Agile is a philosophy or new way of thinking about software development and the managerial practices of software development. This session will be to understand at a high level what Agile is and how we may be able to apply new techniques in the workplace.
The demands on Utility companies today are increasing substantially. Ageing workforces, recruitment and retention issues are at the forefront of these demands and compounding that, Utilities are increasingly looked on as being boring. On the other hand, start-ups in the social technology space are seen as innovative, customer focussed and fun organisations.
Can the lessons and technologies from these companies be used by Utilities? Smart social strategies can radically change an organisation’s image - do you want to make your Utility sexy once more?
How social can help Utilities overcome image related issues
How social mediums can alleviate some of the aging workforce, recruitment and retention difficulties
Engaging customers to reduce their energy requirements and building increased awareness of their usage
Your organisation can use social software to communicate better with customers
Social technologies can help utilities get their mojo back
The demands on Utility companies today are increasing substantially. Ageing workforces, recruitment and retention issues are at the forefront of these demands and compounding that, Utilities are increasingly looked on as being boring. On the other hand, start-ups in the social technology space are seen as innovative, customer focussed and fun organisations.
Can the lessons and technologies from these companies be used by Utilities? Smart social strategies can radically change an organisation’s image - do you want to make your Utility sexy once more?
How social can help Utilities overcome image related issues
How social mediums can alleviate some of the aging workforce, recruitment and retention difficulties
Engaging customers to reduce their energy requirements and building increased awareness of their usage
Your organisation can use social software to communicate better with customers
Social technologies can help utilities get their mojo back
Coaching Nightmares: Lessons We Can Learn From Gordon RamsayCraig Smith
Talk delivered by Craig Smith and Renee Troughton at Agile Australia 2016 in Melbourne, Australia on 21 June 2016.
When you look for inspiration in the Agile coaching community, the name Gordon Ramsay is probably not the first name to come to mind. He has been known to be belligerent, condescending and downright rude, but underneath this brute facade is a treasure trove of skills and talents that influence change.
In this presentation we will draw insights from Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares escapades and explore parallels with how much his work aligns with that of an Agile Coach and the goal to successfully drive change. We will introduce a number of models and techniques that are indispensable in the coaching toolkit.
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at YOW! 2015 in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney on 4-10 December 2015.
With 73% of the world using Scrum as their predominant Agile method, this session will open up your eyes to the many other Agile and edgy Agile methods and movements in the world today For many, Agile is a toolbox of potential methods, practices and techniques, and like any good toolbox it is often more about using the right tool for the problem that will result in meaningful results.Take a rapid journey into the world of methods like Mikado, Nonban, Vanguard and movements like Holocracy,Drive and Stoos where we will uncover 40 methods and movements in 40 minutes to help strengthen your toolbox.
It All Starts With An idea: Kicking Off Initiatives For SuccessCraig Smith
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at Agile Australia 2015 in Sydney on 17 June 2015.
Ideas can come from many different places, but how do we best turn these ideas into initiatives and ensure we are working on the right things at the right time? We tend to throw the idea around, discuss it with our team and management, and undertake a lot of analysis to decide if it’s worth spending time and money on. Unfortunately this approach means we have already spent a bunch of time and money, often without realising it!
A number of the early Agile approaches described a lifecycle for kicking off projects, but many of the newer and more popular approaches start with a backlog or an assumption that you are already building something. Go back to basics and look at different approaches for kicking off initiatives and the tools and techniques that make up what is often called the discovery, ideation or concept phase. If your team or organisation has too much work in progress or your pipeline is unclear, then learn (or re-learn) approaches to kicking off the right initiatives so you can ensure you are building the right thing!
Coaching Nightmares: Lessons We Can Learn From Gordon RamsayCraig Smith
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at Agile 2016 in Atlanta, USA on 24 July 2016.
When you look for inspiration in the Agile Coaching community, the name Gordon Ramsay is probably not the first name to come to mind. He has been known to be belligerent, condescending and downright rude, but underneath this brute facade is a treasure trove of skills and talents that influence change.
