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Click on each stream to see who’s speaking and what you’ll learn!<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row custom_padding=”27px|0px|0px|0px|false|false” disabled_on=”on|off|off” _builder_version=”3.17.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_toggle title=”Guest speakers” open_toggle_text_color=”#e71c28″ closed_toggle_text_color=”#22485c” closed_toggle_background_color=”#ffffff” icon_color=”#e71c28″ _builder_version=”3.17.2″ title_level=”h4″ title_font=”||||||||” border_width_all=”2px” border_color_all=”#e71c28″]<\/p>\n Ashik Ahmed<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Deputy<\/em><\/p>\n Ashik Ahmed is the Co-founder, CEO and CTO at Deputy. In this presentation, Ashik will explore the meaning behind one of his companies\u2019 mantras: \u2018perfect is bullsh*t\u2019. He\u2019ll discuss the importance of building not just an Agile product, but a company that is Agile all round. <\/span><\/p>\n Ashik will talk through the challenges of creating Agile companies in an industry focused around rigid compliance. Additionally, he\u2019ll share the decision-making matrix he uses within his high-growth scaleup. Most importantly, though, Ashik will talk about the role that the \u2018Agile-self\u2019 plays in bringing all the moving pieces together.<\/span><\/p>\n Marty Cagan<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Silicon Valley Product Group<\/em><\/p>\n 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. <\/span><\/p>\n What he\u2019s learned is that there\u2019s 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\u2019s success. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In this talk, Marty will give you a glimpse into some of the important differences that distinguish the best product teams from the rest. <\/span><\/p>\n Jen Dante<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Square<\/em><\/p>\n 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. <\/span><\/p>\n Mark Dodgson<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0UQ School of Business \u2013 University of Queensland<\/em><\/p>\n What will work look like in the future? <\/span><\/p>\n There are many <\/span>\u2013<\/span> from Stephen Hawking to Elon Musk <\/span>\u2013<\/span> 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. <\/span><\/p>\n In this presentation, Mark Dodgson will explore how important \u2018play\u2019 is in creating exciting and purposeful work. Such play isn\u2019t 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 \u2018playful entrepreneurs\u2019; 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!<\/span><\/p>\n H\u00e5kan Forss<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Lean & 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. Aligning on the right strategy can be a challenge in today\u2019s complex world. Hoshin Kanri is an approach to meeting this challenge by drawing for the collective brain trust in your organisation. Jez Humble<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Author, Speaker, DevOps Research and Assessment LLC<\/em><\/p>\n High performing organisations don’t trade off quality, throughput and reliability. Instead, they work to improve <\/span>all<\/span><\/i> these factors and use their software delivery capability to drive organisational performance. <\/span><\/p>\n 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\u2019s important and can communicate progress to peers, leaders, and stakeholders. After all, great outcomes don\u2019t realise themselves. <\/span><\/p>\n Hanna Karlsson<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0The Workshopper<\/em><\/p>\n Somewhat ironically, we\u2019ve 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. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n 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 \u2018productive time\u2019. However, play enables us to increase engagement, create psychological safety and it can allow us to embrace ambiguity and creativity.<\/span><\/p>\n In this interactive talk, Hanna Karlsson will speak to the importance of playfulness at work, what play indeed is and how it works it\u2019s magic. Anticipating this will leave you inspired to bring the much needed creativity and silliness into your organisation – play it forward!<\/span><\/p>\n Erin McManus<\/a><\/strong> and Fiona Siseman<\/a><\/strong>, Spotify<\/em><\/p>\n Spotify\u2019s Engineering Culture videos highlight Agile Coaches as an integral part of their way of working. \u00a0What does that really look like and what does it take to do it successfully? <\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\n Emma Murray<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Richmond Football Club<\/em><\/p>\n Emma Murray will share the key mindset rules she introduced in Richmond Football Club, propelling them to premiers in under 12 months. <\/span><\/p>\n Emma\u2019s 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<\/span>\u2014<\/span>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\u2019 journeys and her own life experience with spinal cord injury to give weight to her teachings.