AgileCamp New York Metro : Full Schedule

AgileCamp New York Metro - 9/24/18
Marriott Newark Liberty International Airport
1 Hotel Road
Newark, New Jersey 07114
REGISTER NOW AT: www.agilecamp.org

7:30am EDT

Registration and Networking: Breakfast Sponsored by Hyperdrive Agile Leadership

Sponsors

Disciplined Agile Consortium

Accelerate Your Business with Disciplined Agile Disciplined Agile is the process framework which has helped organizations become agile within the specific context of their business. It’s the industry’s fastest growing approach to help enterprises streamline agile and lean... Read More →

Eliassen Group

Eliassen Group has been an innovative leader in technology staffing for nearly 30 years. Among its seven lines of business, Eliassen Group’s Agile Practice is uniquely poised to help companies accelerate their agile adoption and success by increasing workflow, revenue and business value wh... Read More →

Hyperdrive Agile Leadership

Hyperdrive Agile Leadership is a leading Agile advisory firm focused on Agile Transformations and Leadership Development. Hyperdrive focuses on enhancing the enterprise’s Operating Model, influenced by Agile Leadership and incorporating four areas of focus: (1) Business Drivers, (2) Process & Practices, (3... Read More →

ICAgile

Founded in 2010, International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile) is a leading global Agile accreditation and certification body that helps organizations design learning experiences that cultivate an agile mindset and enable sustainable organizational agility. ICAgile provides world-class... Read More →

InfoQ

InfoQ aims to spot emerging trends in software development that we believe have broad applicability and make our audience aware of them early.

Prudential Financial

With operations in the United States, Asia, Europe and Latin America, we provide customers with a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds and investment management. We strive to create long-term value for our... Read More →

Scope of Success

Scrum Alliance

Founded in 2001, Scrum Alliance ® is the largest, most established and influential professionalmembership and certification organization in the Agile community. Scrum Alliance is a nonprofitassociation that has certified more than 750,000 practitioners worldwide. Its vision is... Read More →

Summit Tech Partners

Summit Tech Partners is a full-service Consulting company with extensive expertise in Agile Transformation and Process Management. Our principals average more than 25+ years in Process Management related work within Fortune 1000 companies. Specializing in providing Agile Transformation... Read More →

Monday September 24, 2018 7:30am - 8:30am EDT
Foyer

Meals and Breaks

8:30am EDT

Opening Ceremony and AgileCamp Welcome

Speakers

Stacey Louie

AgileCamp Founder, Hyperdrive Agile Leadership CEO

Stacey Louie is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperdrive Agile Leadership. He is a senior advisor coaching Enterprises on Agile, leadership, operating models, and organizational development as well as an author and speaker on Agile Operating Models. As an Agile Coach and trainer, Stacey has led large-scale Agile transformations and served past clients inclu... Read More →

Kent Sluyter

President, Prudential Annuities

Kent Sluyter is the president of Prudential Annuities. Prudential’s Annuities businessoffers income solutions for consumers through the manufacture and distribution of aportfolio of annuity products.As president, Sluyter is responsible for driving the results and evolution of theAnnuities... Read More →

Monday September 24, 2018 8:30am - 8:50am EDT
Grand Ballroom

Welcome and Closing

8:50am EDT

KEYNOTE : On the Edge: The Art of High-Impact Leadership

Imagine yourself on the highest mountain in the world. You have to deal with the physiological effects of extreme altitude--along with bone-chilling temperatures, battering winds, and a climbing team that's counting on all of its members to make smart decisions. There's simply no room for poor judgment -- one mistake or misstep can result in an "unrecoverable error." In any situation where lives on are the line or the stakes are exceptionally high--there's no better training ground for leaders than settings where people are pushed beyond their perceived limits. Drawing on her experience as team captain of the first American Women's Everest Expedition, Alison Levine makes a compelling case that the leadership principles that apply in the world of extreme adventure also apply to today's rigorously competitive business environments.

Link to Alison’s page:

https://www.kepplerspeakers.com/speakers/alison-levine

Speakers

Alison Levine

First American Women's Everest Expedition Team Captain & Author of The New York Times Bestseller On the Edge: Leadership Lessons from Everest and Other Extreme Environments

Alison Levine is a history-making polar explorer and mountaineer. She served as team captain of the first American Women’s Everest Expedition, climbed the highest peak on each continent and skied to both the North and South Poles—a feat known as the Adventure Grand Slam, which... Read More →

Monday September 24, 2018 8:50am - 9:40am EDT
Grand Ballroom

Keynote

9:50am EDT

Agile: Fundamentals of Scrum

New to Agile, Scrum or just need a little refresher? Join us for a primer on the Scrum framework and Agile approach. We will explore:

The Agile values and principals
The roles and practices of Scrum
How everything fits together to produce continuous flow

If you are looking for a quick overview of Agile and Scrum this is for you.

