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Stop Spinning your Team's Wheels, It's time to revisit your working agreements! (Alex Kanaan) Chesapeake 7/8/9Alex Kanaan
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State of Business Agility (Evan Leybourn, Sally Elatta) Maryland Ballroom CPOPULAREvan Leybourn • Sally Elatta
Agile Foundations Circuit Training (Michele Sliger) National Harbor 2/3Michele Sliger
Agile adoption in Aeronautics Computing Center of Brazilian Air Force (Fernando Rodrigues de Sá, Everton Lucas) National Harbor 4/5Fernando Rodrigues de Sá • Everton Lucas
Agile Legislation (Troels Vincents Hjortholm, Terkel Tolstrup) Chesapeake 4/5/6Troels Vincents Hjortholm • Terkel Tolstrup
The Answer is the Question (Bernie Maloney) Maryland Ballroom ABernie Maloney
One Architecture to Rule Them All: Why Hexagons are Awesome (Ted Young) National Harbor 6/7Ted Young
DevOps > Automation, DevOps = Culture + Ownership + Empowerment (& Good Patterns) (Reneshan Moodley) Chesapeake 10/11/12Reneshan Moodley
Risk Resistors and Opportunity Obtainers: The Power of Agile Digital Policy (Kristina Podnar) Chesapeake A/B/CKristina Podnar
Scientific Method to Hire Great Scrum Masters (Pavel Dabrytski) National Harbor 12/13Pavel Dabrytski
The Emergence of Integral Leadership: Shifting the Structure of our Attention (Michele Madore, Michael Spayd) Maryland Ballroom DMichele Madore • Michael Spayd
WE make better sense than me - the art of Collective Sense Making (Antoinette Coetzee, Jason Knight) Maryland Ballroom BAntoinette Coetzee • Jason Knight
Continuous Learning at Work (Cara Turner) National Harbor 11Cara Turner
The Inclusive Agile Accelerator: How to Improve Learning and Inclusion in the IT Industry (Alejandro Olchik, Rafael Prikladnicki) Chesapeake G/H/IAlejandro Olchik • Rafael Prikladnicki
Hands On: Scaling Product Backlogs using Visual Models (Candase Hokanson) Chesapeake J/K/LCandase Hokanson
Calm The Storm In Your MInd (Heather Dunning) Chesapeake 1/2/3POPULARHeather Dunning
Testing Microservices - See It, Feel It, Touch It, Heal It, Explore It (Ken Pugh) National Harbor 8POPULARKen Pugh
Beyond Agile: Thriving on Digitalization with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy (Jutta Eckstein, John Buck) Chesapeake D/E/FJutta Eckstein • John Buck
Warts and All: Designing in the Open for Increased Agility (Matt Dobson) National Harbor 10Matt Dobson
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Scaling agile for larger electronic health record based initiatives (Vaishnavi Kannan, DuWayne Willett) Chesapeake 7/8/9Vaishnavi Kannan • DuWayne Willett
Business Agility Lab: It All Starts With a Vision Conference Entrance
Teal Enough: Tales from a small company trying to grow, retain culture and be Agile (Amanda Geary, Bob Payne) National Harbor 4/5Amanda Geary • Bob Payne
Introduction to Agile: Origins and Evolution (Diana Larsen) National Harbor 2/3Diana Larsen
Starting with our Agile Successes (Antoinette Coetzee, Lyssa Adkins) National Harbor 8POPULARAntoinette Coetzee • Lyssa Adkins
Choose Your Own Coaching Adventure and Other Games (Damon Poole, Gillian Lee) Maryland Ballroom AGillian Lee
Improv Your Coaching! Using Comedy to Connect, Adapt, and Respond to Any Situation. (Mary Lemmer, Jason Hall) Chesapeake D/E/FMary Lemmer • Jason Hall
Part 1 of 2: Facilitate Cleaning Your Code Without (Necessarily) Being a Techncial Coach (Arlo Belshee) National Harbor 10Arlo Belshee
