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Agile and Beyond 2018

Vanessa Mandell

Ford Motor Company
IT Operations Team Lead

7:00am EDT

Registration Auditorium 1

7:30am EDT

Lean Coffee Salon 1Matt Heusser

8:45am EDT

Dynamic Reteaming at Fast-Growing Companies BallroomHEIDI HELFAND

10:00am EDT

Ford IT's Product Driven Organization Transformation Auditorium 1Aaron Rajda Heroes are Expensive - Extinguishing the Firefighting Culture Conference Room CSue Johnston Let Me Tell You A Story: The Power of Storytelling in Agile Coaching Conference Room DMark Cruth Maps over Backlogs: User Story Mapping to share the Big Picture Elizabeth Ann BallroomMike Clement Mob Programming: Advance Ability, Create Clean Code and Banish Blame Conference Room AAndrew Crouch • Chris Dorman Not BEYOND agile, but rather BEHIND it Salon 5Dan Davis Over-Achiever, Under-Believer: How to match your confidence to your competence Conference Room FMaureen Zappala Power Coaching - Pushing the Boundaries to Build Better Teams Conference Room BCherie Silas Blending Product Thinking with Architecture Auditorium 2Joel Tosi No' your way to trust Salon 1Marjan Venema

10:55am EDT

Anything You Can Do, Two Can Do Better Conference Room DJulia Fabiszewski Being Understood while we Wait for the Babel Fish (a.k.a. Plain Talk for Geeks) Conference Room CSue Johnston Keep Calm and Tear Down Walls Conference Room HKristen Belcher • Emily Darin Mapping User Needs: What Cartography Can Teach Us About Agile Roadmaps Elizabeth Ann BallroomJonathon Baugh Nurturing a Culture of Innovation Inside a 100 Year Old Company Auditorium 1Andy Brown • Ryan Kennel Stop complaining and start learning! Retrospectives that drive real change. Salon 5David Horowitz

11:45am EDT

1:00pm EDT

Brave New Architecture Conference Room ASylvia Fronczak Facilitating Technology Change through Cultural Change Conference Room CGrant Maki How to Avoid “Reactive” Agile to Build a Sustainable Agile Culture Conference Room DEric Naiburg Optimizing For Collaboration Salon 1GeePaw Hill The Path to Continuous Delivery Auditorium 1Cheezy Thinking Agile: Don't Let Your Mental Wiring Derail Good Software Conference Room HRobin Murphy The Secret to a Better Backlog - Story Mapping Elizabeth Ann BallroomHelene Gidley Visualising your way to better problem solving Auditorium 2Joanne Perold • Barry Tandy

1:55pm EDT

3X - Forget Everything You Know About Software Engineering Salon 1Bob Allen An Outcome Measurement Model: Is Your Agile Adoption Moving The Needle? Conference Room HMichael McCalla Psychological Safety: the inside story Conference Room CAlex Harms The Dojo – Implementing an Immersive Learning Environment for Teams Conference Room FJeremy Moede Why I hate "Agile", and why it shouldn't exist Conference Room DErik Krisko

2:45pm EDT

Afternoon Snack Ballroom

3:00pm EDT

Agile Transformations Explained Auditorium 1Mike Cottmeyer BePartoftheGood - an agile response to crisis Conference Room BColleen Esposito Building a well-oiled delivery machine: How to take your team from zero to awesome using collaboration Conference Room DFred Estabrook • Chris O'Connor Change My View: Moral Foundations Theory and You Conference Room CTodd Charron Developing for the Web with Extreme Safety Conference Room ADillon Kearns Outcome Metrics Lead To Valuable Practices Conference Room HSkylar Watson Impact Mapping - How to Make Value-Driven Prioritization a Reality Elizabeth Ann BallroomMathias Eifert Leading From Within an Agile Team Auditorium 2Selena Delesie Making your Projects Personal: A Persona Workshop Salon 5Jonathon Baugh Say It So They Hear You: Providing Meaningful Feedback Salon 1Jennifer Dyni Show Me the Money: Why financial departments cling to project-based costing and how to move them toward Lean-Agile costing and decision making. Conference Room EDavid Hughes • Popi Makris

