Agile on the Beach 2019
2019-07-11..2019-07-12
Falmouth, United Kingdom
[Agile on the Beach 2016, Agile on the Beach 2018, Agile on the Beach 2019, Agile on the Beach 2021, Agile on the Beach 2023, Agile on the Beach 2024, Agile on the Beach 2025]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Imagining work: using physical space to visualise, plan and track work | Dee Wauchope | 48m |
Argues that large physical visual walls — built with sharpies, super-sticky Post‑its, masking tape and brown paper or magic whiteboard sheets — make status… | ||
| Liberating Structures | David Heath | 01h 01m |
Workshop demonstrates three concrete Liberating Structures and how to run them: eco-cycle plotting to map a portfolio and spot poverty and rigidity traps, a… | ||
| Let Me Tell You A Story: The Power of Storytelling in Product Design | Mark Cruth | 01h 05m |
Argues that product design depends on concrete stories not jargon and gives a working framework called the storytelling igloo (character, challenge, journey… | ||
| Turning the Oil Tanker | Mark Rudge, Suzanne Manson | 45m |
Cornwall Council IT admits it ran 80 concurrent initiatives, supported 7,500 Windows devices, and felt bureaucratic and slow, so it pilots Kanban boards and… | ||
| It’s Agile Jim, but not as we know it! | Andrew Nesling | 49m |
Dyson is already running over a million connected products and is trying to ship devices that combine embedded to cloud to mobile integration plus robotics and… | ||
| The art of Agile | Kylie Yearsley, John Clapham | 29m |
Hands-on workshop runs teams through a constrained exercise: a product owner privately describes an image to a business analyst who then briefs two developers… | ||
| The Magic of Mentorship: Becoming Dumbledore | Jordan Barkway | 38m |
Argues that regular mentoring discovers and recruits talent — one mentor connection led to an apprenticeship at Bluefruit — by running hands‑on events like… | ||
| Resilience – How to bring your best through the worst | John Clapham | 41m |
Practical steps for staying effective under sustained resistance: defines resilience as active adaptation (not just toughness), contrasts robustness with… | ||
| Pair Programming: Better Than Adderall | Matthew Kleiman | 34m |
Pair programming at Pivotal Labs puts two engineers at one workstation, pairing eight hours a day with two keyboards and monitors, giving instant code review… | ||
| How evolutionary psychology validates the Agile mindset | David Michel | 33m |
Argues that evolutionary psychology and brain wiring explain why Agile practices land differently for people: extroverts (strong dopamine vs acetylcholine… | ||
| How much do you trust the team? | Andy Eley | 45m |
Teams split into small teams (3–5) at one bank case study and the concrete claim is that psychological safety is the single strongest predictor of… | ||
| Let’s build sustainable and empathetic cross-functional teams | Denise Yu | 32m |
Advocates concrete steps to make cross-functional teams sustainable: adopt the balanced team mindset where outcome ownership is shared, use calendar open… | ||
| A spoonful of sugar: harnessing language to achieve your goals | Ceri Newton | 41m |
Argues that phrasing and small rituals change outcomes: swap “be good” goals for “get better” growth goals; anchor core values with habit‑stacking (repeat… | ||
| Mind the gap – incorporating the change agenda into scaled Agile. | Lynda Girvan | 43m |
Argues scaled Agile frameworks like SAFe scale delivery but miss the business change needed so features sit unused; points to repeated cases where teams… | ||
| Taking Agile to the Enterprise – strategy lessons from seven years in transformation | Matt Hosking | 43m |
Seven years of large-enterprise transformations yield concrete rules: treat hidden organizational debt like technical debt, get HR and facilities involved… | ||
| The User Journey of A Refugee | Stephanie Gasche | 31m |
Project "I am Refugee" spins from domain to wireframes to a registered society and live site in four months, then adds social channels, an Android wiki-style… | ||
| Healthy Governance of Agile Delivery | Steve Parks | 43m |
Reports that governance can sit next to delivery rather than above it, backed by interviews across government and prototypes built with the Cabinet Office… | ||
| Coal Miners, productivity and socio-technical teams | I. Kirschenbaum, L. Wood | 37m |
Postwar Yorkshire mine redesigns work so miners do preparation, filling and shifting in the same crew, move managers to inter-shift coordination, and miners… | ||
| Digital Transformation and our challenges | Kim Bird, Jayne Walked | 46m |
HM Land Registry is digitising a 23 million title register (currently ~85% covered) and trying to move from ~3,000 legacy systems and a large mainframe toward… | ||
| Agile Flack to Hack – Adventures of an Agile journalist. | Rachel Picked | 34m |
Report of field work on Agile shows concrete outcomes: Cambridge Core consolidates multiple platforms, logs 12 million journal downloads and 6 million chapter… | ||
| Sustaining Remote – First Teams. | Rachel Davies | 42m |
TES runs a remote-first culture across ~50 engineers using homogeneous Node/React microservices, Docker/Kubernetes and VPNs, and insists all meetings default… | ||
