Reducing the gender gap in technology companies is a critical goal for fostering diversity, promoting equality, and unlocking the industry's full potential. Despite significant progress in recent years, women remain underrepresented in technical roles and leadership positions. Diverse teams bring different perspectives, creativity, and innovation, leading to better problem-solving and successful businesses. By working together, we can create a future where women are equally represented and…

A successful start-up was acquired and needed to scale to at least three times its size. Leadership, processes, tools and mindsets were not ready, nor aligned on how to make that transition. Through our work supporting them, the company changed, scaled and grew. The company did so well, that the leadership team eventually had the choice to leave, knowing their creation would thrive.

Target Audience: Leaders, Managers, Coaches, Decision Makers, CTO, Engineering Managers
Prerequisites: Basic…

This session will provide you with insights into the core skill of slicing work and how it is crucial to business agility. Using real-life scenarios, we'll explore the different dimensions of how slicing affects work, including ease of delegation, adapting scope, quality control, measuring and assessing progress, and improving using feedback.
This session will give you inspiration and practical tips for how to slice your projects differently.

Target Audience: Decision Makers, Managers, Project…

In this session, two co-creators of Org Topologies™, Alexey Krivitsky and Roland Flemm, will share a method to design, assess and improve your organizational ecosystem.
They will do that by familiarizing you with a set of organizational archetypes that are easy to spot. Hopefully, you will have much better clarity on which organization ecosystem you want to build and which behaviors you expect it to exhibit.
You shall be able to take this tool home and use it as a map in your ongoing,…

The Product Owner role in Scrum is vital, but lacks comprehensive guidance. This talk presents the SMIQ Method (Single Most Important Question), derived from the "48 hour book method," empowering Product Owners and Managers to translate customer needs into software requirements. It simplifies complex techniques into user-friendly steps for effective requirements engineering. The speaker's success in using this method for writing books, organizing conferences, and developing software highlights…

Stoic practitioners know they cannot control circumstances, other people or rather... they know they cannot control anything outside of the realm of their own choices. So as a Stoic Product Leader you should stop focussing on outcome (!). Outcome is always outside of your control. However the CHOICES you need to make the product vision and goals ARE within your power, within your control. So the best thing you can do as a (product) leader is improving the quality of your decisions and teach your…

Leaders should be passionate, think strategically and influence their people (a.k.a. followers).
How is that possible without empathy, self-consciousness & resiliency?
How is that possible without emotional literacy?
Spoiler: It isn’t!
But - god forbid - nobody wants to be labelled as “being emotional” at work, right?
Join me to leverage your emotional data as the true assets they are. Expand your horizon with serious psychological background and get some of my real-life rants on top for free…

The voyage from transactional to transformational management often appears as intricate as navigating the intermingling of rivers and the sea. In estuaries' shifting currents, represent challenges, especially at the management level, entrenched in orthodox practices.
A fusion of two perspectives was our compass. It allowed us to interpret the undercurrents of change, discern the underlying constraints and constructors, and evolve a smaller, productive team from a larger non-functional gathering…

Keeping up is the ultimate challenge for employees and companies within fields of massively fast-emerging trends shaping how to work and deliver. Learning and spreading expertise is also key to success while householding the knowledge of older technologies to maintain systems efficiently. The classic learning approach needs too much time to scale understanding and to adopt new technologies, especially remotely. It needed to be extended to a more self-defining and community-driven model with the…

After years of contributions, there is still a disconnection at the boundary between the leadership development world and agility. On one side, there are proposals on the role of the leader. On the other side, “frameworks for scaling”.
Especially at scale, agile leadership is the art of integrating modern collaborative leadership concepts and sound emergent strategies for organisational development.
In this interactive session, we will discuss the overarching structure of agile leadership and…

Most engineers know that improving their presentation skills would be good for their career but feel naturally uncomfortable on stage. So how do you improve this skill? As a former opera singer turned software engineer, Anna McDougall runs regular public speaking workshops for her colleagues. In this session, she explains how to encourage your team (or yourself!), provides a demo coaching session with Software Engineer Ellina Nurmukhametova (who will present an AI quiz feature), and demonstrates…

Managers and leaders worldwide struggle to decide between projects A, B, or both. Traditional estimation techniques fail because humans can't predict the future. This talk proposes a simulation-based approach inspired by investment strategies, industrial management, and poker playing. By leveraging AI, forecasting, and computing power, simulations offer a reliable and adaptable portfolio planning strategy. Rather than relying on human estimation, simulations streamline decision-making and…

As Agile product people we are in a unique position to influence a sustainable value chain for the development of our products. What we do matters, how we build things and what we build, matters. Or what we don’t build. In this talk we will dive into some principles of circular economy and the (radical) economic theory of Degrowth and how to apply these principles and ideas in our daily work as product people. Principles like refuse (to build something new), reuse and recycle in our whole…

Sustainable success for agile in the large needs leaders to shift their focus from managing people to managing the system so that people can thrive.
This session builds on our successful OOP 2023 session ("Pragmatic Scaling to Business Agility: Crafting Organisations for Innovation where People can Thrive") by:

1. Focussing on how leadership should be different in an agile organisation.
2. Sharing experiences of applying the model with real clients.

Participants will assess their own leadership and…