Agile and DevOps during the lifecycle of developing a digital service
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We're excited to announce a joint meetup between Agile Sheffield and Sheffield DevOps.
In this event we will describe how Agile ways of working are introduced through a typical digital delivery project and how they work to support DevOps in the build of a digital service.
The event will be hosted by Richard Joseph from Agile Sheffield and Jared Holgate from Sheffield DevOps.
Richard is an experienced Agile Coach, with a wealth of experience working across the UK in the public sector and providing training and coaching services to many companies in Sheffield.
Jared is an experienced DevOps engineer currently working for Microsoft.
Doors open at 6pm, for meet & greet & networking with pizza and beverages kindly provided by our hosts at BJSS.
The session will start at 6:30 and we should be all wrapped up by 8:30pm.
In the world of Agile coaching, consultancy, transformation there has always been a focus on frameworks, models, tools, techniques and other concepts and activities concerned with the immediate implementation of agility.
What is often missing is a sense of practice, and by this I do not mean the day to day practice of doing the work we need to do—although that as well, without a doubt—but something more like meta-practice, ways of operating, ways of engaging that encompass not only the action of doing but a spirit of being—essentially the spirit of being agile.
About Tobias
Tobias Mayer is a long-term citizen of the Agile space, a writer, mentor, teacher and speaker. He is committed to the liberation of the corporate workplace, and to that end frequently thinks, talks, writes and offers workshops to inspire grass-roots initiative. Tobias has a varied and ragged past, including many years as a software developer and tester. He continually seeks to live an integrated life. Read more on his website: https://tobiasmayer.uk.
Novembers Agile Sheffield is going to be delivered by Becky Leggett of Joule Digital.
It's going to be an interactive session to explore some techniques for delving deeper into team working practices and challenges, and to help teams have the more complex conversations needed to enable successful team working and product delivery.
It's a lighter hearted session and is based on Becky's own experience.
Becky is an agile coach and delivery consultant, who has supported organisations and teams to learn about agile, adopt agile practices and deliver digital products over the past 15 years.
Doors open at 6pm, for meet & greet & networking with pizza and beverages kindly provided by our hosts at BJSS.
The session will start at 6:30 and we should be all wrapped up by 8:30pm.
Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don’t tell you!
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In a viable, deliberately adaptive organisation, how do the relationships between different organisational scales work?
Or the same question, but for the networked organisation?
And what does that mean for me?
Drawn from the Agendashift Academy’s latest module “Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale”, this new talk integrates systems, complexity, and flow thinking (models such as the viable system model, the Cynefin framework, and Flight Levels) and shows how that with or without branded frameworks, many scale-related challenges reflect deep organisational imbalances that we can learn to recognise and address.
Feel free to bring your questions and your sharing spirit to this conversation.
About the speaker
Mike Burrows works at the intersection of Lean-Agile, strategy, and organisation development in the pursuit of the ‘wholehearted’ organisation.
He is the author of Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2nd edition 2021), Right to Left: the digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile (2019, audiobook 2020), and the classic Kanban from the Inside (2014).
He is recognised for his pioneering work in Lean, Agile, and Kanban and in recent years his advocacy for participatory and outcome-oriented approaches to change, transformation, and strategy.
Prior to his consulting career, Mike was global development manager and Executive Director at a top tier investment bank, CTO for an energy risk management startup, and later served as interim delivery manager for two UK government digital ‘exemplar’ services.
In our quest to help everyone who is interested in agile ways of working we're continually striving to grow, help and support the agile Sheffield community.
We've always found that some of the events that get the best feedback are those when we open up the floor to our members.
So, for July's agile Sheffield thats exactly what we're going to do. We're planning to run a facilitated discussion on one of three topics that we'd like you to vote on.
The topics are:
Does sizing matter?
A facilitated discussion about whether sizing work matters. Looking to cover:
Should we size stories?
Should we break stories into tasks and size them?
How does sizing work help us?
Is it worth sizing our work?
#NoEstimates movement
Does sizing help the team?
Does sizing really help with planning and forecasting?
Best ways to size work? (What has worked for you and why?)
Estimating when scaling? How should that work?
Stop solutionising! - Is this a good message?
A facilitated discussion about whether solutionising is a good or bad thing. Looking to cover:
Should we stop each other from solutionising?
Why is solutionising a problem? Is it?
When can we / should we solutionise?
Is solutionising the same as designing?
How do you get from an idea to a story?
Projects vs products? Service design & systems thinking.
Is hybrid working good or bad?
A facilitated discussion about whether hybrid working is a good or bad thing. Looking to cover:
Does hybrid working work?
Does hybrid working help or hinder teamwork?
How can we be effective individually when we work remotely?
Can we build a good team culture when working in a hybrid way?
Should we plan / coordinate how / what we work on when we work remotely vs when we are on site?
Let us know which one you'd like our group to discuss by letting us know your preference here: https://forms.gle/uzczCTuDRBiF395JA
We're looking forward to see which is the hot topic, and seeing you on the 6th July!
We'll be welcoming people from 6pm, food and drinks will be provided and we aim to start the discussion at 6:30pm and aim to finish by 8pm. Please notify the organisers if you have any dietary requirements or food allergies.
For those interested in continuing the chat, socialising or networking, after the event we'll head over to a local pub.
In our quest to help everyone who is interested in agile ways of working we're continually striving to grow, help and support the agile Sheffield community.
We've always found that some of the events that get the best feedback are those when we open up the floor to our members.
So, for July's agile Sheffield thats exactly what we're going to do. We're planning to run a facilitated discussion on one of three topics that we'd like you to vote on.
The topics are:
Does sizing matter?
