Speakers 2022 – Main track

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Beyond Copy Paste – Agile Building the missing links between Strategy and Operational Agility.

Today it’s common for company leaders to express a desire to be more agile, and many embark on expensive change journeys, to make their teams more agile. After years on this journey fraught with “resistance” and lots of change, and yet seldom able to show results that are meaningful to customers or the business. Part of the problem is the core assumption that the problems, and therefore solutions exist at the team level or with the individual humans.

My experience is that to delight customers, collaboration is required between the humans, teams and departments. This focusing on the parts (individuals and teams) rarely improves the whole, in ways customers will appreciate or pay for.

We’ll explore this through three lenses.

• Systems – How building effective interaction between teams produces more effective results
• Science – How to Improve our understanding of what works and what doesn’t 
• Sapiens – How creating a healthy environment unlocked our potential.

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Using Lean-Agile ways to deliver Enterprise Transformation Execution

This talk is all based on the work we have done with a Radtac Team in a Military Organisation in the UK that wanted to adopt Lean-Agile ways of working and the various experimentations we have run. So, this is practice not theory! The organisation wanted us to enable transformation and not have it ‘done to them’ i.e. teach them how to fish and not to fish for them! They didn’t want a traditional SI approach to change.

So, in an effort to ‘drink our own champagne’ we wanted to implement change in an agile way and create an organisation that could sustain their change going forward.  So, I am going to talk about how we have used the work from John Kotter and how we applied them to an Enterprise Transformation Execution.  In particular doing Transformation Execution in an Agile way and yet, time after time I see organisations undertaking change (in particular agile change) in a waterfall way! They design everything upfront, create a beautiful but completely fictitious plan and then set up a number of siloed workstreams to implement the plan!

The irony of trying to improve the effectiveness of an organisation but setting a change organisation that is itself siloed never fails to escape me!

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Bottom-up change management

This talk is intended for managers and senior leaders who work with teams from a strategic transformation perspective. Ryan will tell how self-management and trust are vital for success, as you can’t always be present – so creating a culture of empowerment is vital to promote Agile transformation. You will get a potential model and framework to initiate a successful Agile transformation

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Agile alone does not help us succeed in the current world. We need to be resilient and the first mover to succeed. – How to achieve this?

Many organisations have a successful agile transformation behind them, but their business remains problematic. They need to also be resilient and adapt in the ever changing world.

The reason why resilience is, today, more relevant than robustness is connected primarily to the shrinking of the market cycles (or product lifecycle) to less than 7-8 years from conceptualization to full commoditization. This emphasises even more the importance of being first mover or one of the first followers in very competing markets. The need to be able to adapt very quickly to the changes and co-evolve with the market is of primary importance when things appear to be very volatile due to high levels of uncertainty. 

Organisations are complex and becoming resilient is not easy. Still this is possible. In the talk we will come to hear how this can be done.

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Acceptance Test Driven Development in developing the most critical peace-time public safety information system in Finland

The talk is about developing the most critical peace-time public safety information system we have in Finland. This ERICA system is unique worldwide as it is the only nation-wide system that provides contact to all security authorities without the need to forward the call further. ERICA has made possible to deploy a networked operating model in emergency response centre operations. Due to the nature of operations in which ERICA is used, our error margin is very slim. This sets high standards to SW quality and quality assurance. Especially the understanding of customer needs is essential to ensure efficient operations on both sides. In this talk we shall have a brief look into the Acceptance Test Driven Development method used in ERICA development: The problem we initially wanted to solve, how we succeeded in it and what lessons we learned.

TALK by Artem Bykovets and Andrii Glushchenko

Why does culture matter? Recent examples from Ukraine

Organisational Culture and Values have been an important topic throughout the last several years. While at some organisations it is getting more and more recognition, at many organisations it is still met with skepticism and a lot of jokes. It is considered “soft” and not “very practical”.

Since the 24th of February, Ukraine, and the Ukrainian People are demonstrating how much Culture and Values affect our day-to-day life, our decisions, and the actions we take. We invite you to take a closer look at “Why the Culture Matters”, based on the last observations of the Ukrainian People and the Ukrainian Army.