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Keynote speakers

One of the original authors of the Agile Manifesto, dr. Alistair Cockburn will also visit us in October. Cockburn, not only pioneered agile methods with the family of Crystal Methods but is also known for his work in use cases.

Keynote—The Heart of Agile

Both Lean Development and Product Development have been topics at ABE since the beginning. But there's not many speakers that cover both at the same time as informatively as Donald Reinertsen, a recognized product management author and consultant.

Keynote—Making Money with Variability

Esther Derby is a renown coach, founder of Scrum Alliance and a former director of Agile Alliance. Also she co-awthored the bible of retrospectives—Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great.

Keynote—Six Rules for Change

Dave Snowden is the author of the Cynefin framework that helps to understand complex systems like organizations, although it has been used in other areas like healthcare, security or analysing impact of religion.

Cynefin in practice. Using Cynefin for operational management and strategic alignment

Speakers

A big advocate for collaboration between tech, business, designers and actual customers.

Design embedded

Andy Brandt is one of Poland's most experienced experts on Agile.

Empirical scaling—a different approach to Agile at scale

Anna Walczak is product owner at STX Next working with the agile methodologies.

Building and working with the road map

Barry is a freelance Scrum Master and Professional Scrum Trainer at Scrum.org. He’s an active member of the Scrum community and shares his insights and knowledge by speaking at conferences, facilitating workshops and writings blog posts.

The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master

Workshop—The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master

Independent consultant, author of books, blogger.

Making Team Working Work

Workshop—Increasing your Agility

Agile Project Manager at Xing.

Creating rapport with Empathic Listening

Workshop—Tribal Toolkit: Understanding within Teams

Workshop—Tribal Toolkit: No-one left behind—Decision-Making in Teams

Currently chair of British Computer Society SPIN SG and member of UK Software Metrics Association committee.

The Software Project Considered Harmful

Dan Vacanti is Lean-Agile trainer, coach, consultant, lecturer and author of “Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability”.

Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability

Workshop—Agile Metrics, Forecasting, and Predictability

David is the owner and author at ChangingMinds.org, the largest website in the world on how we change what other people think, feel, believe and do.

The Heart of Changing Minds: The essential aspects of the skill that everybody needs

Gary is fascinated with emerging technology, its impact on society and potential for positive social change. He lives in Sweden with his wife and daughters Erin and Erika.

Build agility with design sprints

Geza is a seasoned software artisan who firmly believes that culture is at the heart of most things.

Codefin, or the fine art of knowing what to do and when and why

Ingrid is the woman behind Impact Mapping and Management.

Realizing the desired outcome

Workshop—Impact-driven product management—how to build the right thing

I help teams cooperate effectively using proper lean and agile practices and have fun finding the best ways to achieve their goals.

5 ways to waste team's time on symptoms not root causes

Jakub cares about Software Craftsmanship and Domain Design.

User Stories considered harmful

Co-founder of Agile3M community, passionate builder of agile organisations.

OKRs vs The Real Life—A True Story

James Priest is a co-founder and developer of the Sociocracy 3.0 framework.

Agile, decentralized Learning Organizations With Sociocracy 3.0

Workshop—Good enough for now, safe enough to try—Sociocracy 3.0 Patterns for effective collaborative decision making (that scale)

Jan Zborowski is the Co-founder and Business Developer at SoftwareMill — a 100% remote and a teal (self-managed) software development agency with a full transparency (including finance).

No managers in a company—3 ways of decision making

Jarek Czaja is the founder and CEO of Future Processing.

How to build a lasting company?

Jerónimo supports small & large organisations transition from process-centric to value-centric systems, working at strategic level with top management and C-execs as well as functional teams to make transformations happen.

Scrum revisited: The myths and fallacies

Judy Rees is a pioneer in online team-building, training and coaching, best known for her work with Clean Language.

Virtual Team-Building

Workshop—Uncovering Your Team’s Unknown Knowns With Clean Language

An agile coach who's been living for three years in Indonesia helping hospitals to become more effective with their goals.

How Kanban Saved a hospital in Indonesia

Marta Borkowska-Bierć works as an HR manager and together with managerial team she is responsible for organizational transformation. She is most skilled in building teams and engaging people, her favorite activity is….facilitation.

1 year of transformation—our story

A hybrid of a Project Manager and Agile & PM trainer with 10+ years experience in both areas.

Something completely different: Everyday workflow in Japan

Workshop—Design Thinking

Mel, Scrum master from 2003, helps organisations become self-managed and hyper growth.

No More Managers

Agile coach working with several distributed teams at Xing.

Creating rapport with Empathic Listening

Workshop—Tribal Toolkit: Understanding within Teams

Workshop—Tribal Toolkit: No-one left behind—Decision-Making in Teams

Head of IT Strategy and Project Management at mBank.

I hate projects, I love projects!

Growing up north of the arctic circle, I eventually moved southwards to earn a M.Sc. in Computer Science. During the 90's I slowly became disillusioned over the way product development was conducted and started looking for alternative ways forward, eventually finding lean and agile in 2001. I have since worked as a leader, consultant and trainer in the area, eventually becoming a CST in 2006, and founding my own company Levla in 2011.

My spare time is spent producing videos on music production, socializing with family and friends, reading, writing, photographing (spending inordinate amounts of time sorting and tinkering with the photos afterwards) and occasionally playing Minecraft.