A facilitated discussion about whether sizing work matters. Looking to cover:
Should we size stories?
Should we break stories into tasks and size them?
How does sizing work help us?
Is it worth sizing our work?
#NoEstimates movement
Does sizing help the team?
Does sizing really help with planning and forecasting?
Best ways to size work? (What has worked for you and why?)
Estimating when scaling? How should that work?
Stop solutionising! - Is this a good message?
A facilitated discussion about whether solutionising is a good or bad thing. Looking to cover:
Should we stop each other from solutionising?
Why is solutionising a problem? Is it?
When can we / should we solutionise?
Is solutionising the same as designing?
How do you get from an idea to a story?
Projects vs products? Service design & systems thinking.
Is hybrid working good or bad?
A facilitated discussion about whether hybrid working is a good or bad thing. Looking to cover:
Does hybrid working work?
Does hybrid working help or hinder teamwork?
How can we be effective individually when we work remotely?
Can we build a good team culture when working in a hybrid way?
Should we plan / coordinate how / what we work on when we work remotely vs when we are on site?
Let us know which one you'd like our group to discuss by letting us know your preference here: https://forms.gle/uzczCTuDRBiF395JA
We're looking forward to see which is the hot topic, and seeing you on the 6th July!
We'll be welcoming people from 6pm, food and drinks will be provided and we aim to start the discussion at 6:30pm and aim to finish by 8pm.
For those interested in continuing the chat, socialising or networking, after the event we'll head over to a local pub.
Following on from the session last month on Kanban, this is an interactive and fun session learning about kanban and flow with Featureban.
Featureban is a simple, fun, and highly customisable Kanban simulation game. Since its creation in 2014 it has been used by trainers and coaches in Lean, Agile and Kanban-related events the world over.
Your facilitator for this session is Richard Cornelius, an Enterprise Agile Coach with over a decade of working for some of the worlds largest corporations on their Agile transitions.
*Refreshments and drinks will be provided, please let us know if you an allergy or any dietary requirements.*
Agile Sheffield has adopted the Sheffield Digital code of conduct for events and community meetups: https://sheffield.digital/events/meetup-code-of-conduct/
This interactive presentation will introduce the key roles that are required to enable delivery - Business Analyst, Delivery Manager and Technical Architect. We will explore how these roles work together on an assignment / programme and the impact of when one of the roles is missing.
Be prepared to share your thoughts and experiences on the good, bad and ugly.
Speaker Bio
Nigel Burgin - Agile Delivery Manager & Regional Capability Lead for Sheffield BJSS
Nigel is a Delivery Manager at BJSS and is currently enjoying his 35th year in the Technology Field. During those years he has held a variety of positions, starting as a COBOL Programmer way back in 1988, progressing through what were known as Fourth Generation Languages or 4GLs, and then on to quite different tools such as Borland Delphi and Microsoft Visual Basic, before finally progressing to spend many years working with Microsoft .NET and Software Architecture.
He has worked on many projects in several sectors including Manufacturing, Retail, Enterprise Services, Public Sector, Digital Media and Banking. Along the way he ended up leaving behind his technical roots to focus solely on being a Scrum Master, and subsequently a Delivery Manager.
I like agile. This group is for all who have an interest in agile - whether you've just heard about it and it's tweaked your interest, or whether you're a seasoned veteran with loads of things to share. This group is to establish an agile community in the Sheffield area to share ideas and experiences, and to learn from one another.
To kick us off into the new year, we have an activity-based event that will get your energy levels back up and fuel your appetite for improving your agile ways of working.
The activity will highlight the different approaches we need to take as we tackle a problem, the role that iterating plays in problem solving and delivering value to customers, and the importance of having an aligned, multi-disciplinary team.
Useful for anyone getting into agile, those who want to understand some of the practicalities of agile delivery, and for delivery leads - something that you can try with your own teams.
Novembers Agile Sheffield picks up the theme of communities of practice from out last event and we're encouraging our own community of practice to share with us your personal experiences of using agile.
The theme for the lightning talks is your true-life agile stories, the good, the bad and the ugly.
So whether agile worked brilliantly for you in delivering a digital service, or maybe it bombed because of command and control stakeholders - whatever your story, lets hear it.
You can submit your talk here: https://forms.gle/8dhd7C6QN7XpCg5w6
You will have 10 minutes (maximum) for your talk, with 10 minutes for discussion.
There's quite a bit of information about preparing a lightning talk online. This has some good tips if you're planning to use slides (in fact some good tips here about using slides in general, not just for lightning talks): https://www.beautiful.ai/blog/lightning-talks-and-ignite-talks-a-beginners-guide
Here's another about the approach you should take in preparing your content and delivering your talk: https://software.ac.uk/home/cw11/giving-good-lightning-talk
Once again BJSS have kindly offered to host the event at their office in Sheffield, and will be providing refreshments and snacks from 6pm.
After a very long break, we're planning to bring Agile Sheffield back with some regular in-person events.
We're still working out the details of the format and frequency of events, but we're pleased to announce that we've been offered a venue by BJSS for 6 months and we're kicking off with a talk about Communities of Practice - which is quite apt as thats exactly how we see Agile Sheffield, so maybe we'll get some tips on how we can re-invigorate our own Agile Sheffield community!
Communities of Practice: The Secret Sauce
Communities of Practice (CoP) have become a key component for many modern Agile organisations. But what are they exactly and why should anyone invest their time and energy into them? In this interactive talk, Paddy Dhanda will share the ingredients of the secret sauce to build successful communities. He will share a few stories of how he helped nurture and grow an Agile CoP from 5 to 5000+ members, a global Business Analysis CoP and a global community of Visual Thinkers during lockdown.
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