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Announcing the Lightning Talks' line-up…

30 August 2014 – Posted by Gillian Clark

Following our call last week for Lightning Talk submissions for the 4.30-5.30pm session in the Angus Room on Wednesday, here’s the line-up. Eight talks, each five minutes max… and yes, one speaker does only have one slide!

Gillian Clark, HYPR
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) – Is this just Agile by numbers (and not really agile at all)?


Gareth Evans, HYPR
Lean Architecture – Why we need new architectural approaches to solve today’s
 problems

Joe Auslander, Fiserv
Getting sick makes more productive teams


Russell Manning, Spark Ventures
Putting the agile in spark

Mawarny Md Rejab, Victoria University of Wellington
Coordinating roles outside Agile teams


Nigel Charman, Assurity
Visual Specification By Example


Nick Allan, Nick Allan Marketing
Project Managers kill team engagement. And kill passion. So let’s shoot them 


David Morris, Fiserv
#NoMoreMeetings (Why are there too many meetings in Scrum, or Who ate my 80 hours?)

Open Space

We also have an Open Space session at 11.30am-12.30pm on Thursday in Rangimarie 1.

Open Space empowers attendees to create their own agenda via the ‘Law of Two Feet’. This means that attendees are free to move to groups where they feel they can best contribute and learn most. Come along and experience how this collaboration style harnesses the power of self-organisation.

About AgileNZ Conference

Following the success of the 2015 Conference, we ran a series of retrospectives and an Impact Mapping session to assess the core purpose, objectives and strengths of the Conference. We also assessed our understanding of the values and needs of the Agile community, which to us is the heartbeat of Agile. We came to an important understanding – that the community is extremely good at grass roots engagement but often lacks the funding and scale to engage international speakers and run a conference of the size of AgileNZ. Assurity Consulting (I am Assurity’s GM for Auckland) provides these things and takes on board all the event risk. Assurity's focus has been – and always will be – 'to deliver the framework for the community to engage'. If you’ve been to Conference before, you’ll understand the effort and organisation that goes into using that framework to make the event so successful. In 2016, we’re committing to creating a community-based Speaker Submissions Panel. In addition, I’d love to hear about any ideas you have to continue growing this exception community event.
— Edwin Dando, Conference Chair