Month: July 2022

Geoff Watts

Stephanie Ockerman

Ryan Ripley

The panel discussion will take place from 1:15 to 2:15 PM EST. 

Geoff Watts

Geoff Watts is author of some of the most popular agile and coaching books and is one of the most experienced agile coaches and trainers. His focus on helping agile professionals and teams go from good to great through the development of mastery has led to his recent creation of the Agile Mastery Institute. Through his cohort-based Pathway programs he and other Guides support students through a mixture of classroom-based workshops, real-time coaching and multimedia over a number of months instead of a couple of days.

Stephanie Ockerman

Ryan Ripley

Ryan Ripley is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) and co-founder of Agile for Humans, LLC where he and Todd Miller (PST) are committed to helping teams and organizations uncover better ways of working together.

Ryan and Todd co-authored FIXING YOUR SCRUM: PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS to COMMON SCRUM PROBLEMS and together they co-teach the Scrum.org catalog of courses globally.

Todd and Ryan believe that two trainers are better than one. Check out our classes below and experience the difference that two trainers can make for you and your teams without the additional cost of a second trainer.

As part of their commitment to uncovering better ways of working together, Ryan and Todd provide daily and weekly YouTube videos, blog posts, and podcasts to help inspire Scrum Teams all over the world to inspect their work, adapt their practices, and deliver valuable products that delight their customers.

Prior to becoming a PST, Ryan worked as a Software Developer, Scrum Master, and Executive in the Fortune 500 at companies in the medical device, wholesale, data analytics, and financial services industries.

Ryan lives in Indiana with his wife Kristin and three children.

Karen

Fomafung

2:30 PM to 3:15 PM EST

According to the 2022 State of Agile Report, difficulty changing culture and mindset is on the rise for Agile Coaches. As Agile practitioners, how can we better help organizations, teams, and individuals to embrace the Agile mindset. 

About Karen Fomafung

With 11 years of experience as a trainer, coach, and content creator, Karen is also a co-founder of Being Agile Consulting. She has  a background in technology, insurance, health, and banking industries. Karen is passionate about diligent service to the Agile Community, passing-on practical knowledge to her audience. 

Daria

Bagina

2:30 PM to 3:15 PM EST

Scrum Master and Scrum Team require distinct skills to allow the Scrum Master to work at 360 degrees and not compromise their time with busy work.

There are only so many hours in the day. Expectations set on Scrum Masters by organizations sometimes take that time away.
While you may be busy all day, you might not be working at your full potential – at 360 degrees.

As a Scrum Master you need to excel in many skills and develop various areas of knowledge. Some of them are absolutely necessary for you to just start making progress. You don’t want to miss on those!

Without focusing on the right skills and knowledge, you might easily fall back into misunderstood Scrum Master stances and be evaluated based on irrelevant metrics.

To help you get back to your 360 degrees you need to not only build your own skills, but also help your team build theirs.
In this talk, I’ll walk you through essential Scrum skills and how to focus on them. You’ll walk away with your Scrum Master development plan in hands so that the next 360º performance review evaluates what actually matters.

About Daria Bagina

I am a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org as well as a practicing Scrum Master. My focus is on helping Scrum Masters and other Agile professionals to build new skills and advance in their career by providing them with practical examples and actionable steps to success.

I’ve worked as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach with a wide range of companies, from big financial institutions to start-ups with just 15 people and in industries ranging from technical products like cloud platforms and DNS servers to marketing and sales teams in the beauty industry.

My ultimate goal is to build the next generation of Agile leaders who will help us create positive change in the way organizations and teams work, measure success, and build products.

Gunther

Verheyen

12:15 PM to 1:00 PM EST

Helping people get unstuck with (their) Scrum

Gunther Verheyen, independent Scrum Caretaker, observes how teams and organizations get stuck with Scrum. This happens for various reasons: apathy and routine taking over, endless debates over the rules of the game, organizations twisting Scrum to fit their current (often rigid) structures, no purpose to the adoption of Scrum. Gunther shares some ideas and options to start moving (your) Scrum downfield, with a focus on organizational and managerial structures and culture.

About Gunther  Verheyen

Gunther Verheyen calls himself an independent Scrum Caretaker on a journey of humanizing the workplace with Scrum. He is a longtime Scrum practitioner who started applying Scrum in 2003. He has published two acclaimed books about Scrum and was the partner of Ken Schwaber (co-creator of Scrum) as Director of the “Professional Scrum” series at Scrum.org.

Niall

McShane

3:30 PM to 4:15 PM EST

The presentation will outline and discuss eight measures to monitor and control agile coaching performance.

The role of the agile coach has changed over the years from one that was primarily about enabling delivery to one that can encompass business agility, leadership mindset coaching all the way to organisational redesign. In this presentation Niall McShane will put forward a model to allow organisations to monitor and control the performance of the agile coaching service as it is deployed across an enterprise change program.

The intent of the proposed model is to ensure organisations design the agile coaching service they require prior to hiring agile coaches. Once the service is designed it is then possible to use the model presented to know if the agile coaching service is delivering against the expected outcomes.

About Niall McShane

Niall McShane is the founder and Managing Director of SOURCE as well as the internationally recognised author of “Responsive Agile Coaching-how to accelerate your coaching outcomes with meaningful conversations”. Niall is a coach at heart and throughout his career has applied coaching in many situations; sports, life, leadership and for the last 12 years, agile and ways to work. There are two consistent themes in all of the coaching Niall has delivered over the years; performance (getting the outcome) and growth (getting better). These two elements are central to his life and work at SOURCE. His overarching vision for the future of work (and his motivation for founding SOURCE) involves enabling organisations to get work done through the application of ways of working that promote tolerance, kindness and patience for fellow workers.

Bob

Galen

August 23, 2022
3:30 PM to 4:15 PM EST

There are perspectives that imply Agile Coaching is for a small set of specialized agilists who serve to improve everyone else. Or that it’s a unique role that others, including managers, Scrum Masters, and leaders will find difficult to impossible to master.

This talk intends to debunk those notions. Bob Galen subscribes to several generic notions in agile contexts. One is that everyone has leadership potential and can rise to be leaders. And the other, is that everyone is a coach, can coach, and has a foundational responsibility to coach, regardless of their role.

The only questions are will, skill, and experience.

In this talk, Bob will explore the nuance associated with agile coaching to demystify it and encourage you to find your inner agile coach in whatever role you currently hold. He’ll share and explore the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel as a competency model for agile coaching. Next, he explores the critical aspects of an agile coaching mindset. And finally, he’ll give you a chance to practice having a coaching conversation.

Bob hopes to inspire you so that your inner Agile Coach emerges, grows, and shines.

About Bob Galen 

Bob Galen is an Agile Practitioner, Trainer & Coach based in Cary, NC. In this role he helps guide companies and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift towards agile methods of working. Bob has been doing that since the late 1990s, so he’s deeply experienced. He is the Director of Agile Practice at Zenergy Technologies, a leading business agility transformation company. Bob is also President and Head Coach at RGCG a boutique agile coaching firm.

Bob regularly speaks at international conferences and professional groups on topics related to agile software development, testing, scaling, and organizational leadership. He is a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), CAL I trainer, and an active member of the Agile & Scrum Alliances.

He’s published four agile-centric books: The Three Pillars of Agile Quality and Testing in 2015, Scrum Product Ownership, 3’rd Edition in 2019, and Agile Reflections in 2012, and Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching in 2022. He’s also a prolific writer & blogger (at – www.rgalen.com and www.agile-moose.com) and podcaster (at www.meta-cast.com )

Bob may be reached directly at: bob@rgalen.com or networking via: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bobgalen