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Flutter HQ

Matthew Skelton

In this talk, Matthew Skelton - founder at Conflux and co-author of the book Team Topologies - explores techniques and metrics to help you untangle your software delivery, together with real-world examples of organizations successfully applying Team Topologies and related approaches to decouple teams and improve flow: Independent Service Heuristics (ISH) User Needs Mapping (UNM) The 4 key metrics (DORA) Flow efficiency and proxy measures.

Untangling software delivery with Team Topologies, flow metrics, and careful decoupling

Royd Brayshay

In this presentation, we delve into the realm of high stakes project management, organisational design, and relentless delivery. We will shine a light on the existing innovation in these areas and emphasise the need for smart thinking and creativity. Drawing parallels from sport, we will explore fast flow design teams in high-stakes environments and discover how innovative approaches can transform traditional delivery and elevate team performance to new heights.

The Power of Process Innovation, Insight and Inspiration for Organisational Leaders

Welcome to the September edition of the Agile Yorkshire community of practice meet up! We are thrilled to announce that this month's gathering is going to be something truly special. We are super excited to have Matthew Skelton, the co-author of the best-selling book "Team Topologies," as our headline guest speaker.
"Team Topologies" has made a significant impact in the world of delivery management, earning its place as #3 on the "100 Best Product Management Books of All Time" list. Matthew Skelton's insights into optimising team structures and dynamics are invaluable for anyone involved in delivery organisations, whether you're working at the team level or influencing organisational change.
Don't miss this chance to learn from one of the leading voices in the field and connect with fellow Agile enthusiasts. We look forward to seeing you there!

2024 September Meetup

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Platform

Amy Thompson

These days there are becoming less 'Agile Transformations' from scratch and more 'Agile Aversion' due to previous failed and expensive attempts. This talk will explore how and why Change Strategies go so wrong and offers practical steps to get back on track with positive business change approaches that apply to everyone in the organisation.

Reagility: How To Fix a Broken Agile Implementation

Andy Burgin

The DevOps and SRE community is focusing on product-focused platform teams, managing platforms, pipelines, and tooling as products to speed up development and reduce complexity. This shift brings renewed attention to Developer Experience, with industry experts debating its definitions and benefits. As a Platform Engineer, how can you enhance speed for your customers? Which aspects of Developer Experience matter, and how do you curate a successful experience? What works, what doesn't, and how do you measure success? Andy, part of the Container Platform squad at Flutter UK and Ireland, has been involved since its inception in 2016. In 2019, he was asked to lead a newly formed Platform Developer Experience team, ensuring a streamlined experience for developers across the business.

Curating a Developer Experience (for Platform Engineers)

Get ready for an action-packed August meetup with the Agile Yorkshire community! As we gear up for the excitement of the Olympics, we're thrilled to present our very own gold medal speakers, Amy Thompson and Andy Burgin.
Join us for an evening that promises to be as engaging as the games themselves, filled with valuable insights, practical advice, and maybe even a few laughs. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn from the best and get your Agile game to the podium!

2024 August Meetup

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Sharon Dale

I have spent the last ten years working with agile teams in a variety of roles with remits as varied as supporting stakeholders new to agile, user centred, design led ways of working, building effective teams, building capability for service owners in government, supporting teams to build out a service for a new policy area with multiple parties from agencies, contractors, policy team and other departmental stakeholders plus a bit of delivery. This is a run through of my go to techniques to influence and inspire.

The Things I Go Back To When Working With Agile Teams

Lauren Ackroyd

Have you considered disrupting your ways of working to improve your teams? I want to talk to you about how as Scrum Masters, in many cases, our focus is on improving our teams, how we can change them, how we can experiment with them, how we can make them more efficient whilst delivering more value, and whether you could make a greater impact by changing that focus.

