How do you teach young uni students the Agile Mindset? Using the morning activities (story mapping) concept, we've discussed ideas of delivering value, thin slices and inspecting and adapting. Presented as part of the RMIT Switch bootcamp (August 6, 2018).
by Dermot Kilroy, GoCompare.
The Agile Manifesto captured the mindset of 17 software delivery thought leaders in how they wanted to deliver software. Since then the agile landscape has exploded with all sorts of different tools, techniques and practices.
In my experience the adoption of agile focuses heavily on implementing the processes, tools and techniques. But, true agility is achieved by the people within the organisation adopting the agile mindset.
This talk is all about the agile journey GoCompare has taken and, more importantly, contains an experience report of developing an agile mindset at all levels of the organisation.
From the FreshTech 2017 conference by TechExeter
www.techexeter.uk
Agile Mindset : The Paradigm Shift..! - Agile Tour Algiers 2017Taoufik Fekhar
Agile is about mindset, this mindset is established through 4 values, grounded by 12 principles, and manifested through many different practices. Agile is a transformation from “fixed mindset” to “growth mindset”. Agile is a shift of thinking for the way of how we run a knowledge work from “defined process” to “empirical process”, Agile is a paradigm shift of how we manage work (specially knowledge work) from “coordination & control” to “inspect & adapt”. So, Agile is all about mindset, and it’s very important to understand this mindset in order to succeed the transformation to Agility that allows us to deal with complexity and uncertainty by established set of attitudes and habits toward a work like: failing early, learning through discovery, welcoming change, continuous delivery and continuous improvement, self-organizing team, collaboration and communication, build in feedback loops...etc, and when we really understand the Agile mindset we can use the Agile practices and tools as “Shu” level of instructions and guidance in the journey from “Doing Agile” to “Being Agile”, this journey that requires a lot of education and learning.
Developing an Agile Mindset - Agile York - 20th MayPaddy Corry
Developing an Agile Mindset can be purposeful. We can triple distil Beliefs Values and Principles, and let those ideas mature to help develop an Agile Mindset in ourselves and others.
Agile is not a methodology it is just a list of values and practices, described in Agile Manifesto.
You may easily find a list of Agile Frameworks such as Scrum, XP, Crystal Clear and others.
It may sounds strange, but they still are not a methodology.
Methodology is their implementation, which works for context it was created.
Unfortunately, Agile implementations sometimes have a blind spot.
You may easily start using Agile practices but without accompaniment mindset they most likely not work.
And what does "Agile mindset" actually mean?
Why so many Agile projects are failing? Have we looked at what our teams are missing. Are we learning quickly? Have we deployed the growth mindset/ Agile Mindset.
This presentation goal is to demonstrate Agile Mindset & thinking. This presentation tries to explain how to be agile and behave like a agile. Team and Organizational mindset is also explained in this presentation.
How Microsoft is Making the Culture Change from Traditional to Lean, Cindy Al...Lean Startup Co.
How do you make the culture change from traditional to Lean work? It requires changing behaviors and building new habits and competencies. In this breakout session, Cindy Alvarez will share strategies that Microsoft's Cloud & Enterprise division has employed to help its 8,000+ employees learn new skills, build new habits, and change behaviors. You'll learn the pros and cons of various approaches, what initial investments they required, and which situations they've worked best in. If your leadership is looking to you to recommend a Lean strategy, this session will help you make a recommendation that works best for your organization.
by Dermot Kilroy, GoCompare.
The Agile Manifesto captured the mindset of 17 software delivery thought leaders in how they wanted to deliver software. Since then the agile landscape has exploded with all sorts of different tools, techniques and practices.
In my experience the adoption of agile focuses heavily on implementing the processes, tools and techniques. But, true agility is achieved by the people within the organisation adopting the agile mindset.
This talk is all about the agile journey GoCompare has taken and, more importantly, contains an experience report of developing an agile mindset at all levels of the organisation.
