The backlog was a great idea, until it wasn't. Many successful teams are delivering backlog items everyday but their backlogs aren't getting any smaller. Delivery success is overshadowed by the never ending backlog. Product discovery, dual track agile, OKRs etc. make it worse by accelerating backlog growth without taking away any of the rotting items. Worst of all, doing the backlog distracts from delivering benefit to the customers and responding to change. What are we to do?

In this presentation Allan "Nuke the backlog" Kelly suggests you rethink the very idea of the backlog and rebuild your agile process around outcomes

What are the executives concerned about? And how can agile contribute to it?
Many times, in the agile world, we focus on efficiency or we focus on the ways and the techniques that can help us improve our way of working, in addition to putting some frameworks and practices in place.

This talk: "Managing Tensions, not People" is based on the research literature of organisational ambidexterity - think of it as Agile for Managers.

This webinar is hosted by our partner Russ Lewis and will cover How "Organisational Ambidexterity" can help managers improve business agility.

Kanplexity relies on the concept of sense-making developed as part of the Cynefin framework. John states that we lack guidance for potential agilists in other sectors.

Using tenets of Kanban and Cynefin® sense-making, Kanplexity offers an optional approach to those in non-software settings. Sense-making is a mental exercise that evaluates situations against our understanding of how the world works.

Cynefin is essentially a sense-making compass. Kanplexity relies on the concept of sense-making developed as part of the Cynefin framework.

In many organisations, leaders have changed the structure to smaller agile teams and perhaps also tribes (teams of teams). Going beyond the new boundaries of teams, however, delivery of complex larger scale changes often stays slow and ineffective.

When speaking with these leaders, they talk about bureaucratic processes and complex web of dependencies leading to frustratingly ineffective prioritization and delivery. It is everything but agile or continuous delivery.

For someone like Andrea, who has seen the "other side", the trigger word prioritization in the client language translates to "we need more effective decision-making".

In this talk, we will look at how we can empower and unleash people by involving them in various, clearly defined decision-making processes. We will look at possible answers to these questions:
Who shall make decisions in our context?
How shall they make decisions?
Why shall they make decisions?
What enabling factors are needed for decision-making to be(come)
effective?

Drawing on her personal experiences, Erum will share shocking attitudes towards comms, and the impact that has on time-to-value and employee retention.

She’ll demo the Agile Communications Planning tool to make Agile comms planning really quick and easy… and she’s made sure it's free to use! You’ll see how you can use comms and storytelling to share successes, drive the culture and behaviour in your team/org, and scale your transformation.

Our speaker is Michele Buonaiuto, he will speak about:

How Agile and Lean Tools are adopted as the backbone of thousands of company transformations with different degrees of success.

How Positive Psychology applied to business acts as a force multiplier enabling organisations to boost performance.

The benefits of Positive Leadership as a catalyst for change and supercharging of truly positive self organising teams.

Luca Minudel will share his journey of how he mastered Human-Complexity in software and digital product development. He will share the mistakes he made and the lessons he learned on his way to become an expert.

Customer Value, Customer Centricity, Product Success are some of the ultimate goals of an organisation.

And to achieve them one of the focus area for an organisation is to ensure that the teams are setup and interacting efficiently to deliver customer value with speed.

In this Webinar, we will discuss how to define an efficient team topology for teams to deliver customer value. we will go through some of the lessons and learnings I had while implementing the Team Topologies principles and practices developed by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Paisin which helped the organisation to be more focused on value, products, and streams of business value

"How simplifying your organisation avoids agility being just about teams. If you're an executive, let's explore some unintended consequences of expecting your teams to be agile. What behaviours one can observe, and actionable steps to deal with them." – John Coleman

“OKRs seem to be everywhere at the moment - and that means more and more agile teams are being asked to add OKRs to their recipe. While OKRs look a lot like agile, combining the two isn't always easy. In this short talk Allan Kelly will describe 5 tips for combining OKRs with agile working.