It's Not You, It's Me

Hello Agile Enthusiasts! Summer's here, and so is our next Agile Yorkshire Meetup! We're thrilled to invite you to our July gathering for an evening of inspiration, learning, and camaraderie. Gain practical insights and techniques from our industry experts that you can apply directly to your teams, connect with like-minded professionals and build your agile network. Plus, relish in delightful refreshments, city centre venue and snacks that will keep you energised throughout the evening. Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn, network, and have a great professional time of agile awesomeness! 
Looking forward to seeing you there.

2024 July Meetup

Robin Hackshall

"The only constant in life is change." - Heraclitus Change within organisations is often driven by the need to adapt to evolving market conditions, technological advancements, and competitive pressures. Despite knowing that change is always likely to be 'hiding around the corner', it is often disruptive and can be challenging to deal with. In this short talk, we begin to investigate the problems associated with change and the impact that change initiatives can have on organisations, teams and individuals. This will lay the foundational 'building blocks' for a longer interactive workshop in July where we look to demonstrate how the emotions felt by individuals when change occurs and explore the techniques that could be used to contribute towards successful change initiatives.

The Problem With Change

Vernon Richards

How I Think Quality Engineering, Glue Work And Quiet Quitting Are Related and what we can do about it!

How We're Setting Up Qes To Fail

Agile Yorkshire's June Meetup is here! With expert speakers Robin Hackshall and Vernon Richards with an exploration into the complexities of organisational change and the hidden pitfalls facing quality engineers. Robin's talk on "The Problem With Change" will shed light on why transformations often falter, while Vernon's "How We're Setting Up QEs To Fail" will uncover the challenges in quality engineering roles. Join us for an evening filled with knowledge-sharing, networking.

2024 June Meetup

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Lindsay Baker

Agile principles and practices present opportunity to truly embrace the strengths of diverse cognitive styles. Creating an inclusive environment, which enriches team dynamics and empowers the collective capability is integral to building teams with the diversity of thought, skill and experience to succeed in delivering valuable software products & services. In this meet up we will explore what neurodiversity means and look at opportunities to recognise the strengths and needs of individuals in teams. I will share some of my experiences as a neurodiverse colleague. Moving away from working patterns that contribute to burnout, the two sides of emotional hypervigilance and overcoming the overwhelming concern that I may lose all my words when presenting to large groups of people (still working on this one!) We will explore ways we can overcome barriers to inclusion by sharing practical tips and strategies across our community, focused on leveraging strengths and building collaboration

Embracing Neurodiversity in Agile Teams

Catherine Bonner

Great public speakers aren’t just born that way…it’s a skill that can be learned, developed and honed. In a tech landscape where sharing ideas, concepts and opinions is integral to your success, developing your ability to connect, engage, and inspire an audience is a great way to further your career. Our new Public Speaking Partner, Catherine Bonner from Ambient Tribe, shares practical tools and techniques to up your presentation game, whether you’re just starting out, refining your skills or preparing to speak on the main stage.

Build and Refine Your Public Speaking Toolbox

Our May Agile Yorkshire meetup is set to be a vibrant and enlightening gathering, featuring two engaging talks. Lindsay Baker will delve into "Embracing Neurodiversity in Agile Teams," offering a fresh perspective on team dynamics. Catherine Bonner's session, "Build and Refine Your Public Speaking Toolbox," promises to equip attendees with essential communication skills. It's an ideal opportunity for those looking to spice up their professional toolkit while keeping the vibe light and engaging. We'll be announcing more details about Catherine's involvement in due course, keep an eye on our news feed and socials. 

Embracing Neurodiversity in Agile Teams plus Build and Refine Your Public Speaking Toolbox

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Aaron McKenna

In this talk, we will look at two recent case studies where we've used OKRs to align and elevate portfolio performance using agile practices. We will share some of our most impactful takeaways on how to supercharge your goals and alignment within your organisation.