From the FreshTech 2017 conference by TechExeter
www.techexeter.uk
Agile Mindset : The Paradigm Shift..! - Agile Tour Algiers 2017Taoufik Fekhar
Agile is about mindset, this mindset is established through 4 values, grounded by 12 principles, and manifested through many different practices. Agile is a transformation from “fixed mindset” to “growth mindset”. Agile is a shift of thinking for the way of how we run a knowledge work from “defined process” to “empirical process”, Agile is a paradigm shift of how we manage work (specially knowledge work) from “coordination & control” to “inspect & adapt”. So, Agile is all about mindset, and it’s very important to understand this mindset in order to succeed the transformation to Agility that allows us to deal with complexity and uncertainty by established set of attitudes and habits toward a work like: failing early, learning through discovery, welcoming change, continuous delivery and continuous improvement, self-organizing team, collaboration and communication, build in feedback loops...etc, and when we really understand the Agile mindset we can use the Agile practices and tools as “Shu” level of instructions and guidance in the journey from “Doing Agile” to “Being Agile”, this journey that requires a lot of education and learning.
Developing an Agile Mindset - Agile York - 20th MayPaddy Corry
Developing an Agile Mindset can be purposeful. We can triple distil Beliefs Values and Principles, and let those ideas mature to help develop an Agile Mindset in ourselves and others.
Agile is not a methodology it is just a list of values and practices, described in Agile Manifesto.
You may easily find a list of Agile Frameworks such as Scrum, XP, Crystal Clear and others.
It may sounds strange, but they still are not a methodology.
Methodology is their implementation, which works for context it was created.
Unfortunately, Agile implementations sometimes have a blind spot.
You may easily start using Agile practices but without accompaniment mindset they most likely not work.
And what does "Agile mindset" actually mean?
Why so many Agile projects are failing? Have we looked at what our teams are missing. Are we learning quickly? Have we deployed the growth mindset/ Agile Mindset.
This presentation goal is to demonstrate Agile Mindset & thinking. This presentation tries to explain how to be agile and behave like a agile. Team and Organizational mindset is also explained in this presentation.
How Microsoft is Making the Culture Change from Traditional to Lean, Cindy Al...Lean Startup Co.
How do you make the culture change from traditional to Lean work? It requires changing behaviors and building new habits and competencies. In this breakout session, Cindy Alvarez will share strategies that Microsoft's Cloud & Enterprise division has employed to help its 8,000+ employees learn new skills, build new habits, and change behaviors. You'll learn the pros and cons of various approaches, what initial investments they required, and which situations they've worked best in. If your leadership is looking to you to recommend a Lean strategy, this session will help you make a recommendation that works best for your organization.
Big question:
– Can we "equip" our children with the knowledge and skills they will need to succeed in the 21st century?
Digging it more:
– Are we successfully preparing our students for the increasing 21st century demands of life and career?
– Are our educators successfully addressing the unique and diverse needs of the 21st century children?
– How can we improve even further the quality of our Education offer?
Tuga IT 2017 - Strengthen Culture to drive Business agilityNuno Rafael Gomes
– What is Organizational Culture?
– What is Business agility?
– Why is Culture so important for your Business?
– Can Culture drive your Business?
– How to decode your Culture?
– Can Agile help you strengthen your Organizational Culture?
– How about your Business bottom-line?
30 psychological truths that drive agile adoption and its failureCaoilte Dunne
How are the outcomes of children adopted post-World War II related to the success of your agile transformation? How can pressure to achieve high velocity actually cause its absence?
Everybody has a different agile story. Maybe yours is an amazing project where empowerment and accomplishment was a common occurrence. Maybe it is a never ending slog through awful days with occasional standups. This talk focuses on the drivers, flaws and systems of human behaviors that allow for both of these outcomes.
People are at the heart of agile and psychology. I combine both worlds - leveraging the work of over 30 noted psychologists including Watzlawick, Skinner, Maslow - to explore how people can cause agile adoption, agile failure and agile recovery. This talk not only covers how psychology suggests patterns to help people relate to one other but also how people use and abuse data both consciously and unconsciously.
After this presentation you should be able to look at your current project through a new lens. You will have the ability to identify and understand the gaps, and appreciate the things you, and your team, are doing right.
Global Scrum Gathering Munich 2016 - Improving Scrum with Lean ThinkingNuno Rafael Gomes
– What's Lean?
– Why use Lean Thinking to drive your organization towards sustainable growth?
– What's the connection between Lean and Scrum?
– How can we improve Scrum with Lean Thinking?
This is an improved version of the same session given at ScrumRio 2016 :-)
– Once upon a time…
– “Vanilla” Scrum
– Lean Thinking
– The Toyota Way
– Toyota Thinking
– Value
– Waste
– Learning Cycles
– Scrum, from a Lean view
– Scrum + Lean Thinking
– Bonus: Non-value added activities (muda)
Lean Startup Inside a Big Company (with a Shark Tank Twist), Stephen Liguori,...Lean Startup Co.