3:55pm EDT

Applying Agile Practices To Improve Infrastructure Automation and Network Segmentation Conference Room FJason Tice Breaking Bad Scrum Conference Room DRyan Ripley Legacy Code Rescue: Lessons from the Front Line Conference Room CTodd Flanders The Yin and Yang of Fear in an Agile Transformation Conference Room BJason Dinkelmann

4:45pm EDT

Conference Party Ballroom

7:00am EDT

Registration Auditorium 1

7:30am EDT

Lean Coffee Salon 1Matt Heusser

8:45am EDT

Toyota Kata - It May Be Habit Forming BallroomMike Rother

10:00am EDT

Agile in the Face of the Real World Conference Room BShane McDowell Continuous Delivery in Organizations Terrified of Risk Conference Room HMark Shead Intro to Complexity Conference Room ACat Swetel Splitting Epics and User Stories: Using Micro-Milestones to Boost Momentum Conference Room FDave Todaro Teambuilding Secrets of Master Project Leaders Auditorium 1Christopher Avery Community-Driven Change Elizabeth Ann BallroomShawn Button • Shahin Sheidaei Cultivating Collaboration via intense partnerships to solve problems. Conference Room EDavid A Koontz The Joy of Proving Yourself Wrong: A Case Study in A/B Experimentation Conference Room DJenny Wanger

10:55am EDT

Integrating Design Thinking on Your Projects Conference Room ABruce Gay, PMP Is test automation enough to sustain quality in the continuous integration world? Conference Room CJayshree Bhakta

11:45am EDT

1:00pm EDT

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Capitalizing Software in an Agile World Auditorium 1Paul Argiry Baking In Quality: A Holistic Model of Quality Conference Room CCarol Treat Morton • Matt Scholand Experiment by Experiment: Scaling the Agile Mountain Conference Room AWilliam Kammersell • Lieschen Gargano Quilling Iterative and Incremental – What’s the Difference and Why Should You Care? Conference Room HMathias Eifert Patterns of Evolutionary Architecture Salon 5Shawn Button • Chris Gow Unleash Your Inner Scientist Conference Room FRyan McCann Have you ever thought of joining the Mob? Adventures in Mob Programming! Salon 1Fred Estabrook • Chris O'Connor Let’s Be Awesome – The DevOps Edition Conference Room DJason Tice Taking Agile Principles and Practices to the Rest of the Organization Elizabeth Ann BallroomJeremy Willets

1:55pm EDT

Agile’s Forgotten Secret Conference Room ATom Meloche Conflicting Priorities: How to Visualize their Impacts on Your Workflow & Metrics Conference Room BDominica DeGrandis High-performing Doesn't Happen Overnight, It Takes Practice Conference Room HMatt Badgley I Feel The Need, The Need For Speed! Enabling Your Team Testing Efforts To Focus On Automation Conference Room CMaciek Konkolowicz That IS your job! Cross-functional teams begin with cross-functional companies! Conference Room FNatalie Warnert

2:45pm EDT

Afternoon Snack Ballroom

3:00pm EDT

A Poet's Guide to Test Automation Conference Room CGeorge Dinwiddie Achievement Unlocked: How Gamification Drives Organizational Culture Change Conference Room FMark Cruth Considering Skills Liquidity Conference Room ACat Swetel Hacking Your Company’s Culture Conference Room BJulia Fabiszewski • Jonny Nabors • Max Wilkinson Try it before you buy it: Exploring the power of experiments in the workplace Conference Room HCarol Treat Morton • Matt Scholand Break out of Meeting Stagnation with Liberating Structures Auditorium 2HEIDI HELFAND Bringing Process to How You Prioritize: The End of Squeaky Wheel Syndrome Conference Room DJenny Wanger Improving Alignment in Your Project Team Elizabeth Ann BallroomMollie Callahan • Brittany Morton Your Inner Leader Salon 5Shahin Sheidaei

3:55pm EDT

Death By Specification Conference Room HSteve Jackson Prioritize your resources based on your bottlenecks and riskiest assumptions Auditorium 1Ashok Sivanand Quality != Testing Conference Room CJayshree Bhakta Shifting roles - Clarifying the impact of agile adoption in traditional project organizations Conference Room AAndrew Annett Software Visualization for Fun And Profit Conference Room BBrandon Carlson

4:45pm EDT

After Party Ballroom