Return of the Retrospectives - SEEK Brown Bag - 21-10-14Ryan McKergow
Retrospectives are one of the most important and common Agile ceremonies, but are you and your team bored with them? Do you always use the same, old format, or are they just proving to be ineffective?
The aim of this session is to empower you to change things up within your team and really value the Iteration Retrospective. You will learn about a number of new and different Retrospective techniques that you can start using immediately at your next Retro. I will also include real life experience what it was like to use each format and provide advice on when to use each format.
Let's bring life back to the Retrospective. It's time for the Return of the Retrospective!
How agile coaches help us win the agile coach role @ SpotifyBrendan Marsh
In this talk, we cover:
- What is an Agile Coach at Spotify?
- What do they do?
- Why do we believe they help us win?
We also talk about:
- How do we scale or Organisation?
- High Performing Teams (What is a high performing team?)
- How are we measuring High Performance right now?
- How do we help teams reach High Performance?
Appendix:
- Chapter = Competency group
- Chapter Lead = Hiring Manager for Developer (or other) competency
Gathering and defining software requirements is difficult. One Agile technique to help address this challenge is writing user stories, which are short descriptions of functions that an end-user would want. While user stories help convert concepts into functions, writing good user stories is easier said than done.
What you’ll learn in this presentation:
• The basics of user stories.
• How user stories fit into the overall Agile planning process.
• How to write a user story.
Agile is a philosophy for delivering solutions that embraces and promotes evolutionary change throughout the life-cycle of a product. Many teams and organizations have been using Agile to, deliver software more timely, increase quality, and ultimately increase customer satisfaction.
These planning levels were originally described by Hubert Smits in the whitepaper "5 Levels of Agile Planning: From Enterprise Product Vision to Team Stand-up".
Return of the Retrospectives - SEEK Brown Bag - 21-10-14Ryan McKergow
Retrospectives are one of the most important and common Agile ceremonies, but are you and your team bored with them? Do you always use the same, old format, or are they just proving to be ineffective?
The aim of this session is to empower you to change things up within your team and really value the Iteration Retrospective. You will learn about a number of new and different Retrospective techniques that you can start using immediately at your next Retro. I will also include real life experience what it was like to use each format and provide advice on when to use each format.
Let's bring life back to the Retrospective. It's time for the Return of the Retrospective!
How agile coaches help us win the agile coach role @ SpotifyBrendan Marsh
In this talk, we cover:
- What is an Agile Coach at Spotify?
- What do they do?
- Why do we believe they help us win?
We also talk about:
- How do we scale or Organisation?
- High Performing Teams (What is a high performing team?)
- How are we measuring High Performance right now?
- How do we help teams reach High Performance?
Appendix:
- Chapter = Competency group
- Chapter Lead = Hiring Manager for Developer (or other) competency
Gathering and defining software requirements is difficult. One Agile technique to help address this challenge is writing user stories, which are short descriptions of functions that an end-user would want. While user stories help convert concepts into functions, writing good user stories is easier said than done.
What you’ll learn in this presentation:
• The basics of user stories.
• How user stories fit into the overall Agile planning process.
• How to write a user story.
Agile is a philosophy for delivering solutions that embraces and promotes evolutionary change throughout the life-cycle of a product. Many teams and organizations have been using Agile to, deliver software more timely, increase quality, and ultimately increase customer satisfaction.
These planning levels were originally described by Hubert Smits in the whitepaper "5 Levels of Agile Planning: From Enterprise Product Vision to Team Stand-up".
Visualisez le bon produit grâce au User Story MappingAgile Montréal
"« Je pense qu’on devrait faire ça. » « Ah, mais par quoi commencer ? » « Où se trouve cette fonctionnalité dans le flot ? »
Définir LE bon produit n’est jamais facile. Le « User Story Mapping » est un cadre simple et puissant qui génère les bonnes conversations et permet de co-créer la vision du produit à bâtir.
Venez (re)découvrir cet outil par la pratique en construisant une map ensemble !"
Atelier par Jean-Christophe Lauffer et Alain Benoit au Agile Tour Montréal 2018
Lean Kanban India 2019 Conference | Cumulative Flow Diagram Patterns: The St...LeanKanbanIndia
Session Title: Cumulative Flow Diagram Patterns: The State of Your Workflows
Session Overview: In a fast-paced market where customer needs change frequently, quick response to demand is critical. Fast, stable and predictable service delivery starts with workflow optimization - a pursuit of continuous improvement based on data-driven decisions.