Speakers

Chris Espy

Enterprise Agile Coach and Trainer, Adapt to Agility, LLC

Chris Espy is a recognized agile professional with a 25-year background in software and hardware development spanning several diverse industries including Missile Defense, Defense Intelligence, Real-time simulation, Telecommunications, Healthcare, International Payments and Finance... Read More →

Fundamentalsofscrum pdf

Monday September 24, 2018 9:50am - 10:50am EDT
Salon A/B/C Theatre Style Seating

Agile Mastery

9:50am EDT

Games for Psychological Safety

I am going to introduce and debrief five mini-games , each of those represents one of five constituents of a high-performing team defined by Google:
- Psychological safety - Dependability - Structure & clarity - Meaning - Impact
These techniques can be used by any organization on their journey to agility.

Speakers

Mariya Breyter

Goldman Sachs

Mariya Breyter brings 20 years of leadership experience to the Agile and Lean community. Her passion for creating high-performance teams and delivering superior products to clients through efficient, lean processes had produced success after success in companies ranging from Big 4... Read More →

Mariya Breyter Games for Psychological Safety pdf

Monday September 24, 2018 9:50am - 10:50am EDT
Lincoln/Holland/Columbia POD Style Seating

Leadership & Teams

9:50am EDT

A High-speed Crash Course of Design Thinking

Ever felt like you just weren't connecting with what your customer really needs? Come learn about applying the Design Thinking approach in your everyday life.

Speakers

Matt Badgley

Coach, BluHound Solutions

Matt's career journey has had him wearing many hats ranging from Systems Analyst to Programmer to IT Manager to Programmer to Director. Today, Matt works as a Lean / Agile coach and trainer. He's a practicing learner, aspiring leader, and he's constantly walking the line between... Read More →

DesignThinking AgileCampNY 169 pdf

DesignThinkingSession HowToGuide pdf

Monday September 24, 2018 9:50am - 10:50am EDT
Salon D POD Style Seating

Product & Innovation

9:50am EDT

How Continuous Experimentation Enables Agile Organizations

Continuous delivery, A/B testing, and Experimentation provide valuable ways to engineer an agile culture and tech organization. This is how we use them together to constantly iterate and improve the user experience.

Attendees will take away a new knowledge of experimentation techniques and tools that allow them to get feedback from users faster, providing a mechanism to improve user experiences and increase value with higher velocity. Specific examples of how these practices have been applied, what's worked and what hasn't, and the lessons learned will be shared.

Speakers

Tyler Lund

Director of Software Development, Audible

Tyler manages Audible's Consumption Services and API team. The team builds the services that power listening across Audible. Whenever you download or stream a book through Audible's app, Alexa, or the website, these services power it. A member of Audible for 6 years, Tyler has worked... Read More →

AgileCamp Lund pdf

Monday September 24, 2018 9:50am - 10:50am EDT
Salon E POD Style Seating

Technical

10:50am EDT

Morning Break: Sponsored by Hyperdrive Agile Leadership

Sponsors

Hyperdrive Agile Leadership

Monday September 24, 2018 10:50am - 11:10am EDT
Foyer

Meals and Breaks

11:10am EDT

No Estimates: Forecasting with Less Effort and More Accuracy

Learn to forecast when things will be done -- with less effort and more accuracy!

Speakers

Matthew Philip

Capability Cultivator, ThoughtWorks

As a capability cultivator, organizational fitness coach and workplace activist, Matt helps organizations and teams continuously become fit for their purpose. He is especially passionate about building learning organizations and creating humanizing and engaging work environments... Read More →

forecastingwithlesseffortandmoreaccuracyagilecampny 180924233904 pdf

Monday September 24, 2018 11:10am - 12:10pm EDT
Lincoln/Holland/Columbia POD Style Seating

Agile Mastery

11:10am EDT

Organizational Design Practices for Enterprise Agile

No one has to believe you! In this talk, I'll share 10 tips to gain traction at all levels of an organization; from grassroots to C-level.

