Events
Agile 2024 Extreme Open Space
Imagine over 1,700 people gathered around the opening and closing circles. Hundreds of ideas flowing from the minds of attendees. Two days of content will have happened already, plus every single session that wasn’t accepted in the program.
There are problems your organization is having. Industry trends are both encouraging and frightening. Techniques that need to be practiced and given the appropriate “space” to flourish. Connections your career has desperately been needing.
If this excites you, start pitching your organization on bringing a crew. We can get you a discount for groups, and would be an amazing way to grow together. Or, come on your own and bring all that goodness back home to your colleagues. Extreme Open Space is coming, and you should be part of it!
LinkedIn Live: When Your New Leader Isn't Like Your Old One
There's been a change in your workplace, and you're now working with a leader who is very different from their predecessor. You're missing the rapport and trust you had before, and your job seems harder now.
Join Paul and Allison for a discussion of building positive and productive work relationships after leadership transitions.
Play4Agile North America
Play4Agile North America is an inclusive in-person play retreat, where coaches, trainers, practitioners, game and innovation experts find an open playground to co-create transformative experiences!
It will be facilitated as an open space unconference by Allison Pollard and Jake Calabrese
Agile 2023 Open Space
Passionate about helping improve your organization? Learning to see yourself as a leader so you can help others? Thursday's Open Space is the place to be!
Open Space is an amazing framework that gives everyone (including you) the opportunity to create a new menu of conference sessions to:
• fill in gaps from other sessions and integrate learnings from the week,
• dig deeper into topics you are interested in with others who have similar interests,
• explore a topic that was not on the program,
• meet and connect with attendees who you would not have otherwise met.
Whether you are new to open space or have experienced a great one, join us! We will explain the structure so that you (and everyone else) can create and learn from amazing sessions and content!
Atlanta Scrum Meetup
Do you feel like you’re on the frontline of change management? Stressed or frustrated because your efforts don’t feel like enough to make the change real?
Agile Coaches often manage every aspect of change in agile adoptions. And the right sponsorship for real change is missing. This session will help you equip yourself with the tools and people needed to be successful.
Join Emily and Allison to learn how to overcome a lack of change sponsorship.
Minnesota Agile Community
Do you feel like you’re on the frontline of change management? Stressed or frustrated because your efforts don’t feel like enough to make the change real?
Agile Coaches often manage every aspect of change in agile adoptions. And the right sponsorship for real change is missing. This session will help you equip yourself with the tools and people needed to be successful.
Join Emily and Allison to learn how to overcome a lack of change sponsorship.
Path to Agility Conference
It seems that everyone is aflutter with DevOps, the shiny new panacea for all of our software ailments. What technical goodness can DevOps bestow upon us? What riddles does it unlock for us as technologists? How do business goals align in order to wring the true value from DevOps?
Delivering value faster is a desire of many business and IT leaders, and it often looks like a win-lose proposition to achieve it. Metrics and edicts seem to have competing interests, like the car racer being told to "go faster" and "save fuel." Glen and Allison will share their experiences with organizations and teams embracing DevOps and how it impacted both IT and business. We’ll explore the dynamics of goals and the conflict they can incite through an interactive game to further dive into what happens when DevOps is and isn’t in tandem with agile coaching.
Join us to look at what it means to align business and IT goals for creating a successful DevOps culture and how agile coaching fits in.
Open Space at Scrum Gathering Denver
Join us to learn what open space is all about and how you can participate.
Open Space is a straightforward way to create participant-driven conference sessions (or an entire conference). Open Space is an opportunity to engage in learning, listening, and discussions around topics that interest you. Open Space is a process that allows everyone to participate in sessions with others whom you may not normally have a chance to talk with.
As an attendee, you will have an opportunity to propose and attend sessions on the topics that are most important to YOU!
Improving Talks
Are you interested in becoming a thought leader, or growing your skills in this area? We've assembled a panel of Improving thought leaders (Allison Pollard, Bill Curry, Claudio Lassala & Mark Runyon) to share their experiences. The panel will explore an array of questions around getting started, finding opportunities, dealing with fear and setbacks, and growing your skills. Please join us for this great panel discussion.
DC Women in Agile
Good work is hard, and sometimes other people make it harder. Tough project conversations that hinder our ability to move forward together. Difficult feedback that rattles our self-confidence. Disagreements that damage our job satisfaction. Women as leaders need the skills to keep challenging work relationships from getting the best of them.
This interactive talk presents tools to strengthen your ability to deepen the relationships that test you. Learn how to recognize the need for more resiliency, what support to look for, and a journal format to prepare for that next conversation.