In this presentation we will draw insights from his ‘Kitchen Nightmare’ escapades and draw parallels with how much his work aligns with that of an Agile Coach and the goal to successfully drive change and introduce a number of models and techniques that are indispensable in the coaching toolkit.
Learning Outcomes:
* Understand the difference between coaching, advising and mentoring
* Approaches to having confronting coaching conversations
* Dealing with denial and unengaged staff
* The criticality of a burning platform to invoke change
* Why it is important to have coaches as experts
* Agile coaching is more than the GROW model (or other coaching models)
The Presentation is about how airline industry has evolved and how systems in airline industry have evolved. The presentation further provided a roadmap on system evolution for airlines
Agile Coaching Nightmares: Lessons We Can Learn From Gordon RamsayCraig Smith
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at Agile Brisbane meetup in Brisbane, Australia on 22 October 2016.
When you look for inspiration in the Agile Coaching community, the name Gordon Ramsay is probably not the first name to come to mind. He has been known to be belligerent, condescending and downright rude, but underneath this brute facade is a treasure trove of skills and talents that influence change.
In this presentation we will draw insights from his ‘Kitchen Nightmare’ escapades and draw parallels with how much his work aligns with that of an Agile Coach and the goal to successfully drive change and introduce a number of models and techniques that are indispensable in the coaching toolkit.
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at YOW! West 2015 in Perth on 26 May 2015.
With 73% of the world using Scrum as their predominant Agile method, this session will open up your eyes to the many other Agile and edgy Agile methods and movements in the world today For many, Agile is a toolbox of potential methods, practices and techniques, and like any good toolbox it is often more about using the right tool for the problem that will result in meaningful results.Take a rapid journey into the world of methods like Mikado, Nonban, Vanguard and movements like Holocracy,Drive and Stoos where we will uncover 40 methods and movements in 40 minutes to help strengthen your toolbox.
Integrating Information Technology with Sports (by Chris and Sean)ChrisEluva
This is our Professional skills assignment 4 (2BCT2) .
We used these slides to discuss the idea of how I.T is used in sports now and how it will be used in the future.
It is primarily made from images acquired from Google !! (We couldn't find much creative commons images).
We've used examples like the hawk eye system, IT in Olympics, Rugby ref cam etc.. to illustrate our topic.
This presentation will help you draw a line between the words "career", "major" and "profession" and use them correctly when speaking and writing English.
Topic of this short talk: team / group dynamics. The point is that you need to be aware of any dynamics happening in your team / group.
Contents of the presentation:
Slide 1: Intro video (ants)
Slide 2: Teamwork
Teamwork is the corner stone of any successful undertaking.
Teamwork is an individual skill.
The purpose of this talk is to make you aware of the importance of team dynamics.
We will look at some examples, and how we can explore team dynamics.
Slide 3: How does a high-performing team look like?
Diverse members
Diversity of viewpoints, opinions
Open and clear communication
Managing conflict
Clear objectives
Trust
Participative leadership
Positive atmosphere
Engagement
Slide 4: Putting a group of people together does not make a team.
Slide 5: Model of group/team development: Tuckman (1965)
Note: the different phases of growing as a team are necessary to become “performing”
Slide 6: Belbin team roles (1981)
9 team roles: an effective team has members that cover the 9 key roles in managing the team
Slide 7: Communication inside the team is a key indicator of whether they are performing or not. The quality of communication in the team will also directly affect the communication with the stakeholders.
Slide 8: One bad apple can cause rot in the entire cart by altering the behaviour of everyone.
examples: the passive-aggressive group eroder, the blunt/rude dominant, the controller, the slacker, the anti-establishment guy, the divide-and-conquer schemer, the arrogant fat head
Slide 9: Groupthink, a term coined by social psychologist Irving Janis (1972), occurs when a group makes faulty decisions because group pressures lead to a deterioration of “mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment”.
