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DARE conference 2013Luke Firth, Improvement Office, Engineering

Luke will be reporting back from the DARE conference which has the motto- Be Agile, Scale up, Stay Happy. The conference focuses on how can you change your organization to a more productive, creative, and engaging environment for everybody involved and continue to improve your product at great speed.

DARE13 is a Happy Melly production in its first year

Its an Improvement gathering for the software industry

Focusing on SMEs and the companies that support them

Delegates were typically scrumcoaches, agile coaches, consultants, or organisations wanting to sell services and software products

Held in a converted shipping hanger in the port area of Antwerp, Belgium

Showcasing an eclectic band of speakers and interests…..

Improvement

Ideology

Philosophical

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Cult of Seddon

Free spirits

Scrum’ers

Kanbanistas

Blueprint for a Tribal business- Jurgen Appelo

Inner Innovation- Peter Moreno

The Art of Culture Hacking- Stefan Haas

Happiness at work: you deserve it!- Laurence Vanhee

Are we solving the right problem?- Richard Moir

Kanban: isn’t it just common sense?- Karl Scotland

Taming the flow- Steve Tendon

“Just do it” approach to change management- Wouter Lagerweij

Scaling Agile @ Spotify- Jimmy Janlen

Be Agile. Scale Up. Stay Lean- Dean Leffingwell

Lean Innovation at Atlassian- Tony Atkins

Habits of Kanban- Hakan Forss

Cohesion and complexity- Chris Young

My first 2 years with Kanban- Paul Klipp

The conference topics and agenda could be organised into 4 distinct groupings

5 themes reoccurred throughout the two days in a variety of discussions

Semi-autonomous teams

Scaling up

Vanguard method

Experiments

DARE13 in quotes….

We didn’t do status updates, we simply

asked the team which squad was holding them

back- Jimmy Janlen

If things seem under control, you’re not going

fast enough- Mario Andretti The shorter the sprint cycles the

more responsive you are, but the larger the administrative overhead

becomes- Dean Leffingwell

Increasingly networks are replacing

hierarchies within organisations-Jurgen Appelo

I don’t criticize waterfall, it got us this far- Dean

LeffingwellI’ve taken the oath of non-allegiance- Steve Tendon

We got the company focused on reducing the number of calls

they received not on the number they resolved- Richard

Moir

We’re aiming for 80% time not 20%-

Atlassian

I gave the Unions a limit of 3 meetings on a particular

topic, before I took it off the agenda for good-

Laurence Vanhee

Experiments: expect to be wrong 50% of the time,

this is where the learning happens- Haken Forss

We didn’t want to scale our team in line with call volume as that would’ve meant we

spent too much time on hiring and not on working with customers- Tony Atkins

We don’t learn from mistakes or best practice, but from experimentation- Jurgen Appelo

Kill the backlog, the PO knows the next most important thing-

Paul Klipps

Did you know?

1/5 people consider themselves engaged at their current job?

It takes 4/5 sprints to gain basic adoption of Agile in a team?

Google have a personal growth programme?

Changing culture is the equivalent of changing personality?

Agile was designed for small teams?

The root French for the word for “work” is torture?

The root Dutch for the word for “work” is slave?