Programme 2024
Agile Manchester
12-13 May 2027
Track 1
Keynote
Rewilding Agile
60 minutes
Dave Snowden
The Cynefin Company
Day 1 - Wednesday 15 May
08:30
Conference registration
09:50
Welcome to Agile Manchester
10:00
11:00
Morning break
11:30
Track 1
Talk
Painful outcomes: 7 mistakes I made in the shift to value-led development
45 minutes
Holly Donohue
Product Rebel
Track 2
Talk
Love letter to legacy
45 minutes
Gerald Benischke
Ooredoo FinTech
Track 3
Case Study
How to build 'Marvel-ous' chatbots using data and lean methodology
45 minutes
Shubham Grover
Booking.com
Track 4
Workshop
A bake-off guide to value delivery
90 minutes
Katie Andrews
Skyscanner
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12:25
Track 1
Talk
Product leadership: A tale of vision, customer centricity and colleague experience
45 minutes
Sathpal Singh
NatWest Group
Track 2
Talk
How we improved our ability to herd cats and deliver at scale
45 minutes
Samuel Cann
Booking.com
Liam Dewes
Booking.com
13:10
Lunch break
14:00
Track 1
Talk
How to eat frogs to improve delivery
60 minutes
Evelyn Goodall
GDS
Track 2
Case Study
Rapid online grocery: From a pilot to nationwide at a time of need
60 minutes
Craig Reay
The Co-operative Group
Track 3
Workshop
Agile adhesion: Making it stick
120 minutes
Hannah Dell'Armi
DWP
Stephen Mounsey
DWP
Track 4
Workshop
You can’t talk to me like that: How to hold unbiased, non-leading customer interviews
120 minutes
Aras Bilgen
Independent
Track 5
Workshop
Stigmergy: What ants can teach us about effective work
120 minutes
Willem van den Ende
QWAN
John Clapham
Rownham Coaching
15:00
Afternoon break
15:30
Track 1
Case Study
How we used probabilistic forecasting to beat an FCA deadline
60 minutes
Sarah Miles
The Co-operative Group
Track 2
Talk
Designing engaging retros
60 minutes
Georgina Hughes
The Agile Coach House
Workshop continued
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16:30
Social evening
Day 2 - Thursday 16 May
08:45
Conference registration
08:45
Lean Coffee led by Karl Scotland
09:50
Welcome to Agile Manchester Day 2
10:00
Track 1
Keynote
Team memory, sharing and serendipity in hybrid workplaces
60 minutes
Emily Webber
Tacit
11:00
Morning break
11:30
Track 1
Talk
Fidelity: The lost dimension of the iron triangle
45 minutes
Karl Scotland
Track 2
Talk
Psychological safety: The link between speaking up, complexity and high-performing teams
45 minutes
Jitesh Gosai
BBC
Track 3
Workshop
The power of visuals in the agile domain
90 minutes
Olina Glindevi
The Visual Agile Coach
Ben Walder
The Visual Agile Coach
Track 4
Workshop
Take the ‘Task Switch Challenge’: Finally, a fast way to assess and fix our workflow, and slash lead times by over 50%
90 minutes
Russell Murray
Need Lead Succeed
Track 5
Workshop
Fastest flow: A hands-on practical demonstration of lean value delivery (1)
45 minutes
Michael Lambert
Planet-IT Agile Consultancy Ltd
Murray Tait
Accenture UK & Ireland
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12:25
Track 1
Talk
Nudge theory and influencing empowered teams to do the things that matter
45 minutes
Sarah Wells
Independent Tech Consultant, Author
Track 2
Talk
How (not) to implement OKR?: Save/Fix your OKR - "5 Step Implementation Guide"
45 minutes
Cansel Sörgens
Independent
Track 5
Workshop
Fastest flow: A hands-on practical demonstration of lean value delivery (2)
45 minutes
Michael Lambert
Planet-IT Agile Consultancy Ltd
Murray Tait
Accenture UK & Ireland
13:10
Lunch break
14:00
Track 1
Talk
The ROI of deliberate practice
60 minutes
Paige Watson
Software as Craft LLC
Track 2
Talk
Organisational change and the benefits of, and challenges to, neurodivergent team members
60 minutes
Sharon Dale
21st Century Mindset Ltd
Track 3
Talk
Crafting workshops for connection: collective mosaic making
60 minutes
Jaimella Espley
Independent
Track 4
Workshop
Adventures in psychological safety: A live-learning experience
90 minutes
Chris Tromans
CCDC
15:00
Afternoon break
15:30
Track 1
Talk
From empathy to impact: The human-centred movement
60 minutes
Valerie McLean
Because Agile Ltd
Track 2
Case Study
My journey as Nexus Scrum Master: Webbing together 9 teams to deliver
60 minutes
Monika Singh Dahiya
Capgemini
Track 3
Discussion
What's the future?