Groups affected by groupthink ignore alternatives and tend to take irrational actions that dehumanise other groups. A group is especially vulnerable to groupthink when its members are similar in background, when the group is insulated from outside opinions, and when there are no clear rules for decision making.
Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
Slide 10: How to explore team dynamics?
Listen to the way team members are communicating
Observe behaviours: can you recognise certain team roles? Who has an introvert personality, who’s extrovert?
Observe how conflict is managed
Slide 11: Don't be a Scrum Zombie (Thanks to Henrik Kniberg)
Slide 12: How to explore team dynamics? Team building, a classic scrum.
Slide 13, 14, 15: How to explore team dynamics? Team drawer
A team building exercise.
Cf. https://technology1unplugged.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/agile-belgium-agile-games-night-iii-at-commagroup-cronos-10092015/ (team drawing exercise)
Slide 16: Improv theatre exercises
Slide 17: Quote by Henry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.”
Slide 18: Be aware of the dynamics in your team!
Plenary session hosted by Craig Smith with Nigel Dalton, David Joyce and Simon Bristow presented at Agile Australia 2012 in May 2012.
Agile adoption in Australia and across the world is now becoming more mainstream and, as a community, we are struggling to address the issue of how to take experienced Agile practitioners to the next level, while still supporting those who are beginning their journey. With the "agile" word getting so overloaded, the challenge is to continually innovate without assigning labels or losing focus on our prime objective - to deliver!
Join Craig Smith with Nigel Dalton, Simon Bristow and David Joyce (on the couch) as they explore different viewpoints on all things Agile - then, now and future!
Agile 2.0 - Rebooting a Raccoon in an Imperfect WorldCraig Smith
Presentation by Craig Smith and Greg Smith at Agile 2011 in Salt Lake City.
On this 10th anniversary of agile, our community is struggling to address the issue of how to take experienced agile practitioners to the next level, while still providing training and tools to support those who are beginning their journey. With the “agile” word getting so overloaded, the challenge is to continually innovate without assigning labels. In this talk we will discuss how to use the best of traditional, lean and agile methods to suit any team and showcase numerous patterns that demonstrate the best process to use is often a mixture of traditional practices and new innovations.
Coaching Nightmares: Lessons We Can Learn From Gordon RamsayCraig Smith
Talk delivered by Craig Smith and Renee Troughton at Agile Australia 2016 in Melbourne, Australia on 21 June 2016.
When you look for inspiration in the Agile coaching community, the name Gordon Ramsay is probably not the first name to come to mind. He has been known to be belligerent, condescending and downright rude, but underneath this brute facade is a treasure trove of skills and talents that influence change.
In this presentation we will draw insights from Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares escapades and explore parallels with how much his work aligns with that of an Agile Coach and the goal to successfully drive change. We will introduce a number of models and techniques that are indispensable in the coaching toolkit.
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at YOW! 2015 in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney on 4-10 December 2015.
With 73% of the world using Scrum as their predominant Agile method, this session will open up your eyes to the many other Agile and edgy Agile methods and movements in the world today For many, Agile is a toolbox of potential methods, practices and techniques, and like any good toolbox it is often more about using the right tool for the problem that will result in meaningful results.Take a rapid journey into the world of methods like Mikado, Nonban, Vanguard and movements like Holocracy,Drive and Stoos where we will uncover 40 methods and movements in 40 minutes to help strengthen your toolbox.
It All Starts With An idea: Kicking Off Initiatives For SuccessCraig Smith
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at Agile Australia 2015 in Sydney on 17 June 2015.
Ideas can come from many different places, but how do we best turn these ideas into initiatives and ensure we are working on the right things at the right time? We tend to throw the idea around, discuss it with our team and management, and undertake a lot of analysis to decide if it’s worth spending time and money on. Unfortunately this approach means we have already spent a bunch of time and money, often without realising it!
A number of the early Agile approaches described a lifecycle for kicking off projects, but many of the newer and more popular approaches start with a backlog or an assumption that you are already building something. Go back to basics and look at different approaches for kicking off initiatives and the tools and techniques that make up what is often called the discovery, ideation or concept phase. If your team or organisation has too much work in progress or your pipeline is unclear, then learn (or re-learn) approaches to kicking off the right initiatives so you can ensure you are building the right thing!
