Everyone is a leader
Unleash Your Agile Leadership Potential and Guide Your Entire Organization Toward Agility
Leadership is one of the most significant challenges to business agility adoption faced by organizations. It is a key factor―individuals who welcome complexity and know how to leverage influence, culture, and organizational design to align widely distributed teams are integral to success.
In this talk, Zuzi will share her experience with changing organizations, embracing business agility, and helping others to develop a new leadership style. The talk is based on her book The Agile Leader: Leveraging the Power of Influence.
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About the speaker:
Zuzana “Zuzi” Šochová is an independent Agile coach and trainer and a Certified Scrum Trainer with more than twenty years of experience in the IT industry. She started with Agile and Scrum back in 2005, when she was implementing Agile methods in a large USA corporation. From that time, she has been credited with Agile transformation and implementation for many companies and teams around the world.
As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) with Scrum Alliance, Zuzi has trained thousands of ScrumMasters and Product Owners. She teaches Scrum Alliance certification classes CSM - Certified Scrum Master, CSPO - Certified Scrum Product Owner, and CAL - Certified Agile Leadership in English and Czech. By creating and sustaining Agile leadership, Zuzi believes the worlds of work and life can be made happier and more successful.
She is an author of The Great Scrum Master: #ScrumMasterWay book (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)), The Agile Leader (Addison-Wesley, 2020) book, and inventor of the #ScrumMasterWay concept.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of Scrum Alliance.
She holds several other well-recognized certifications such as Certified LeSS Practitioner (Large-Scale Scrum), Licensed Management 3.0 Trainer, ICAgile Authorised Trainer, Associate Certified Coach (ICF - International Coach Federation), The Leadership Circle Practitioner, Agile Coaching (ICAgile Certified Professional), Agile Team Facilitation (ICAgile Certified Professional), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
She is a founder of the Agile Association (Agilni Asociace, agilniasociace.cz) Czech Republic, organizing the Agile Czech community and the annual Agile Prague Conference (agileprague.com). She is a regular speaker at international conferences.
Leaders at All Levels
Traditional definitions of leadership focus on charisma and position. But most people in any given organization don’t have formal leadership. Most of us aren’t brimming with charisma, either. Does that mean you can’t be a leader? NO! In fact, you can exhibit leadership no matter where you are in the organization. (No, this does not mean sucking up to your boss.) In this talk, Esther will explore a definition of leadership that doesn’t rely on either role or rah-rah. And she will talk about what that sort of leadership looks like when you are a member of a team, a manager, or at the top of the hierarchy.
About the speaker:
Esther Derby draws on four decades of experience leading, observing, and living organizational change. She works with a broad array of organizations. Her clients include both startups and Fortune 500 companies. Based on experience and research, her approach blends attention to humans and deep knowledge of complex adaptive systems. Esther has been called one of the most influential voices within the agile communities when it comes to developing organizations, coaching teams, and transforming management. Her work over many years has influenced coaches and leaders across many companies. Esther started her career as a programmer. However, over the years she’s worn many hats, including business owner, internal consultant, manager, and team leader. From all these perspectives, one thing was clear: individual, team and even organizational success depends greatly on the work environment and organizational dynamics. As a result, she’s spent the last twenty-five years helping companies shape their environment for optimum success. Her formal education includes an MA in Organizational Leadership and a certificate in Human Systems Dynamics. She’s trained as a Satir Mentor Coach. She’s also the host of the popular podcast, Change by Attraction.
Humble Planning: How To Make Your Plans Suck Less
In this talk, I will introduce the concept of humble planning and why it's crucial for succeeding with an Agile way of working and building products of exceptional value. When faced with uncertainty, risk, and complexity, our natural response is to focus on what we know and to spend more time talking, analyzing, planning, and predicting. As a result, our plans become filled with speculation and rooted in our imagination. Our plans as an anchor stifle the ability to respond to changes. We become locked into plans that prevent collaboration, learning, and discovery. In this talk, I will show why instead of starting with overconfident plans, we should start with humble plans. How can we encourage our teams to begin with humble plans and what do teams need to adapt their plans as they discover and learn what’s necessary while doing the work? The talk will cover concepts like friction, the three gaps model of Bungay, intent, intent-based leadership, humble planning, sprint goals, the fog of beforehand, and the fog of speculation.
About the speaker:
Maarten Dalmijn is a consultant, speaker, and trainer at Dalmijn Consulting. He is the author of the book Driving Value with Sprint Goals. Maarten helps teams to beat the feature factory all over the world. Millions of practitioners have read his best-practice articles on Agile, Scrum, and Product Management. He specializes in helping companies to build empowered teams that can discover better ways of delivering value. Maarten is a frequent speaker at Fortune 500 companies and international industry conferences. He has worked with many award-winning start-ups and scale-ups. He is an ambassador and editor at Serious Scrum, the largest Scrum publication on Medium.
The 5P's of Personal Engagements
Facilitation is more than using mere formats, tricks, structures, and templates.
In this session, you will go beyond the surface and uncover the reasons behind their usage.
Evelien will share the reasons to use these supported by scientific evidence. During the keynote speech, you will explore how they contribute to effective communication, collaboration, and personal engagement.
The session is designed to be interactive and to engage the participants along the way. Together with the speaker, you will think of practical strategies to apply in your own facilitation, which could empower you to become a more effective facilitator. Join Evelien in her session to explore the why behind powerful facilitation and how you can maximize personal engagement.
About the speaker:
Evelien Acun-Roos is an experienced Agile Trainer at Xebia Academy and a Professional Scrum Trainer at Scrum.org. Evelien loves to give training. She is a certified trainer for Training From the Back of the Room and her training courses are filled with brain-based learning activities.
She has a profound knowledge of Agile and Scrum and knows how to transfer that to Teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, their surrounding environment, and their management.
She loves to share her knowledge in training, workshops, and talks and was co-author of the Scrum Master Playbook.
Evelien has over 13 years of experience in the Agile domain and has helped many different organizations to become more Agile (Unilever, ING, Rabobank, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, APG, Philips, VodafoneZiggo a.o).
At Agile conferences you can find her sharing knowledge about Personal Engagement, Scrum Values, Liberating Structures, Brain Science, Situational Leadership; essentially a variety of ways ‘to Boost your Scrum’.
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You will get a lot of new insights
(latest news, trends, etc.)
about Agile from various
international and local experts
and practitioners (60+).
You will be surrounded by many
(500+) Agile enthusiasts from
various countries with different
backgrounds. This wonderful
networking opportunities
and positive vibe will help
You to get inspired.
You will get more knowledge
about Agile and inspiration that will
lead You to empower Your team
and make great experiments
together.
New inspiration to experiment
and to change will enable You to
make an impact on the team and
company success in achieving
greater results.
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