| Rewrite, Rework or Refactor | David Legge | 36m |
A 5‑year rewrite delivers only 30–40% of required functionality and an 18‑month rewrite can stretch into seven years, so the concrete alternatives are… | ||
| The Good Testing, The Bad Testing and The Ugly Testing | Stephen Janaway | 39m |
Describes why central regression teams fail: a 200–250 person org with 15 dev teams throws three weeks of work over a wall, then removes the regression team… | ||
| In Search of the Perfect Cloud Native Developer Experience | Daniel Bryant | 46m |
Real consulting lessons: teams cut lead time by using telepresence and Squash proxies to develop locally against a remote Kubernetes cluster, adopt the Flux… | ||
| Reaching out to Cornwall | Robert Wiltshire, Tony Edwards | 18m |
Software Cornwall reports 16,000 engagements with young people, runs 300 industry‑run work experience places and a week‑long Mission to Mars coding placement… | ||
| Real World Iterative Database Development | Chris Pitts, Ron Ballard | 01h 10m |
Starts from an Excel/CSV import and shows a runnable pipeline using Flyway + Postgres in Docker with Java/Gradle, creating migrations under version control and… | ||
| Web Components: Maintaining and Reusing your Frontend | Joy Heron | 41m |
Builds a reusable component called Bella web component and shows how HTML and CSS alone provide accessible, robust behavior by using forms for HTTP requests… | ||
| UNLEARNING: THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE | Jessie Shternshus | 42m |
Explores unlearning as a deliberate step before learning, claiming organizations stall when old mental models aren’t discarded; defines two types of unlearning… | ||
| Continuous Delivery and the Theory of Constraints | Steve Smith | 45m |
Explains applying the Theory of Constraints and the Five Focusing Steps to the build→test→ops value stream, identifying production/release testing or a single… | ||
| Security by Stealth | Gwen Diagram | 30m |
Attempts to run voluntary workshops fail until a Slack post gets 40+ emoji responses, so two hands‑on sessions run using OWASP Juice Shop with stickers, food… | ||
| Creative Coding for Kids .. (and Teachers and Parents) | Tariq Rashid | 29m |
Shows how kids get hooked by building visual code in a browser using open processor and simple commands like circle x y size, randomness and a repeat loop that… | ||
| Visualising software architecture with the C4 model | Simon Brown | 36m |
Argues most architecture diagrams are useless boxes and lines and proposes the C4 approach: four concrete levels — C4: context containers components code —… | ||
| Innovation Is A Wicked Problem | Tendayi Viki | 35m |
Innovation is a wicked problem, not a linear pipeline: large firms get shackled to shrinking business model life cycles (Nokia peaks in 2007) and can’t pick… | ||
| How to value a story? | Allan Kelly | 49m |
Uses planning poker cards and a fantasy currency called Cornish dollars to put numeric values on backlog stories, iterating through an MVP pet‑tracker: website… | ||
| OKRs for Product Management | Semen Arslan | 25m |
Explains how OKRs bind Agile product teams to measurable business outcomes by using short cycles, data and experiments: start with a vision, run pilots at team… | ||
| Re-designing a service for vulnerable users in a digital age | Andy Kemp, Suzanne How, Chris Brown | 33m |
A government benefit is rebuilt as an online application with instant decision online form and a prepaid contactless card that reloads every four weeks… | ||
| Design your thinking | Justyna Pindel | 39m |
Uses the nine‑dot puzzle to prove adults lose creative options and shows the practical five‑stage Design Thinking loop combined with Lean Startup speed. Walks… | ||
| Neuroscience for Product Managers | Anna Obukhova | 50m |
Product managers need far more than willpower: the talk claims an 65–75% energy requirement (vs ~33% average office energy) to do insight work and value… | ||
| Establishing Business Agility at the Bank | Dee Wauchope, Julian Holmes | 46m |
A 12‑month, hands‑on engagement begins with a six‑week discovery at a globally systemically important bank that faces millions‑of‑euros reporting… | ||
| Thinking more product: Moving from Scrum to dual-track Agile | Suzanna Haworth | 34m |
A London retail case moves from Scrum to dual-track Agile with separate discovery (Kanban) and delivery (two-week Scrum) backlogs, extracting UX/design into a… | ||
| Learning from industry: Product Management practices for the win | Liz Love | 32m |
Argues that roadmaps must minimize business risk by tying every item to company goals and OKRs, and recommends ditching timeline Gantt charts in favor of a… | ||
| Pragmatic Agile at scale with safety-critical products | Rick Crawford | 28m |
A team runs computational models of graphite cores to feed safety cases for EDF Energy and responds to ONR queries; work covers six of eight stations and a… | ||
| Agile on the Beach Highlights | 02m | |
Two-day conference draws about 400 attendees and runs 50 seminars and workshops alongside a beach party and expo, mixing practical agile practices with… | ||
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