Distributed Agile Worlds 2016

Using the VIRTUAL framework, Pilar will help you to identify those aspects of leading your distributed team you need to be focusing on. You can use this session to ask questions, make a plan, share your experiences and also to get ready for the conference ahead. (This is not a talk, but an interactive workshop, get ready to participate!)

Welcome to our Distributed Agile Worlds 2016 conference - our fourth one featuring advanced tools for distributed teams.  This session will welcome you to the event by explaining mechanics, where we've been, and where we are headed.

Agile is about people - individuals and interactions over processes and tools. And yet we constantly get drawn into frameworks and structures, as well as miracles of communication technology. Clean Language is a systematic way of getting "back to basics": helping team members to understand themselves and each other at a deeper level, so that they forge stronger relationships and communicate more effectively. In this session, you'll get a taste of the difference that can make. It'll be interactive - expect to participate rather than just listen.

Could Sales be a perfect industry for Agility?  It's not software development like we are used to with our Agile projects.  Yet it fits like a glove, but it’s a different glove than what software teams might wear.

This talk will highlight three main points for the Sales team as a baseline for our new Agile operating agreement:

1. Accounts need continuous  prioritization and re-prioritization with a primary focus  on activities that return the highest value.
2. Shift the mindset to team performance from individual performances – measure success as a team rather than individual account managers.
3. Metrics and data are critical as they provide powerful insights that impact priority and approach to accounts.

Join us as we discuss how you can put Agility into your Sales process.

Every two weeks agile teams reflect on how to improve their process.  They often use sticky notes, dot voting, white boards, and other activities to create rich face to face interactions.  But what if they are not face to face?

Come hear how some teams have observed and addressed these challenges in general, and also specifically by leveraging the 'Retrium' tool.

Mark shares his experiences with distirbuted teams and his Audacious experiement at the Agile 2016 conference.

Daikibo℠ is a combination of Scrum, Kanban, and XP frameworks, and supports both the Agile and Lean principles. Daikibo proposes techniques to go beyond the classical approach of typical agile – scrum approach so that efficiency and productivity of the development life cycle are maximised. In  orthodox Agile-Scrum approach, there exist one self-organizing, cross-functional team writing stories, designing solution models, developing codes, testing, and producing functionality in each sprint. Daikibo makes this process work for distributed teams geographical dispersed around the globe. The “Hybrid” Daikibo℠ Agile approach separates the cross-functional teams and bifurcated responsibilities (a producer-consumer model) operating in an incremental-iterative pipeline approach, following the defined Agile principles.