Coaching Nightmares: Lessons We Can Learn From Gordon RamsayCraig Smith
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at Agile 2016 in Atlanta, USA on 24 July 2016.
When you look for inspiration in the Agile Coaching community, the name Gordon Ramsay is probably not the first name to come to mind. He has been known to be belligerent, condescending and downright rude, but underneath this brute facade is a treasure trove of skills and talents that influence change.
In this presentation we will draw insights from his ‘Kitchen Nightmare’ escapades and draw parallels with how much his work aligns with that of an Agile Coach and the goal to successfully drive change and introduce a number of models and techniques that are indispensable in the coaching toolkit.
Learning Outcomes:
* Understand the difference between coaching, advising and mentoring
* Approaches to having confronting coaching conversations
* Dealing with denial and unengaged staff
* The criticality of a burning platform to invoke change
* Why it is important to have coaches as experts
* Agile coaching is more than the GROW model (or other coaching models)
The Presentation is about how airline industry has evolved and how systems in airline industry have evolved. The presentation further provided a roadmap on system evolution for airlines
Agile Coaching Nightmares: Lessons We Can Learn From Gordon RamsayCraig Smith
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at Agile Brisbane meetup in Brisbane, Australia on 22 October 2016.
When you look for inspiration in the Agile Coaching community, the name Gordon Ramsay is probably not the first name to come to mind. He has been known to be belligerent, condescending and downright rude, but underneath this brute facade is a treasure trove of skills and talents that influence change.
In this presentation we will draw insights from his ‘Kitchen Nightmare’ escapades and draw parallels with how much his work aligns with that of an Agile Coach and the goal to successfully drive change and introduce a number of models and techniques that are indispensable in the coaching toolkit.
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at YOW! West 2015 in Perth on 26 May 2015.
With 73% of the world using Scrum as their predominant Agile method, this session will open up your eyes to the many other Agile and edgy Agile methods and movements in the world today For many, Agile is a toolbox of potential methods, practices and techniques, and like any good toolbox it is often more about using the right tool for the problem that will result in meaningful results.Take a rapid journey into the world of methods like Mikado, Nonban, Vanguard and movements like Holocracy,Drive and Stoos where we will uncover 40 methods and movements in 40 minutes to help strengthen your toolbox.
Integrating Information Technology with Sports (by Chris and Sean)ChrisEluva
This is our Professional skills assignment 4 (2BCT2) .
We used these slides to discuss the idea of how I.T is used in sports now and how it will be used in the future.
It is primarily made from images acquired from Google !! (We couldn't find much creative commons images).
We've used examples like the hawk eye system, IT in Olympics, Rugby ref cam etc.. to illustrate our topic.
This presentation will help you draw a line between the words "career", "major" and "profession" and use them correctly when speaking and writing English.
Topic of this short talk: team / group dynamics. The point is that you need to be aware of any dynamics happening in your team / group.
Contents of the presentation:
Slide 1: Intro video (ants)
Slide 2: Teamwork
Teamwork is the corner stone of any successful undertaking.
Teamwork is an individual skill.
The purpose of this talk is to make you aware of the importance of team dynamics.
We will look at some examples, and how we can explore team dynamics.
Slide 3: How does a high-performing team look like?
Diverse members
Diversity of viewpoints, opinions
Open and clear communication
Managing conflict
Clear objectives
Trust
Participative leadership
Positive atmosphere
Engagement
Slide 4: Putting a group of people together does not make a team.
Slide 5: Model of group/team development: Tuckman (1965)
Note: the different phases of growing as a team are necessary to become “performing”
Slide 6: Belbin team roles (1981)
9 team roles: an effective team has members that cover the 9 key roles in managing the team
Slide 7: Communication inside the team is a key indicator of whether they are performing or not. The quality of communication in the team will also directly affect the communication with the stakeholders.
