Category: Events
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Deliver Sessions: We need to talk about strategy
I help organise Deliver Sessions meetup, and in February 2025 we had our first meetup of the year at Booking.com’s office in Castlefield. This is on the site of the old Granada TV Studios, where the Beatles made their first TV appearance. I could write a whole post about these studios (including how they briefly had…
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Agile in the Ether, IRL: 2025 edition
I’ve been part of the Agile in the Ether online meetup for years, and in 2024 we had a one-day, in real life event in Liverpool. It was so good we decided to do it again this year. Emily Webber has posted about how the overall event was planned and run – a good read!…
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Deliver Sessions: Getting better all the time
In November 2024 Deliver Sessions meetup was hosted at Northcoders’ office in Manchester Technology Centre, for an evening of talks about how people have got better at what they do. We asked speakers to think about: Here’s a few notes on what they put together. From Engineer to Head of Product Delivery: Hard Lessons and…
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Notes from Agile Cambridge 2024
I spent 3 days at Agile Cambridge conference in October 2024. Great range of sessions and attendees to spend time with, all based at Cambridge university – an ideal location to put you in a learning mood. I’ve had a few weeks to think it over, and now I’m ready to write this “What would…
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Deliver Sessions: Back to school
Deliver Sessions meetup took a Summer break, then returned in September 2024 – this time, to Auto Trader‘s office in Tony Wilson Place. We had a range of speakers sharing what they’ve learned from trying out new things at work. The power of “I don’t know” Chris Burns (head of product) has been reflecting a lot…
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Notes from Fast Flow Conf 2024
I went to London for Fast Flow Conf in September 2024. This had all kinds of ideas and experience reports related to Team Topologies, and was a great way to learn about how people are putting things into practice. Connecting ideas I’ve done a fair bit of reading / thinking about how to help supporting…
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Deliver Sessions: Starting something new
I’ve helped organise Deliver Sessions meetup for a few years, and now I try to write a few notes after each one so I remember all the good topics they cover. For this post, we’re trying something a bit different: part of this is a guest post from my co-organiser Chris Burns! In June 2024 we were…
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Notes from QCon London 2024
I spent 3 days at the QCon London conference, where I presented a talk about making change stick as part of Sophie Weston’s “How do teams really work” track. I’ve written a bit before about how useful I find putting a new talk together – it really helps me think through a topic and find…
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Deliver Sessions: Same goals, different roles
I’ve helped organise Deliver Sessions meetup for a few years, and now I try to write a few notes after each one so I remember all the good topics they cover. In March 2024 we were hosted at Zühlke’s office in Piccadilly Basin, where we had 3 talks and plenty of time to discuss them. All the…
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Agile in the Ether, IRL: Hacking bureaucracy
This is the last post in a series about Agile in the Ether’s first in-person event. So far we’ve had notes on: For the final workshop, Jen Oliver chose a subject familiar to lots of us: What are the sources of too-much-bureaucracy where you work, what frustrations does that cause, and – most importantly –…