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Aleksandar Stanisic

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Breakfast Potomac Foyer

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First Time Attendee Orientation National Harbor 2/3Christina Hartikainen

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How to Manage Your Attention in a World of Distraction (Chris Bailey) Potomac BallroomChris Bailey

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Morning Break Maryland Foyer

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The Answer is the Question (Bernie Maloney) Maryland Ballroom ABernie Maloney Stop Spinning your Team's Wheels, It's time to revisit your working agreements! (Alex Kanaan) Chesapeake 7/8/9Alex Kanaan Continuous Learning at Work (Cara Turner) National Harbor 11Cara Turner Hands On: Scaling Product Backlogs using Visual Models (Candase Hokanson) Chesapeake J/K/LCandase Hokanson Testing Microservices - See It, Feel It, Touch It, Heal It, Explore It (Ken Pugh)POPULAR National Harbor 8Ken Pugh

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Eureka – How agile helped me to sell crazy ideas to the business (Xavier Lucas) Chesapeake 7/8/9Xavier Lucas

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Lunch Prince George Exhibit Hall

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Agile Advice Potomac FoyerReese Schmit • Chris Li

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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 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 Testing 1, 2, 3, ..., ...? (Wouter Lagerweij) Chesapeake J/K/LWouter Lagerweij Scaling agile for larger electronic health record based initiatives (Vaishnavi Kannan, DuWayne Willett) Chesapeake 7/8/9Vaishnavi Kannan • DuWayne Willett Start Less, Finish More: The real costs of organizational multitasking (Brandi Olson) Chesapeake G/H/IBrandi Olson Icebox Zero: Agile UX & The Lean Backlog (Scott Showalter, Justin Beall) Maryland Ballroom BScott Showalter • Justin Beall

14:45 EDT

Transforming Healthcare with Business Agility (Emilia Breton, Daniel Scalfaro) Chesapeake 7/8/9Emilia Breton • Daniel Scalfaro

15:15 EDT

Afternoon Break Maryland Foyer

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Thing Three: The Power of Peer Coaching (William Kammersell, Lieschen Gargano) National Harbor 12/13William Kammersell • Lieschen Gargano Quilling People Watching: Is Your Hiring Undermining Your Agile Culture? (Robert Woods)popular Maryland Ballroom DRobert Woods Undercover Scrum Master (Dane Weber) Chesapeake 7/8/9Dane Weber Agile Reports for the PM Brain (Wayne Hetherington, David Sabine)POPULAR Chesapeake 1/2/3Wayne Hetherington • David Sabine How agile is your testing mindset? (Karen Greaves, Kelley Cooper)POPULAR National Harbor 8Karen Greaves • Kelley Cooper Pop culture as inspiration for test ideas (Nicola Sedgwick) Chesapeake G/H/INicola Sedgwick

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How Do We Know if a Scrum Master is "Good Enough" for our Teams? (Sarah Baca) Chesapeake 7/8/9Sarah Baca

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Ice Breaker Reception: Night at the Museum Prince George Exhibit Hall

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Breakfast Potomac Foyer

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Coaching with Presence using the Kominsky Method (Timothy Meyers)POPULAR Chesapeake 10/11/12Timothy Meyers Mission Not Impossible: Coaching Data Warehouse (DW)/Business Intelligence (BI) Teams (Scott Ambler)POPULAR Chesapeake 1/2/3Scott Ambler Corrosive expertise (Seb Rose)popular Maryland Ballroom CSeb Rose Diversity without Disclosure: Norms to Broaden Inclusion and Intersectionality (Cheryl Hammond)popular Chesapeake 4/5/6Cheryl Hammond A Practical Look Into Self-Selecting, Distributed Teams (Bevan Williams)POPULAR Chesapeake 7/8/9Bevan Williams Lead the Play: Leadership Lessons from Space Pirates (Derek W. Wade)popular Maryland Ballroom BDerek W. Wade Assumptions and Ambiguity be Damned. Develop a Strategy to Embrace Change. (Dennis Stevens)POPULAR Chesapeake D/E/FDennis Stevens Test Everything - Quality ... It's not just for code anymore (Bob Payne)POPULAR Chesapeake G/H/IBob Payne