Slide 8: One bad apple can cause rot in the entire cart by altering the behaviour of everyone.
examples: the passive-aggressive group eroder, the blunt/rude dominant, the controller, the slacker, the anti-establishment guy, the divide-and-conquer schemer, the arrogant fat head
Slide 9: Groupthink, a term coined by social psychologist Irving Janis (1972), occurs when a group makes faulty decisions because group pressures lead to a deterioration of “mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment”.
Groups affected by groupthink ignore alternatives and tend to take irrational actions that dehumanise other groups. A group is especially vulnerable to groupthink when its members are similar in background, when the group is insulated from outside opinions, and when there are no clear rules for decision making.
Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
Slide 10: How to explore team dynamics?
Listen to the way team members are communicating
Observe behaviours: can you recognise certain team roles? Who has an introvert personality, who’s extrovert?
Observe how conflict is managed
Slide 11: Don't be a Scrum Zombie (Thanks to Henrik Kniberg)
Slide 12: How to explore team dynamics? Team building, a classic scrum.
Slide 13, 14, 15: How to explore team dynamics? Team drawer
A team building exercise.
Cf. https://technology1unplugged.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/agile-belgium-agile-games-night-iii-at-commagroup-cronos-10092015/ (team drawing exercise)
Slide 16: Improv theatre exercises
Slide 17: Quote by Henry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.”
Slide 18: Be aware of the dynamics in your team!
Plenary session hosted by Craig Smith with Nigel Dalton, David Joyce and Simon Bristow presented at Agile Australia 2012 in May 2012.
Agile adoption in Australia and across the world is now becoming more mainstream and, as a community, we are struggling to address the issue of how to take experienced Agile practitioners to the next level, while still supporting those who are beginning their journey. With the "agile" word getting so overloaded, the challenge is to continually innovate without assigning labels or losing focus on our prime objective - to deliver!
Join Craig Smith with Nigel Dalton, Simon Bristow and David Joyce (on the couch) as they explore different viewpoints on all things Agile - then, now and future!
Agile 2.0 - Rebooting a Raccoon in an Imperfect WorldCraig Smith
Presentation by Craig Smith and Greg Smith at Agile 2011 in Salt Lake City.
On this 10th anniversary of agile, our community is struggling to address the issue of how to take experienced agile practitioners to the next level, while still providing training and tools to support those who are beginning their journey. With the “agile” word getting so overloaded, the challenge is to continually innovate without assigning labels. In this talk we will discuss how to use the best of traditional, lean and agile methods to suit any team and showcase numerous patterns that demonstrate the best process to use is often a mixture of traditional practices and new innovations.
Indexing and Searching Logs with Elasticsearch/Solr by Radu Gheorghe from Sem...Hakka Labs
This presentation shows how Logstash, Apache Flume or rsyslog can help you parse, buffer and ship your logs to Elasticsearch or Solr. We’ll show the pros and cons of each tool, so you can decide what’s best for your use case.
The presentation also puts Elasticsearch and Solr side by side ands shows how to make them handle write-heavy applications like those presented in the first part. It goes over how to tweak various buffers, merge policies, how to structure indices/collections, and more. And when one machine isn’t enough, we’ll look at how Elasticsearch and Solr (through SolrCloud) can be scaled horizontally to handle more and more data.
Elasticsearch and Solr for Logs + info on Rsyslog, Kibana, Logstash, and Apache Flume for log shipping logs. VIDEO at: http://blog.sematext.com/2014/02/26/video-and-presentation-indexing-and-searching-logs-with-elasticsearch-or-solr/
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at Agile India 2022 on 22 September 2022.
With 66% of the world using Scrum as their predominant Agile method, this session will open up your eyes to the many other Agile methods and frameworks in the world today. For many, Agile is a toolbox of potential methods, practices and techniques, and like any good toolbox it is often more about using the right tool for the problem that will result in meaningful results. So join us on this rapid journey to look at the universe of Agile approaches and adding some extra tools into your toolkit
Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile CoachingCraig Smith
Talk delivered by Craig Smith, Alex Sloley and Shane Hastie at Agile Virtual Summit: Coaching Edition on 4 March 2022.
