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Angel Torres

Octo Consulting
Senior Manager
torres.d.angel@gmail.com

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Bookstore Open Conference Entrance

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Early Registration Meet & Greet (Location Change) Potomac Foyer

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First Time Attendee Orientation National Harbor 2/3Christina Hartikainen

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Breakfast Potomac Foyer

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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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State of Business Agility (Evan Leybourn, Sally Elatta) Maryland Ballroom CPOPULAREvan Leybourn • Sally Elatta The Answer is the Question (Bernie Maloney) Maryland Ballroom ABernie Maloney Scientific Method to Hire Great Scrum Masters (Pavel Dabrytski) National Harbor 12/13Pavel Dabrytski 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

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Lunch Prince George Exhibit Hall

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Improv Your Coaching! Using Comedy to Connect, Adapt, and Respond to Any Situation. (Mary Lemmer, Jason Hall) Chesapeake D/E/FMary Lemmer • Jason Hall

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Afternoon Break Maryland Foyer

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May I Help You Find Something? – A Journey of Enterprise Business Agility @ Target (Tom Diedrich, Chris Diller) National Harbor 4/5Tom Diedrich • Chris Diller Learning From Unlikely Places: What an FBI Hostage Negotiator can Teach Us (Diane Zajac) Chesapeake 4/5/6POPULARDiane Zajac

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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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How to Help Your Non-Software Colleagues Adopt Agile (Gil Broza) Maryland Ballroom DPOPULARGil Broza Experiments, Measurements, and Relationships: How Large Federal Projects Can Succeed (David Blair) National Harbor 4/5POPULARDavid Blair Coaching with Presence using the Kominsky Method (Timothy Meyers) Chesapeake 10/11/12POPULARTimothy Meyers Project or Product? Oh, my, it's both! (Bringing a product mindset to project-based teams) (Susan Almon) Chesapeake A/B/CPOPULARSusan Almon

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Downfalls of Coaching in a Hierarchical Model (Allison Pollard, Skylar Watson) Chesapeake 7/8/9POPULARSkylar Watson • Allison Pollard

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Morning Break Maryland Foyer

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Agile and Scrum in Government Agencies - How Do We Make It Work? (Richard Cheng) National Harbor 2/3popularRichard Cheng Government Products Deserve Love Too (Jason Gudalis) National Harbor 4/5popularJason Gudalis Stop complaining and start learning! Retrospectives that drive real change (David Horowitz) Maryland Ballroom CDavid Horowitz Make It Easy: A Very Simple Approach to Continuous Improvement (Woody Zuill) Maryland Ballroom BWoody Zuill Mindfulness, it's a practice... NOT perfection. LEAD Imperfectly! (Darren Hoevel) National Harbor 6/7Darren Hoevel

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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

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Afternoon Break Maryland Foyer

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Make It Happen: The World's First Agile Restaurant (Riccardo Mariti, Jeff Sutherland) Maryland Ballroom CPOPULARRiccardo Mariti • Jeff Sutherland Part 2 of 2: Anti-fragility, Collaboration and Agile (Caitlin Walker, Andrea Chiou) National Harbor 8POPULARCaitlin Walker • Andrea Chiou That's Not Coaching! - a story that started over drinks (Chris Li, Brock Argue) Maryland Ballroom ApopularChris Li • Brock Argue Escape Velocity (Doc Norton) Maryland Ballroom DpopularDoc Norton Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself - Emotional Self-Management for Leaders (Lorraine Aguilar) Chesapeake 4/5/6POPULARLorraine Aguilar

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Agile Tonight! Maryland Ballroom C

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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

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Morning Break Maryland Foyer

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7 things we do for our agile transformation at scale (Cecile Auret) National Harbor 2POPULARCecile Auret What’s REALLY Going On? An Observational Skills Workshop (Julie Wyman, Mark Grove) Chesapeake 4/5/6POPULARJulie Wyman • Mark Grove 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 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

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How I tried Holacracy and Lived to Tell the Tale (Sandy Mamoli) Chesapeake 7/8/9POPULARSandy Mamoli

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Lunch Prince George Exhibit Hall

