post-royal commission world, open banking and much more!

Speakers include: 

• Van Le, Xinja
• Dominic Pym, Up
• Viveka Weiley, CHOICE

Deep Dives are where the audience drives the agenda. Come with your questions and see what unfolds! Please note that numbers are strictly capped at 50 people for all Deep Dive sessions.

Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group

Hakan Forss, Flow Behave FB

Jez Humble, Author, Speaker, DevOps Research and Assessment LLC

Sharda Nandram, Nyenrode Business University and Chair, Buurtzorg

Ali Walker , Lecturer and Research Fellow, Centre for Social Impact

Is velocity the dumbest idea in the Agile world?

Stuart Bargon

What on earth is the bus factor & why you should care?

Anna Fiofilova, REA Group

The life-changing magic of tidying up your backlog

Stephanie Ireland, Elabor8

5 Lessons I learnt from failing

Katrina Kolt, UniSuper

Psychological Safety and Effective Teams

William Lewis, ANZ and Katie Phillips, Elabor8

Perfect is bullsh*t

Ashik Ahmed, Deputy

Ordinary people, extraordinary results

Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group

The promiscuous PM

Jen Dante, Square

Play more!

Mark Dodgson, UQ School of Business – University of Queensland

Make strategy happen with Hoshin Kanri and Toyota Kata

Håkan Forss, Lean & Agile Enterprise Coach, Flow Behave FB

The key to high performing tech orgs

Jez Humble, Author, Speaker, DevOps Research and Assessment LLC

Just add play

Hanna Karlsson, The Workshopper

The evolution of the Agile coach

Erin McManus and Fiona Siseman, Spotify

Mindset rules

Emma Murray, Richmond Football Club

Creating a culture of autonomy

Sharda Nandram, Nyenrode Business University and Buurtzorg

Evolutionary architecture

Rebecca Parsons, ThoughtWorks

Ethics of gravity

Ben Rimmer, Independent consultant and advisor

Technical work in the product roadmap

Erica Smith, StarRez

The team mind

Ali Walker, Centre for Social Impact

Scaling product organisations for growth

Herry Wiputra, hipages

Avoiding zombieland in Agile teams

Dave Bales, AgileMe

Upon retrospective: the Board went Agile

Sandra Davey & Alan Kirkland, CHOICE

Rapid decision making and learning in startups

Nish Mahanty

How I tried holacracy and lived to tell the tale

Sandy Mamoli, Nomad8

Event storming our way to success

Kristi Salmi, Moneycatcha 

Bruce Lee honesty and other lessons

Sarah Traynor, ANZ

Lessons from leading a “you build it, you run it” team

Roger Almeida, Delivery Lead, Tyro

Iterative dashboards and monitors

Carmel Hinks, Atlassian

Instrument Flight Rules – CyberSec in the cloud

Richard Miller, Prospa

Complex is easy, it’s simple that’s hard

Sarah Taraporewalla, ThoughtWorks

Picking up the pieces – post-incident reviews

Klee Thomas, nib

Fireside Chat – Transforming an enterprise – sponsored by ThoughtWorks

Mark Angrish, ANZ & Julian Lim, ThoughtWorks

Building Agile teams: A fireside chat with Slack – Sponsored by Slack

Mark Angrish, ANZ & Allan Leinwand, Slack

Are you ready for the third wave?

Adam Asch, Accenture

Unravelling the founder’s dilemma

Andrew Blain & Gendry Morales, Elabor8

ANZ’s Agile learning journey

ANZ Panel: Jen Brice, Janice Dias, Sharon Greenwood, Rob Marchiori & Darien Nurhadi

Agile strategic planning for executives

Mia Horrigan and Matthew Hodgson, Zen Ex Machina

The Cabcharge digital transformation – sponsored by Hypothesis

Nina Huchthausen and Deon Ludick, A2B Australia

Strangling the monolith

David Julia & Amjad Sidqi, Pivotal

Agile, DevOps & app lifecycles

Tal Levi Joseph, Micro focus

Speed is the new currency

Jori Ramakers, Tricentis

Agile your way

Eoin Ryan, Atlassian

Join a select group of distinguished panellists as they explore the challenges and opportunities arising from disruption, trust in a post-royal commission world, open banking and much more!

Speakers include: 

• Van Le, Xinja
• Dominic Pym, Up
• Viveka Weiley, CHOICE

Deep Dives are where the audience drives the agenda. Come with your questions and see what unfolds! Please note that numbers are strictly capped at 50 people for all Deep Dive sessions.

Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group

Hakan Forss, Flow Behave FB

Jez Humble, Author, Speaker, DevOps Research and Assessment LLC

Sharda Nandram, Nyenrode Business University and Chair, Buurtzorg

Ali Walker , Lecturer and Research Fellow, Centre for Social Impact

Is velocity the dumbest idea in the Agile world?

Stuart Bargon

What on earth is the bus factor & why you should care?

Anna Fiofilova, REA Group

the life-changing magic of tidying up your backlog

Stephanie Ireland, Elabor8

5 Lessons I learnt from failing

Katrina Kolt, UniSuper

Psychological Safety and Effective Teams

William Lewis, ANZ and Katie Phillips, Elabor8