People serving in an agile coaching role are expected to act ethically, but what does that mean in practice?
Agile coaching is an evolving profession encompassing many disciplines including individual, team and systemic coaching, facilitating, teaching and mentoring, all applied with an open and deliberate bias towards using agile approaches to help address a client’s needs.
The complexity of agile coaching means that you will inevitably encounter difficult situations.
What if you had a Code you could follow that would help support you when difficult decisions need to be made?
What if that same Code helped you act courageously in every situation, even if there is a personal negative impact?
A group of volunteers has been working on crafting just that code. Specifically a Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching under an Agile Alliance initiative.
This talk will present the background to the work which has been done so far, walk you through the content of the code and explain where it can go in the future.
During the session, you'll be introduced to a few ethics scenarios that will help you identify the types of dilemmas you may face in the field. You'll discover some examples of appropriate and inappropriate ethical behavior in these different contexts, and how to address them.
Talk delivered by Craig Smith and Julian Smith at ICAgile Experts Meetup Group on 22 September 2021.
Today 'agile' is no longer just a buzzword. From building spacecraft to manufacturing, some of the most complex and largest organisations in the world are using agile ways of working to deliver better outcomes, respond to change, improve quality, foster more productive and happier teams, and reduce risk.
This hands-on and interactive session is aimed at helping public sector organisations build capability to support agile ways of working, from policy development through to service design and delivery.
Rethinking Retrospectives: Beyond the Three ColumnsCraig Smith
Talk delivered by Craig Smith and Michael Huynh at Agile Online Summit 2021 on 26 October 2021.
The concept of continuous improvement is to stop, pause, reflect, and make small adjustments for the team to improve. But are retrospectives really enough for your teams to improve sprint to sprint? What if your best retrospective still doesn’t yield the results desired and doesn't move your team out of first gear? What often happens is a narrow view from a team’s perspective on the last sprint or retrospectives don’t provide enough coverage on the broader topics beyond the last iteration.
Simply put, retrospectives are no longer enough!
Join Craig and Michael as they both share their experience and taking your teams to the next level!
Agile Coaching Ethics - The Powerful Questions Behind What, Why & HowCraig Smith
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at Agile Coaching Exchange: MidTN on 8 March 2021.
In this session we will look into the work that the community is doing as part of the Agile Alliance around Agile Coaching Ethics. We will ask why the work is needed, what has been done so far and what we can do as a community to support this work.
Talk delivered by Craig Smith and Julian Smith at WellyBAM on 14 May 2021.
Today 'agile' is no longer just a buzzword. From building spacecraft to manufacturing, some of the most complex and largest organisations in the world are using agile ways of working to deliver better outcomes, respond to change, improve quality, foster more productive and happier teams, and reduce risk.
This hands-on and interactive session is aimed at helping public sector organisations build capability to support agile ways of working, from policy development through to service design and delivery.
Workshop delivered by Craig Smith and Julian Smith at Agility Today 2021 on 27 February 2021.
Today 'agile' is no longer just a buzzword. From building spacecraft to manufacturing, some of the most complex and largest organisations in the world are using agile ways of working to deliver better outcomes, respond to change, improve quality, foster more productive and happier teams, and reduce risk.
This hands-on and interactive session is aimed at helping public sector organisations build capability to support agile ways of working, from policy development through to service design and delivery.
Workshop delivered by Craig Smith and Julian Smith at DTA Digital Summit 2020 on 17 November 2020.
Today 'agile' is no longer just a buzzword. From building spacecraft to manufacturing, some of the most complex and largest organisations in the world are using agile ways of working to deliver better outcomes, respond to change, improve quality, foster more productive and happier teams, and reduce risk.
This hands-on and interactive session is aimed at helping public sector organisations build capability to support agile ways of working, from policy development through to service design and delivery.