Seven Principles for Any Effective Agile Team, Collocated or Distributed (Mark Kilby, Johanna Rothman) Maryland Ballroom DMark Kilby • Johanna Rothman
That’s not what I meant! - How communication can make, or break, teams (Trisha Hall) Chesapeake 10/11/12Trisha Hall
Don't write those User Stories! (Ardita Karaj) Chesapeake 4/5/6Ardita Karaj
Testing 1, 2, 3, ..., ...? (Wouter Lagerweij) Chesapeake J/K/LWouter Lagerweij
Massive Agile Cross-Coordination Simulation Game (Season Tanner) Chesapeake A/B/CSeason Tanner
The Road to Real Business Agility (Dean Leffingwell) Maryland Ballroom CDean Leffingwell
The Life Changing Magic of Holding Space: A stance for leaders decluttering complex space (Steve Holyer) National Harbor 12/13Steve Holyer
Breaking Down the Curriculum - Learning Games (Nate Haut) National Harbor 11Nate Haut
Bringing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Techniques into Your Agile Learning Ecosystem (Popi Makris) Chesapeake 1/2/3popularPopi Makris
Start Less, Finish More: The real costs of organizational multitasking (Brandi Olson) Chesapeake G/H/IBrandi Olson
Mindful Writing for your Self-Care Tool Kit (Toby Sinclair) National Harbor 6/7Toby Sinclair
Icebox Zero: Agile UX & The Lean Backlog (Scott Showalter, Justin Beall) Maryland Ballroom BScott Showalter • Justin Beall
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Technological Revolutions and what they mean for the Next Decade of Software Delivery (Mik Kersten) Chesapeake 7/8/9POPULARMik Kersten
Business Agility Lab: Fit For Purpose Conference Entrance
Embracing Open Agility: Tales and Fails From Our Company-Wide Agile Journey (Jill Parsons, Jared Steinshouer) National Harbor 4/5POPULARJill Parsons • Jared Steinshouer
Collaboration & Cooperation in Agile Teams (Esther Derby) National Harbor 2/3POPULAREsther Derby
Part 1 of 2: Anti-fragility, Collaboration and Agile (Caitlin Walker, Andrea Chiou) National Harbor 8POPULARCaitlin Walker • Andrea Chiou
What I’d loved to have known when I started coaching teams (Olaf Lewitz, Martin Alaimo) Maryland Ballroom APOPULAROlaf Lewitz • Martin Alaimo
Part 1 of 2: Code Reviews - How to facilitate code reviews as a less-technical coach (Kim Castillo) National Harbor 10popularKim Castillo
Human Systems Dynamics: Adaptive Action Lab (Jeremy Lightsmith, Glenda Eoyang) Chesapeake A/B/CpopularJeremy Lightsmith • Glenda Eoyang
Save the World, Save Your Team - Shifting Mindsets through Cooperative Board Gaming (Chris Diller, Tom Diedrich) Chesapeake 4/5/6POPULARChris Diller • Tom Diedrich
Helping IT HiPPOs dance to the Product-Focused tune (Salah Elleithy, George Dinwiddie) Chesapeake 1/2/3POPULARSalah Elleithy • George Dinwiddie
What “Good” Looks Like: The 4-Quadrants of Product Ownership (Bob Galen) Maryland Ballroom DPOPULARBob Galen
Ground Rules for Sustainable Code Refactoring (Amr Noaman) National Harbor 6/7popularAmr Noaman
Beginning with an End in Mind: The Secrets of Re-Shaping an Enterprise with OKRs (Mariya Breyter) Chesapeake D/E/FPOPULARMariya Breyter
Build Your Modern Management Mindset: Adapt How You Lead for Agile Success (Johanna Rothman) National Harbor 12/13POPULARJohanna Rothman
Using Beyond Budgeting and Sociocracy for agile-friendly performance appraisals (John Buck, Jutta Eckstein) Maryland Ballroom CpopularJohn Buck • Jutta Eckstein
The Learner's Brain - A User Manual to the Most Complex Thing in the Universe (Joe Ziadeh, Jolene Jangles) Maryland Ballroom BpopularJoe Ziadeh • Jolene Jangles
Getting ahead of your Agile Delivery teams with a formalized discovery process (Stephanie Allen, Anjali Leon) Chesapeake 10/11/12POPULARStephanie Allen • Anjali Leon