What happens when a small group of mavericks decide to launch an unauthorized version of Lean Startup inside a huge multinational firm like Cisco? Over 1,100 new organic-growth ideas, including a surprise Shark Tank-like ending. Presented by Steve Liguori, (Founder Liguori Innovation and former GE Exec Director of Global Innovation) with Alex Goryachev (Cisco Senior Director Innovation Strategy and Programs) and Oseas Ramirez Assad (Cisco Senior Manager, Business Development and Innovation Enablement.)
Agile Basics for Government with ThoughtWorks
Most people interested in the field of innovation have heard of agile innovation teams. These small, entrepreneurial groups are designed to stay close to customers and adapt quickly to changing conditions. When implemented correctly, they have a reputation for almost always result in higher team productivity and moral, faster time to market, better quality and lower risk than traditional approaches can achieve.
But while agile methods caught on first in IT departments and are now widely used in software development, the agile approach has potential to transform the public sector in ways far beyond better bits and bytes. Conditions are ripe for agile teams in any situation where problems are complex, solutions are at first unclear, project requirements are likely to change, and close collaboration with end users is feasible: a description that matches many facing a wide variety of public sector activities.
This session will provide participants with an opportunity to explore what the world of agile can teach them – about themselves, their work and their potential to serve their clients better, whatever their role. It will confront some of the common myths and misconceptions about agile, and demonstrate how an agile approach can enable teams to deliver sooner and scale faster through a proven learning culture that builds and strengthens the team and its capabilities.
Mohinder Kohsla Design thinking A complimentary approach to agileAgileCymru
With so many projects not meeting their projected goals, either through over delivery of functionality to not fit for purpose or not meeting market needs due to our inability to accurately capture customer requirements. Developers are looking at new ways of product development such as design thinking that is user-centred in its ability to capture not only the functional, but also the emotional unmet needs of the customer
Introduction to Getting Things Done (GTD) & Personal Productivity Ninja - The...Hrishikesh Jobanputra
We are living in an age of distraction. While we are allowing huge amounts of information and communication from the outer world, we are generating equally large volume of ideas and agreements from our inner world.
Amidst hundreds of things to do, we tend to loose perspective and often feel lack of control in our lives. Result, we constantly remain in the state of anxiety and stress.
Neither our standard education, nor traditional time-management models, nor the plethora of organizing tools has given us a viable means of meeting new demands placed on us.
The Personal Productivity Ninja is a course to develop remarkable level of clarity, focus and purpose to achieve Goals. It is possible for you to have an overwhelmingly number of things to do and still function productively with a clear head and a positive sense of relaxed control.
Agile Toronto 2016: What do you mean when you say "leadership"?Jason Yip
The word leadership can trick us into believing that we are talking about the same thing when are actually not. This presentation explores different leadership accountabilities and how they might manifest in different roles. I also describe different patterns of how this might play out using a couple specific examples from ThoughtWorks and Spotify.
Agile Approach for Innovation Management by Mohammad MuslehAgile ME
In the world current disruption and volatility, corporates are under intense pressure for new innovation, transformation and implementation, where most of them were adapting the traditional approach of an annual plan for project innovation, this include, ideas, budget, allocated team and KPI’s, which considered as waterfall approach for managing innovation project.
Indeed, many of these innovation projects struggled to be realized if it’s successful or real ones till year end, or till the project fall and collapse by itself unfortunately, where by then, huge amount of investments been lost, time wasted and most important it’s block the opportunity for the real innovation projects to be noticed and have exposure inside the corporate, especially if the yearly (long term) ones have occupied all the budget and intention.
Therefore a new mindset of managing innovation project should be adapted and implemented, new agile approach will need to take over to manage the ideas, finance, team and testing how desirable and viable each innovation project is in the market and how it’s feasible to the company.
This is the Introduction To Lean Startup that has been presented at the Lean Startup Conference since 2012. It presents the key concepts of Lean Startup in a succinct and memorable way, with a few graphs and charts.
Stop writing stories, start validating working softwareMatthew Philip
Slides as presented at the 2020 Ágiles Latam Conference.
