Agile on the Beach 2025
2025-07-03..2025-07-04
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Beyond “Just Try Harder”- Three effective strategies to tackle bugs | Andy Weir | 42m |
Shows how a health‑tech platform cuts bugs by changing the system not people: shrinks a 30‑minute test suite into one minute local / five minute pipeline… | ||
| Migrating from a monolith to a new service | Connell Sharp | 40m |
Story of extracting moderator messaging from a monolith into a standalone microservice: the team moved data to a new database, rebuilt the small dashboard… | ||
| Making Learning Conscious — How and why to build a learning culture | Clare Sudbery | 45m |
Advocates dedicating 10% time (or 20% where possible) and running internal training like a paid 12-week academy or apprenticeships to seed XP practices, TDD… | ||
| When your company cosplays as your friend | Neha Datt | 57m |
Companies act like friends to increase productivity and profit, and that gap produces real harms: a Silicon Valley analyst loses job and health insurance in… | ||
| What we learnt from rescuing a mammoth technology integration | Stephen Janaway | 45m |
A large subscription migration at Bloom and Wild moves customers off a legacy PHP app Bloomappy onto a single multibrand backend, unlocking mobile apps and… | ||
| How Product & Data Science collaborated to halve classification costs | Kunal Ahluwalia | 38m |
A product–data team uses ChatGPT via Azure OpenAI, a local encoder and a Gen X evaluation tool to build a prompt‑engineered production pipeline that ranks… | ||
| From vision to impact - the strategy sprint | Rachel Dubois | 45m |
A lightweight, repeatable Strategy Sprint compresses strategy formulation into a five-day sprint that combines Google Ventures’ Design Sprint structure with… | ||
| Strike plates and handles: UX, doors and a desperate need for cake | David Broomfield | 41m |
Examples show small fixes beat more features: a cafe repaint adds push plates that cause customers to pull and stumble, proving affordance overwrites… | ||
| Scaling delivery management for 50 teams | Francesca Salvati | 31m |
Scales delivery management for 50 teams using a three-part model: minimum delivery service coverage (metrics, health checks, planning, backlog management), ad… | ||
| Applying Agile to Community-Building: Bromford's Place-Based Initiative | Paul Taylor | 36m |
Bromford shifts from siloed services to cross-functional, place-based pilots across four archetypes (high-demand suburb, affluent newer area, remote rural… | ||
| Platform-as-a-product from the trenches | Cat Morris | 48m |
Gartner prediction of 80% by 2026 and Accelerate’s finding of an 8% decrease in throughput frame a cautionary case for internal platforms. Real projects… | ||
| Less about tests more about testability - a tester in the platform engineering world | Cristiano Cunha | 51m |
A platform team converts operations into an agile product, defines SLAs/SLOs (99% uptime targets) and enforces blueprint YAML contract files that list… | ||
| Why keeping your system secure is a bit like decluttering | Elinor Ní Chatháin | 47m |
Engineering team turns a multi-year legacy cleanup into everyday habits: they catalogue hundreds of servers (more servers than employees), assign owners, and… | ||
| Navigating the triangle of tension - wants, needs, and feasibility in product management | Faye Benfield | 40m |
Argues that the Triangle of Tension (wants, needs, feasibility) is a dynamic to embrace and offers concrete tools: stakeholder mapping and engagement plans… | ||
| Building a laser for a scientific research facility - without a playbook | David Michel | 37m |
Built a 20 m pulse laser delivering 10 Hz 10 ns 100 J pulses (~10 GW peak) for a £10M UK→Prague installation, with a control system tying cameras, PLCs, motor… | ||
| Crossing the transformation finish line | Sarah, Caitlin | 27m |
A clear case study of HMPO moving from backlog to sustainable product delivery: a 500,000-application backlog triggers an eight-year transformation that prints… | ||
| From chaos to complexity | Taidhgh O'Regan | 32m |
A troubled £70 million programme that centralises roughly 450 roles produces 800+ customisations and a backlog of 700+ undelivered items; a recovery effort… | ||
| Calm in the chaos - a stoic guide to leading in the Permacrisis | Ceri Newton-Sargunar | 43m |
Argues that the ongoing “permacrisis” chronically triggers a flip-lid state that shuts down the prefrontal cortex (neuroscience, hand-as-brain model, imaging… | ||
