Agile on the Beach 2024
2024-07-04..2024-07-05
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Highlights video 2024 | 02m | |
A fast-paced highlights reel that shows festival-style energy, brisk clips of talks and panels, and candid networking at Falmouth University, celebrating… | ||
| Welcome to | 12m | |
Opening remarks give practical details and measurable facts: shuttle to the beach party starts at 6:30, coaches leave the beach at 9:45 and the boat coach… | ||
| Hate scaling and racial dehumanization: the real risks from large sc... | Dr Abeba Birhane | 01h 00m |
Audit of web-scale training data shows problems worsen with scale: comparing LAION-400M to LAION-2B, automated sentiment classifiers find more targeted hateful… | ||
| Scaling like a Silicon Valley startup | Janet Bumpas | 58m |
Argues that Silicon Valley scale comes from a product operating model of empowered teams using continuous product Discovery and delivery, not more features… | ||
| (Sponsor Talk) Tech Cornwall | Nikki Davies | 28m |
Tech Cornwall says the tech talent gap is being closed with hands‑on programs: a youth Mission to Mars robots program teaches Python and Arduino on rover… | ||
| (Sponsor Talk) Zoho Projects | Joshia S, Fahad Zeen | 05m |
Company-built agile tool Zoho Sprints claims to be a lightweight, scalable planner and tracker used internally at Zoho and offered to customers; Zoho reports… | ||
| (Sponsor Talk) Qase | Glen Holmes | 04m |
Qase is a test management and automation platform that claims to remove release subjectivity by tying requirements to test cases and showing which tests ran… | ||
| Return of the rockstars? Building great teams in challenging times | Stephen Janaway | 58m |
A cautionary case study describes a “Bob” whose stakeholder-loved work is unmaintainable and is later mostly rewritten, and argues against re-creating that… | ||
| Goodbye from | Gwen Diagram | 16m |
Announces logistics and outcomes: boat party uses blue wristbands and a larger boat called Enterprise, checkout is 10:00 a.m., and feedback closes tonight… | ||
| 40 million students in eight months - product lessons from teaching the world t... | Daniel Merriman | 39m |
Led a full curriculum overhaul on typing.com mapped to US grade standards, built thousands of lesson lines, multimedia and teacher/admin UX, and launched… | ||
| The product confidence trap | Stuart Munton | 47m |
A practical framework for escaping the “product confidence trap” maps four discovery cycles—strategy, opportunity, solution, delivery—and insists on tight… | ||
| Wading through treacle: why bother being a product manager in the... | Simon Manby, Caroline Hufton | 43m |
Product work at the Ministry of Justice focuses on remaking an end-to-end public service for mental capacity over a decade rather than chasing quick wins… | ||
| Give your product a UX design healthcheck | Jenny Bjorkman | 36m |
A quick, practical checklist for pages: ask what is this about, why should I care, what should I do next and fix anything that fails those tests. Shows live… | ||
| Painful outcomes - 7 mistakes I made in the shift to value led development | Holly Donohue | 46m |
Seven concrete mistakes and pragmatic fixes for shifting to outcome‑led work: using discovery used as weapon to disprove executives (instead, buy time or build… | ||
| I set fire to millions of Expedia's dollars and all I got was this talk | Derek Zumsteg | 45m |
Team builds a flights‑first package flow after paper prototypes and an AB test, writes a 109‑page product spec, runs a premortem, and launches a year later… | ||
| Product management dark patterns | Neha Datt, Marcel Britsch | 47m |
Covers four product anti-patterns—innovation, personalization, algorithmic automation, and customer acquisition—using concrete examples: Cambridge Analytica’s… | ||
| How do we do product at Spotify | Rachel Dubois | 52m |
Spotify focuses on tiny, measurable bets: start with 7% monthly users 3% paying, spot a concrete failure (31k daily signups with 75% drop in a form field)… | ||
| From chaos to calm: four techniques to actually carve out time to create impact... | Evie Brockwell | 45m |
Shows a concrete method to carve time: map five real calendar activities, pick five high-impact ones, then apply four levers —… | ||
| Don't go chasing waterfalls - stick to the experiments that will guide you | Vinnie Gill | 44m |
A case study of targeted experiments: an initial two-day Big Bang launch leaves little traction, so an entry email plus visible Kanban on Mural and volunteer… | ||
| The risks of performative psychological safety | Clara Bettina Behrmann | 46m |
Argues that quick trust rituals like trust-circle sharing and “tell your darkest secret” exercises produce short-term connection but routinely overstep… | ||
| Building inclusive Agile teams: ending the pain of periods | Maddie Clingan, Marion Peters | 41m |
Survey of 200+ respondents finds menstrual issues affect work: 98% report some impact, pain is top and most severe for 40% and 60% took at least one day off in… | ||
| Balancing individual team flow with cross-team collaboration | Andy Nesling | 46m |
Building a robotic vacuum with roughly 20 teams across four countries exposes that splitting work via Team Topologies reduces local cognitive load but not… | ||
| You don't talk about that at work | Sophie Küster | 44m |
Personal account of severe depression, eating disorder, cancer and 11.5 weeks in hospital leads to ten concrete lessons: openness often prompts others to… | ||