10:15 EDT

Morning Break Maryland Foyer

10:45 EDT

Cultural Values Mapping (Brandi Olson) Chesapeake 4/5/6Brandi Olson Stop complaining and start learning! Retrospectives that drive real change (David Horowitz) Maryland Ballroom CDavid Horowitz Towards Agile Autonomous teams with Domain-Driven Design (Kenny Baas-Schwegler)POPULAR Chesapeake 7/8/9Kenny Baas-Schwegler Make It Easy: A Very Simple Approach to Continuous Improvement (Woody Zuill) Maryland Ballroom BWoody Zuill Brain Agility: Overcoming Cognitive Bias (Lisa Cooney) National Harbor 12/13Lisa Cooney From Projects to Products: Aligning Strategy and Execution (Richard Knaster) National Harbor 11Richard Knaster Mindfulness, it's a practice... NOT perfection. LEAD Imperfectly! (Darren Hoevel) National Harbor 6/7Darren Hoevel Leveraging software development principles into automation framework (Aditi Mulay, Ricardo Mediavilla-Maldonado) Chesapeake J/K/LAditi Mulay • Ricardo Mediavilla-Maldonado

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Lunch Prince George Exhibit Hall

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What I’d loved to have known when I started coaching teams (Olaf Lewitz, Martin Alaimo)POPULAR Maryland Ballroom AOlaf Lewitz • Martin Alaimo Part 1 of 2: Code Reviews - How to facilitate code reviews as a less-technical coach (Kim Castillo)popular National Harbor 10Kim Castillo Human Systems Dynamics: Adaptive Action Lab (Jeremy Lightsmith, Glenda Eoyang)popular Chesapeake A/B/CJeremy Lightsmith • Glenda Eoyang Save the World, Save Your Team - Shifting Mindsets through Cooperative Board Gaming (Chris Diller, Tom Diedrich)POPULAR Chesapeake 4/5/6Chris Diller • Tom Diedrich Beginning with an End in Mind: The Secrets of Re-Shaping an Enterprise with OKRs (Mariya Breyter)POPULAR Chesapeake D/E/FMariya Breyter Using Beyond Budgeting and Sociocracy for agile-friendly performance appraisals (John Buck, Jutta Eckstein)popular Maryland Ballroom CJohn Buck • Jutta Eckstein The Learner's Brain - A User Manual to the Most Complex Thing in the Universe (Joe Ziadeh, Jolene Jangles)popular Maryland Ballroom BJoe Ziadeh • Jolene Jangles Liberating Strategy - Walking the Fine Line Between Rigidity and Planlessness (Johannes Schartau)POPULAR National Harbor 11Johannes Schartau Technological Revolutions and what they mean for the Next Decade of Software Delivery (Mik Kersten)POPULAR Chesapeake 7/8/9Mik Kersten

15:15 EDT

Afternoon Break Maryland Foyer

15:45 EDT

Facilitating Distributed Teams (Mark Kilby)POPULAR Chesapeake 10/11/12Mark Kilby That's Not Coaching! - a story that started over drinks (Chris Li, Brock Argue)popular Maryland Ballroom AChris Li Escape Velocity (Doc Norton)popular Maryland Ballroom DDoc Norton Making Better Business Decisions with Flow Metrics (Dominica DeGrandis)POPULAR National Harbor 11Dominica DeGrandis BDD, ATDD, TDD, DDD, DP, OOAD, ... If You’re D’d out, Try A Holistic Approach (Ken Pugh)POPULAR Chesapeake J/K/LKen Pugh Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself - Emotional Self-Management for Leaders (Lorraine Aguilar)POPULAR Chesapeake 4/5/6Lorraine Aguilar Six Steps Towards Self-Learning Teams and Deliberately Developmental Organizations (Andy Cleff)popular Maryland Ballroom BAndy Cleff Innovation Starts with Agile Portfolio Management (Corey Post)POPULAR Chesapeake D/E/FCorey Post Future of Agile is Diversity (Karina Kohl)popular Chesapeake 7/8/9Karina Kohl

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Breakfast Potomac Foyer

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ish: The Problem with our Pursuit for Perfection and the Life-Changing Practice of (Lynne Cazaly) Potomac BallroomLynne Cazaly