Supercharge Alignment With OKRs

Matthew Turnbull

Listen to my journey as a scrum master so far, discussing the many challenges I have faced, from not coaching a team to very challenging stakeholders. But, also the highlights of the role, seeing teams improve and learn! If your curious about learning what it means to be a Scrum Master working their way through the fog of helping individuals and a team, come along.

My Scrum Master Journey

Hey Agilistas,
Get ready for a blast at next month's upcoming meetup, where agile adventures are on the horizon. First off, Aaron McKenna will be taking the stage with "Supercharge Alignment With OKRs", promising to reveal the magic of aligning team goals with agile wizardry. Expect insights, case studies, and a sprinkle of Aaron's infectious enthusiasm.
Then, Matthew Turnbull will share his "My Scrum Master Journey", taking us through the highs and lows of his 18-month adventure in the scrum world. From Leeds to leaderboards, Matt's story is set to inspire and entertain, showing us the real side of scrum mastery.
Both sessions are bound to be not just informative but sprinkled with laughs and real-world wisdom. Prepare to leave inspired, a bit more knowledgeable, and eager for more. Plus, the networking will be top-notch as always.

March Meetup: Aaron McKenna and Supercharge Alignment With OKRs plus Matthew Turnbull's Scrum Master Journey

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Kieran Baker

Rachel Carrington

Agile is not just for software development, the principles and approaches can be applied to deliver a multitude of different services. We will present an example of using agile approaches to deliver a high-quality national analytical service for the NHS.


Delivering a national analytical service using agile-at-scale

Alan Raison

In an increasingly complex world, it is important for developers to be able to create local development environments quickly and easily, without fear of restrictive corporate policies preventing them from having the tools they need. Many tools have emerged in this space over the past few years and by taking a selection of them, could it be possible to have a properly audited and rapid way to provision useful environments for development teams? Let Alan guide you through the available tools and find out whether there is a solution that provides developers the tools they need in an auditable way.

Agile vs Regulation: Development Environments

After running almost every month for nearly ten years Agile Yorkshire has been on a hiatus since shortly after the COVID-19 lockdown. We've not been idle however and with a new website we're ready for a relaunch.
We have an amazing speaker line up in Kieran Baker - Chief Digital and Information Head for South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and Alan Raison - Principal Engineer for NewRedo. Between them, they have a smorgasbord of agile stories to tell rooted in real-world experience from large-scale delivery to the technicalities and economics of building developer environments efficiently for effective and flexible delivery teams.


Agile Yorkshire the Relaunch

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Jutta Eckstei

The Remote Challenge - Agile Software Development

Team Interactions with Team Topologies

The Agile Yorkshire team are pleased to be able to bring you all the insights from our monthly event to the comfort of your home.

We’ve got some incredible speakers confirmed to discuss a topic that’s never been more relevant: keeping your distributed teams agile. 

Not only will attendees get a surprise delivery the week of the event, but we’re also running a short Kwizzbit quiz after the webinar for the chance to win a £25 voucher for a local independent of your choice. 

The quiz will test your knowledge of Agile practises, Yorkshire and some other random knowledge subjects thrown in for good measure.

Agenda
5.30pm - Welcome
5.45pm - First talk
6.05pm - Second talk
6.25pm - Agile Yorkshire Kwizzbit Quiz & Beers
6.45pm - Agile Yorkshire Quiz Winner announced & end

Agile Yorkshire Online - Agile Distributed Teams

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Malcolm South

Many teams estimate work to make development safer - to avoid committing to more than they can deliver. But safety features can be dangerous if not used correctly. I'll be looking at some of the ways estimates can be misused and what you can do about it.

Do Estimates Make Us Safer

Kev McCabe

In this talk Kev will cover the journey of Transformation from not only current places of work but also former. Looking at why they fail, and what the common themes are. There will be areas that you will see in your own organisation and this will be a change for people to share their views on the transformations they are on or have been on. 

How many transformations does one company need to become a continuous improvement organisation where the normal is transformation all the time, and not just BIG BANG FLOPs

1, 2, 3 Transformations More

Agile Yorkshire is back. We've had a few months off to recharge the batteries with everything in standby, but the boot loader has been re-invoked and we've spun up with a December event to round off the year. 