The Kanban Method suggests adopting analytical tools to evaluate workflows. This talk will revolve around the use of a simple yet powerful tool - the Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD). As work progresses and the amount of data grows, CFD plots a visual history of your workflow. It enables you to track the main flow metrics and spot bottlenecks brewing at a glance. We will explore several CFD patterns and their effect on your system efficiency and predictability while touching upon the advanced Kanban practices to help you optimize that effect.
By the end of the talk, you will learn how to recognize the most common CFD patterns and what they mean for your process. You will be able to instantly detect work entering the stream faster than team capacity allows it, increasing WIP as well as upstream and downstream blockages. Discover how to achieve more consistent and predictable workflows.
Very frequently, when we discuss a change initiative failure, we point as one of key reasons of the failure lack of support from top management. Much effort on team level is wasted because the organization on high level is set up to preserve status quo.
For a change agent looking to set an organization on a path on continuous, evolutionary change addressing the issue of stale mindset of the leaders of the company is frequently the key obstacle to overcome. Usually, a different set of tools is required to achieve that, especially for internal change agents who have hierarchy working against them.
I will show how we can use Portfolio Kanban as a low-friction method, which might be used by change agents, to steer mindset change among top managers. Similarly to team-level Kanban a few simple rules help to change how we look at project or product portfolio and how the work flows on high level.
Thinking about Kanban on portfolio level introduces the whole new set of challenges that can’t be solved with standard approach, so it is also a story about Kanban versatility and adaptability.
After all, if end results include better understanding of how the work is done, improved effectiveness and healthier work environment for teams it is worth giving a try, isn’t it?
Getting Started - Introduction to Sprint ReviewsEasy Agile
Overview
- What is a sprint review?
- Benefits of sprint reviews
- Anatomy of a sprint review
- Guidelines for effective sprint review meetings
- conducting sprint reviews using Easy Agile User Story Maps
Scalability is currently a big topic in the agile world. Most agile methods and practices often reach their limits when one wants to “agilize" more than a few teams, let alone one wants to achieve real agile collaboration of several hundert people.
The main problem is that many agile methods focus on the team. Kanban follows a completely different path - Kanban is not a team method! Kanban is a management method which focuses on generating value. "Manage work and not workers" is one of the key messages of the Lean Kanban management philosophy. Therefore, scalability is not a real topic within Kanban: if you focus on value generation of work, scaling Kanban simple means doing more Kanban - it’s inherent scalable.
In this session I show how one could use Kanban at scale. Besides the general schematic explanation I will also show a case study where Kanban is used to coordinate work of more than 200 people.
A tried and tested format of enabling various types of groups (Leaders, Middle management, Team members, Whole teams) to be able collectively recognize and understand the Agile Manifesto and its 12 principles. Very early on they are able to connect how Organizational structures enable or impede true Agile adoption
Learn more about the scaled Agile Framework + scaling Agile. After a short introduction to several frameworks that aim to support the scaling of Agile (DAD, LeSS, SAFe®), this power point presentation from our webinar dives deeper into the details of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®). Find the truth behind the often cited sentence “As Scrum is to the Agile team, SAFe® is to the Agile enterprise.”
Personally designed (content + graphics design), officially accredited AgileBA® (Agile Business Analysis) Foundation courseware.
AgilePB® is a Registered Trade Mark of Dynamic Systems Development Method Limited.
Trademarks are properties of the holders, who are not affiliated with courseware author.
Customer Development - Identifying and Testing Startup HypothesesHenrik Berglund
Presentation for VCs, angels and incubator coaches on how to help startups implement customer development, specifically how to identify and test startup hypotheses.
Draws heavily on ideas and content from Steve Blank, Cindy Alvarez and Jason Evanish.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Visualisez le bon produit grâce au User Story MappingAgile Montréal
"« Je pense qu’on devrait faire ça. » « Ah, mais par quoi commencer ? » « Où se trouve cette fonctionnalité dans le flot ? »
Définir LE bon produit n’est jamais facile. Le « User Story Mapping » est un cadre simple et puissant qui génère les bonnes conversations et permet de co-créer la vision du produit à bâtir.