10:15 EDT

Morning Break Maryland Foyer

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What’s REALLY Going On? An Observational Skills Workshop (Julie Wyman, Mark Grove)POPULAR Chesapeake 4/5/6Julie Wyman • Mark Grove Dynamic Reteaming From The Trenches, Doing a 180 on fixed team dogma (Laurens Bonnema, Laïla Nouijeh)POPULAR National Harbor 11Laurens Bonnema • Laïla Nouijeh Visual Thinking for the Visually Reticent (Michael Keeling, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock)POPULAR National Harbor 3Rebecca Wirfs-Brock • Michael Keeling Prosperous Metrics: Solving the Scenarios we Struggle to Measure (Zach Bonaker, Jason Kerney)POPULAR Maryland Ballroom BZach Bonaker • Jason Kerney A Report on the State of Agile in India (Deepti Jain)popular Chesapeake 7/8/9Deepti Jain Explaining Agile to your 5-year old, your grandmother or your boss (Nate Adams)popular Maryland Ballroom ANate Adams My LPM Toolkit: The Gambler + Sizing Chart (Christopher Pola, Laureen Knudsen)POPULAR National Harbor 10Christopher Pola • Laureen Knudsen Testers in the deployment pipeline - Blockers or assets? (Alan Parkinson)popular Chesapeake 10/11/12Alan Parkinson Title: Finding Efficiencies in Agile Testing (Melissa Tondi)popular Chesapeake 1/2/3Melissa Tondi

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Lunch Prince George Exhibit Hall

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Communicating Effectively: Or Teaching Your Team How Not to Suck at Giving Feedback (Sarah Urriste, Josh Mehler)POPULAR Chesapeake 1/2/3Sarah Urriste • Josh Mehler Part 1 of 2: How to coach Exploratory Testing sessions (Lanette Creamer)popular National Harbor 10Lanette Creamer Agile Leadership in a Diverse Cultural Environment (ElMohanned Mohamed)popular National Harbor 3ElMohanned Mohamed EventStorming; Continuous discovery between multiple disciplines (Kenny Baas)popular National Harbor 11Kenny Baas-Schwegler Evening the Odds: The Monte Carlo Technique for Project Forecasting (Hunter Tammaro)popular Maryland Ballroom DHunter Tammaro Harvesting Mob Programming Patterns: Observing how we work (Michael Keeling, Joe Runde)POPULAR Chesapeake 7/8/9Michael Keeling • Joe Runde Escaping the Tragedy of WIP (Eric Willeke)popular Maryland Ballroom BEric Willeke Integrating Design Systems into an Agile Framework (Mark Wolfe)popular Chesapeake 10/11/12Mark Wolfe

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Afternoon Break Maryland Foyer

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Pair-Coaching 101: Why, how, and how to actually make it work (Gerrit Lutter)POPULAR Chesapeake J/K/LGerrit Lutter Part 2 of 2: How to coach Exploratory Testing sessions. (Lanette Creamer)popular National Harbor 10Lanette Creamer Out Beyond Estimates and No Estimates (George Dinwiddie)popular Maryland Ballroom BGeorge Dinwiddie Flow - Why Process Efficiency is a Key Metric for High Performing Agile Teams (Jeff Sutherland, Jessica Larsen)POPULAR Maryland Ballroom CJeff Sutherland • Jessica Larsen Lost in Transformation? Taking a Holistic Approach to Your Agile Transformation Journey (Kerri Sutey, Claire Atwell)POPULAR Chesapeake 1/2/3Kerri Sutey • Claire Atwell Building an effective ecosystem for women to excel (Archana Joshi)popular Chesapeake 7/8/9Archana Joshi Creating a distributed agile program office - beyond frameworks (Hendrik Esser)POPULAR National Harbor 11Hendrik Esser Do These Features Make My App Look Fat: The Visual Story Slicing Diet (Tommy Norman)POPULAR Chesapeake A/B/CTommy Norman Hey, You Got Your TDD in my SQL DB! (Jeff McKenzie)popular National Harbor 3Jeff McKenzie

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When the Business Wants Waterfall: Adaption Strategies (Marjorie Farmer)POPULAR Chesapeake 7/8/9Marjorie Farmer

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Agile Alliance Members Meeting (Paul Hammond) Potomac C 1/3

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Agile2019 Sponsor Reception: Sights of DC Prince George Exhibit Hall

