June 14-18, 2021
Online!
June 14-18, 2021
Online!
Important Dates
All dates are defined as the end of the day anywhere on earth (AoE).
Call for Lightning Talks
Lightning talks are short and intense talks on experiences, opinions, or ideas on Agile topics. They are meant to inspire the audience, open up discussion on difficult topics, and even to provoke and send wake-up calls.
They are 5 minutes each followed by a 5-minute Q&A. These have the format of ‘pitches’, like the ones delivered by co-founders of startups presenting their big idea in a very condensed format to investors.
The idea of lightning talks is to spark new energy in participants and to surprise them when they least expect it!
As the world changes more to remote and home working, how does this influence the agile way of work with intensive interaction and collaboration? How do you as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach keep people engaged in times of social distancing? Do you have new remote training insights to share? How do you as a Product Owner keep your product consistent with even your local team being remote? How do we as a community approach the future when remote work is here to stay? Will we need new organisations, structures, salary models?
Lightning topics can be on any Agile or Lean topic: enterprise agility, scaling/ descaling Agile teams, servant leadership, coaching teams, facilitation techniques, Agile and happiness metrics, games, tools and processes, DevOps CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, etc.
To participate with a lighting talk, some experience in “pitching” and/or public presentation experience is advisable, but not a prerequisite. Your ability to tell your story in narrative form, with or without visuals, will be the key to success.
Proposals will be evaluated based on these criteria:
Proposals must be submitted electronically via EasyChair by March 31, in the form of a short narrative about your lightning talk topic, approximately half a page including reasoning for its acceptance. Slides or video are optional.
Program Committee
Co-Chairs Email
Questions?
If you have any questions or comments, please contact the program chairs at xplightningtalks@agilealliance.org