Track: Modern Agile Development
Location:
- Windsor, 5th flr.
Day of week:
- Wednesday
Revisiting Agile today and tackling challenges we are seeing in the wild
Fifteen years after the creation of the Agile Manifesto, Agile continues to inspire, confound and contradict. More often than not, Agile practitioners vehemently disagree among themselves on everything related to "agile", ranging from the Agile values, principles and practices to the contexts in which Agile can be applied, the necessary conditions for success and the ultimate goal of Agile.
Join us to take a refreshing and heart-felt look through the kaleidoscope of Agile as applied in real life today by seasoned practitioners and together figure out ways we can make Agile more worthwhile going forward.
by Richard Kasperowski
Author of The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness
Open Space
by Alex Wilson
Lead Research Developer @Unruly
by Vikki Read
Full-stack Developer @Unruly
Beyond Agile myths and legends, in a land far far away, a few valiant developers still practice XP - melding an old world Agile approach with cutting edge lean product techniques. Our teams have been using XP for the last decade and we continue to evolve our practice. Come to this talk to hear tales of our XP journey and how we have evolved from basic XP into a high functioning lean product development environment.
You will learn about modern approaches that you can apply in your own...
by Jeffrey Fredrick
CTO @TimGroup
It is an implicit reality of the Agile Manifesto that we need to accept being wrong, yet people hate to be wrong. I’ve asked lots of rooms of lots of people to describe what it feels like to be wrong, and the response fall into a narrow range: Embarrassing. Depressing. Humiliating. All sort of variations on Bad.
This is an existential challenge to Agile. If there's anything people can agree on about the agile manifesto is that it is about people, and about the inability to perfectly...
by Tony Grout
Head of Digital and Non-Digital Agile Transformation @LloydsBankingGroup
by Chris Matts
Agile Practitioner and Programme manager
So those expensive consultants helped you roll out an agile method like Scrum or DSDM across a number of teams, and if we’re honest the results have been mixed at best. Some people “get it”, some are just doing what they always did but dressing it up in the new terms, others are actively disengaged. The business stakeholders are getting fed up hearing teams tell them “We’re agile so we don’t do dates” or “You’ll get it when it’s ready”, and your senior management are on your back about...
by Ian Dugmore
Product Owner for the Central Adoption Team @Barclays
by Jonathan Smart
Agility Lead @Barclays
Agile at scale means different things to different people depending on their context.
We want to share our personal experiences of very large scale Agile transformation, what we have done and how we’ve done it, not only in IT but beyond IT. Very large in our context is over 130,000 employees in 50 countries with four main businesses in Financial Services and a history of more than 300 years.
We will look at the challenge of using Agile to bring about culture change from...
by Steve McDonald
Leads E-commerce Development @SagePay
by Mark Landeryou
Java developer @Sagepay
Agile means different things to different people. Some people say they’re agile, but that’s usually very different to another group of people who also claim they’re agile.
In this talk, we’ll share with you how we recommend getting your Agile transformation to a great start and sustain it in the long term. You’ll learn about the dangers of taking shortcuts when the going gets tough and the level of discipline required to get the most out of adopting Agile. We’ll cover the good, the...
Tracks
Covering innovative topics
Monday, 7 March
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Back to Java
What to expect in Java 9 and Spring 5
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Stream Processing @ Scale
Big data, fast-moving data. Practical implementation lessons on Real-time Data
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DevOps & CI/CD
Lessons/stories on optimizing the deployment pipeline
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Head-to-Tail Functional Languages
Free-range Monads, Tackling immutability, tales from production, and more...
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Architecting for Failure
Your system will fail. Take control before it takes you with it
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21st Century Culture from Geeks on the Ground
New ways to organise technology companies and workplace culture
Tuesday, 8 March
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Architectures You've Always Wondered about
In-depth technical case studies from giants like: Microsoft, Netflix, Google, Twitter, and more...
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Close to the Metal
Get efficiency back into your code, concepts like: cache efficient algorithm and lock free data structures
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Containers (in production)
Real-world lessons on scalability and reliability in production container deployments
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Modern CS in the real world
Real-world Industry adoption of modern CS ideas
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Security, Incident Response & Fraud Detection
Master-level classes on building security into your system and responding to incidents when things go wrong.
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Optimizing You
Keeping life in balance is always a challenge. Learning lifehacks
Wednesday, 9 March
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Disrupting Finance
Technology advances in finance (blockchain, P2P, Machine Learning, API's)
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Modern Native Languages
Modern native languages: Safe efficiency with Go, Rust, Swift
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Full Stack Javascript
Level up Javascript with topics like Angular, React/ReactNative, Node, Mongo/Couch/Other, Falcor, GraphQL, etc
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Data Science & Machine Learning Methods
A developer's data science and machine learning toolkit
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Microservices for Mega-Architectures
Practical lessons on Microservices success.
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Modern Agile Development
Revisiting Agile today and tackling challenges we are seeing in the wild