Honey, I srunk the backlog
ThinkLithe webinar, January 2023
Berlin Product People, September 2022 (YouTube)
It’s Always Time for Tea
Opening Keynote at Oredev Malmo, November 2022 – YouTube recording
Agile Bath & Bristol, October 2022 (early version)
Moving Beyond Backlog Driven Development
Online Q&A discussion with Adrian Reed of Blackmetric

Reawakening Agile with OKRs
See also my Reawakening Agile with OKRs piece in InfoQ, June 2021
- OKR Focus Day, December 2022 – recording on YouTube
- Oredev, November 2022 – recording on YouTube
- iLean webinar, January 2022
- BCS Edinburgh, October 2021
- Agile on the Beach conference, Falmouth, September 2021 – YouTube recording (live)
- 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
OKRs in 26 minutes
Digital Leaders conference, June 2022 (YouTube)
5 Tips for combining OKRs with Agile
ThinkLithe webinar, December 2021 – recording and slides
Lessons for Product Owners
Agile Brigade, Toronto, March 2022 (original title: A Little Advice for Product Ownwers)
Xanpan 2021
Frug’Agile, November 2021 – YouTube recording
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
Xanpan: an XP-Kanban hybrid
- Ordev, November 2016, Malmo Sweden
- Mix IT, April 2016, Lyon France
- DevWeek, April 2012, London: Extended version (Slideshare)
- DevConFu, November 2013, Riga Latvia
- Agile Tour London, November 2013
- Agile Cambridge, September 2013
- Xanpan Video: Agile Cambridge presentation from InfoQ
- Lean Kanban London, March 2013
Beyond Projects to Value
DevWeek, April 2016, London UK
Agile for Startups
- TechCitizen, November 2017, London
- TechCity Coffee, March 2017, London
- TechCity Coffee, February 2016, London
Requirements, whose job are they anyway?
2019 Edition:
- Software Design & Development, London, May 2019
- Learning Connexions Meetup, February 2016, London
- Target Process London Meetup group, December 2013
- DevConFu, November 2013, Riga Latvia
- Agile Cambridge, September 2012
- Skills Matter “In the brain”, April 2013, London
Sofwtare Development has DISeconomies of scale (Lightning talk)
Agile in the City, November 2015, London
Software Process Improvement: what do I know?
- BCS SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network), October 2015, London
Every company a software company
- Norwich Developer Conference, February 2015
What is Agile?
- Norwich Developer Conference, February 2015