Abstract:
Barry O’Reilly exhorts today’s leaders to “break the cycle of behaviors that were effective in the past but are no longer relevant in the current business climate, and now limit or may even stand in the way of your success.” After more than two decades of writing, refining, grooming, estimating and documenting user stories, it’s time to unlearn them.
In a vast and sad irony, user stories have become the heavyweight documentation and process that they were meant to replace. This session proposes that we strip away the accrued behaviors and get back to the heart of agile and focus on delivering — and measuring progress by — working software.
– What's Lean?
– Why use Lean Thinking to drive your organization towards sustainable growth?
– What's the connection between Lean and Scrum?
– How can we improve Scrum with Lean Thinking?
This is an improved version of the same session given at Agile Portugal 2016 :-)
– Once upon a time…
– “Vanilla” Scrum
– Lean Thinking
– The Toyota Way
– Toyota Thinking
– Value
– Waste
– Learning Cycles
– Scrum, from a Lean view
– Scrum + Lean Thinking
Learning "Digital Skills for the Workplace" sessions. These are in person workshops in Rochdale, sponsored by RBH and New Pioneers and delivered by No Worries IT Ltd
Every company has a way of doing things. Once a new Xpeople joins our company we offer them a piece of advice. "Unlearn everything you know, let go. Welcome to the Future of Work"
We are Curious, Brave, Humble, we open our Big heart and mind and we really have an Xfactor. We don´t just believe in these traits and values, WE BET ON THEM.
We recruit, reward and release Xpeople based on these values.
Startup Playbook for founders & employees, written by toucan's foundersToucan Toco
As a founder or startup employee do you find your 24 hours-a-day too short ?
After 5 years growing Toucan Toco we do too.
In the end there is only one solution : prioritize !
“But what should I focus on when we are 2 founders in a garage ? A 10 people team with no fundings ? A structured team of 50 ?
I heard about OKR, 360 Reviews, Squads, BSPCE, Wiki, core values… But what should I do in the next weeks among those actions, process and strategies ?”
To help you answer these questions, we’ve created an easily consumable documentation, full of ressources, to share our learnings and documentation efforts.
Looking for the right process at the right stage ? This slideshare is for you.
Big question:
– Can we "equip" our children with the knowledge and skills they will need to succeed in the 21st century?
Digging it more:
– Are we successfully preparing our students for the increasing 21st century demands of life and career?
– Are our educators successfully addressing the unique and diverse needs of the 21st century children?
– How can we improve even further the quality of our Education offer?
Tuga IT 2017 - Strengthen Culture to drive Business agilityNuno Rafael Gomes
– What is Organizational Culture?
– What is Business agility?
– Why is Culture so important for your Business?
– Can Culture drive your Business?
– How to decode your Culture?
– Can Agile help you strengthen your Organizational Culture?
– How about your Business bottom-line?
30 psychological truths that drive agile adoption and its failureCaoilte Dunne
How are the outcomes of children adopted post-World War II related to the success of your agile transformation? How can pressure to achieve high velocity actually cause its absence?
Everybody has a different agile story. Maybe yours is an amazing project where empowerment and accomplishment was a common occurrence. Maybe it is a never ending slog through awful days with occasional standups. This talk focuses on the drivers, flaws and systems of human behaviors that allow for both of these outcomes.
People are at the heart of agile and psychology. I combine both worlds - leveraging the work of over 30 noted psychologists including Watzlawick, Skinner, Maslow - to explore how people can cause agile adoption, agile failure and agile recovery. This talk not only covers how psychology suggests patterns to help people relate to one other but also how people use and abuse data both consciously and unconsciously.
After this presentation you should be able to look at your current project through a new lens. You will have the ability to identify and understand the gaps, and appreciate the things you, and your team, are doing right.
Global Scrum Gathering Munich 2016 - Improving Scrum with Lean ThinkingNuno Rafael Gomes
– What's Lean?
– Why use Lean Thinking to drive your organization towards sustainable growth?
– What's the connection between Lean and Scrum?
– How can we improve Scrum with Lean Thinking?
This is an improved version of the same session given at ScrumRio 2016 :-)
– Once upon a time…
– “Vanilla” Scrum
– Lean Thinking
– The Toyota Way
– Toyota Thinking
– Value
– Waste
– Learning Cycles
– Scrum, from a Lean view
– Scrum + Lean Thinking
– Bonus: Non-value added activities (muda)
Lean Startup Inside a Big Company (with a Shark Tank Twist), Stephen Liguori,...Lean Startup Co.
