Recent presentations (2015-today)

Reawakening Agile with OKRs

See also my Reawakening Agile with OKRs piece in InfoQ, June 2021

BCS Edinburgh, October 2021
Agile on the Beach conference, live in Falmouth, September 2021 – YouTube recording
Future of Work Scotland, online June 2021 – YouTube recording
Craft Conference, Budapest/virtual, June 2021 – video recording on YouTube
Cambridge Agile Exchange, May 2021
BCS Business Change Management SIG, May 2021
SAFe Sydney, May 2021
Agile Newbury, April 2021
Digital Transformation London with Lean-Agile Coaching – recording on YouTube, March 2021

Mission Impossible: The Product Owner

Agile on the Beach, live in Falmouth, September, 2021: recording on YouTube
Agile Northants, April 2020 (Zoom meeting): recording on YouTube
Oredev conference, Malmo, November 2019 – Mission Impossible on video at Vimeo – thanks Oredev!

Agile and the BA, Product Manager and Product

BA & Beyond conference, March 2021

Radical Agile, Mild Agile and the Future

Frug’Agile February 2021 – webinar recording (YouTube)

Cotinuous Culture

Agile Leicester meet-up, October 2020: Creating a culture for Continuous Delivery andContinuous Value

Continuous Money

London Continuous Delivery meet-up, July 2020 – recording of on-line session, and slides

Business case for Agile in 2020

Private presentation: YouTube re-recording (18 minutes) and Agile Business Case slides, July 2020

Evolution: from #NoProjects to Continuous Digital (2020 edition)

Agile Newbury, July 2020 on-line – Zoom recording on YouTube (apprxomately 40 minutes presentation, 40 minutes Q&A)
Lean Agile London meet-up group, February 2020 – Evolution 2020 presentation (slightly modified)
Oredev, Malmo, November 2019 – #NoProjects Evolution on video at Vimeo

Continue with the books Continuous Digital and Project Myopia.

Common Product Owner Mistakes

Agile London meet-up (on-line), June 2020 – recording on YouTube

Everything think you ever wanted to know about the Product Owner but were afraid to ask

A conversation with Adrian Reed of Black Metric with audience questions on YouTube

How to value a story

Agile on the Beach, July 2019 – video on YouTube

Evolution: from #NoProjects to Continuous Digital

Software Design & Development, London, May, 2019
NorDevCon, Norwich, February 2019
Agile Tour Brussels, October 2018
Brewing Agile, Gothenburg, October 2018 – recording on YouTube

Continue with the books Continuous Digital and Project Myopia.

Why do Devs hate Agile?

And what to do about it – also known as “Taking Back Agile“

London Java Community meet-up, November 2018

Agile, Digital & the new management paradigms

Agile on the Beach conference, Falmouth, UK, July 2018 – video on YouTube.

Agile Contracts 2018

BCS Agile SiG, London, September 2018: co-presenter Stewart James went on to discuss the legal aspects of contracts
Short version: Business Agility Institute webinar, May 2018: webinar recording (also features Larry Cooper, Dead Leffingwell, Stewart James, and others.)

Business Agility Institute webinar

May 2018

Software Development is Upside Down

Craft Conference, Budapest, May 2018:
PDF Slides and Video on Ustream
Keynote Agile Cambridge conference, September 2017: Variation “Rewire your brain (for digital)”(PDF)
Ox:Agile Meetup, Oxford, March 2017
Keynote: Agile Tour Lille, October 2016, Lille France – video on YouTube
Agile Milton Keynes, October 2016

Digital Business means Agile Business

Agile Methods & Digital Transformation, Unicom, London, May 2018

Problem-Solution

The solution defines the problem

Keynote: TopConf, Tallinn Estonia, November 2017

Rules of Thumb for User Stories

Learning Connexions Meetup, October 2017

Evolving Projects for the Digital Age

Agile Bath & Bristol, September 2017
Unicom Evolving Projects & Programme Management conference, September 2017
Unicom Agile Expo, October 2017

Planning for Value: How much? When?

TopConf, November 2017, Tallinn Estonia
Agile on the Beach conference, July 2017, Falmouth UK
TopConf, March 2017, Linz Austria
Norwich Developer Conference, February 2017, Norwich, UK
Lean Kanban France, November 2016, Paris
Keynote PAM Summit, June 2016, Krakow Poland
Agile Yorkshire, June 2016
“Value over projects”, Agile Europe 2016, May 2016, Gdansk Poland
“Planning for Value”, Goto Nights London, February 2016

Creating a Culture of Delivery & Continuous Value

Unicom DevOps & Microservices Summit, April 2017, London UK
Unicom DevOps Expo, October 2017

Beyond Projects/#NoProjects

TopConf, March 2017, Linz Austria
Oredev, November 2016, Malmo Sweden
Managing without Projects: #NoProjects and change management (PDF), BCS Business Change SIG, February 2016, London
Keynote: “#NoProjects – The End of Projects and what happens next”, Tempere Goes Agile, October 2015, Tempere, Finland
Agile Cambridge, October 2015
Goto Conference London, September 2015
“Teams Over Projects”, Agile on the Beach conference, September 2015, Falmouth, UK
Lean Kanban UK Conference, November 2014, London
Agile Tour London, October 2014
Lean Agile Scotland, October 2014
Skills Matter “In the Brain”, March 2014