There's plenty of work going on behind the scenes to bring a great program of speakers for 2020 and we'll have more announcements to make soon.

We have two great presentations from two great speakers to top off the year and a great new venue in the William Hill offices in the St. John's Centre on Merrion Street in Leeds - register a place now, space is limited.

Transformations and Do Estimates Make us Safer?

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Tom Hoyland 

How would you build a team from scratch? What techniques would you use? What metrics should you respond to? In this talk you’ll see how we assembled a team, embedded agile values, a DevOps mindset and a clear purpose to create a squad with an infectious, high performing culture. 

We’ll demonstrate the coaching and visualisation techniques we used to reduce batch size and improve quality. You’ll see how to reveal ‘hidden’ product backlogs, make the invisible visible, and use domain driven design, theory of constraints and language to optimise team resilience.

Building and Growing an Agile Team

Jon Fulton

We hear much about the state of agile in 2019 - fake agile returns to waterfall and the resurgence of command and control. 

Jon will tell you a story about software delivery. It's a story of success against the odds by a great team. Jon hopes to restore your optimism as he tells you about 'The Art of The Possible'.

The Art of The Possible

How would you build a team from scratch? What techniques would you use? What metrics should you respond to? In this talk you’ll see how we assembled a team, embedded agile values, a DevOps mindset and a clear purpose to create a squad with an infectious, high performing culture. 

We’ll demonstrate the coaching and visualisation techniques we used to reduce batch size and improve quality. You’ll see how to reveal hidden product backlogs, make the invisible visible, and use domain driven design, theory of constraints and language to optimise team resilience.

Building and Growing a Successful Agile Team

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A dive into some product development economics and tactical risk management that delivery teams might employ to improve their commercial effectiveness. Resources are never infinite and any marketplace is continually changing. 

Every delivery team works within a commercial context whether they are aware of it or not and can influence better delivery outcomes by thinking about their skill and experience as an asset and the business context as a design constraint. We'll be talking about real world examples throughout.

Using Technical Experience and Judgement to Commercial Effect

Jason Simpson

Engineering teams are often the furthest removed from the customer, especially as companies grow. Without the customer as the North Star, it is  easy for us to get carried away building over complicated solutions that are challenging to deploy, uses technology we cannot support and when finally delivered, does not have the desired customer impact. These are the fundamental reasons that over 50% of software built is never used. 

We’ve been there, we’ve lived the tale and can tell the story about coming out the other end. This talk intends to do just that.

Agile Puts Customers First, Why Don’t You?

A dive into some product development economics and tactical risk management that delivery teams might employ to improve their commercial effectiveness. Resources are never infinite and any marketplace is continually changing. 

Every delivery team works within a commercial context whether they are aware of it or not and can influence better delivery outcomes by thinking about their skill and 

Using Technical Experience & Judgement to Commercial Effect

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Andy Butcher

Small companies can move fast and stay aligned because communication is easy with a small team. But as companies grow, communication becomes exponentially harder. A command and control, top-down hierarchy inevitably emerges. And to protect the culture, companies often adopt an ""internal marketing"" narrative which software teams can find disingenuous.

This talk is based on the challenges we've faced at Sky Betting & Gaming, which has tripled in engineering headcount over the last 3 years as we've become the number one sports betting company in the UK by customer volume. I'll explain why the concepts of choreography and orchestration apply to horizontally scaling an IT driven organisation, and how splitting into autonomous teams (with the right alignment and accountability) can create a workplace where you can get things done, and people feel excited and passionate about what they do.

Using Conway's Law to tackle the company scaling problem

Matt Skelton

For effective, modern, cloud-connected software systems we need to organize our teams in certain ways. Taking account of Conway&#39;s Law, we look to match the team structures to the required software architecture, enabling or restricting communication and collaboration for the best outcomes.

