Category: Events
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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 –…
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Agile in the Ether, IRL: Domain storytelling
In February 2024, Agile in the Ether had its first in-person event. I’ve written posts about the day’s first two workshops: building connections and beyond DORA. For notes on the third workshop, we’re trying something different: a guest post from Ian Ames! I’ve known Ian for years through the Agile in the Ether community –…
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Agile in the Ether, IRL: Beyond DORA
In February 2024, Agile in the Ether had its first in-person event – I wrote a bit about that in a previous post. Every part of the day gave me lots of ideas of things to look into further, or go and try – I’m making a few blog posts so I remember what I…
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Agile in the Ether, IRL: Building connections
I’ve been attending the online Agile in the Ether meetups, organised by Emily Webber, since 2019. It’s a brilliant community for talking through challenges and sharing ideas – so many knowledgeable people are happy to help each other out. The community’s found lots of ways to interact remotely, but recently we decided to try an…
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Deliver Sessions: “Why did that take so long?”
I’ve been co-organising Deliver Sessions meetup in Manchester for a while, and this year I’ve been writing some notes after each one so I can look back. In November 2023, we were hosted at Michael Page’s office in Spinningfields, where we played a fun interactive game from Mark Kirschstein that had lots of insights into…