<\/span><\/p>\n Sharda Nandram<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Nyenrode Business University and Buurtzorg<\/em><\/p>\n Industries are increasingly experimenting with self-managed approaches, but they\u2019re missing the most important point: the notion that it all starts with having the right mindset.<\/span><\/p>\n 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\u2019ll demonstrate how you can adopt this mindset within your organisation to create a culture where trust, autonomy and self-management come naturally.<\/p>\n Rebecca Parsons<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0ThoughtWorks<\/em><\/p>\n Is your architecture fit for purpose in a rapidly changing world? With business needs and models changing so rapidly, it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n In this talk, Rebecca Parsons will unpack how the traditional approaches of evolutionary architecture are evolving and show you how to:<\/p>\n Ben Rimmer<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Independent consultant and advisor<\/em><\/p>\n Ben Rimmer has been faced with some significant challenges in recent years, leading him to think deeply about the \u2018ethics of gravity\u2019 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. <\/span><\/p>\n Come along to this talk to hear Ben\u2019s 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!<\/span><\/p>\n Erica Smith<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0StarRez<\/em><\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\n Ali Walker<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Centre for Social Impact<\/em><\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\n Herry Wiputra<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0hipages<\/em><\/p>\n 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\u2019s way of thinking: where managers do the thinking and the people on the ground do the \u2018doing\u2019. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Closer to the customer – Adopt a customer-centric focus\u2014delivering experiences to match user needs. ” open_toggle_text_color=”#e71c28″ open_toggle_background_color=”#ffffff” closed_toggle_text_color=”#22485c” closed_toggle_background_color=”#ffffff” icon_color=”#eb6127″ _builder_version=”3.17.2″ title_level=”h4″ title_font=”||||||||” body_font=”||||||||” border_width_all=”2px” border_color_all=”#eb6127″ text_orientation=”left” custom_margin=”||” custom_padding=”||”]<\/p>\n Diana Adorno<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0ThoughtWorks<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Richard Young<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Bankwest<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.\u201d \u00a0\u2013 Arthur Conan Doyle<\/span><\/p>\n The art of uncovering the real value can be subtle and needs attention to detail. In doing so, the principles of Sherlock Holmes can work perfectly to help us shape our investigations and conclusions. Careful observation is key, as are informed deductions.<\/span><\/p>\n In this talk, Richard Young and Diana Adorno will share how Sherlock principles apply to value detection. They will use real examples where they tested the starting pre-conceptions of the team and stakeholders against what customers really wanted – and will discuss the eye-opening conclusions. Attend this talk to learn how to be a great sleuth!<\/span><\/p>\n Marina Chiovetti<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0NSW Government<\/em><\/p>\n Governments tend to design services for citizens with their siloed blinkers on<\/span>. <\/span>We design health services through the lens of a hospital, education services through the lens of a school, and justice services through the lens of police or courts. <\/span><\/p>\n What if we designed our services through the lens of citizens and their experiences? Going deeper, what if we designed from the perspective of a citizen going through a particular phase in their life?In NSW, Marina Chiovetti and her team are using Design Thinking and Agile delivery to understand the citizen context through Life Journeys<\/span>\u2014 <\/span>phases in life like: Starting a Family, the Retirement Years, Getting a Job or End of Life. Marina will share the methodology she uses to connect government and non-government services (private sector and NGOs included) to understand the multiple paths and pain points of a Life Journey. Importantly, she\u2019ll explain how this is making life better for citizens. This talk will inspire some and start a provocative discussion with others!<\/span><\/p>\n Ben Crothers<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Atlassian<\/em><\/p>\n Are you constantly feeling like you’re doing lots of customer research, yet you still seem to know so little? Does it seem like research results never ‘land’ properly with stakeholders, or you’re having trouble seeing eye-to-eye? Or are you worried about blind spots in your information about customers?