This talk will cover the basics of organization design using Team Topologies, exploring a selection of key team types and how and when to use them in order to make the development and operation of your software systems as effective as possible. 

The talk is based on the forthcoming 2019 book Team Topologies and first-hand experience helping companies around the world with the design of their technology teams.

Key takeaways:
1. Why using the “Spotify Model” of team design is not enough
2. The four fundamental team topologies needed for modern software delivery
3. The three team interaction modes that enable fast flow and rapid learning
4. How to address Conway’s Law, cognitive load, and team evolution with Team Topologies

Using team topologies for fast flow and organisation evolution

Small companies can move fast and stay aligned because communication is easy with a small team. But as companies grow, communication becomes exponentially harder. A command and control, top-down hierarchy inevitably emerges. 

And to protect the culture, companies often adopt an "internal marketing" narrative which software teams can find disingenuous.

Using Conway Law to Tackle Company Scaling Problems

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Mark Kirschstein

Far too often team retrospectives suffer from classic anti patterns, including but not limited to:

1. Unproductive/circular debate
2. Following the ideas of persuasive but incorrect team member
3. Implementing solutions that address symptoms not causes

This talk aims to improve your retrospective effectiveness by introducing thinking tools to combat these anti patterns.

Collaborative Logic Based Retrospectives

Steve Trapps

This talk aims to improve your retrospective effectiveness by introducing thinking tools to combat these anti patterns.

Far too often team retrospectives suffer from classic anti patterns, including but not limited to:

1. Unproductive/circular debate
2. Following the ideas of persuasive but incorrect team member
3. Implementing solutions that address symptoms not causes

We will consider:

- Why does this person view the scrum master role as not important?
- What can I do to change their mind?
- Why is it that you can go from one company to another and have different experiences of what a scrum master is responsible for?

I'll look at the different scrum master types I've experienced whilst working in different organisations and then compare the scrum master role to the Scrum Guide and what it says the role should do. 

The session will also cover my personal journey through the process of becoming a professional scrum trainer for scrum.org and how that experience helped me in responding to the email.

Dear Mr Scrum Master

Much of the value of our meetups not to learn about the theory of lean / agile product development but to hear from practitioners talk about their experiences putting theory into practice. Much of the value of experienced agile coaches come from their knowledge of what can work when and help an organisation see when something is likely to fail, saving time, disruption and ultimately money. 

Both our speakers this month fall squarely under the banner of experienced practitioners and both will be passing on their real world experience. As Peter Drucker said - Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

David Harper

An engaging, witty and at times irreverent look at why ‘the Grown-Ups’ in Board Meetings and Steering Groups make the decisions they do. And how they all love Agile – until it requires a big decision! By taking us on his own unique journey from IT Coder to CIO, David shares his own techniques on how to survive in the Boardroom as the ‘IT Guy’ representing Agile projects, and how his own adversity has unlocked a fear he has held since childhood.

For anyone frustrated by the apparent lack of understanding of Agile in the Boardroom or mystified by the Waterfall or Fragile decisions that often come back – this is the session for you!

It's Alright for You, You've Had Cancer!

A treasure trove of simple, practical methods to stimulate critical conversations and liberate the full potential of any group, from the frontline to the C- suite.""Cheryl M Scott – Global Programs Senior Advisor, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

What would be made possible if you could unleash the intelligence and creativity of everyone? Liberating Structures are a collection of easy-to-learn facilitation patterns that make this possible. They're field tested, rooted in complexity science and freely shared under a creative commons licence.

In this short session, participants will gain practical hands-on experience of at leas one Structure, and an appreciation of some of the possibilities offered.

How might we involve and unleash everyone?

We're back after two months off with two great speakers and two great topics. 

David Harper reflects on his former role as CIO to give a sneak peek into boardroom IT decision making and Sharon Dale will throw some light onto the Liberation Structures body of knowledge. Plus the venue is back at the Platform office above Leeds train station.

