Agile on the Beach 2023
2023-07-06..2023-07-07
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Outcome-based product planning | Jeff Gothelf | 53m |
Argues for planning toward behavior change not features, presents a one-page outcome roadmap with quarterly key results and a backlog of hypotheses, and uses… | ||
| Building a data mesh | Charles Kubicek | 48m |
Springer Nature moves from siloed reports to a domain‑owned data mesh built on BigQuery and DBT, with a thin self‑serve platform (Terraform, Cloud Run, catalog… | ||
| Changing minds, you can, but should you? | Elizabeth Ayer | 48m |
Argues that more influence is not always better and proposes an ethical spectrum that places coercion at one end and co‑design at the other, with ADKAR and… | ||
| The 10 vicious circles at work: detecting and breaking them up | Artur Margonari | 48m |
Lists ten concrete downward spirals (abbreviations breeding confusion, Scrum Master as single point of failure, messy boards, 25‑person teams hiring weekly… | ||
| Emotional intelligence - the missing skills in your product stack | Kate Leto | 52m |
Argues that emotional intelligence matters more than technique, citing a 1918 survey of 30,000 engineers where character outranked technical skill, and modern… | ||
| So you’ve built it, now support it! Doing the gardening | Stephen Janaway | 44m |
Company moves from a tiny co‑located team to 60 technologists across three brands and eight countries and replaces ad hoc fixes with a Slack-driven internal… | ||
| Agility in Sales: A reboot of business development | Brent Hurley | 36m |
Four case studies show concrete moves: form cross-functional pods combining sales, marketing and BDR; add customer success to upsell unused features; measure… | ||
| The impostors guide to tooting your own horn | Sophie Küster | 35m |
Firsthand account of how imposter syndrome shows up as crippling self-doubt, procrastination and avoidance, with concrete tactics that have repeatedly worked… | ||
| Prioritising comfy seats but not the engine - Things product owners need to know... | Andrew Nesling | 41m |
Dyson moves from a round 360i through a 360 Heurist to a new D-shaped vacuum, discovering major technical debt where code and assumptions expect a circular… | ||
| Winning at Continuous Deployment: The Art of Safe Contract Changes | Chris Simon | 48m |
Shows a concrete failure mode when changing an API and a schema during rolling deploys: a demo web app on AWS (deployed with CDK) swaps a single "name" field… | ||
| Continuous improvement by the numbers, & the culture | Ramsay Ashby, Jack Spencer | 45m |
Skyscanner builds a delivery-metrics workflow: starts with manual Excel, pilots PlanDeck across ~15 squads (≈10 engaged), then scales via cohorts into tribes… | ||
| What does a 'good' product manager look like, anyways? | Emily Tate | 39m |
Argues that “great” PMs aren’t lone geniuses but blends of three archetypes — strategic, creative, executor — and that greatness comes from team composition… | ||
| Unlocking technical excellence as a business advantage | Mattia Battiston | 45m |
giffgaff scales 4 million customers with under 250 people by treating engineering habits as strategy: daily deployments of a monolith start a 2019… | ||
| What Agile can learn from lean manufacturing, and viceversa | Andrea Provagilo | 44m |
Compares a gas-regulator factory that assembles one unit every 30 seconds using staged stations, automated camera QA and a pressure test chamber, with software… | ||
| Unlearning how to write | Emily King | 44m |
Argues that teams must unlearn academic and business-speak and measure readability instead: average worker sees 20 IMs + 32 emails/day, so long dense writing… | ||
| Honey, I shrunk the backlog | Allan Kelly | 47m |
Argues for deliberately deleting large product backlogs roughly every three months and replacing them with OKR-driven, just-in-time story generation: use… | ||
| From chaos to control, applying Lean methods to cyber-physical systems | Lyndsay Prewer | 46m |
A large e‑commerce sorter starts at ~5,000 cartons/day with 30% jackpot (recirculation/no‑reads) and is driven down to ~3–5% over ten months by joining… | ||
| Creating flow at Waters out of thin air | Matt Turner, Kieran Neeson | 44m |
Claim: small, low‑cost experiments with willing innovators create enterprise flow and measurable value. Uses Monte Carlo forecasting and internal scientist… | ||
| Using the Agile coaching growth wheel | Bethan Mackintosh | 39m |
Scrum Alliance’s Agile Coaching Growth Wheel is applied at Just Eat Takeaway to make coaching skills concrete: nine competencies and five skill levels map to… | ||
| When product teams don’t fully understand ‘value’ | Neha Datt | 43m |