08:00 EDT

Breakfast Potomac Foyer

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Brain Talk: Using "clean" and other language patterns to enable deeper conversations (Mike Bowler)POPULAR Chesapeake 4/5/6Mike Bowler Get in Your Coaching Groove with Coaching Triggers (Damon Poole, Gillian Lee)popular Maryland Ballroom CGillian Lee How To Design and Build Agile Team Rooms that Rock! (Kathryn Aragon, Alfred Lorber)POPULAR Chesapeake 10/11/12Kathryn Aragon • Alfred Lorber The Art of Agile Conflict (William Kammersell, Lieschen Gargano)POPULAR National Harbor 11William Kammersell • Lieschen Gargano Quilling Successful Patterns for Transforming IT Infrastructure Service Delivery (Kelli Houston)POPULAR Chesapeake A/B/CKelli Houston The Sun Never Sets on the Problem Solving Workshop (Steve Adolph, Rochelle Tan)popular Chesapeake 7/8/9Steve Adolph • Rochelle Tan Innovation pipelines and the need for Lean Startup in large organizations (Christopher Lucian)POPULAR National Harbor 12/13Christopher Lucian Prioritizing Portfolio Investments: A Lean Approach (Dean Leffingwell)POPULAR Maryland Ballroom BDean Leffingwell Forget the QA! We’re a Cross-Functional Team!* *(But who has time to test anything?) (Marianne Erickson, Julie Clooney)POPULAR National Harbor 3Marianne Erickson • Julie Clooney

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Morning Break Maryland Foyer

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You as the Facilitator, pair and prepare your way to successful outcomes (Ant Boobier) Chesapeake 4/5/6Ant Boobier Business Thermodynamics: The Art and Science of Creating Flow in Living Systems (Thomas Perry) Chesapeake 10/11/12Thomas Perry Testers & Developers: What Can You Teach Each Other? (Lisa Crispin, Bill Wake) Maryland Ballroom ALisa Crispin • Bill Wake Measuring Flow: Metrics that Matter (Hunter Tammaro, Julie Wyman)POPULAR Maryland Ballroom DHunter Tammaro • Julie Wyman Extreme Self-Organization: A Pioneering Story of Agile Scaling with Open Space Technology (Ron Quartel, Kat Daugherty)POPULAR National Harbor 6/7Ron Quartel • Kat Daugherty Sharing techniques to continuously improve the XP Laboratory (Alfredo Goldman, Viviane Almeida Santos)popular Chesapeake 7/8/9Alfredo Goldman • Viviane Almeida Santos Collaborative Frameworks for Portfolio Prioritization (Luke Hohmann)popular Maryland Ballroom CLuke Hohmann Creating a Culture of "Hope-Killing" With Realistic Product Roadmaps (Betsy Kauffman)POPULAR National Harbor 3Betsy Kauffman

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Lunch Prince George Exhibit Hall

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A Coach’s Guide to Emotional Culture - An Interactive Workshop (Caroline Sauve)POPULAR National Harbor 6/7Caroline Sauve Uncover and overcome immunity to change (Lucia Baldelli, Cherie Silas)popular Maryland Ballroom CLucia Baldelli • Cherie Silas Black Holes and Revelations (Sarah Harper) National Harbor 12/13Sarah Harper How to Make Real Collaboration Possible (Gil Broza) Maryland Ballroom AGil Broza Using Design Methods to Establish Healthy DevOps Practices (Aras Bilgen)popular Chesapeake 7/8/9Aras Bilgen Help! I am Drowning in 2 Weeks Sprints...How do I determine what NOT to Test! (Mary Thorn) National Harbor 4/5Mary Thorn

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Afternoon Break Maryland Foyer

15:45 EDT

Liberating Structures... 36 tried and true facilitation techniques to amp up collaboration (Alex Sloley) Maryland Ballroom CAlex Sloley 3... 2... 1... We have Sprint-Off (Talia Lancaster, Angie Doyle) Maryland Ballroom ATalia Lancaster • Angie Doyle Harness the Power of Mobbing to Lift Unheard Voices (Jeff Brinkerhoff) Chesapeake D/E/FJeff Brinkerhoff Using Metrics for Good not Evil: or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the KPIs (John Tanner) Chesapeake 4/5/6John Tanner Speed-bumps and Potholes on the Road from Projects to Products (Mike Griffiths) Chesapeake 7/8/9Mike Griffiths The Four Pillars of Happiness to Maintain Daily Well-Being (Amitabh Sinha, Michael de la Maza) National Harbor 6/7Amitabh Sinha • Michael de la Maza Rethinking quality and the engineers who protect it (Andrew Smelser)popular Chesapeake A/B/CAndrew Smelser

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Beyond Software: When Agile meets Defense Systems and Hardware (Warren Smith)POPULAR Chesapeake 7/8/9Warren Smith

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Breakfast Potomac Foyer

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Agile2019 Retrospective (Dana Pylayeva)popular Chesapeake 4/5/6Dana Pylayeva

10:45 EDT

Playful Leadership - How to enable transformational change and have fun doing it (Portia Tung) Potomac BallroomPortia Tung