| It’s all invented! How our personal narratives shape the future of our products | Kate Leto | 01h 12m |
Argues that workplace narratives literally shape product outcomes and offers concrete tools: neuroscience-framed coaching, a story tracker benchmark, Cartman’s… | ||
| Free your mind and the rest will follow - delete your backlog | Christopher May | 50m |
Argues for a radical “spring clean”: export a backup, delete your backlog and restart with a slim, strategy‑aligned list; uses a simple now/next/later cadence… | ||
| Beyond Discovery: A Service Designer's Guide to Agile Delivery | Christine Browne, Louise Mushet | 43m |
Practical playbook for staying in delivery: seven practical tools that include logging assumptions, mapping user stories to journeys, rapid prototyping in… | ||
| Taking the blame out of our data transformation | Charles Kubichek, Victoria Wiggins | 34m |
Two case studies show a practical technique called the three frenemies (judgments, assumptions, expectations) used over five years to stop blame and share… | ||
| (Sponsor Talk) Zoho Projects 2025 | Sriram Shridhan | 07m |
Zoho Sprints claims to be a single‑page agile PM tool that scaled a 2020 NHS vaccination booking rollout at Hanley Consulting, eliminating tool sprawl and… | ||
| Feedback loops save lives - a frontline combat medic perspective | Matt Spruce | 46m |
Frontline medics shorten feedback from six months to one-week video feedback and iterate kit in weeks, turning an off‑the‑shelf Combat Application Tourniquet… | ||
| Lizard Optimization | Gojko Adzic | 53m |
Lizard Optimization claims that logging user dead ends and combining cheap observability with quick product experiments surfaces hidden value and abuse that… | ||
| Easy riders - how Dutch Railways made bike sharing a big hit | Veerle Verhagen | 49m |
Dutch Railways makes bikes available at almost every station by using guarded parking and the OV chip card to start and stop rentals; the platform handles… | ||
| Zero-bug policy success | Peter Hilton | 51m |
A small remote startup fixes roughly 250 bugs through 2024, reaches zero-bug day after two intense months, then sustains near-zero backlog with 50% focus on… | ||
| Secure by design - the secret weapon of high-performing organisations | Jeremy, Robert | 34m |
Claims that embedding secure, trustworthy and resilient design across four steps — organisational policy, cultural adoption, design-time security in agile… | ||
| First Steps towards an Agile NHS | Robert Macadam | 40m |
A Mersey & West Lancashire Acute Trust runs Agile courses trust‑wide in 2024, taught by a clinician‑certified scrum master, and partners with Scrum Inc and the… | ||
| A journey to disaster | Martin Whittington | 46m |
Bloom and Wild treats disaster recovery as a repeatable engineering problem: they run quarterly game days that attempt to rebuild production in a new region… | ||
| The Walls and the turrets: Engage and enable your engineers | Dan Abel | 48m |
Conference data shows only 19% of developers report job satisfaction, so the actionable plan here matters: start beginners with strong onboarding that gets… | ||
| Beyond borders - navigating cultural challenges | Manuela Raidl | 44m |
Claims that Erin Meyer’s Culture Map reliably predicts eight team friction points and that using her country mapping tool turns hidden assumptions into clear… | ||
| How psychological safety at Rowe helped me to release my true self | Terri Lamerton | 43m |
Rowe creates a workplace where a long-hidden transition happens openly: a staff member tests reactions by playing murder-mystery Cadence in a Teams event, then… | ||
| Ask Me Anything - AI – Oliver Brand | Oliver Brand | 27m |
Collecting Cars uses Gemini for content, GitHub Copilot and Cursor with Claude/Gemini models for development, and reports 30% of our live code originates from… | ||
| Long-lived teams are damaging to your organisation | Alun Coppack | 47m |
Argues that stable long-lived teams often stop adding value and lists six failure modes with concrete examples: Blockbuster, Kodak and a time‑sheet product… | ||
| Ask Me Anything - AI – Tim Howard | Tim Howard | 29m |
Defra reports moving policy compatibility checks from months to days by prototyping GenAI agents, proves delivery speedups (audited metric: 26 minutes per user… | ||
| Agile on the Beach Highlights 2025 | 02m | |
Conference highlight reel focused on community and vibes rather than concrete practices or outcomes, showing attendees praising workshops and keynotes, the… | ||
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