Liberating Strategy - Walking the Fine Line Between Rigidity and Planlessness (Johannes Schartau) National Harbor 11POPULARJohannes Schartau
Self-Empathy as a Path to Targeted Self-Care (Lorraine Aguilar) Chesapeake J/K/LPOPULARLorraine Aguilar
Business Agility (Shane Hastie, Evan Leybourn) Chesapeake G/H/IPOPULARShane Hastie • Evan Leybourn
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Future of Agile is Diversity (Karina Kohl) Chesapeake 7/8/9popularKarina Kohl
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Business Agility Mentoring and Small Group Chats Conference Entrance
In Principle We Agree: From Development to Organizational Agility with Holacracy (Timo Punkka) National Harbor 4/5popularTimo Punkka
Make It Happen: The World's First Agile Restaurant (Riccardo Mariti, Jeff Sutherland) Maryland Ballroom CPOPULARRiccardo Mariti • Jeff Sutherland
Agile Development Practices (James Newkirk) National Harbor 2/3popularJames Newkirk
Part 2 of 2: Anti-fragility, Collaboration and Agile (Caitlin Walker, Andrea Chiou) National Harbor 8POPULARCaitlin Walker • Andrea Chiou
Facilitating Distributed Teams (Mark Kilby) Chesapeake 10/11/12POPULARMark Kilby
That's Not Coaching! - a story that started over drinks (Chris Li, Brock Argue) Maryland Ballroom ApopularChris Li • Brock Argue
Part 2 of 2: How to facilitate code reviews as a less-technical coach (Kim Castillo) National Harbor 10popularKim Castillo
Mapping Value to Benefits Realized with Leading (not bleeding) Indicators (Christine Babowicz, Natalie Warnert) Chesapeake 1/2/3POPULARChristine Babowicz • Natalie Warnert
Escape Velocity (Doc Norton) Maryland Ballroom DpopularDoc Norton
Making Better Business Decisions with Flow Metrics (Dominica DeGrandis) National Harbor 11POPULARDominica DeGrandis
Automation as a Lofty Goal (Christopher Lucian) Chesapeake A/B/CpopularChristopher Lucian
BDD, ATDD, TDD, DDD, DP, OOAD, ... If You’re D’d out, Try A Holistic Approach (Ken Pugh) Chesapeake J/K/LPOPULARKen Pugh
Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself - Emotional Self-Management for Leaders (Lorraine Aguilar) Chesapeake 4/5/6POPULARLorraine Aguilar
Six Steps Towards Self-Learning Teams and Deliberately Developmental Organizations (Andy Cleff) Maryland Ballroom BpopularAndy Cleff
Innovation Starts with Agile Portfolio Management (Corey Post) Chesapeake D/E/FPOPULARCorey Post
The Curious Case of You (Samantha Laing, Tracey Moerkerk) National Harbor 6/7popularSamantha Laing • Tracey Moerkerk
Stalwarts - Jeff Patton (Jeff Patton) Chesapeake G/H/IPOPULARJeff Patton
Sketchnoting Like a Pro (Raymond Zanden) National Harbor 12/13POPULARRaymond Zanden
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A Report on the State of Agile in India (Deepti Jain) Chesapeake 7/8/9popularDeepti Jain
Business Agility Lab: Facilitating a Mindset Shift Conference Entrance
Live from DC, It's Saturday Night: the agility of SNL (John Krewson) National Harbor 4/5POPULARJohn Krewson
7 things we do for our agile transformation at scale (Cecile Auret) National Harbor 2POPULARCecile Auret
Ca$hing in on Tru$t & Tran$parency (Ben Kopel, David Faurio) National Harbor 8popularBen Kopel • David Faurio
What’s REALLY Going On? An Observational Skills Workshop (Julie Wyman, Mark Grove) Chesapeake 4/5/6POPULARJulie Wyman • Mark Grove
Dynamic Reteaming From The Trenches, Doing a 180 on fixed team dogma (Laurens Bonnema, Laïla Nouijeh) National Harbor 11POPULARLaurens Bonnema • Laïla Nouijeh
