The Agile20Reflect Festival Archive
Free Global 24/7 Agile Festival February 2021
We are very pleased to get Stuart Young and Sathpal Singh together as they bring the festival to life in pictures whilst sharing a beer.
We’ll be walking through the principles and discussing the power of Visual Thinking. This will be a relaxed chat and an opportunity to ask questions. You might want to grab yourself a sharpie too!
There’s always time for a Visual Thinking exercise. The Agile20Reflect Festival.
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The Agile20Reflect Festival is delighted to be hosting this event, which aims to explore the critical topic of ethics.
In setting up the festival, a lot of time was spent a on developing the Community Policy and debating, amongst ourselves, behaviour that we deem acceptable and unacceptable. As we grow as a community, and more and more people come in with different backgrounds, cultural experiences and expectations, the need for a common ethical code seems essential.
In this debate, chaired by Sathpal, Padmini, Shane, Daniel and Scott will discuss the key challenges and urgencies, and explore things we can do to self-regulate as a community.
Come along and ask the panel the tough questions!
Let’s explore this critical topic together.
Our Panellists:
Shane Hastie
Shane leads the Culture and Methods editorial team for InfoQ.com, where he hosts the weekly InfoQ Culture Podcast. He is the Director of Agile Learning Programs for ICAgile.
He draws on over 30 years of practical experience across all levels of Information Technology and software intensive product development. Shane was a director of the Agile Alliance from 2011 to 2016 and is the founding Chair of Agile Alliance New Zealand. “I firmly believe that humanistic way of working and the agile mindset are desperately needed in organisations all around the globe today. Taking agile values and principles beyond software is important and making sure they are properly embedded is absolutely crucial for success – we’re in an industry that touches every aspect of people’s lives and massively influences society as a whole and I want to be a part of making sure that industry is both ethical and sustainable.”
Padmini Nidumolu
Padmini is one of the founders of Lean In Agile for Women in the Washington DC area, and also hosts a meetup focused connecting women in the Agile community to share their stories.
http://leaninagile.org/team.html
Daniel Mezick
Daniel Mezick is an author, executive and Agile coach, and keynote speaker. He is the formulator of OpenSpace Agility.
His first pioneering work on culture was published in 2012. “The Culture Game” described 16 specific patterns that extend Agile ideas across the organization, beyond software. In 2014, he built upon those patterns and formulated the OpenSpace Agility method. “OSA” is a flexible template and engagement model for enabling lasting change in your organization. Daniel is the primary author of the Open Space Agility Handbook, published in 2015 with several co-authors. In 2018 Daniel co-authored Inviting Leadership: Invitation-Based Change in the New World or Work™. Upon publication, this book reached #1 on the Amazon bestseller list in the Organizational Learning category.
Learn more and contact Daniel at www.DanielMezick.com.
Sathpal Singh
Sath is a technology leader, passionate Agilist and Visual Storyteller. He started his career as a Software Engineer after graduating from the University of Edinburgh, He has over 20 years of industry experience largely in leadership roles and has led many teams, and complex programs with global brands and international clients. Sath is the Organiser at The Future of Work Scotland, sits on the BCS Agile committee, is a CMI Scotland board member and, is a Trustee and Advisor of this festival, Agile20Reflect.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sathpal/
Twitter: @sathpal
Scott Seivwright
Scott is an Agile Coach working with software teams, he lives in Scotland. He is passionate about people, inclusion, equality and creating awesome places where we can learn from each other. He spends his time encouraging others to create things, talk at events and overcome their imposter syndrome and helps to make a more inclusive and vibrant Agile Community. Currently, his hobby is learning how to be a fun grassroots Festival Director at the Agile20Reflect Festival.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/heartofscott/
Twitter : @HeartOfScott
For me, Sundays are for reflection. Reflecting on the week gone by: the positives, the learnings and the must-do betters (there’s plenty of those!)
As part of this process I revisited an old conversation that Myles Hopkins, a fellow Trustee and I had way back in Nov 2020 in the early days of our work on The Agile20Reflect Festival
A lot has happened since! The festival for me is about many things but at it’s heart: learning, community, building lasting friendships and emergence. I’m reminded of the original festival’s principles we set out: https://agile20reflect.org/support-us/agile20reflect-principles/
Myles and I seemed to cover a great deal of ground as we reflected on my journey, my early brushes with XP, how we see Agile now and what would I say to new entrants into this world. There is a wealth of sessions from Agile SMEs from across the globe in the festival program which will do a deeper-dive into many of the topics we touched on here and of which, we merely scratched the surface. The festival presents a unique learning opportunity within the Agile space like never before.
Peruse the program (https://agile20reflect.org/festival/photo/) and find the events and topics that speak to you. Are you interested in the history of how the manifesto was authored? Perhaps it’s patterns for successful Agile transformations you seek? How to create more of a learning organisation? Maybe you wish to deepen your knowledge on frameworks such as SAFe, Scrum and LeSS and methods like Kanban and meet other practitioners from around the world? Alternatively you want to hear more about Agile leadership, Business Agility or how to become a great Product Manager? Whether it’s the origins, current application and adoption or the debate around the future, there’s so much to choose from in this packed month long program! Give yourself time to figure out how to best use this resource while reflecting on your journey to-date and how you might like to see it evolve. At Agile20Reflect we are intrigued by emergence and what may come next. Join in, celebrate and contemplate the future or better still…#SHAPE it!
Shout outs in the interview for Kent Beck for his seminal text, Extreme Programming explained, Embrace Change, Evan Leybourn Co-founder of the Business Agility Institute, the wonderful Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick authors of one of my favourite books of 2020, Agile Conversations and co-author of the Agile manifesto and a Patron of the festival Alistair Cockburn
Sathpal Singh, Chief Operations Officer (COO) at Agile20Reflect
We are excited to share a new Patron interview, with Esther Derby – Consultant, Advisor, Speaker and Author of 7 Rules for Positive Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results
This Interview is led by Sathpal Singh – Technology Leader, Agilist and Visual Storyteller.
Come here to see Esther Derby’s Agile Journey and her thoughts on our Festival!
The Interview is now available at the link below! We hope you will enjoy!
Click here to see our new Interview!: https://youtu.be/4IX_LK2dNoE
Interview with the Patrons – the fifth Interview is here !!
Sathpal’s interview with Lyssa Adkins
Here Lyssa talks about why she agreed to be part of the festival as a Patron and the importance of taking time to stop, reflect and celebrate, as well as the thought-provoking “what if something amazing comes out of our global connection…” and “…we are not there yet…”
Details of all our festival patrons are here : https://lnkd.in/dQbj8dN