What happens when a small group of mavericks decide to launch an unauthorized version of Lean Startup inside a huge multinational firm like Cisco? Over 1,100 new organic-growth ideas, including a surprise Shark Tank-like ending. Presented by Steve Liguori, (Founder Liguori Innovation and former GE Exec Director of Global Innovation) with Alex Goryachev (Cisco Senior Director Innovation Strategy and Programs) and Oseas Ramirez Assad (Cisco Senior Manager, Business Development and Innovation Enablement.)
Agile Basics for Government with ThoughtWorks
Most people interested in the field of innovation have heard of agile innovation teams. These small, entrepreneurial groups are designed to stay close to customers and adapt quickly to changing conditions. When implemented correctly, they have a reputation for almost always result in higher team productivity and moral, faster time to market, better quality and lower risk than traditional approaches can achieve.
But while agile methods caught on first in IT departments and are now widely used in software development, the agile approach has potential to transform the public sector in ways far beyond better bits and bytes. Conditions are ripe for agile teams in any situation where problems are complex, solutions are at first unclear, project requirements are likely to change, and close collaboration with end users is feasible: a description that matches many facing a wide variety of public sector activities.
This session will provide participants with an opportunity to explore what the world of agile can teach them – about themselves, their work and their potential to serve their clients better, whatever their role. It will confront some of the common myths and misconceptions about agile, and demonstrate how an agile approach can enable teams to deliver sooner and scale faster through a proven learning culture that builds and strengthens the team and its capabilities.
Mohinder Kohsla Design thinking A complimentary approach to agileAgileCymru
With so many projects not meeting their projected goals, either through over delivery of functionality to not fit for purpose or not meeting market needs due to our inability to accurately capture customer requirements. Developers are looking at new ways of product development such as design thinking that is user-centred in its ability to capture not only the functional, but also the emotional unmet needs of the customer
Introduction to Getting Things Done (GTD) & Personal Productivity Ninja - The...Hrishikesh Jobanputra
We are living in an age of distraction. While we are allowing huge amounts of information and communication from the outer world, we are generating equally large volume of ideas and agreements from our inner world.
Amidst hundreds of things to do, we tend to loose perspective and often feel lack of control in our lives. Result, we constantly remain in the state of anxiety and stress.
Neither our standard education, nor traditional time-management models, nor the plethora of organizing tools has given us a viable means of meeting new demands placed on us.
The Personal Productivity Ninja is a course to develop remarkable level of clarity, focus and purpose to achieve Goals. It is possible for you to have an overwhelmingly number of things to do and still function productively with a clear head and a positive sense of relaxed control.
Agile Toronto 2016: What do you mean when you say "leadership"?Jason Yip
The word leadership can trick us into believing that we are talking about the same thing when are actually not. This presentation explores different leadership accountabilities and how they might manifest in different roles. I also describe different patterns of how this might play out using a couple specific examples from ThoughtWorks and Spotify.
Agile Approach for Innovation Management by Mohammad MuslehAgile ME
In the world current disruption and volatility, corporates are under intense pressure for new innovation, transformation and implementation, where most of them were adapting the traditional approach of an annual plan for project innovation, this include, ideas, budget, allocated team and KPI’s, which considered as waterfall approach for managing innovation project.
Indeed, many of these innovation projects struggled to be realized if it’s successful or real ones till year end, or till the project fall and collapse by itself unfortunately, where by then, huge amount of investments been lost, time wasted and most important it’s block the opportunity for the real innovation projects to be noticed and have exposure inside the corporate, especially if the yearly (long term) ones have occupied all the budget and intention.
Therefore a new mindset of managing innovation project should be adapted and implemented, new agile approach will need to take over to manage the ideas, finance, team and testing how desirable and viable each innovation project is in the market and how it’s feasible to the company.
This is the Introduction To Lean Startup that has been presented at the Lean Startup Conference since 2012. It presents the key concepts of Lean Startup in a succinct and memorable way, with a few graphs and charts.
Stop writing stories, start validating working softwareMatthew Philip
Slides as presented at the 2020 Ágiles Latam Conference.
Abstract:
Barry O’Reilly exhorts today’s leaders to “break the cycle of behaviors that were effective in the past but are no longer relevant in the current business climate, and now limit or may even stand in the way of your success.” After more than two decades of writing, refining, grooming, estimating and documenting user stories, it’s time to unlearn them.
