Kristian Lindwall, Spotify

Spotify has been growing quickly as a company, and they are continuously experimenting with ways of making the company work as effectively as possible. Kristian explained how management and leadership work in a large agile organization like Spotify. What can leadership look like in a large agile organization? How can a leader support autonomy and alignment? How different forms of leadership – both formal and informal, product, organizational and technical – overlap and interact to create successful teams. Biography Kristian is a Team Lead and Agile Coach at...

Bernard Notarianni, Umolelo

This is the true story of a software creation team who wanted to double its productivity. See how a PDCA-like approach led them to implement the Dojo and Mob programming practices, what did work and what needed to be improved. Bernard show how the practices relate to the TWI concepts described in “Toyota Talent” and how this leads to a “Training Within Software” practice, adapted to highly creative activities performed by software creators. This session should generate new ideas for agile teams who want to improve their skills and efficiency through a standardized...

Jannes Smit, ING Bank

Discover ING Bank case study: In 2010 we started working Agile in our Internet Banking department (28 teams & 220 employees) and created nice results. It felt however as if we kept banging our heads against big issues all the time. Introducing technical improvements only helped to solve part of our issues, however we never seemed to get away from trouble shooting. Slowly we started to realize that if we wanted to make real progress, we had to deal with the real root cause: us as a management team. Organize ourselves as management and have the discipline of not...

Ismaël Hery, LeMonde.fr

A new software product development project may be considered as “done” when the users are satisfied and when the cost of operations is known and under control (aka “product market fit” in Eric Ries terminology). How to get to that point as fast as possible considering the risky and diverse activities of design and user experience, software development and operation in production? Based on stories from recent new software products developed at Le Monde, it appears that spreading and leveling learning on the various project activities from the first day on, helps...

Carlos Condé, Amazon Web Services

Whether you are launching a new business idea, or expanding to new geo markets or releasing new software or service, it’s important to experiment often and fail quickly. In order to accelerate innovation in this highly competitive and uncertain market, you need to lower the cost of failure and increase the speed of innovation. In this session, will share some of the lessons learned at Amazon and from the customers using Amazon Web Services (AWS) on how you can leverage the powerful nature of on-demand cloud computing and data-driven decision making to evolve your...