| Harmony in innovation - building stronger engineer-product relationships | Erin Geoghan | 38m |
Argues that weak product–engineering ties, not Agile itself, break delivery and shows concrete fixes: a homegrown competency model (started in Google Sheets) +… | ||
| Continuous communication in the heat of battle | Veerle Verhagen | 46m |
Line‑fighting analogies show that focusing on fast, local communication turns mediocre individual performers into a reliable unit: after prioritising… | ||
| My unusual toolbox as a scrum master and Agile coach | Artur Margonari | 47m |
Ten pragmatic tools for coaches and Scrum Masters: a my own backlog board with weekly one‑week sprints making consultant work visible; a meeting killer Miro… | ||
| Keys in the fridge and other sage advice for neuroinclusion | Trudy Ward | 44m |
One story: a partner puts keys on top of lunchbox in the fridge so lunch isn’t forgotten — concrete low-effort accommodations that work. Covers nervous-system… | ||
| Going digital at his majesty's passport office - from zero to 1... | Sarah Ravenhill, Caitlin Smith | 40m |
HMPO replaces a paper-driven passport process (50M passports in circulation, ~7M applications/year) by building a steel thread, 50+ microservices and CI/CD and… | ||
| Decoding the algorithm - why explainability and transparency matter when buildin... | Marcel Britsch | 47m |
Explains why algorithmic decisions matter for high‑stakes use cases and what was built: a machine‑marking English assessment with human-in-the-loop controls… | ||
| Stop calling it technical debt and listen to your engineers | Habs Kim | 46m |
Argues that “technical debt” is a lazy label and urges quantifying business value and risk, showing concrete wins like changing a lead form that boosts… | ||
| Safe havens and trojan horses | Eddie Kenny | 46m |
Argues that SAFe often looks terrible because organizations misapply it, not because the framework forbids engineering practices, and recommends using SAFe as… | ||
| Embracing adaptability - Agile for resilience | Simon Gill | 45m |
Small business product turnaround sits at about 10 days but a disruption doubles that in 16 weeks and recovery to regain eight days takes 26 weeks. The… | ||
| It's simply not that simple - navigating complexity with curiosity and connectio... | Valerie McLean | 42m |
Argues that command and control fails in complex adaptive systems and offers a practical leadership Loop that teams actually used to rescue an electric car… | ||
| Agile by nature: exploring beekeeping's secrets for Agility | Mick Brain | 40m |
Linking bee science to team practice with concrete takeaways: bees encode distance and direction in the waggle dance and make group choices by a quorum (e.g… | ||
| Modern economics for sustainable product development | Maryse Meinen | 45m |
A practical method adapts Doughnut Economics into a Donut Product Strategy with three principles, seven practices and the mantra you ain't gonna need it and it… | ||
| Fund products - start an evolution | Dan Gibson | 49m |
Annual budgeting and project-based funding block agility and cause team churn; the proposal is to fund teams not projects by using the annual pot to create… | ||
| Application security loves Agile | Gerald Benischke | 45m |
Argument: application security works by adopting agile habits not buying big tools. Real findings: ~5,000 known vulnerabilities across 230 projects, CVSS… | ||
| Moving from spaghetti infrastructure to composable cloud environments | Kief Morris | 48m |
A diagnosis and practical path out of tangled infra as code: large terraform projects (one case with 60 MySQL RDS instances that made terraform apply two… | ||
| Mastering visual communication for software design | Jacqui Read | 46m |
Claims visual communication is a core skill and gives concrete patterns and anti‑patterns: prefer the C4 split of context/container over mixed abstraction… | ||
| Decoding paradoxes: why are many good ideas in software delivery counter intuitive | Hibri Marzook | 47m |
Argues that more frequent deployment improves quality because it shortens feedback loops and reduces batch size, demonstrated by a causal model where larger… | ||
| Security from zero | Eleanor Saitta | 48m |
Targeted at teams with ~10–200 engineers, this gives concrete starting moves: adopt YubiKeys (U2F) for phishing resistance, centralize logs and use canaries… | ||
| Continuous integration - that's not what they meant | Clare Sudbery | 46m |
Claim: true continuous integration means everyone commits to mainline daily, each commit triggers automated build and tests, and failures return to green… | ||
| Data needs testing too | Ron Ballard | 46m |
A practical playbook for treating data like code: load messy files into Postgres with Postgres COPY, profile a 26,000-row contact file to spot a unique… | ||
| Data science & Agility at Springer Nature | Charles Kubicek | 44m |
Springer Nature moves from ad hoc dumps to production-ready pipelines by making source teams publish data as a product with metadata, contracts and… | ||
| Building software products distilled: customer value, engineering and delivery | Jim Barritt | 47m |
Frames product, delivery and engineering around a central customer and argues XP-era practices still win: TDD plus pair programming (or mob) shapes design and… | ||
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