In a vast and sad irony, user stories have become the heavyweight documentation and process that they were meant to replace. This session proposes that we strip away the accrued behaviors and get back to the heart of agile and focus on delivering — and measuring progress by — working software.
– What's Lean?
– Why use Lean Thinking to drive your organization towards sustainable growth?
– What's the connection between Lean and Scrum?
– How can we improve Scrum with Lean Thinking?
This is an improved version of the same session given at Agile Portugal 2016 :-)
– Once upon a time…
– “Vanilla” Scrum
– Lean Thinking
– The Toyota Way
– Toyota Thinking
– Value
– Waste
– Learning Cycles
– Scrum, from a Lean view
– Scrum + Lean Thinking
Learning "Digital Skills for the Workplace" sessions. These are in person workshops in Rochdale, sponsored by RBH and New Pioneers and delivered by No Worries IT Ltd
Every company has a way of doing things. Once a new Xpeople joins our company we offer them a piece of advice. "Unlearn everything you know, let go. Welcome to the Future of Work"
We are Curious, Brave, Humble, we open our Big heart and mind and we really have an Xfactor. We don´t just believe in these traits and values, WE BET ON THEM.
We recruit, reward and release Xpeople based on these values.
Startup Playbook for founders & employees, written by toucan's foundersToucan Toco
As a founder or startup employee do you find your 24 hours-a-day too short ?
After 5 years growing Toucan Toco we do too.
In the end there is only one solution : prioritize !
“But what should I focus on when we are 2 founders in a garage ? A 10 people team with no fundings ? A structured team of 50 ?
I heard about OKR, 360 Reviews, Squads, BSPCE, Wiki, core values… But what should I do in the next weeks among those actions, process and strategies ?”
To help you answer these questions, we’ve created an easily consumable documentation, full of ressources, to share our learnings and documentation efforts.
Looking for the right process at the right stage ? This slideshare is for you.
Career Coach Guide To Job Interview and Salary Negotiation 2015Adrian Tan
My presentation at an Executive Career Management Talk at e2i Singapore.
Gain insider tips on interview skills and crucial insights on salary negotiation. Equip yourself with knowledge, skills to make the ultimate impression at the coveted job interview.
And find out why you should negotiate your salary no matter how good the offer is.
This is AND CO's Employee Handbook. We update this book every couple month to reflect our latest updates in learning and beliefs.
A company's product and reputation is a direct outcome of a company's culture. And a strong culture is created by common beliefs, not Ping Pong tables.
It would seem that Agile isn’t the foolproof silver bullet that we said it would be! Oh, wait. We never said that. Let me re-phrase this a bit. Ahem. Ok, so not all groups doing agile succeed in delivering software. And not all folks trained in two days of Scrum are magically anointed with wisdom and a Midas touch. The anger against “agile” is palpable in many discussion groups and blogs.
What should we do? Go back to Waterfall? Train people for four days? Well, I think it is time we do a re-set, and (re)educate folks on what agile is all about. If you are dogmatically following along with a handful of agile practices, but don’t really “get” the intentions behind the agile mindset, you may (will?) be disappointed in your results.
I’ve always said “agile is hard to do well” and I’m sticking to it! Let’s re-commit to the core principles and practices. Let’s do Agile like we mean it.
(Originally presented at JavaSymposium in March 2011)
Fun With Words: A Toolkit for Designing Great Content, FirstMichaela Hackner
During my years of agency work, I collected and created a set of content strategy games inspired by the book Gamestorming. In this session, I'll walk you through my bag of tricks, and arm you with a fun set of discovery and design tools to help you connect with your most skeptical clients and get the content right.
I gave this presentation at the 2015 UXDC conference.
How to do the work you want to do - AKA neglect selling skills at your peril!...cxpartners
You need well-honed technical skills alongside super soft skills to be a good UXer. But to do great, impactful work you have to convince people to back you - often in highly political or complex scenarios.
We'll discuss how consultative selling skills help you form powerful arguments that cut through organisation inertia and open avenues of work that have been previously blocked, so you get to determine your own future and do the work you want to do.
The New Product Manager's Guide to Self Care by Silvercar PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Thrive, don't just survive in your first years as a Product Manager!
