AgileByExample 2025
2025-10-06..2025-10-08
Warsaw, Poland
[AgileByExample 2013, AgileByExample 2016, AgileByExample 2024, AgileByExample 2025]
who it's for
agile coaches, product managers, engineering managers, engineering leaders, delivery leads, scrum masters, organizational designers
topics
TPS and agile integration; Five Stanchions governance; evidence-based management goals; Wardley mapping for strategy; kanban boards for operations; organizational impediment backlog; flow metrics to product KPIs; probabilistic forecasting from Jira; WIP=1 per epic delivery; automated test blast radius; vibe coding and conversational programming; human-centric development augmented by AI
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| TPS first: A Blueprint for Smarter Delivery | James Hartley | 47m |
Claims that TPS and Agile can be combined and then shows concrete outcomes: an off‑the‑shelf sales platform gets 84% customization, triggers a TBP root‑cause… | ||
| Govern with Agility | Phil Gadzinski, Tony Ponton | 01h 07m |
Claim: governance must stop being a fixed choke point and become five movable controls called the Five Stanchions — conductive leadership, sensible… | ||
| Ethical Leadership in a Data-driven World | Patricia Kong | 50m |
Argues that dashboards and productivity metrics shift from insight to control and shows a concrete rescue: apply Evidence-Based Management and the five Vs… | ||
| Discussion panel | Tomasz Wykowski | 46m |
Panel argues agile still matters but must stop being a one‑size‑fits‑all prescription and instead apply appropriate methods to context; MVP is widely misused… | ||
| Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones | Simon Wardley | 01h 08m |
Uses Wardley Mapping to turn assumptions into positions on a map, exposing a custom‑rack detail that saves about £8 million in 5 minutes and a government… | ||
| A True Story of Agile Coaching in Ukrainian Armed Forces | Dmytro Yarmak | 38m |
A software Agile coach becomes a company commander for a company of 150 soldiers and applies concrete practices: Kanban boards for task and vacation tracking… | ||
| Resilience with Agility | Petra Skapa | 36m |
Argues that agility is the way to make organizations resilient to unpredictable change, not just a checklist; shows concrete practices that work and those that… | ||
| Be Water My Friend | Michal Nowak | 38m |
SmartRecruiters cancels its roadmap and pauses new development for a quarter to reorient around AI, then builds Winston and restructures R&D (~200 people) into… | ||
| Leading When the Terrain is Clear but the People Aren’t | Krzysztof Daniel | 36m |
Uses Wardley Mapping to show specific failure modes: bonuses and KPIs split decisions, marketing insight adds an auditability requirement that rules out cheap… | ||
| How to Communicate Metrics to Build Engagement | Justyna Rędzikowska | 20m |
Uses 12 rules of measurement from Management 3.0, starts with cycle time and throughput and fixes data quality by getting the team to update Jira. Teaches… | ||
| From Flow Metrics to Product KPIs | Peter Zylka-Greger, Benjamin Huser-Berta | 21m |
Links strategic KPIs to delivery by scoring ideas with an ICE score, mapping them into KPI trees, and forecasting delivery with probabilistic forecasting… | ||
| Problems and Decisions: Balance Between Thinking and Acting | Grzegorz Miejski | 17m |
Built a phone voice channel for an AI agent hits unacceptable latency because LLM/STT/TTS providers lack SLAs and the platform is optimized for throughput not… | ||
| Human Centric Software Development Augmented by AI | Terry Yin | 40m |
Six-month engagement embeds AI agents into a microservice‑heavy legacy codebase, investing about one month to enable local dev, deterministic repos and… | ||
| How We Transformed Strategy and Aligned the Company | Adam Myszak, Kamil Cupiał | 20m |
Vasco consolidates 300 scattered projects into a single strategy on a page, trims the active list to about 30 items, and runs three company-wide planning… | ||
| Gamify the Metrics, Amplify the Impact | Maria Ghlonti | 12m |
Three concrete experiments that moved metrics from dead dashboards to action: renamed OKRs to "goals and key metrics" to get three interrelated teams aligned… | ||
| "Self-Designing Teams" Workshop | Krzysztof Niewiński | 20m |
Case study at G2A shows 70 people self-restructure after a three‑month preparation into 11 teams (seven feature teams plus four component teams kept for… | ||
| From Promises to Value, Lessons from the Product Frontline | Anna Zarudzka | 40m |
Company story spans 18 years and ~100 products, grows from ~50 to 208 people, then hits 2023 crisis where lost 3 of 5 clients exposes that product roles sat in… | ||
| Charting the Strategic Waters: From Pancakes to Clear Paths | Mateusz Grabowski | 36m |
Reframes strategy as a design process that starts with challenges not goals, using Rumelt’s kernel: diagnosis, guiding policy, coherent actions; practical… | ||
| How TOC & CCPM Shifted Our Agile Mindset | Marta Orbitowska, Kerstin Zulechner | 21m |
Applied Theory of Constraints and CCPM across the portfolio starting March 2024, limit WIP to match the system constraint (architects), and enforce daily… | ||
| Lightning talks – Jakub Szczepanik | Jakub Szczepanik | 06m |
Argues that fully utilized teams are ineffective and cites a consulting case with at least 25% improvement potential after reducing overload. Recommends… | ||
| Lightning talks – Katarzyna Mydło | Katarzyna Mydło | 05m |
A construction surveying crew runs a cadence built on one notebook for all incoming requests, a 7:00 start with a daily five‑minute planning walk‑through, and… | ||
| Lightning talks – Konrad Gniazdowski | Konrad Gniazdowski | 07m |
A short workshop that turns vague worries into actionable priorities: teams use a physical pinch to calibrate a 1–9 discomfort scale, silently repeat the… | ||
| Lightning talks – Michał Moroz | Michał Moroz | 06m |
Lists eleven specific answer types to yes/no questions including false dichotomy, partial mixes like 20% B 80% A and a category that rejects the question as… | ||
| How Stoic Perspective Empowers Agile Leadership | M. Baran, Z. Konarska | 22m |
Asserts that meaning is a condition of survival and that three Stoic practices — prosoché (mindful attentiveness), arete (definition of done as non‑negotiable… | ||
| Designing an Organization, Lessons from scaling technical orgs | Łukasz Szóstek | 39m |
Claims that an entire org can be redesigned and that smaller changes can reliably stick with more discipline; proven across two scale-ups over four years (one… | ||
| Ok, I flipped to LeSS and now what? | Adam Piekarczyk, Oskar Szewczyk | 35m |
A cross-functional pilot proves LeSS can work so the company flips 60% of staff and forms eight product teams while keeping job safety; teams adopt two-week… | ||
| Facilitating “Quick Waterfall” to Value-Driven Agile | S. Martyshko, J. Beckers | 31m |
Argues that shifting a big waterfall program to agile fails unless value is managed end to end, with concrete steps: baseline then track through the quarter… | ||
| Lightning talks – Łukasz Filut | Łukasz Filut | 05m |
Coaches and scrum masters must measure their own impact not just hope it exists; a mentee facing layoffs builds a change registry listing every facilitation or… | ||
| nothing matches | ||