It is also that time of year where we start thinking about our annual Lightning Talks Competition that we have held as our December meetup for a good number of years now. We'll be announcing the CALL FOR SPEAKERS in the next few days, so get your thinking caps on!

How Might We Involve & Unleash Everyone?

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Dennis Vergne

We had a theory that Agile is just as well suited to Public Service organisations as it is to Private, software development industries. We proved that theory right. Through 'whole system prototyping' we incorporated Agile, Design and Adaptive Leadership to bring about positive, sustainable change in to UK Public Services. 

We used these approaches to not only enable better services and achieve savings but also brought about a true sustainable adaptive culture, able to face the future with confidence. I'm looking forward to sharing the what, why and how with you... Maybe even throw in an activity to help explain.

Prototyping Public Services

Glenn Crossley

An introduction to a blended approach to Agile delivery. There are many tools, techniques and frameworks available, one rarely solves all your challenges. 

BAD is an open source knowledge base that attempts to share experiences of blending multiple approaches together to experiment, learn and adapt.

Blending Agile Delivery

The variety and depth of topics covered by speakers is ever expanding. 

We all know the value and savings made though gaining feedback from users of a system early and often and this month Dennis Vergne shares an approach to system building in the public sector that he's dubbed "whole system prototyping" as a model for doing just that. Plus Austen Bell and Glen Crossley are here to talk about the open source Blended Agile Delivery (BAD) toolkit that has recently emerged from work right here in Leeds.


Prototyping Public Services & Blending Agile Delivery

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Simon Cookson

Simon will explore what agile teams could learn from sales thinking and practice about engaging stakeholders. Talk about how stakeholder engagement can build team resilience and explore whether we should all become mini-product owners.

Stakeholder Engagement, Sales Thinking and  Should We All Be Product Owners?

Simeon Smith

Having been through a few job titles over the past few years (Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner), I’ll be talking through what I think the similarities and differences between the roles are. 

I’ll also explain one approach to setting-up teams including these roles which avoids people stepping on each other’s toes. 

Business Analyst, Product Owner or Product Manager?

Building the right thing and having a good outcome from a software project requires all sides to be wilfully collaborating in a creative and enthusiastic fashion. That may seem obvious and easy but the IT industry has a legacy culture to deal with. It's not uncommon for both sides to be evaluated on meeting deadlines and budget constraints but not always on costs saved or revenue generated by the outcome of a software project. 

Of course measuring outcomes isn't always easy and bringing people together to collaborate meaningfully when they may also have other day to day tasks to get done is a similar challenge. However in the world of software product development it's people working together that often transforms the outcome and this month our two speakers Simon Cookson and Simeon Smith are both drilling into upstream end of the product development pipeline.


Stakeholder Engagement, Sales Thinking & Should We Be Product Owners

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Ian Franklin

Too often the big blue sky horizon of Agile falls short of its promise when technical delivery takes over and UX design and user needs start to look like a bolt on, a nice to have, and “it's a lovely idea. It's even worse when those above lose sight of the user and start suggesting or imposing user stories and use needs that seem to come from the whims of a stakeholder or outer space.

In the talk Ashley and Ian will cover how to keep UX, user centred design design and user needs alive and kicking throughout Agile process. 

This will include tricks to keep stakeholders onboard,  how to package UX and user centred design so that it maintains importance, and how to manage upwards when the senior project team are new to Agile roles. 

Making UX work within Agile

Software technology keeps marching forward with new ideas and fascinating engineering innovations that can, if allowed to, distract from the job at hand - to provide value through software features that normal humans can actually use. 

That means delivering value as soon as possible and regularly checking that people can reliably accomplish what they need to quickly and without fuss or lots of training. This month we focus on just this with insight into agile testing of the UX kind with Ian Franklin and Ashley Wheat plus a dip into the world of MVPs and what they can bring to any delivery team with Joe Williams.

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