Leading Agile

My interest is to understand and learn more about how large technology organizations best operate at the required speed and agility.

#GameChangingBeliefs

As Agile Lead at PwC, Nick works with multiple teams across the organisation, using data visualisation and empiricism as an approach to help teams and organisations continuously improve.

Coaching in a data-driven world...

Paul is the founder of Lunar Logic and Kanbanery.com.

Welcome to the Jungle

CTO of FRU.PL with over 10 years of experience in IT, former QA Manager, Project Manager, Release Manager and Head of IT.

1 year of transformation—our story

I help people to grow so that the teams they work in can be even more effective.

Measure your improvement

Certified Scrum Trainer currently working on a book about Personal Agility.

How to do more that matters: From personal satisfaction to professional success

Workshop—Getting Started with Personal Agility, the Simple Framework For Doing More That Matters

Founder of Produktywni.pl, trainer, consultant, author of "Effective Multitasking".

1 year of transformation—our story

Sara helps organizations grow by asking the question "Why?" a lot. Ever since her teenage punk rock years, she´s had a passion for inclusion and for keeping it simple and loves combining inclusive design with agile development.

Smart user testing

Workshop—Impact-driven product management—how to build the right thing

The author of EVO method, pioneering use of metrics to drive project management.

Evo: The Most Advanced Agile Process, focussing on measurable delivery of benefits, qualities and results

Trevor Lea-Cox has over 30 years’ experience in senior IS Management and CIO roles and subsequently in Director and CEO roles.

Third-party Digital Services: When Giants crumble

Trainers

Barry is a freelance Scrum Master and Professional Scrum Trainer at Scrum.org. He’s an active member of the Scrum community and shares his insights and knowledge by speaking at conferences, facilitating workshops and writings blog posts.

The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master

Workshop—The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master

Independent consultant, author of books, blogger.

Making Team Working Work

Workshop—Increasing your Agility

Agile Project Manager at Xing.

Creating rapport with Empathic Listening

Workshop—Tribal Toolkit: Understanding within Teams

Workshop—Tribal Toolkit: No-one left behind—Decision-Making in Teams

Dan Vacanti is Lean-Agile trainer, coach, consultant, lecturer and author of “Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability”.

Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability

Workshop—Agile Metrics, Forecasting, and Predictability

Ingrid is the woman behind Impact Mapping and Management.

Realizing the desired outcome

Workshop—Impact-driven product management—how to build the right thing

Kuba Szczepanik is supporting agile in mBank and is a co-counder of portal agile247.pl.

Workshop—Practices that can help you succeed with your agile journey

James Priest is a co-founder and developer of the Sociocracy 3.0 framework.

Agile, decentralized Learning Organizations With Sociocracy 3.0

Workshop—Good enough for now, safe enough to try—Sociocracy 3.0 Patterns for effective collaborative decision making (that scale)

Jerzy is project & portfolio management and management consultant and trainer.

Workshop—Team flow: simulation with experiments

Judy Rees is a pioneer in online team-building, training and coaching, best known for her work with Clean Language.

Virtual Team-Building

Workshop—Uncovering Your Team’s Unknown Knowns With Clean Language

Evangelizes, teaches and implements the best design practices.

Workshop—Design Thinking

Krystyna Abraham-Walasiak is an agile coach, psychologist and experienced social skills trainer approved by Polish Psychologists` Association.

Workshop—Working styles and their impact on a team

Małgorzata Kowalczewska - Scrum Master at NaviExpert, coach.

Workshop—First to understand, then to be understood

A hybrid of a Project Manager and Agile & PM trainer with 10+ years experience in both areas.

Something completely different: Everyday workflow in Japan

Workshop—Design Thinking

Agile coach working with several distributed teams at Xing.

Creating rapport with Empathic Listening

Workshop—Tribal Toolkit: Understanding within Teams

Workshop—Tribal Toolkit: No-one left behind—Decision-Making in Teams

He is an advocate of holistic Agility incorporating every aspect of software creation.

Workshop—Let’s together create a team metric

Workshop—Soft Skills Randori—soft skills deliberate practice

Paweł Wrzeszcz is an Agile Coach, Trainer and Consultant focused on bridging the gap between IT and Business.

Workshop—Lean Canvas—Evaluate Your Next Business Idea

Certified Scrum Trainer currently working on a book about Personal Agility.

How to do more that matters: From personal satisfaction to professional success

Workshop—Getting Started with Personal Agility, the Simple Framework For Doing More That Matters

Rafał is an Agile Coach and a Scrum Master with more than 10 years of experience in Agile.

Workshop—How can Scrum Masters help Product Owners in Product Backlog creation

Sara helps organizations grow by asking the question "Why?" a lot. Ever since her teenage punk rock years, she´s had a passion for inclusion and for keeping it simple and loves combining inclusive design with agile development.

Smart user testing

Workshop—Impact-driven product management—how to build the right thing

Coaches

Bożena is one of the coaches that will be available at the Coaching Corner.

Available for coaching sessions

Dorota is one of the coaches that will be available at the Coaching Corner.

Available for coaching sessions

Eliza is one of the coaches that will be available at the Coaching Corner.

Available for coaching sessions

Marzena is one of the coaches that will be available at the Coaching Corner.

Available for coaching sessions