The typical recommendation is that role of software leaders is just empowering teams and removing roadblocks. While this can work in organizations where small teams can work independently, I believe it is just wrong for large complex organizations. In these cases, if the organization is going to deliver the results the business deserves leaders are going to have to play a much more active and adaptive role.

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User stories drive the process of creating software. Good user stories help develop software efficiently, but poor user stories can lead to lower return on investment and even cancelled projects. We will look at a number of example user stories from robotic milking machines to online shoe stores to discover the key to creating stories that effectively represent complex work with simplicity.

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For some, life just doesn’t seem fair. They compete accessing the same science and technology, subject to the same rules and regulations, chasing the same opportunities, yet there’s those few who somehow seem to get more value out the door, better easier and quicker, with appreciation showering over all their stakeholders. How’s that happen? The very best are just “smarter at getting smarter” having build their “social circuitry” of processes and procedures, not to force control and conformance but to make it way easier to solve hard problems faster, delivering solutions that are wildly appreciated. How’s that happen? It’s with repeatable reliable approaches for making problem solving easier to do, problems easier to solve and problems more obvious early, before they have chance to become big.

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Flow Engineering has helped many businesses save months, millions, and morale in a few hours. Its rapid, collaborative mapping helps you define value, vision, direction, and alignment for your teams. Then we use it tackle your most critical bottleneck. I'll show you how to set a target, understand needs and workflow constraints, and connect opportunities to action.

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I’ve worked with a number of incredible Scrum Masters over the years. For this talk I asked several what they feel is the most important secret behind their success. This session covers the things they identified as well as my observations about some of the things that made them successful.

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With the aid of maps a wander through the history of technology development, what it means, where we are going and what should we learn from the past.

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