FailAgility: Recognising and Resetting the Agile BoundariesCraig Smith
Keynote delivered by Craig Smith and Tony Ponton at LAST Conference Brisbane, Australia on 27 September 2019.
FailAgility; we have all seen it and let’s face it, we are all guilty of letting it happen in our organisations. So why is it that so many businesses fail to see the outcomes that the Agile values and principles promise?
This presentation looks at what FailAgility is and the three levels in organisations where it stems from:
Organisation, Leadership and the Coaching / Personal level.
We will discuss the types of FailAgility that we see at these different levels, the approaches that cause
FailAgility and most importantly what we can do to recognise and fix it.
Mind the Gap: Realising the Value of AgilityCraig Smith
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at LAST Conference Canberra, Australia on 21 September 2019.
Agile has well and truly crossed the chasm and every organisation large or small seems to be in the middle of some sort of Agile transformation. Yet, look behind the covers and we have to ask ourselves the tough question of how well we are doing and how agile are we really?
So all aboard as we acknowledge some of gaps many organisations are facing and we question the true value we are delivering. More importantly, we will discuss how we might start to these issues, both inside our organisations and as individuals flying the agile flag.
Mind the Gap: Realising the Value of AgilityCraig Smith
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at LAST Conference Brisbane, Australia on 29 September 2017.
Agile has well and truly crossed the chasm and every organisation large or small seems to be in the middle of some sort of Agile transformation. Yet, look behind the covers and we have to ask ourselves the tough question of how well we are doing and how agile are we really?
So all aboard as we acknowledge some of gaps many organisations are facing and we question the true value we are delivering. More importantly, we will discuss how we might start to these issues, both inside our organisations and as individuals flying the agile flag.
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at itSMF NT meeting in Darwin, Australia on 22 March 2018.
With 73% of the world using Scrum as their predominant Agile method, which has a direct impact on service management, this session will open up your eyes to the many other Agile and edgy Agile methods and movements in the world today. For many, Agile is a toolbox of potential methods, practices and techniques, and like any good toolbox it is often more about using the right tool for the problem that will result in meaningful results. You may also be surprised about how many methods have a direct relation or reliance on service management as well as the wider organisational structure and culture. So let’s take a rapid journey into the world of methods like Mikado, Nonban, Vanguard and movements like Holocracy, Drive and Stoos where we will uncover 40 methods and movements in 40 minutes to help strengthen your understanding and toolbox.
Agile Coaching Nightmares: Lessons We Can Learn From Gordon RamsayCraig Smith
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at YOW! Hong Kong 2017 and YOW! Singapore 2017 during September 2017.
When you look for inspiration in the Agile Coaching community, the name Gordon Ramsay is probably not the first name to come to mind. He has been known to be belligerent, condescending and downright rude, but underneath this brute facade is a treasure trove of skills and talents that influence change.
In this presentation we will draw insights from his ‘Kitchen Nightmare’ escapades and draw parallels with how much his work aligns with that of an Agile Coach and the goal to successfully drive change and introduce a number of models and techniques that are indispensable in the coaching toolkit.
Technical Lessons Learned Turning the Agile Dials to Eleven!Craig Smith
Talk delivered by Craig Smith and Paul King at Agile 2008 in Toronto, Canada on 7 August 2008.
Developer practices for traditional and agile Java development are well understood and documented. But dynamic languages - Groovy, Ruby, and others - change the ground rules. Many of the common practices, refactoring techniques, and design patterns we have been taught either no longer apply or should be applied differently and some new techniques come into play. In this talk, techniques for agile development with dynamic languages are discussed. How should we better apply refactoring techniques? What new aspects do we need to think about?
Agile Project Experiences - The Story of Three Little PigsCraig Smith
Talk delivered by Craig Smith and Paul King at Agile 2008 in Toronto, Canada on 5 August 2008.
Over the last few years, we have agrressively applied agile practices on a number of projects with success. These successes, however, have not been achieved without challenges and lessons learnt along the way. This experience report specifically highlights examples from three different projects of varying sizes in this period in the same organisation (three little pigs) where in all cases the pigs were well and truly committed.