Speakers

Charlotte Chang

Organizational Design Coach

Charlotte is an Organizational Design Coach who leverages her technology product experience to align people in high value, user focused delivery. She's a people enabler, tech enthusiast, & loves dogs.

OrgDesignPracticeEnterpriseAgile AgileCampNY2018 pdf

Monday September 24, 2018 11:10am - 12:10pm EDT
Salon A/B/C Theatre Style Seating

Enterprise Practices

11:10am EDT

Strategic Portfolio Management with Kanban

Going from agility at the team level to business agility at the strategic level, come hear about how we used Kanban to manage the portfolio of a large government agency and power up their agile transformation in the meantime.

Speakers

Nicholas Mercier

Agile Coach, CGI

Nicolas is passionate about agility and it is a contagious passion! People who work together effectively and find ways to deliver high-value products for their clients is what motivates him the most.He found Scrum somewhere around 2007. Since then, he went from being a developer to... Read More →

Frederic Paquet

Lean Agile Coach, CGI

Before getting into agile coaching, Frederic worked as a developer, architect, PCO, advisor to the PMO and project manager in both the private and public sector. He was also co-founder of a web company in the field of psychometry and soft skills development and worked as CTO for more... Read More →

Strategic Portfolio Management with Kanban Nicolas Mercier Frederic Paquet pdf

Monday September 24, 2018 11:10am - 12:10pm EDT
Salon F/G/H Theatre Style Seating

Enterprise Practices

11:10am EDT

Building a Leadership Backlog

During a transformation, teams report issues that they don't have control to fix and leaders are needed to intervene. We need a way to elevate, own and report on the progress on resolving these by building a leadership backlog that provides transparency on priorities and focus for our leaders.

Speakers

Christen McLemore

Managing Consultant, CA Technologies

It was exciting to finally get my dream job at Rally after we've been "courting" each other since 2008. To be in the transformational world full time has been my goal for a long time and to coach with my peers and mentors at Rally is icing on the cake. Now that CA has acquired Rally... Read More →

Building a Leadership Backlog McLemore pdf

Monday September 24, 2018 11:10am - 12:10pm EDT
Salon D POD Style Seating

Leadership & Teams

Presentation https://www.dropbox.com/l/scl/AACoV_6BFQZ32YdecoYrFhQLsYTzt1rKr9o

11:10am EDT

Why Making Your Area More Efficient may be Losing Your Company Money!

Activity based learning that shows that making work areas more efficient without first identifying bottleneck(s), reduces ROI. Organizations need to focus on the whole rather than sub optimization.

Speakers

Damien Gallagher

Agile Coach, Pramerica Services, Ltd.

Until recently, over the previous decade I headed up video game studios in both Producer and Exec Producer roles, overseeing the production of several original IP games made from concept through to in store and after sales support. My background in video game development started initially... Read More →

Monday September 24, 2018 11:10am - 12:10pm EDT
Salon E POD Style Seating

Product & Innovation

12:10pm EDT

Lunch & Raffle Sponsored By Hyperdrive Agile Leadership

Sponsors

Hyperdrive Agile Leadership

Monday September 24, 2018 12:10pm - 12:40pm EDT
Foyer

Meals and Breaks

12:40pm EDT

KEYNOTE : Sense & Respond: Leadership in the Age of Agility

Digital technology is changing everything about business today. Why? Because it gives organizations the ability to build continuous two-way communication into every touch point with their customers and employees.

Most leaders and project teams think this is simply the evolution of IT—leaving business management unchanged. This is not true. As this technology becomes embedded in literally every phase and process of our businesses, we need new organizational structures and management practices capable of leveraging these new capabilities.

Speakers

Josh Seiden

Founder & Author, Seiden Consulting

Josh Seiden is a designer, product leader, author and entrepreneur who help clients launch new products and services. Josh has been creating great technology products for more than 25 years. Josh is the founder of Seiden Consulting, where he works with clients as a coach and product... Read More →

Monday September 24, 2018 12:40pm - 1:30pm EDT
Grand Ballroom

Keynote

1:40pm EDT

7 Secrets of Highly Effective Retrospectives

Find out how to re-energize your retrospectives by transforming them into drivers of real change.

Speakers

Chris Hefley

CRO, Retrium

Chris Hefley is a software developer and entrepreneur. He's currently Chief Revenue Officer at Retrium, the leader in retrospective facilitation software, and former co-founder and CEO of LeanKit.