A sustainable-fashion site faces a 50% reduction in revenue during COVID and an investor who insists on checkout UI changes; the team implements a hypothesis… | ||
| Weaving quality into your product | Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory | 53m |
A practical recipe for weaving quality into a product lifecycle using a holistic testing model that maps discovery, plan, build, deploy and observe to concrete… | ||
| Embedded cultural assumptions: how to annoy and insult your users in one easy step | Julia Hayward | 49m |
Examples: government tax-credit letters arrive addressed to "Mr Julia" because the form only accepts Mrs or Miss, the kennel club rejects the 38th repeated dog… | ||
| Diversity and dissent: why they are important and how to use them to find effe... | Richard Collings | 48m |
Argues that disasters from Challenger to Tenerife and USS Greenville share the same failure: experts in the room aren’t heard, so unknown knowns stay hidden… | ||
| Estimates and complexity: a tale in 42 and a half minutes | Gary Fleming | 46m |
Claims that time-based estimates are mostly waste and urges slice into small deliverables so teams deliver value fast, build trust and get flow; rejects story… | ||
| My three favourite product discovery mistakes | Laura Morgan | 37m |
Three reproducible mistakes: running an AB test shows more donations but less revenue because the chosen metric (count of donations) ignores average gift… | ||
| Experiences scaling a modular monolith to microservices using the 4+1 views | Chis Simon | 48m |
Start by mapping bounded contexts in the logical view and treat those boundaries as the true units of autonomy; enforce inter-context communication via message… | ||
| The metric in the middle | Eddie Kenny | 44m |
Argues that one clear metric—release frequency—sits at the centre of judging agility, not sprawling dashboards from JIRA or PowerBI; measure how often working… | ||
| Squads assemble! keeping engagement high when teams go remote... | Ella Schofield, Stephen Janaway | 45m |
Bloom and Wild moves a 50‑person engineering org split into six squads to a quarterly face‑to‑face ritual called Squads Assemble that targets team building… | ||
| Uno! Winning at product discovery | Inês Liberato | 39m |
Defines a concrete playbook: assess the four pillars—business, cycles, people, systems—then pick a tiny starter (newsletter or one team), use Miro/Jira/Google… | ||
| Six small steps towards continuous delivery | Phil Parker | 46m |
Six concrete practices: start with portable checks so developers run fast local tests and simulators pre-integration; produce a golden artifact from a… | ||
| Agility in non software teams, lessons from the front lines | Phil Thompson | 45m |
Five practical lessons: get an explicit invitation to instruct before changing HR, finance or legal routines; choose the right tool for the job (don’t force… | ||
| From Agile coach to manager. And back. Or did I go back | Gitte Klitgaard | 45m |
Leaves a coaching practice to become half coach half manager at a startup scaling from ~20 to ~400 people, runs big‑room planning, creates a mental‑health… | ||
| Stop to diss ability: the web is designed for all | Madita Schubert | 39m |
Proposes treating people as active users who use remaining senses or body parts (see example duck Jimmy) and building an active product with reusable support… | ||
| Why your best engineers should look after the worst systems | Gerald Benischke | 40m |
Claim: systems with 70 monoliths and only single-digit test coverage require senior engineers because changes need archaeology, readable tests and operability… | ||
| The circle of life: lessons learned from killing services | Anne Dhir | 44m |
Services accumulate hidden costs and risks: GDPR fines reach £8.7m or 2% of turnover, cloud emissions already hit 2.1–3.9% of global CO2 (projected to 14% by… | ||
| Get where you want to go : a forward focussed approach to coaching | John Clapham | 42m |
Solution‑focused coaching reframes stuck conversations by prioritising a clear direction over problem analysis and using small, repeatable moves to generate… | ||
| Once more with feeling: the role of emotions in design | Kerrie Hughes | 41m |
Argues that emotions drive 90–95% of decisions and that emotionally engaged customers are three times more likely to repurchase or recommend, with… | ||
| Wish you were here! A brain based exploration of remote work | Ceri Newton-Sargunar | 57m |
Explains why remote work ramps subconscious panic via the amygdala and cortisol, cites a 250% increase in online meetings since 2017, and shows concrete fixes… | ||
| Highlights video | 01m | |
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