- Walk away with the tools to successfully navigate blurred roles, difficult conversations and outta-this-world assumptions.
- Identify and work from your "power place" as you lead your team, and the business, through the unknown.
Meet your monsters, tame your monsters! - Teaser Jochy Reyes
"Before you can kill the monster you have to say its name."
As coaches and practitioners of Agile we see role anti-patterns everywhere lurking, sometimes quietly sleeping and waiting to kill (the momentum!) of our teams.
This talk is about these monsters. The monsters around us and potentially within us.
We will know them, discuss them and identify how we can equip ourselves and the teams we work with to battle their evil rather questionable forces. More importantly in this talk, whether living around us or living within us, we will uncover how we can help guide the monsters to the right path.
Medici Effect, the IDEO Mashup Creative Ideation technique - LASTCONF Sydney...Jochy Reyes
A workshop about a workshop. Learn to run the IDEO mashup methods with your team to create new ideas or improve new process. This also includes an explanation of the "fat chance" warm up activity.
In the context of product delivery where multiple members of a team interact, it is good to engage in healthy passionate conflict. Encourage healthy conflict, reduce the fear of it and have a common language around by knowing your inner animal as well your team members' animal through the Thomas Kilman conflict style test.
Mash-up Ideation Technique for young kidsJochy Reyes
A fun way to introduce children to a new ideation technique using IDEO's Mashup concept. This presentation was for the Go Girl, Go for IT event at Deakin University (August 16, 2018).
Ready player one: levelling up team engagement using gamificationJochy Reyes
“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.” ― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
While this quote is probably an exaggeration, it holds true for all of us at some point or another. Indeed there is something about videogames and gaming that just draws people in and keeps them enticed and addicted.
It is no surprise that concepts of gamification in many industries continue to proliferate. But what really is gamification? Where did it all begin? Is it just a buzzword or is there real scientific proof behind it? And perhaps most importantly, how can you leverage it in improving your teams?
In this Lunch and Learn, Jochy aims to answer some of these questions and share her findings in the world of gamification including some practical tips and applications you can use with your teams to level-up engagement.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
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.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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.
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
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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
4. What? How? Why?
RMIT Switch,
learning &
workshop
activity
listening, taking
down notes,
discussing, etc..
I'd like to learn & it is
good to be informed.
(hopefully that's
similar to your
answer )
Typically, people start
with the what...
5. Why don't we
start with
WHY?
I want to learn from mentors from
the IT industry.
By hearing their own experience
and learning from their examples
and stories.
RMIT switch
Meetups
Other events
7. What is your why?Activity:
1. Grab a sticky note and write your
name on top it.
2. In one or two sentences write one
"WHY" for you going to school/work.
I want to help
individuals & teams to
reflect &
identify how they can
become better today
than yesterday.
Jochy
(2 mins)
8.
9.
10. Agile is a mindset to
help us deal
with complexity and
unpredictability.
Yay Agile!
11. Morning sunshine!Activity:
1.Grab a sticky note, on each sticky
note write one activity you do from
the moment you wake up until you
reach school.
2.Write as many as you can.
Remember one activity per sticky
note!
(4 mins)
Hit snooze
Toast
bread
Clean cat
litter box
12. Get up, group up!Activity:
1.Form groups of 5-7 people.
2.Choose either a wall or a table with enough space for
all of you to look at your sticky notes.
3.Look at your group's notes and see if you can group
certain activities together.
4.Group them together under common topic that will be
their title.
5. In your team organise your notes on the wall or
table in the groups with the topic as their title.
(5 mins)
Take
a shower
Floss
Brush
Teeth
Cleaning/
Refreshing
13. Order 'em up!
Activity:
1.Order the activities from
left to right sequentially, in
a way that the order makes
sense as a story with a
beginning, a middle and an
end.
2. Remember your WHY
sticky notes? At the very
end of the timeline stick
everyone's WHY.
(3 mins)
Take
a shower
Floss
Brush
Teeth
Toast
Bread
Make
coffee
Cleaning/
Refreshing
Breakfast
Drink
OJ
TIME
WHYs
Trish
I want
to..
Jade
So I can..
James
Because..
14. Order em' up again
Activity:
1. Prioritise the
activities in each group
by criticality, ordered
this time from top to
bottom, so that the
most important
activities are on top.