<\/span><\/p>\n These issues are often caused by different people in the team unknowingly having different mental models of the same thing: <\/span>your customers<\/span><\/i>. Your mental model is like an invisible product you ship to yourself, informing your decisions every day. And, like all products, it often needs bugfixing and improving. In this talk, Ben Crothers will show you some techniques for using simple drawing that anyone can use to get a common mental model across the team, and to accelerate a shared clear understanding about why they’re doing what they’re doing. Ben will also show how Atlassian’s mental model of its customers has changed over the years, and how to bugfix and tune your mental model together.<\/span><\/p>\n David Eddy<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Lean Filmmaking & Agworld<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Kylie Eddy<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Lean Filmmaking<\/em><\/p>\n Filmmakers are trained to avoid customers like the plague. In the film industry, they\u2019re not even referred to as \u2018customers\u2019, they\u2019re an \u2018audience\u2019.Conventional wisdom says that the filmmaker\u2019s vision is more important than the customer\u2019s needs, that you must know all the answers before you start, that the film has to be \u2018perfect\u2019 before anyone sees it and that everything is on the line with one huge all-or-nothing bet.<\/span><\/p>\n Encouraging filmmakers to get early feedback from customers before they even pick up their camera is an uphill battle. But once they try Lean Filmmaking, even the most die-hard auteurs can’t argue with the results. They appreciate how customers can help them make better decisions and that understanding their audience actually gives them more creative freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n In this talk, siblings Kylie Eddy (a filmmaker) and David Eddy (an Agile coach) will demonstrate how they test assumptions, impart lessons that are relevant across industries and share war stories from the Agile trenches.<\/span><\/p>\n Theresa Neate<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0REA Group<\/em><\/p>\n Every team has a customer.<\/span><\/p>\n You\u2019ve heard of Customer Experience and User Experience. Now, allow Theresa Neate to introduce Developer Experience!<\/span><\/p>\n Your developers and tech staff are customers, too. They are both your customers when you provide services to them such as build and deployment tools, and customers of any external services and tools they use.<\/span><\/p>\n They\u2019re also users. They are users of interfaces, tools, libraries and platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n As a highly skilled technology staff, do the rules of CX and DX apply to them?<\/span><\/p>\n In this talk, Theresa will discuss the growing case for platform thinking, internal platforms and the application of customer-centricity to internal platform teams and their customers. Theresa will also explore the emerging field of developer experience, which draws from UX and CX and human-computer interaction.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle title=”Leading change – Initiate change in a small, everyday sense or at a larger scale.” open_toggle_text_color=”#e71c28″ open_toggle_background_color=”#ffffff” closed_toggle_text_color=”#22485c” closed_toggle_background_color=”#ffffff” icon_color=”#f7955b” _builder_version=”3.17.2″ title_level=”h4″ title_font=”||||||||” body_font=”||||||||” border_width_all=”2px” border_color_all=”#f7955b” text_orientation=”left” inline_fonts=”BrandonTextWeb-Light”]<\/p>\nPerfect is bullsh*t
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\nOrdinary people, extraordinary results<\/a><\/h5>\n
\nThe promiscuous PM<\/a><\/h5>\n
\nPlay more! <\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
\nMake strategy happen with Hoshin Kanri and Toyota Kata<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
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Making your strategy happen have two major components that lives in symbiosis; strategy alignment and strategy execution.<\/span><\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\nThe key to high performing tech orgs <\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
\nJust add play!
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\nThe evolution of the Agile coach<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
\nMindset rules<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
\nCreating a culture of autonomy<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
\nEvolutionary architecture<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
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\nEthics of gravity<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
\nTechnical work in the product roadmap<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
\nThe team mind<\/a><\/h5>\n
\nScaling product organisations for growth<\/a><\/h5>\n
Sherlock Holmes value detection<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
\nHow NSW is using life journeys<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n
\nBugfixing your mental model<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n
\nUsing Agile in filmmaking<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
\nWhat is Developer Experience, and why does it matter?<\/a><\/h5>\n
Agile change in government<\/a><\/h5>\n