Monday September 24, 2018 1:40pm - 2:40pm EDT
Salon A/B/C Theatre Style Seating

Agile Mastery

1:40pm EDT

The Myth of the Internal Customer

Exploring the myth of the internal customer. Are they a proxy or a true customer?
Explore the impact of too many proxies between requests and delivery and the impact on an organizations ability to delight the customer. This workshop will present case study and an experiential hands on opportunity to discover how layered proxies influence outcomes.

Speakers

Alexander R. Alarid

Agile Coach, Agile Ex Machina, LLC

Alexander began his Agile journey well before becoming an Agile professional. It began in the U.S. Army, becoming an Infantry Officer and Paratrooper. This formative experience shaped his foundational understanding of leading and coaching teams.He has over twenty years' experience... Read More →

Mary Rood

Agile Coach, Daugherty Business Solutions

Mary is a 20+ year veteran of technology. As an agile coach supporting organizational transformation, she has found great joy in both supporting the success of others and challenging cultural beliefs. As an veteran of the US Army, she is convinced that every transitioning service... Read More →

AgileCamp2018 9 PDF pdf

Monday September 24, 2018 1:40pm - 2:40pm EDT
Salon E POD Style Seating

Agile Mastery

1:40pm EDT

Team Up to Eradicate Fear from Your Organizational Culture.

Join this workshop to learn psychological safety enhancers that can help you eradicate fear from your teams and your organizational culture.

Speakers

Dana Pylayeva

Agile Coach & Founder, Agile Play Consulting, LLC

Agile Coach and Trainer, International Speaker, Dana has over 18 year of diverse IT experience. She is the author of "Introduction to DevOps with Lego, Chocolate and Scrum Game"and the founder of Big Apple Scrum Day.

Monday September 24, 2018 1:40pm - 2:40pm EDT
Lincoln/Holland/Columbia POD Style Seating

Enterprise Practices

Presentation https://www.slideshare.net/danapylayeva/team-up-to-eradicate-fear-from-your-organizational-culture

1:40pm EDT

Humanizing the Team through Agile Chartering

Many teams suffer from a feeble launch. Much of the time due to teams developing through the initial Tuckman stages of forming, storming, and norming the desired high performing stage becomes significantly delayed. Our teams are groups of people not a collection of resources. They are made up talented individuals and we train them in the techniques of process and technical practices. Much of the time we focus mostly on technical knowledge rather than human interaction. It seems we've forgotten "Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools".

So how can you increase the likelihood of early success for teams or organization? By launching teams using agile chartering, beginning with focusing on the team member relationship and behavior you will practice techniques that aid in consensus building, develop psychological safety, a shared vision, and strong working relationships.

Agile chartering begins with acknowledging this obvious fact and building strong connections between team members propelling the team more readily into performing well together.

Learn how we treat teams as humans rather than cogs in the machine.

Speakers

Linda Cook

Chief Learning Officer, Project Cooks, LLC

Linda Cook, a recognized technology leader and Agile Transformation expert, is committed to helping organizations achieve their strategic goals. With over twenty years of experience as an IT executive, Linda offers a unique blend of leadership, innovation, and vision which allows... Read More →

Chris Espy

Enterprise Agile Coach and Trainer, Adapt to Agility, LLC

Team Charter Workshop Agile Camp pdf

Monday September 24, 2018 1:40pm - 2:40pm EDT
Salon D POD Style Seating

Leadership & Teams

1:40pm EDT

Practical Practices of High Performance Teams

Front line examples of the practices High Performance Teams use daily to deliver in a multi-team large complex corporate environment.

Speakers

David Pugmire

Agile Coach, Eliassen Group

David Pugmire is an Agile Coach and transformation leader who has extensive experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner, QA/Test Lead, and Agile Trainer. He is passionate about bringing the benefits of Agile to teams and organizations while being conscious of cultural and enterprise... Read More →

Practical Practices of High Performance Teams pdf

Monday September 24, 2018 1:40pm - 2:40pm EDT
Salon F/G/H Theatre Style Seating

Leadership & Teams

2:40pm EDT

Afternoon Break: Sponsored by Hyperdrive Agile Leadership

Sponsors

Hyperdrive Agile Leadership

Monday September 24, 2018 2:40pm - 3:00pm EDT
Foyer

Meals and Breaks

3:00pm EDT

Accelerate Your A.I. (Agile Intelligence)!