(3 mins)
Take
a shower
Floss
Brush
Teeth
Toast
Bread
Make
coffee
Cleaning/
Refreshing
Breakfast
Drink
OJ
CRITICALITY
Take
a
shower
15. Morning Drama!
Imagine you had a very important exam in the morning that you
just cannot miss or be late to. Unfortunately, the alarm clock
didn’t do its job (or you hit the snooze button so many times it
just gave up on you). Now you are late and have only 15 minutes
to get out of the house!
16. Morning DramaActivity:
1. Draw a horizontal line through the activities so that all the activities you
choose to do in such a morning are above the line and all the rest the you won't
are under the line. Remember, you need to reach the office safely and be on-
time with the minimum activities as possible.
(3 mins)
"Drama line"
25. TO DO DOING DONE
Agile Manifesto Values
Responding to
change over
following a plan
26. Responding to
change over
As in the exercise, waking up
with only 15 minutes to get to
school means we can't stick to
our usual routine.
A plan is good but we must
know when to pivot.
following a
plan
27. When I grow up ...
LAWYER
accountant
artist
Doctor
architect
Athlete
MOM
Musician
Chef
33. Customer
A sick pet
requiring care
A teacher
requiring a paper
on Machine
Learning
Friend
requesting time
to catch up for
brunch
Mum asking
helping to set up
her new phone
Your manager at
the library you
work part-time at
Richer ideas
Collaboration
Partner on a
school project
Empathy
Better
understanding of
their needs/
processes
Clear
Shared
Goals
34. TO DO DOING DONE
Agile Manifesto Values
Responding
to change over
following a plan
Customer
Collaboration
over Contract
Negotiation
35. TO DO DOING DONE
Agile Manifesto Values
Responding
to change over
following a plan
Customer
Collaboration
over Contract
Negotiation
Working
software over
comprehensive
documentation
36. Working
software over
Knowing the full story and goal
allowed us to pick a slice of our
activities when the "drama" was
introduced.
comprehensive
documentation
Remember the
"drama line"?
38. The journey to customer satisfaction is easier by us knowing the WHY &
them having something tangible they can interact with.
Client wants to reach point B from point A,
39. Make Learn
Test
Slices of work are like
experiments
to test our hypothesis and
learn more from
our customers.
Continuous
Learning
40. TO DO DOING DONE
Agile Manifesto Values
Responding
to change over
following a plan
Customer
Collaboration
over Contract
Negotiation
Working
software over
comprehensive
documentation
41. TO DO DOING DONE
Agile Manifesto Values
Responding
to change over
following a plan
Customer
Collaboration
over Contract
Negotiation
Working
software over
comprehensive
documentation
Individuals &
interactions
over processes
& tools
42. Individuals and interactions
over processes and tools
Teams including software
delivery teams require the
foundation of Trust & Open
communication in order to
reach a goal.
45. TO DO DOING DONE
Agile Manifesto Values
Responding
to change over
following a plan
Customer
Collaboration
over Contract
Negotiation
Working
software over
comprehensive
documentation
Individuals &
interactions
over processes
& tools
46. Individuals
and interactions
over
processes
and tools
Responding
to change
over following
a plan
Customer
collaboration
over contract
negotiation
Working
software
over
comprehensive
documentation
agile manifesto
values
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.
47. Individuals
and interactions
over
processes
and tools
Responding
to change
over following
a plan
Customer
collaboration
over contract
negotiation
Working
software
over
comprehensive
documentation
Flexible,open
& able to
pivot from
plans
Richer ideas
& alignment
through
collaboration
Thin slices of
value.
Experiment,
adapt & learn
continuously
Trust, open
communication
within the team
AGILE
MINDSET
48. TO DO DOING DONE
Agile Manifesto Values
Responding
to change over
following a plan
Customer
Collaboration
over Contract
Negotiation
Working
software over
comprehensive
documentation
Individuals &
interactions
over processes
& tools
Learn,
understand
and try to
live by the
Agile Mindset
thin slices!
49. TO DO DOING DONE
Agile Manifesto Values
Responding
to change over
following a plan.
Customer
Collaboration
over Contract
Negotiation.
Working
software over
comprehensive
documentation.
Individuals &
interactions
over processes
& tools.
Learn,
understand
and try to
live by the
Agile Mindset.
thin slices!
Find more
experiments!
50. Copy of this presentation can be found in
- https://www.slideshare.net/JochyReyes
Thank you!
