Corporate environments can be a tough nut to crack. Many departments and roles are involved, each with different priorities to yours, and you face changes that must be navigated. The Product Owner (PO) accountability, while critical, often doesn’t wield the power Scrum suggests. You can accept this status quo and focus on managing your backlog only, or take action and leverage your POwer to meet product needs and foster productive cross-department collaboration.

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In the pressure cooker of product development, success depends not just on processes but on the strength of informal networks—the trusted relationships that cut across hierarchies and silos. Companies that fail to cultivate these networks struggle to adapt, innovate, and deliver.

At this session, we will explore how to intentionally foster informal networks that drive product development forward and enable seamless collaboration across departments, ultimately aligning efforts with business goals…

We make decisions all the time in software – our architectures are the sum of them; both conscious and unconscious.

Yet we have so little awareness about *what* decisions are and *how* we decide. This is not only the source of great friction and waste, it is leading to terrible outcomes for our software.

In this talk I’ll describe what architectural decisions are, and the different ways that we approach them (individually and collectively) making clear the pros and cons of each. I’ll then…

You know our natural world is burning and climate disaster is upon us. We need system change - not climate change. We as IT people are in the perfect position to help the system change happen, because what we do in IT product development matters; rather a lot to be honest. Let's uncover better ways to develop IT products in a more sustainable way.
This talk will take you on a crash course of thinking like a 21st century economist (it will be all about doughnuts), principles of circular design…

Let’s face it, the only way to make it in our fast-paced, ever-changing business environment is to focus on learning. Learning as leaders, learning as team and learning as an organization. Learning about our business direction, learning about our work and work environment, learning about our customers’ needs, and more. Essential for sustained success and innovation, the heart of an effective Organizational Learning culture lies with leadership. Leaders not only set the vision and strategic…

Ever seen an expert work on a problem and come to a solution, and it looked like magic because you didn’t understand the steps they were going through internally? For the outsider (or new manager/leader), leadership is no different. We make multiple decisions per hour, deal with planned and unplanned situations, and decide on strategies - and we hardly ever “show our working”.

Of course, if leadership was simply complicated as opposed to complex, then we would have a catalogue of activities and…

Architecture work can be tough: juggling tech stacks, new tools, facilitating decisions, working with different stakeholders & even some organisational development. Herding cats is easier, isn’t it?

With Architecture in ACTion, I introduce you to decades of practical science on the Human Mind. We’ll dig into Psychological Flexibility and ACT - concepts that are (still) rarely used in biz but have huge impact at work!

Because: Deep tech expertise, domain navigation *and* change skills is a lot!

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Code that is well-designed and easy to understand is cheaper to extend and modify - so you can deliver more value, sooner. Many organizations struggle with older codebases that use outdated designs and have too much cruft.

I found that the technical coaching I was doing was addressing those kinds of issues successfully, but it was slow to scale up to large projects where there are tens of teams of developers working on different parts of the same codebase.

Recently I’ve been using a…

What marks anyone as an outstanding leader is the ability to inspire, encourage and enable others to walk across the bridge into the better future. Ideally it is that future you and your organisation have envisioned. Staying in the picture of a bridge. A brige holds the tension between two poles. In this session the author explores 7 "briges" and helps the audience reflect on them using visualization. The seven briges are:

• Relatedness vs Remote
• Hero vs Team
• Artificial vs Human Intelligence
• G…