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Shorten that Feedback Cycle - Deliver Products that Customers Value (Ankur Saini) Chesapeake D/E/FPOPULARAnkur Saini Communicating Effectively: Or Teaching Your Team How Not to Suck at Giving Feedback (Sarah Urriste, Josh Mehler) Chesapeake 1/2/3POPULARSarah Urriste • Josh Mehler Part 1 of 2: How to coach Exploratory Testing sessions (Lanette Creamer) National Harbor 10popularLanette Creamer Evening the Odds: The Monte Carlo Technique for Project Forecasting (Hunter Tammaro) Maryland Ballroom DpopularHunter Tammaro Horse Before the Cart - An Outcome-Oriented Approach to SAFe® Transformations (Michael Hall) National Harbor 6/7POPULARMichael Hall A Playbook for an Agile Manager (Chris Philipsen) National Harbor 12/13POPULARChris Philipsen Making it Pop - Reflecting Practice in Experiential Learning (Jenny Tarwater) Maryland Ballroom ApopularJenny Tarwater Escaping the Tragedy of WIP (Eric Willeke) Maryland Ballroom BpopularEric Willeke Business Owner: The Most Critical Role for the Future of Agile (Luiz Claudio Parzianello) National Harbor 2POPULARLuiz Claudio Parzianello

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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) Chesapeake J/K/LPOPULARGerrit Lutter Part 2 of 2: How to coach Exploratory Testing sessions. (Lanette Creamer) National Harbor 10popularLanette Creamer Introducing the Product Roadmap Wall: Build alignment & buy-in for your products (Chris Shinkle) Maryland Ballroom APOPULARChris Shinkle Flow - Why Process Efficiency is a Key Metric for High Performing Agile Teams (Jeff Sutherland, Jessica Larsen) Maryland Ballroom CPOPULARJeff Sutherland • Jessica Larsen 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 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

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

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Agile2019 Sponsor Reception: Sights of DC Prince George Exhibit Hall

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Breakfast Potomac Foyer

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The TBM Movement in Government – Friend or Foe to Agile Adoption? (Steve Mayner) Chesapeake D/E/FpopularSteve Mayner Brain Talk: Using "clean" and other language patterns to enable deeper conversations (Mike Bowler) Chesapeake 4/5/6POPULARMike Bowler 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 The Sun Never Sets on the Problem Solving Workshop (Steve Adolph, Rochelle Tan) Chesapeake 7/8/9popularSteve Adolph • Rochelle Tan Empathy: A Keystone Leadership Habit (Paul Tevis) National Harbor 4/5POPULARPaul Tevis Prioritizing Portfolio Investments: A Lean Approach (Dean Leffingwell) Maryland Ballroom BPOPULARDean Leffingwell

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The Rush of Coaching At A Distance - A Year of Remote Coaching for Accenture Learning (Joe Fecarotta) Chesapeake 7/8/9POPULARJoe Fecarotta

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Morning Break Maryland Foyer

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My government agency is unique... just like all the other agencies (Joshua Seckel, mark ginise) Chesapeake D/E/FpopularJoshua Seckel • Mark Ginise You as the Facilitator, pair and prepare your way to successful outcomes (Ant Boobier) Chesapeake 4/5/6Ant Boobier What is Your Product? Making Large-scale Product Development Work (Andrew Repton, Ellen Gottesdiener) Chesapeake 1/2/3Andrew Repton • Ellen Gottesdiener Measuring Flow: Metrics that Matter (Hunter Tammaro, Julie Wyman) Maryland Ballroom DPOPULARHunter Tammaro • Julie Wyman More about Thinking Fast and Slow (Linda Rising) Maryland Ballroom BPOPULARLinda Rising Creating a Culture of "Hope-Killing" With Realistic Product Roadmaps (Betsy Kauffman) National Harbor 3POPULARBetsy Kauffman

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Lunch Prince George Exhibit Hall

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Sensemaking in organizations: How to create a practical Cynefin and sensemaking process (Ken Power, Tony Quinlan) Chesapeake D/E/FPOPULARTony Quinlan • Ken Power Nine levels of Agile Hell... and how to get out! (David Fogel, David Bujard) Chesapeake 4/5/6POPULARDavid Fogel • David Bujard A Coach’s Guide to Emotional Culture - An Interactive Workshop (Caroline Sauve) National Harbor 6/7POPULARCaroline Sauve An Introduction to Technical Coaching for Less Technical Coaches (Andrea Goulet) National Harbor 10POPULARAndrea Goulet How to Make Real Collaboration Possible (Gil Broza) Maryland Ballroom AGil Broza Facing your Demons: Navigating Self-Talk (Feral Rizvi) National Harbor 11Feral Rizvi

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Afternoon Break Maryland Foyer

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Tech Lightning (Llewellyn Falco) National Harbor 10Llewellyn Falco 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 Inspect and adapt! Introducing Obeya as the next Agile practice (Nienke Alma) Maryland Ballroom DNienke Alma Yin and Yang of the Self-Managing Organization: A New Role for Management and Leadership (Michael Hamman) National Harbor 2Michael Hamman Assessing the obstacles to agility through UNLEARNING. (Jessie Shternshus) Chesapeake G/H/IpopularJessie Shternshus

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Agile2019 Conference Party National Harbor

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Breakfast Potomac Foyer

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