Past Events

Agile2021

July 19 – 22, 2021 | Online Event

Our annual conference is dedicated to furthering Agile principles and providing a venue for people and ideas to flourish. This is where the Agile tribes meet!

Agile2021 Keynotes Sessions

Taking the Numb Out of Numbers
Data journalist Mona Chalabi is on a mission to “take the numb out of numbers.” In her illustrations, animations, and articles for The Guardian and publications like FiveThirtyEight and The New York Times, she explores data sets from the timely (affi…
Sustainable Disruption, Where We Go From Here
Three disruptive leaders share global insights on the impact and future of agile. Comparing the challenges of the late 1990s that resulted in the Agile Manifesto with those of today can point to what we should work on now. Social responsibility, clim…

Agile2021 Keynotes Sessions

Alistair Cockburn

Alistair Cockburn

Gabrielle Benefield Agile2021 Keynote

Gabrielle Benefield

Jutta Eckstein

Jutta Eckstein

Agile2021 Program Team

Brandon Carlson

Conference Chair

Dana Pylayeva

Program Chair

Kevin Stevens Agile

Program Chair

Jen Krieger Agile Alliance

Program Chair

Agile2021 Session Videos

Developers and Sales, Sitting in a Tree
Kloia is a small DevOps company that believes in fluid teams. Everyone is an engineer, so everyone does development, DevOps, QA, project management etc. This approach worked well for IT projects, but it was a disaster for sales. When we tried to do s…
Want Business Agility? Start with Your Managers
Too many organizations think they can reap the benefits of business agility with a framework or tools. However, frameworks and tools don't change the organizational culture. Instead of forcing managers into silos, what if we focused on creating colla…
Using Hate to Achieve Your Goals and Influence People
Do you hate how things work around you? Do you find yourself exclaiming “I hate using Jira!”, "I hate doing a Daily Standup!", or “I hate being micromanaged!”? Does it feel like these emotions seem to follow you throughout your career? There’s lots o…
Using Agile Principles for improving Gender Inclusion in Tech
Agile Principles can be used for all different kinds of projects, and my team and I used them for building a coding boot camp for girls in Pakistan. This talk is our story of using Agile to create a program from scratch and then constantly improving …
Tyranny of Taylorism and how to Detect Agile BS
Even those that developed and industrialised waterfall no longer believe it has value, and they still struggle with the tyranny of Taylorism. While 81% of all development shops say that they are adopting agile, the reality is far from it; only 22% do…
Transforming business models in the pandemic
In pre-Covid times would you think that car sales companies will accompany you on test drives via FaceTime? Or that during online live shows you could get drinks with one click delivered to your doors? All these kind of business transformations were …
Tips and traps for using assessments well
Commencing their Agile journey in 2015, Company X enlisted myself and 2 other coaches in 2018 to provide more insight as to how teams were progressing, as they had not seen any tangible improvements in their transformation overall. Upon observing 10 …

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