Business Agility is a key requirement for success in a fast changing world. Hear from NZ's top Agile coaches during AGILE [Tech] Week 2020.
What's it all about?
AGILE [Tech] Week 2020 is a series of events focused on building capability within the business sector for those exploring AGILE practice, and for those already utilising AGILE in their organisation.
Business Agility is about putting the customer at the centre of the organisation’s focus, changing from measuring activities to outcomes and creating an ecosystem which unleashes the productivity and innovation already present in the people in the organisation.
Hear from expert speakers from the AGILE Alliance NZ, and take part in the Friday unconference, where discussions centre around topics as chosen by attendees.
2020 schedule of speakers and topics include:
Tuesday 28 July, 9am-10am:
Ant Boobier - Design Sprint Dinner: experience how a design sprint can rapidly validate your big ideas
Wednesday 29 July, 9am-10am:
Colin Basterfield - Liberating Structures
Thursday 30 July, 9am-10am:
Raf Gemmail & Allen Geer - An Agilista’s Intro to Containerisation
Friday 31 July, 9am-12pm:
Shane Hastie - Open Space Unconference
You should be present for the whole duration of this event.
Tuesday 28 Jul
9:00am - 10:00am
Wednesday 29 Jul
9:00am - 10:00am
Thursday 30 Jul
9:00am - 10:00am
Friday 31 Jul
9:00am - 12:00pm
Speakers
Ant Boobier
Ant Boobier is agile coach at Nomad8. He has been doing Agile for more years than he cares to remember. RAD in the 90s, XP in the 2000s and a magic mix of Lean UX and Agile today. He is a people geek who loves a good experiment.
Shane Hastie
Over the last 30+ years Shane has been a practitioner and leader of developers, testers, trainers, project managers and business analysts, helping teams to deliver results that align with overall business objectives. He spent 15 years as a professional trainer, coach and consultant specialising in Agile practices, business analysis, project management, requirements, testing and methodologies for SoftEd in Australia, New Zealand and around the world. Shane joined ICAgile in 2017 as the Director of Agile Learning Programs, and is the founding Chair of Agile Alliance New Zealand.
Raf Gemmail
Raf Gemmail is a proven technical leader, coach, solutions architect, and
full-stack polyglot with an engineering core. He is a technical consultant
with Assurity NZ, a professor with OpenClassrooms.com and an InfoQ news
editor. Raf has a history of helping both small and well-known organisations
to design and deliver high-impact and data-intensive solutions.
Raf has been building software his whole life and has been fortunate enough
to have shared journeys with organizations such as the BBC, Stuff.co.nz,
Booking.com and a range of blue-chips. As a practitioner of London School
TDD, he has led and coached many developers on their journey through making
all delivery about real customers, and working with the end in mind.
Colin Basterfield
Colin Basterfield is an Agile Practice and People Coach, currently contracted to NZ Police working across multiple teams and individuals. He strives to surface everyone’s voice, so makes use of Liberating Structures at every opportunity. To augment his people coaching skills, he recently graduated from Integral Coaching Canada’s Associate Coach program. He is also a member of Agile Alliance New Zealand.
Allen Geer
Allen is skilled in the areas of continuous integration, continuous delivery, cloud infrastructure, test automation and platforms. He uses his deep experience in the field to help clients deliver higher quality software with greater velocity. Allen is involved in leading DevOps transformations in large Kiwi Organisations. He is also responsible for leading Assurity’s National DevOps Training Programme and has certified over 200 Kiwi’s in the Foundations of DevOps. As an avid Agilist and ‘DevOpser’, he enjoys helping clients transform the way they work to become more responsive to the demands of their customers.
Schedule
Design Sprints are a great way for a team to solve a big problem and test a solution with real users in a structured way; but some of the activities, language and concepts used in them can be new and daunting. This session will condense down the 'Define' ‘Sketch’ and ‘Decide’ stages of a Design Sprint. It will get you comfortable with setting Sprint questions, drawing and annotation, facilitator-led presentation of concept sketches, silent dot voting, heat maps and a final decider vote. Experience what it's like to be part of a Design Sprint team as you move to validate a big idea...hopefully while having fun and building up an appetite for your next Dinner!
Liberating Structures offers an alternative way to approach and design how people work together. It provides a menu of thirty-three Liberating Structures to replace or complement conventional practices, and used routinely make it possible to build the kind of organisation that everybody wants. They are designed to include everyone in shaping next steps.
This alternative approach is both practical and feasible because Liberating Structures are quite simple and easy to learn. They can be used by everyone at every level, from the executive suite to the grassroots. They quickly foster lively participation in groups of any size, making it possible to truly include and unleash everyone. Liberating Structures are a disruptive innovation that can replace more controlling or constraining approaches.
“Containerisation” is a term given to the process of adding repeatability to how software products are composed into well-defined runnable applications. In this fifty-five minute lab, we will help you understand what “containerisation” means.
This technique is used to reduce the risk of differences between environments, isolate running software elasticity to respond to changes in demand. You will come to understand the value of containerisation as a practice implemented by your development teams. The lab will culminate in attendees running a containerised application in your browser.
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