Some of the key successes from the example projects will also be discussed.
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at Scrum Australia 2014 in Sydney on 21 October 2014.
With 73% of the world using Scrum as their predominant Agile method, this session will open up your eyes to the many other Agile and edgy Agile methods and movements in the world today. For many, Agile is a toolbox of potential methods, practices and techniques, and like any good toolbox it is often more about using the right tool for the problem that will result in meaningful results.
Take a rapid journey into the world of methods like Mikado, Nonban, Vanguard and movements like Holocracy, Drive and Stoos where we will uncover 40 methods and movements in 40 minutes to help strengthen your toolbox.
Visual Management: Leading With What You Can SeeCraig Smith
Presentation by Craig Smith delivered at Agile Encore 2013 in Melbourne on 14 November 2013. Using task boards or story walls is a key Agile practice, but are you making the most of it? Visual Management is more than just putting cards on a wall, it is a growing style of management that focuses on managing work only by what you can see rather than reports or paper being shuffled around. Visual Management allows you to understand the constraints in the system, mitigate risks before they become issues, report on progress from the micro to the macro. Visual Management can also be used to demonstrate to customers and clients where the work they care about is at. This presentation is all about taking the management of your work to the next stage of transparency.
7 Deadly Sins of Agile Software Test AutomationCraig Smith
Talk delivered by Craig Smith at Agile 2013 in Nashville, USA on 8 August 2013.
Automated software testing is a key enabler for teams wanting to build high quality software that can be progressively enhanced and continuously released. To ensure development practices are sustainable, automated testing must be treated as a first-class citizen and not all approaches are created equal. Some approaches can accumulate technical debt, cause duplication of effort and even team dysfunctions.
The seven deadly sins of automated software testing are a set of common anti-patterns that have been found to erode the value of automated testing resulting in long term maintenance issues and ultimately affecting the ability of development teams to respond to change and continuously deliver.
Taking the classic seven sins (Gluttony, Sloth, Lust, Envy, Rage, Pride, Greed) as they might be applied to test automation we will discuss how to identify each automated sin and more importantly provide guidance on recommended solutions and how to avoid them in the first place.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
-------------------------------------------
During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
33. Get from
this...
Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Maze.JPG
34. To this...
Image: http://www.okroads.com/073003/i20msexit130.JPG
35. Just not this...
http://dyad14.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/desk-with-pile-of-papers.jpg
36. Cross functional team
Project
Sponsor
Project
Manager Program
Manager
Consultants
Iteration
Manager
Team
lead
Comms
Officer
Busines Core Team
Member
Owner
Team
Quality
Assurance
Bus.
SME
Project
Officer Team
Specialist Support
Other key Analyst
stakeholders
Extended
Team
Image http://www.befitlifestyle.com/images/CorporateTeamHands.jpg
61. Questions ??
Craig Smith
http://www.suncorp.com.au
http://www.agileacademy.com.au
craig.smith@suncorp.com.au
@smithcdau
http://www.slideshare.net/smithcdau/
Suncorp is one of Australia and New Zealand's largest diversified financial services providers,
supplying banking, insurance and wealth management products to around 9 million customers through
well-established and recognised brands such as AAMI, Australian Pensioners Insurance Agency,
Shannons, Vero, Asteron and Tyndall, as well as Suncorp and GIO. Today, Suncorp is Australia's fifth
largest bank and second largest domestic general insurance group, with over 16,000 staff. Suncorp
has representation in 450 offices, branches and agencies throughout Australia and New Zealand.
(http://www.suncorp.com.au)
The Agile Academy is the next wave in Agile learning and collaboration. Designed for IT professionals,
the Agile Academy is a knowledge hub that promotes Agile related learning, knowledge sharing and
capability development across the IT industry. We offer an integrated curriculum of leading edge
courses across the entire solution development life cycle, covering all roles at varying levels.
(http://www.agileacademy.com.au)