Visual Thinking for the Visually Reticent (Michael Keeling, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock) National Harbor 3POPULARRebecca Wirfs-Brock • Michael Keeling
The Power of Design Sprints for Product Teams (Carlos Oliveira) Chesapeake A/B/CPOPULARCarlos Oliveira
Prosperous Metrics: Solving the Scenarios we Struggle to Measure (Zach Bonaker, Jason Kerney) Maryland Ballroom BPOPULARZach Bonaker • Jason Kerney
Agile Design Systems that Scale (Miriam Suzanne) Chesapeake D/E/FpopularMiriam Suzanne
A Software Engineer's Guide to DevOps (Laurie Barth) National Harbor 6/7POPULARLaurie Barth
Leading a 1,000-person Technical Culture Transformation Without Resistance (Arlo Belshee, James Shore) Maryland Ballroom CpopularArlo Belshee • James Shore
Crucial Leadership Conversations – A Chance to Practice What You Preach (Bob Galen) Chesapeake J/K/LPOPULARBob Galen
Laughing for Leadership - Strengthening Leadership Skills with Improv Comedy (Mary Lemmer) National Harbor 12/13POPULARMary Lemmer
Will the Real Agile Leader Please Stand Out? (Christopher Avery, Michael Sahota) Maryland Ballroom DPOPULARChristopher Avery • Michael Sahota
Explaining Agile to your 5-year old, your grandmother or your boss (Nate Adams) Maryland Ballroom ApopularNate Adams
My LPM Toolkit: The Gambler + Sizing Chart (Christopher Pola, Laureen Knudsen) National Harbor 10POPULARChristopher Pola • Laureen Knudsen
Stalwarts - Natalie Warnert (Natalie Warnert) Chesapeake G/H/IpopularNatalie Warnert
Testers in the deployment pipeline - Blockers or assets? (Alan Parkinson) Chesapeake 10/11/12popularAlan Parkinson
Title: Finding Efficiencies in Agile Testing (Melissa Tondi) Chesapeake 1/2/3popularMelissa Tondi
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Building an effective ecosystem for women to excel (Archana Joshi) Chesapeake 7/8/9popularArchana Joshi
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Business Agility Lab:Business Agility Mentoring and Small Group Chats Conference Entrance
#Winning: Why your strategy needs to reflect your path to victory (an ExxonMobil story) (Michael Adrian, Jeff Rosenbaugh) National Harbor 4/5POPULARMichael Adrian • Jeff Rosenbaugh
Overview of the GAO Agile Assessment Guide (Michael Holland, Jennifer Leotta) Chesapeake D/E/FpopularMichael Holland • Jennifer Leotta
Part 2 of 2: Upward Trend (Stuart McCalla) National Harbor 8popularStuart McCalla
Pair-Coaching 101: Why, how, and how to actually make it work (Gerrit Lutter) Chesapeake J/K/LPOPULARGerrit Lutter
Part 2 of 2: How to coach Exploratory Testing sessions. (Lanette Creamer) National Harbor 10popularLanette Creamer
Out Beyond Estimates and No Estimates (George Dinwiddie) Maryland Ballroom BpopularGeorge Dinwiddie
Introducing the Product Roadmap Wall: Build alignment & buy-in for your products (Chris Shinkle) Maryland Ballroom APOPULARChris Shinkle
Playing With Personas for Better Products (Luke Hohmann) Maryland Ballroom DpopularLuke Hohmann
Flow - Why Process Efficiency is a Key Metric for High Performing Agile Teams (Jeff Sutherland, Jessica Larsen) Maryland Ballroom CPOPULARJeff Sutherland • Jessica Larsen
Software contracts or: how I learned to stop worrying and love releasing. (Seb Rose) Chesapeake 4/5/6popularSeb Rose
Oops, We Inflicted DevOps on our Business--Now What? (Allison Pollard, Barry Forrest) Chesapeake 10/11/12POPULARAllison Pollard • Barry Forrest
