Kraków, Poland
15-16 April 2013
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To be announced.

Kanban: Isn't it Just Common Sense?

Many problems in software development are complex, with no obvious solution, so it is not possible to follow best practice. Instead me must think in terms of heuristics to discover solutions. We can use Kanban as a set of heuristics to learn what those solutions are.

Keynote

To be announced.

The red brick cancer

We will explore the differences between systems with high resource efficiency and systems focused on flow efficiency. You will learn how to understand and improve the end to end flow in your system.

Dreaming

Bringing something from inception to completion (a software project, for example) is a non-linear journey that some seem better at traveling than others, especially when the precise destination isn't clearly defined.

It's Andban, Damnit!

This is a journey beyond the hype, a look at what Kanban is, how it helped unleash the ingenuity and potential of teams I've worked with. Let's see how Kanban helps us discover what really matters & enables us to find our own path.

The other side of Kanban

In this session we'll explore how the Kanban principles and practices can foster understanding, belonging and purpose in the workplace.

Agile QA 2.0:

How to become a more assertive QA. This energetic session will be more like rants interspersed between lightning-talk fish bowls than a mild-mannered talk, because it's intended as a call to action for quality analysts working in agile teams to be more assertive.

Social Sciences Makes a Difference

This talk introduces interesting phenomena and fascinating experiments from the social sciences and how to use its findings for your benefit.

Portfolio Kanban: A Backdoor to Organizational Evolution

I will show how we can use Portfolio Kanban as a low-friction method, which might be used by change agents, to steer mindset change among top managers.

Agile communication: Back and forth between managers and teams

This highly-interactive talk shows typical communication patterns, behaviors and provides eye-opening insights into the ways communication can improved Some practical games include the whole audience.

Tour of Kanban

Explore Kanban's core principles through the metaphor of competitive cycling. You'll be surprised by the similarities between winning a race and delivering software.

Managing Chaotic Developers is Complex

Experience report on applying the Cynefin Framework to software development, including ideas that can be applied in multiple environments.

Perfect Processes and the Human Factor

Have you ever seen a Perfect Process? What was the role of the Human in it? Or the Team? We use Scrum, Kanban, Lean and other techniques that fulfill peoples' psychological needs. When we fully understand them, what would Scrum 2.0 or Lean 2.0 look like?

Different Cultures Different Agile(s)?

During the presentation I'd like to give you opportunity to look at various countries and organizations cultures to discuss challenges in introducing and using agile there. We'll learn some nice lifehacking tricks how use the differences in most efficient way.

Kanban, Remember Why?

We realized it probably wouldn’t be possible to design intrinsic motivation into the system, we asked ourselves if it would be possible to design the system in a way that it would get it to the surface, and get the focus back on why Kanban was introduced in the first place.

Validated Learning in Product Development

Use Lean Product Development techniques to reduce production costs and increase customer satisfaction.

Speakers

Dave Snowden

Cognitive Edge
Dave Snowden is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry, looking at complex issues relating to strategy and organisational decision making.

Karl Scotland

Rally
Karl has over 15 years of experience covering development, project management, team leadership, coaching and training. For the last decade Karl has been applying Agile methods, and most recently has been a pioneer and advocate of using Kanban Systems for software development.

Joshua Bloom

TLC Labs
Jabe is a creative technologist and an international speaker on Lean Product Development. An active member of the Lean, Kanban, and Lean Startup Communities, he has been leading multidisciplinary teams and companies for nearly 20 years. Presently, he is CTO at The Library Corporation.

Håkan Forss

Avega Group
Håkan Forss works for Avega Group in Stockholm as a Lean/Agile Coach. Håkan has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry and his main focus today are Lean/Agile coaching, system architecture and development.

Andrea Provaglio

Andrea is an independent IT professional with almost twenty years of experience in three different continents. He assists clients from many domains, ranging from large organizations such as the European Commission or multinational banks, to small dynamic IT companies.

Torbjörn Gyllebring

Cint AB
Torbjörn is a developer that grew frustrated with solving the wrong problems and the resulting waste of human potential. In his current role as Development Manager at Cint AB he's using Kanban help evolve processes, coaching teams and occasionally he even gets to write some code.

Chris McDermott

Capita Secure Mobile Solutions
Chris is a coach, developer and conference organiser who is currently working as a consultant with Capita Secure Mobile Solutions. In his 12 year career he has worked with various different organisations, from the Scottish police through to a global investment bank.

Matt Philip

Thoughtworks
Matt has been helping organizations and teams create better software for more than 10 years. He is particularly passionate about behavior-driven development, lean-kanban, continuous improvement, whole-team approach and gamification.

Zsolt Fabok

Zsolt, team leader and blogger. He started his professional career as a software developer in 1999 and after filling different kinds of roles from senior developer to assistant project manager and team leader at startup, medium sized and multinational companies.

Pawel Brodzinski

Lunar Logic
Pawel is a leader, a team builder and a change agent, but most of all he is a constantly-experimenting practitioner trying to make his teams work better. Pawel leads Lunar Logic, one of most mature software shops both in terms of technical excellence and understanding how work is done.

Zuzana Sochova

LOTOFIDEA
Zuzana has over 11 years of experience in IT. She works as a trainer, consultant and coach for software organizations, support them in tailoring their agile adoption processes to company culture. She is founder of the Czech agile community Agile Association.

Radislaw Orszewski

Skrill
Radislaw Orszewski holds a M.S. in Biotechnology. He has worked as a professional software tester in distributed teams at Sabre and Nokia. Currently based in Berlin, he works as Agile Process & Testing Manager at Skrill (Moneybookers).

Piotr Burdylo

TouK
Piotr is a software veteran who has been actively promoting agile values as a part of the Warsaw agile community. He is currently on the board of TouK where he started as a Java programmer and where he has introduced Scrum and Kanban.

Piotr Nabielec

Sabre
Piotr is an observer, a big fan of Scrum, Lean and Personal Productivity who has 7+ years in IT and has worked as a Developer, QA, Scrum Master, Team Lead, Agile Coach and finally as a Trainer. He loves helping people increase their productivity, eliminate waste and reach their potential.

Monika Konieczny

Archer Inc.
Monika works as a Scrum Master/Director of Engineering at Archer Inc. in Kraków, where she coordinates the work of the teams creating tools necessary to create/run mobile adds campaigns. She strongly belives in power of gamification in mobile world as well as in work environment.

Jasper Sonnevelt

VX Company
Jasper is an Agile Coach at VX Company in The Netherlands. He helps team and organizations adopt a Leaner way of working. He has experience working in and around a teams with various levels of Agile maturity in both Scrum and Kanban environments.

Michael Leber

ANECON
With more than 10 years experience in large industrial organizations as well as smaller teams, he understands the differentiated requirements from organizations of different cultural backgrounds.