ABE21
In 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we held the conference 100% online. All the talks, with the exception of the keynotes and the discussion panel were held in two parallel tracks. After each talk there was a Q&A session to allow more contact with the attendees.
Keynotes
Geoff Watts
Standarised Autonomy: Balancing self-organization with organisational alignment
Janet Gregory
Building quality into your process and your product
Jeff Liker
The Toyota Way and Software Development
Roman Pichler
Tips for Effectively Applying the Product Owner Role
Media
Talks
Arek Benedykt
Why developers do not need your Agile
Arne Åhlander
Building Blocks for Self-Organization
Bogdan Onyshchenko
Why adopt Lean UX? Since literally everyone else already did
Daniel Terhorst-North
CUPID—for joyful coding
David Anaya
Should you go from individual contributor to manager?
Deepak Dhananjaya
Do you talk about ’The Elephant in the room’?
Edyta Ryszkiewicz-Tum
Try it yourself! Back to development
J. B. Rainsberger
Unlocking the Awesome Power of Refactoring
Jason Yip
Using BAPO to apply ’structure follows strategy’ to your organisation
Johan Wallin & Piotr Majkowski
Balancing autonomy and alignment in the environment of loosely controlled chaos—a fireside chat between two grumpy engineering leads from Spotify
Karaleise
Writing good user stories
Karolina Hałaszkiewicz & Tomasz Kornaś
Find your freedom in the structure and un-busy your teams
Kiro Harada
Kaizen in Action
Łukasz Skotarek
Don’t be afraid to get wet: Why DRY is not always the best idea
Marcin Tatarski
Efficient Product Backlog refinement in practice
Michael Kacprzak
The art of launching successful products based on Booste.com case study—12 months from launch and €12 M funding raised
Michał Parkoła & Paweł Rzymkiewicz
An Agile Approach to Forging Talent—a Case Study from Appsilon
Nana Fifield
Working with globally distributed agile teams
Paweł Lipiński
The balancing act of building the right thing and building it right
Piotr Gaczkowski
Microservices vs Monoliths
Seb Rose
Example mapping: a structured, collaborative discovery technique
Stephanie Gasche
Measuring Performance—Quantifying the Work of a Scrum Master
Urszula Wawrzeniuk
How to grow from Project Manager to Product Delivery Manager
Viktor Cessan
Informed Interventions
Panel
AgileByExample 2021: Discussion panel
The panel was moderated by Andy Brandt.
Melissa Lang
J. B. Rainsberger
Michael Kacprzak
Daniel Terhorst-North
Dojo
All the workshops were 3–3.5 hour long. The participants could choose one workshop in the morning and another in the afternoon session.
Adam Michalczyk & Marcin Ziółek
When was the last time you stole something? Is it possible to shave without looking in the mirror? Agile Coach Ethics.
Bartosz Juszczak & Zuzanna Ilkiewicz
Evidence-Based Management as practical way for improvements and agility
Błażej Drobniuch
How to recruit for Agile roles?
XP Dojo for Dev-Teams
Julia Shalet
Is your organisation innovation-ready?
Krystyna Abraham—Walasiak
Team reSTART—what to remember when changing the team composition
Krzysztof Niewiński
LeSS Kick-off
Piotr Kuczyński
How do you change your organisation?
Piotr Włodarczyk
Specification by Example in practice
Radosław Orszewski
Dependencies and scale vs Slack and flow
Rafał Markowicz
Building a Scrum Master and agile coach development programs
Tomasz Morański
How to recruit for Agile roles?
Urszula Wawrzeniuk
Discovery workshops—tools&techniques