60 minutes
Charles Weir
Lancaster University
Workshop continued
Track 5
Workshop
Fastest flow: A hands-on practical demonstration of lean value delivery (3)
45 minutes
Michael Lambert
Planet-IT Agile Consultancy Ltd
Murray Tait
Accenture UK & Ireland
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16:40
Track 1
Talk
Dysfunction Mapping: A tool for empirical agile change
45 minutes
Michael Lloyd
Honest Agile
Track 2
Case Study
Feature report cards: Improving your control, confidence and composure
45 minutes
Ben Collins
15gifts
Track 3
Case Study
Legacy system replacements are PAINFUL! Here is a better way.
45 minutes
Ian Hodgkiss
Equal Experts
Paul McCarthy
HM Passport Office
Track 4
Case Study
Taking a team from data-dread to data-driven
45 minutes
Imogen Jones
Heywood Pension Technologies
17:25
Social evening
Day 3 - Friday 17 May
08:45
Conference registration
08:45
Lean Coffee - led by Valerie McLean
09:30
Welcome to Agile Manchester Day 3
09:40
Track 1
Keynote
The hidden power of product teams
60 minutes
Vimla Appadoo
Founder, Honey Badger
10:40
Morning break
11:10
Track 1
Talk
Perfect patterns for product partnerships and engineering excellence
45 minutes
Gary Fleming
JPMorgan Chase
Track 2
Talk
'You should already know that': Defensive practice in agile/UCD spaces
45 minutes
Laura Dalrymple
Tangity/NTT Data
Track 3
Case Study
Guiding stakeholders along in your agile product development journey
45 minutes
Karim Qurie
Booking.com
Track 4
Case Study
GOV.UK Forms: How we're building more accessible, easier to use, and quicker to process digital forms
45 minutes
James Sheppard
Government Digital Service
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12:05
Track 1
Talk
Empowering success: How to create effective autonomy in organisations and teams
45 minutes
Rob Bowley
Pragmatic Partners Limited
Track 2
Case Study
Bridging the gap: Product strategy in SRE, DevOps, and infrastructure teams
45 minutes
Chisara Nwabara
Chisology Consulting
Federico Nardini
Independent
Track 3
Workshop
What would an Agile Manifesto look like in Barbie Land?
45 minutes
Julia Boarer
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
12:50
Lunch break
13:40
Track 1
Talk
Decoding paradoxes: Exploring counter intuitive ideas in software delivery
60 minutes
Hibri Marzook
Track 2
Talk
Keeping the lights on for GOV.UK (or any large-scale digital product)
60 minutes
John Steward
Formerly GDS, currently DEFRA
Evelyn Goodall
GDS
Track 3
Workshop
From project to product to product agility
120 minutes
Steph Ashmore
Sheev / The Product Agility Podcast
14:40
Afternoon break
15:10
Track 1
Talk
Compassionate refactoring
60 minutes
Clare Sudbery
Sudbery Software Engineering Ltd
Track 2
Workshop
Putting it into practice: Making the most of what you've learned
60 minutes
John Clapham
Rownham Coaching
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16:10
Track 1
Talk
Conference close
15 minutes