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Chris@Agile India 2017
"Agile Introverts, an Oxymoron?" Tuesday 7 Mar Hotel ITC Gardenia Bangalore, India |
Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration. This is probably the most used word you'll hear from agilists. It sits right at the core of agile principles. How do we reconcile this with the fact that 30% of the population is introverted?
There has been extension research around introversion that can help us understand this apparent contradiction better. This talk will explore the complexities of introversion, from the distinction between shyness and introversion to the complexities of pseudo-extroverts and "high active" babies. Finally, what can we learn from companies like Menlo Innovations and Hunter Industries, where they have high collaborative environments with introverts that say they would not work any other way. |
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Sean@Agile India 2017
"Practicing What I Preached: Confessions of a Reformed Enterprise Agile Coach" Tuesday 7 Mar Hotel ITC Gardenia Bangalore, India |
Agile coaching is a booming industry -- but what do companies hope to get out of coaching, and what tangible impact does coaching actually have on a team? What happens when you take an agile coach and force them to "eat their own dog food"? This is what happened to me. Join me in my personal journey of transitioning from an enterprise agile coach to a programmer on a team, and what I learned about agile, coaching, and myself in the process.
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Chris and Sean @ Agile India 2017
"Scaling Your Continuous Deployment Using Docker and Containers" Friday 10 Mar Hotel ITC Gardenia Bangalore, India |
How can new tools and technologies shorten our feedback cycles, and reduce pain and frustration of deployment and maintenance of systems? How do you scale your continuous deployment system to support more developers? This hands-on technical session demonstrates how new containerization technologies like Docker and Concourse CI can be used to build deployment pipelines. Sean and Chris will show how to build a deployment pipeline, configuration-manage it, and deploy software through it.
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Chris and Sean @ PMI-SAC PDC '16
"The Economic Basis Behind Agile" Tues 22 Nov, 3:30pm MDT Winsport | Canada Olympic Park Calgary, Alberta |
Agile is filled with many feel-good concepts like self-organization, empowerment, and emergent design, but is there substance to back it up? In this talk, the speakers will show how agile principles and practices have a strong foundation in economic theory, and is more than just a practice for developers. The speakers will talk about their personal experiences leading in a large, international organization and how Agile can enable your business to succeed.
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Sean @ Spotify Culture & Methods Conference
"Deliberately Building a Culture" Fri 23 September, 9:30am ET NYC |
Great attention has been placed on transitioning organizations towards Agile values, principles and practices, but what can we do today to ensure that these gains are sustainable well into the future? How do we ensure that Agile values become embedded in the identity of our organizations, more than just a passing fad? Sean explores how we can "widen the aperture" beyond individual teams and the short term, and look towards building great organizations well into the future. To do this, Sean leverages his 13 years in the Canadian Army to translate lessons in building sustainable organizations – and along the way, questioning a few Agile practices.
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Chris @ Agile 2016
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"The higher you go in an organization, the more your suggestions become interpreted as orders." - Marshall Goldsmith
An Architect garners a high level of authority by being an expert. People will follow their lead. But what if the Architect is wrong? They will follow right off a cliff. In the book "Turn the Ship Around", David Marquet tells his story as Captain of the US submarine the Sante Fe. On January 21, 1999, Marquet gave an order that could not be carried out, but the crew tried anyway. When he asked why, they responded "Because you told me to". After this incident, Marquet vowed to never give another order. Instead he replaced it with intent. Instead of asking for permission, his crew would tell him what they intend to do. Marquet took his first steps to get his crew to start thinking like the Captain. How do we get people to think like the Architect? Use the principles of Intent-Based Leadership to decouple the success of your project from the personality of the architect. By creating clarity around architectural goals and by engaging people in problem solving rather than defining rules and standards we can divest control and create an organization of leaders. |
Sean at Agile India 2015
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A successful agile transformation is a challenge - so how to ensure that these gains will be resilient and sustain over time? How can one be sure that the agile values and principles will be passed on to future generations? What characteristics differentiate the agile organisation that is successful today and the one that will continue to be successful well into the future?
This lecture leverages Sean's 13 years of military experience to explore how leaders deliberately build great self-sustaining organisations. Leaning on first-hand case studies from coaching dozens of agile teams, learn about the leadership behaviours that build self-sustaining cultures, and those which fail to see beyond just the methodologies. |