Jan
16
2018
Diversity, Chocolate and Safe Cracking plus Agents of Change
Tue (05:00 PM - 06:30 PM)
Summary
A new year is upon us with new challenges plus hopefully new goals and new target conditions. We've got some fantastic speakers lined up for the coming months but we're kicking the year off with a couple of people many of you will know.
Diversity is regularly in the news these days and John Le Drew is here to prompt us in to thinking why and how this matters to product developments teams. Jon Fulton is back to challenge our own assumptions about us as agile practitioners. As agents of change are we actually helping?
Programme
Diversity, Chocolate and Safe Cracking
Diversity. It's the topic of the hour. Organisations are all putting 'diversity' and 'equal opportunities' on every job ad. But, for some organisations it still seems to be a struggle. What's the goal?
Do we want diverse teams because it's the "right thing to do" or is it "good for our teams and organisations"?
Are we hiring minorities to keep up with quotas or our competition? This talk will engage the audience in a frank discussion on what diversity is, why we need it and how we might achieve it.
John Le Drew
John has spent most of the last 2 decades working in the software industry, with a focus on web technologies. After 10 years as a software engineer John moved into consultancy where he quickly learned the value of team dynamics and how most technical challenges are projecting underlying issues with collaboration.
So his focus shifted, while still being very involved technically, his first focus is on facilitating a safe, creative, collaborative environment.
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