Regardless of where you are on your journey, this fun session will explore proven techniques to drive your agile transformation - delivered with a dash of humor!

Speakers

Stephen Gristock

Agile Delivery Lead, Eliassen Group

Originally from Wales (UK), Stephen has presented at conferences in Europe, Asia and North America (including INCOSE, SPIN, PSQT, SEPG, ICSPI) on process transformation techniques. Stephen has an extensive background in project management and process improvement acquired as a consultant... Read More →

2018 Agile Camp Accelerate Your AI Final pdf

Monday September 24, 2018 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Salon A/B/C Theatre Style Seating

Agile Mastery

3:00pm EDT

Agile Transformations: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Are the majority of agile transformations failing? Succeeding? Just sort of stumbling along? It's really hard to tell. You hear a lot of promises and platitudes, who do you trust to share with you what's really happening in organizations making these transformations?

Speakers

Scott Ambler

Chief Scientist, Disciplined Agile Consortium

Scott W. Ambler is the Senior Consulting Partner of Scott Ambler + Associates. Scott works with organizations around the world to help them to improve the way that they work and organize themselves. He provides training, coaching, and mentoring in disciplined agile and lean strategies... Read More →

Monday September 24, 2018 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Salon F/G/H Theatre Style Seating

Enterprise Practices

Presentation https://disciplinedagileconsortium.org/resources/AgileCamp2018/AmblerAgileTransformationsNY.pdf

3:00pm EDT

The Path to High Performance

What behaviors are holding back your teams? How can you create high performing teams? LEGO Serious Play can show you how to be amazing!

Speakers

Joe Snyder

Trainer/Coach, TrainIT

Mr. Snyder's background, love, and experience is as an Agile content developer and trainer. A passion for high energy, impactful training to clients in Financial Services, Health Care, Software Development, and Government Agencies is reflected in consistent rankings near a 100... Read More →

Agile Camp 2018 trainIT Presentation final pdf

Monday September 24, 2018 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Lincoln/Holland/Columbia POD Style Seating

Enterprise Practices

3:00pm EDT

Questions Great Agile Leaders Ask Themselves

We know that organizational culture can be shaped by the worst behaviors leaders are willing to tolerate, but can culture be shaped by the best behaviors that leaders are willing to amplify?

What is the balance between 'getting out of the way' and enabling self-organizing teams to contribute and thrive within their ecosystems?

What questions do great Agile Leaders ask themselves about decision making, communication, delivery, learning, rewarding right behavior and innovation?

Come along to hear the latest thought leadership and join in some lively dialog.

Speakers

Katrina Kolt

Enterprise Agile Coach, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group

Katrina grew up in Melbourne, Australia and went to high school during a time when Information Technology was punch cards hidden in a mythical location in the basement of a building. At college she discovered a room full of computers (still in the basement) and was hooked!Katrina... Read More →

Questions great Agile leaders ask themselves v2 pdf

Monday September 24, 2018 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Salon E POD Style Seating

Leadership & Teams

3:00pm EDT

10 Steps to Transformation through Continuous Delivery

This session will cover 10 steps that will help any organization to improve developer productivity and reduce time to market, while delivering quality software to customers. Learn about tools and techniques and participate in interactive exercises to identify and address most critical bottlenecks of Continuous Delivery.

Speakers

Tanya Kravtsov

Director of QA, Audible

I am a director of QA at Audible, helping build a new QA organization to support innovative web product development at scale. Previously, as head of automation and continuous delivery at ROKITT, senior QA manager at Syncsort, and VP at Morgan Stanley, I focused on quality, automation... Read More →

AgileCamp2018 TK pdf

Monday September 24, 2018 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Salon D POD Style Seating

Technical

4:10pm EDT

KEYNOTE : Leading Transformational Change

This presentation is about leading successful transformation through a proven playbook combined with ingredients for success. One of the success factors is building an Agile development muscle as it helps to shape an organization’s culture. This delves in to specific ways you drive transformation in your organization.

Speakers

Mamie Jones

Sr. Vice President of Product Development, Intuit

Mamie Jones is the Pro Connect Senior Vice President of Product Development at Intuit. She is responsible for the development and operations of the Pro Connect Group’s portfolio of products like ProConnect Tax Online, Lacerte and ProSeries, which are used by accounting professionals... Read More →

AC NYC Leading Transformational Change Mamie Jones Sep2018 Final (002) pdf

Monday September 24, 2018 4:10pm - 5:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom

Keynote