In 2018 all the talks, with the exception of the keynotes, lightning talks and the discussion panel were held in two parallel tracks. We continued with the established ABE format – the keynotes were 50 mins long and the other talks were either 30 or 15 min.

Keynotes

Media

 

ABE18 @ YouTube

ABE18 @ Flickr

Talks

Agile Practices

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Peter Stevens
Six Questions to Change Your Life: The Power of Personal Agility

Silvana Wasitova
Extreme Scrum

Piotr Leszczyński
How to trust your data

Enterprise

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Paul Klipp
The low hanging fruit is rotten: how Kanban and Scrum are destroying enterprise agility

Ran Nyman
10 Years of Examples Using Large-Scale Scrum

Petter Abrahamsen
Stakeholders — the good, the bad and the ugly

 

Leadership

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Stephen Parry
The Chameleon Effect

Manuel Küblböck
Making decisions when there are no bosses

Tomasz Netczuk, Mateusz Srebrny
Lean @ Codlity

Leadership & Innovation

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Gary Crawford
Overcoming weak signals, inattentional blindness and long held assumptions

Ela Czajka, Cezary Piekacz
A Google way to do OKRs

Mina Boström Nakićenović
Innovate Successfully with Minimum Viable Effort

Implementation

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Tomek Włodarek
10 pitfalls to watch out for while changing an organizational culture

Krystian Kaczor
Scrum Studio—Agile in non-Agile organization

Dominik Sawicki, Grzegorz Struś
Agile transformation in sales and recruitment teams

Jakub Szczepanik
Transformation is a neverending story, not a step or project

Product

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Jacek Wieczorek
How to build the right product using Product Discovery techniques

David Denham
How we used Design Sprints to take product discovery into overdrive

Jakub Uniejewski
This feature will fail and your agile doesn’t matter

Paweł Feliński
Hypotheses Validation

Ada Andruszkiewicz
A short story of an agile voice bot

Remote & Craftsmanship

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Lisette Sutherland
How to be a high performing distributed agile team

Alan Stanbridge
Swarming in Scrum (and a bit about remote teams)

Piotr Kuczyński
Mobbing. Not what HR thinks it means

Michał Buczko
It requires three to understand, define and deliver

 

Team Building

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Sabrina Hauptman, Alex Ríos
How to build a feedback culture that fosters happiness and motivation

Melissa Lang
The mechanics of team building — no cooking or paintball or escape rooms involved

Radosław Orszewski
Hijack company feedback loops with Kanban Cadences

Panel

In 2018 the lineup of the panel was spectacular.

Check it out on YouTube.

The panel was moderated by Andy Brandt.

Lightnings

Lisette Sutherland 

Alex Rios

Jakub Uniejewski

Tomasz Włodarek

Piotr Kuczyński

Peter Stevens

Mina Boström Nakićenović

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.

Organizers

Program Committee

ABE since 2011