Lost in Transformation? Taking a Holistic Approach to Your Agile Transformation Journey (Kerri Sutey, Claire Atwell) Chesapeake 1/2/3POPULARKerri Sutey • Claire Atwell
Let’s Just Skip High-Performing and Go Straight to Badass! (Matt Badgley) National Harbor 12/13POPULARMatt Badgley
Creating a distributed agile program office - beyond frameworks (Hendrik Esser) National Harbor 11POPULARHendrik Esser
Do These Features Make My App Look Fat: The Visual Story Slicing Diet (Tommy Norman) Chesapeake A/B/CPOPULARTommy Norman
My So-Called Agile Life (as seen through my Fitbit) (Nicola Sedgwick) National Harbor 2popularNicola Sedgwick
Stalwarts - Linda Rising (Linda Rising) Chesapeake G/H/IPOPULARLinda Rising
Hey, You Got Your TDD in my SQL DB! (Jeff McKenzie) National Harbor 3popularJeff McKenzie
UX Within a Sprint? Designers Part of a Cross-Functional Team? Yes, Design Can be "Done"! (Gary Pedretti) National Harbor 6/7POPULARGary Pedretti
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The Sun Never Sets on the Problem Solving Workshop (Steve Adolph, Rochelle Tan) Chesapeake 7/8/9popularSteve Adolph • Rochelle Tan
The TBM Movement in Government – Friend or Foe to Agile Adoption? (Steve Mayner) Chesapeake D/E/FpopularSteve Mayner
Part 1 of 2: Find your Edges (Kat Conner, Allmond McDermott) National Harbor 8POPULARKat Conner • Allmond McDermott
Brain Talk: Using "clean" and other language patterns to enable deeper conversations (Mike Bowler) Chesapeake 4/5/6POPULARMike Bowler
Get in Your Coaching Groove with Coaching Triggers (Damon Poole, Gillian Lee) Maryland Ballroom CpopularGillian Lee
Part 1 of 2: How to facilitate a Mob Programming session as a coach? (Woody Zuill) National Harbor 10POPULARWoody Zuill
How To Design and Build Agile Team Rooms that Rock! (Kathryn Aragon, Alfred Lorber) Chesapeake 10/11/12POPULARKathryn Aragon • Alfred Lorber
The Art of Agile Conflict (William Kammersell, Lieschen Gargano) National Harbor 11POPULARWilliam Kammersell • Lieschen Gargano Quilling
Design Thinking Workshop: Pass on Perfection (April Jefferson, Paul Boos) Maryland Ballroom ApopularApril Jefferson • Paul Boos
Just Say No! Why Saying No is So Difficult for a Product Owner and How to Make it Easier (Tina McCoy) Chesapeake 1/2/3POPULARTina McCoy
Making Work Visible: Role of Information Radiators in Agile and Telemetry in DevOps (Anil Jaising, Suresh Chinnam) Chesapeake J/K/LPOPULARAnil Jaising • Suresh Chinnam
Successful Patterns for Transforming IT Infrastructure Service Delivery (Kelli Houston) Chesapeake A/B/CPOPULARKelli Houston
Empathy: A Keystone Leadership Habit (Paul Tevis) National Harbor 4/5POPULARPaul Tevis
Innovation pipelines and the need for Lean Startup in large organizations (Christopher Lucian) National Harbor 12/13POPULARChristopher Lucian
Prioritizing Portfolio Investments: A Lean Approach (Dean Leffingwell) Maryland Ballroom BPOPULARDean Leffingwell
Finding energy for yourself (Karen Greaves) Maryland Ballroom DpopularKaren Greaves
Is our Past a Prologue for a Post-Bureaucratic Agile Management Revolution? (Sanjiv Augustine) Chesapeake G/H/IpopularSanjiv Augustine
Forget the QA! We’re a Cross-Functional Team!* *(But who has time to test anything?) (Marianne Erickson, Julie Clooney) National Harbor 3POPULARMarianne Erickson • Julie Clooney
Augmented Agile Delivery - Agile Behaviour Meets Digital Engineering (David Norton) National Harbor 2popularDavid Norton
Spark Digital Joy by Tidying Up Your Design, Code, and Feature List (Trace Wax) National Harbor 6/7popularTrace Wax
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