Venez (re)découvrir cet outil par la pratique en construisant une map ensemble !"
Atelier par Jean-Christophe Lauffer et Alain Benoit au Agile Tour Montréal 2018
Lean Kanban India 2019 Conference | Cumulative Flow Diagram Patterns: The St...LeanKanbanIndia
Session Title: Cumulative Flow Diagram Patterns: The State of Your Workflows
Session Overview: In a fast-paced market where customer needs change frequently, quick response to demand is critical. Fast, stable and predictable service delivery starts with workflow optimization - a pursuit of continuous improvement based on data-driven decisions.
The Kanban Method suggests adopting analytical tools to evaluate workflows. This talk will revolve around the use of a simple yet powerful tool - the Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD). As work progresses and the amount of data grows, CFD plots a visual history of your workflow. It enables you to track the main flow metrics and spot bottlenecks brewing at a glance. We will explore several CFD patterns and their effect on your system efficiency and predictability while touching upon the advanced Kanban practices to help you optimize that effect.
By the end of the talk, you will learn how to recognize the most common CFD patterns and what they mean for your process. You will be able to instantly detect work entering the stream faster than team capacity allows it, increasing WIP as well as upstream and downstream blockages. Discover how to achieve more consistent and predictable workflows.
Very frequently, when we discuss a change initiative failure, we point as one of key reasons of the failure lack of support from top management. Much effort on team level is wasted because the organization on high level is set up to preserve status quo.
For a change agent looking to set an organization on a path on continuous, evolutionary change addressing the issue of stale mindset of the leaders of the company is frequently the key obstacle to overcome. Usually, a different set of tools is required to achieve that, especially for internal change agents who have hierarchy working against them.
I will show how we can use Portfolio Kanban as a low-friction method, which might be used by change agents, to steer mindset change among top managers. Similarly to team-level Kanban a few simple rules help to change how we look at project or product portfolio and how the work flows on high level.
Thinking about Kanban on portfolio level introduces the whole new set of challenges that can’t be solved with standard approach, so it is also a story about Kanban versatility and adaptability.
After all, if end results include better understanding of how the work is done, improved effectiveness and healthier work environment for teams it is worth giving a try, isn’t it?
Getting Started - Introduction to Sprint ReviewsEasy Agile
Overview
- What is a sprint review?
- Benefits of sprint reviews
- Anatomy of a sprint review
- Guidelines for effective sprint review meetings
- conducting sprint reviews using Easy Agile User Story Maps
Scalability is currently a big topic in the agile world. Most agile methods and practices often reach their limits when one wants to “agilize" more than a few teams, let alone one wants to achieve real agile collaboration of several hundert people.
The main problem is that many agile methods focus on the team. Kanban follows a completely different path - Kanban is not a team method! Kanban is a management method which focuses on generating value. "Manage work and not workers" is one of the key messages of the Lean Kanban management philosophy. Therefore, scalability is not a real topic within Kanban: if you focus on value generation of work, scaling Kanban simple means doing more Kanban - it’s inherent scalable.
In this session I show how one could use Kanban at scale. Besides the general schematic explanation I will also show a case study where Kanban is used to coordinate work of more than 200 people.
A tried and tested format of enabling various types of groups (Leaders, Middle management, Team members, Whole teams) to be able collectively recognize and understand the Agile Manifesto and its 12 principles. Very early on they are able to connect how Organizational structures enable or impede true Agile adoption
Learn more about the scaled Agile Framework + scaling Agile. After a short introduction to several frameworks that aim to support the scaling of Agile (DAD, LeSS, SAFe®), this power point presentation from our webinar dives deeper into the details of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®). Find the truth behind the often cited sentence “As Scrum is to the Agile team, SAFe® is to the Agile enterprise.”
Personally designed (content + graphics design), officially accredited AgileBA® (Agile Business Analysis) Foundation courseware.
AgilePB® is a Registered Trade Mark of Dynamic Systems Development Method Limited.
Trademarks are properties of the holders, who are not affiliated with courseware author.
Customer Development - Identifying and Testing Startup HypothesesHenrik Berglund
Presentation for VCs, angels and incubator coaches on how to help startups implement customer development, specifically how to identify and test startup hypotheses.
Draws heavily on ideas and content from Steve Blank, Cindy Alvarez and Jason Evanish.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.