Agile development requires trust, but will also create trust. Agile is a positive trust spiral. Non-agile development is based on distrust, and will create distrust. Agile development cannot happen until all stakeholders have turned the trust spiral around. In this workshop we will explore techniques to initiate trust in a not yet agile organisation. Using ideas from appreciative inquiry, we identify situations that initiated trust in us. We discuss the prerequisites, properties and results of the techniques used. Then we explore other situations where the techniques also could be applied.

What do the masters of the craft and interested practitioners think we should be learning? What skills do they find most useful?

Often I say that my job is about helping people who would rather talk to computers, talk to each other. Yet this isn’t all—I’ve played developer, manager, coach, analyst, and product owner roles—and I’ve learned that it’s important that I speak my audience’s language to be sure we understand each other. In this workshop we’ll practice verbal and non-verbal techniques for bridging the communication gap. Considering how often even spouses often misunderstand one another, speaking like a native is a skill set anyone can benefit from.

Diversity means many things to many people. For the purpose of this session we will be considering diversity in very simple and clear terms.

‘The unique and rich collection of each person’s experiences formed from many channels such as gender, religion, ethnicity etc, that provides them a rich toolkit for social interaction and problem solving’

In this interactive session, we share tools and techniques for discovering and collating diversity and demonstrate how we can tap into this rich mine of collated experiences to improve team effectiveness and dynamics.

Abstract What do you at expect from a leader? • That he goes away? • That she takes you strong and firmly by the hand? • That he enforces the team spirit?

In this three-hour game, together with you, we try to find an answer to these questions. By experiencing this situation on our playground, we hope to give you a better insight in: • The differences in result. • Personal taste • Group dynamic effects

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When it is achieved together, the combined benefits of both Agile and Offshore software development, can be multiples greater than either approach alone. During this interactive session, we will simulate a distributed project with some participants being onsite and the others offshore. With 4 teams of upto 8 people each, this game will draw out learning around the challenges of Distributed Agile and different methods to communicate successfully on such projects. The rules of the game help illustrate how to deal with travel, different timezones, delayed communication and other such hurdles.