Regional Agile20Reflect Festival Hub Pages and Events Per Hub
Festival Calendar
The Festival can be viewed in a number of ways and has a very good search function, below are some shortcuts;
- The Agile20Reflect Opening Ceremony https://agile20reflect.org/festival/2021-01-31/
- Day 1 of the Festival https://agile20reflect.org/festival/2021-02-01/
- Week 1 of the Festival https://agile20reflect.org/festival/week/2021-02-01/
- The List View of the entire Festival https://agile20reflect.org/festival/list/?tribe-bar-date=2021-02-01
- The Month View of the entire Festival https://agile20reflect.org/festival/month/2021-02/
What kind of events
Themes and Events
The events and activities are to be focused on the
- Past of Agile
- Present state of Agile
- Possible Future of Agile
All events are recorded and those recordings become part of a lasting research data set like Agile Ted Talks. In the future people can use those events to self learn and create their own learning paths. And all of that is free for everyone. We really hope that all organisations take part and unlock their creativity to put really interesting creative experiences into the programme.
Events by Location
The Agile20Reflect Festival has set up a network of Ambassadors to support Event Organisers in pulling their events together and add them to the Festival Calendar. Some event organisers won’t need any help and will just be adding their existing Meeting themed around the 20th Anniversary of the creation of the Agile Manifesto. While other will need a great deal of support, that support will come from the Ambassadors, they will help to identify speakers from the Speakers Directory and give or get support for presentation training for new meetings and event organisers.
Welcome Folks! The Biggest Global Agile Festival ever over 700 Free Online Events in February 2021. This is the first Global Community led Agile Festival!
And as we learn how to do this we want to explain why it’s not a conference so here goes…
At our Free Agile Festival you can host, or do anything that you want at any time in February 2021. Co-badge it with us and we will advertise your event or activity on our central programme and we will keep a copy of your event or research for people that are unable to attend to make use of free in the future.
It’s a simple idea, come be creative and share your passion! In our world community party!!!
To make this Community Based Festival work there are several ways to get involved
Agile20Reflect Principles
Why this festival?
We aim to build bridges and capture the various Agile communities across the globe in a huge Community led event for the Month of February 2021 to coincide with 20 years of the Agile Manifesto. The three themes are: Past, Current and Future of Agile and the Agile Communities.
Here are our 9 Festival Principles
- A Distributed Ecosystem: This is not a conference; it’s an ecosystem having a party! And it is not anything that is centrally run! (A distributed, self-organized month-long party)
- Free to Everyone: This is a huge free Festival of events and activities occurring in Feb 2021, created by local groups and organisations across the globe, supported by Community volunteers! This is Especially important in the current financial recession and mass layoffs.
- Locally Created: Choice of activities rests with the local Agile Community Groups, inclusion diversity and variety are actively encouraged. All this lead locally by our volunteer ambassadors
- Globally Connected Ambassadors across the globe engaging with local areas to :-
- Create awareness, so people know
- Registering local meetups and organisations with the Festival
- Supporting the creation of activities:
- Helping With Speakers (VSD will help)
- Guides for online hosting
- Code of Conduct
- Facilitating getting the event recordings – centrally available on Youtube (like Agile TED Talks)
- Make this really locally led, appropriate to local languages and culture
- Promote reflection and improvement in the Agile community
- Accessible and Inclusive Programme Directory: We will have a Festival Programme Directory listing all of the events, speakers and topics and this will be available to everyone to navigate the events/activities. All events will be:-
Locally hosted and you register with the local groups and run locally
Open to everyone
When the bookings are full, events can be live broadcast or uploaded to Youtube so people can watch - Community Funded: We will ask existing organisations, associations and businesses to lend their support. As this is distributed it is likely support will be about providing Access and Social Capital. Supporting organisations will help spread the message on the event and may help with financial support. (We are deliberately trying to limit the need for finance)
- Volunteer Speaker Powered: We are actively seeking diversity of Agile and Agility Speakers at all levels (we value new ideas and new voices as much as more experienced ones) to register as Volunteer Speakers and that directory will only be available to the Ambassadors to help meetups and organizations across the globe
- Self navigation – Build Your Own Experience: People will be able to self navigate their festival, do what they want or just watch it for free from the video archive, they can use these videos under creative commons for learning of any kind. Almost infinite options!
- Long Lasting Friendships: As well as the new relationships and huge new interaction between diverse technical, agile practice, and geographic communities, after the festival we will have a huge resource of recorded material that we will make available for free to anyone who wants to navigate that mass of learning. Also, this may lead to long lasting relationships and a continuing community ecosystem.
Trustees
Scott Seivwright – CEO and Trustee
Scott is an Agile Coach working with software teams, he lives in Scotland. He has been know to use Kanban, Scrum, PSK, Open Space, SAFe, Cynefin, Heart of Agile, Clean Language, Flow, Agendashift, and has experience of most methodologies (have not yet used Xscale or Nexus) but is non-allegiant over methods. He believes in the power of invitation and respecting people. Also in challenging systemic barriers and is part of the Be More Pirate Movement – He loves their Manifesto too. He is passionate about people, inclusion, equality and creating awesome places where we can learn from each other. Previously, he has led digital and modernisation programs valued in the multi-billions, created Digital Apps and led huge teams.
He does prefer embedding and coaching small teams in 1:1 settings. He is a full stack Agile coach from User to opps. He spends his time encouraging others to create things, talk at events and overcome their imposter syndrome and helps to make a more inclusive and vibrant Agile Community. (Current hobby learning how to be a fun grassroots Festival Director.)
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/heartofscott/
Twitter : @HeartOfScott
Brandon Hill-Jowett – CFO and Trustee
Brandon is an entrepreneurial transformation specialist who thrives in organisational environments where innovation is valued and leveraged to drive change. Pivots between a detail focused and macro level lens to approach business challenges. A servant leader who empowers, builds relationships well and is comfortable in diverse, international environments. Excels at shaping organisational change, communicating clearly through precise communications, and securing buy in across stakeholder groups. A knowledgeable coach and mentor who advises and coaches CxOs, bringing a contagious passion for business agility and equipping organisations with the tools to adapt and change to market environments.
Karl A L Smith – CTO and Trustee
He has been a consultant and innovator in Business Transformation and Human Centred Design since 1989 and in Agile since 2004 involved in supporting both business and technology in the adoption of Customer Centricity and Agility. His recent focus has been on combining HCD and Agile in Enterprise Agile Portfolio management as an extension of SAFe. This was delivered in the NatWest Group from Business through to IT, Retail Banking and Commercial Banking Transformation with 88,000 staff.
Karl Smith is a Fellow of the British Computer Society FBCS, a member by invitation of BCS ELITE the CIO & CTO group and European CIO Association and has supported various Westminster Parliamentary Groups since 2003. He regularly speaks at conferences on a myriad of subjects Agile, HCD, IoT, Blockchain and Social Media including speaking in the House of Lords on Fake News.
He has worked globally and loves to travel and meet new people as his focus has always been people “My desire was not to build things that humans already do but to find out how technology could evolve our human experience.”
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlsmith2/
Crunchbase : https://www.crunchbase.com/person/karl-smith
Sabrina C E Noto – CMO and Trustee
Having over 9 years’ experience in Project Management and Agile Delivery, I am confident in communicating with stakeholders to ensure software delivered meets business requirements and is fit for purpose. I have a track record for training and enhancing Scrum Teams in agile principles, who may or may not have a traditional waterfall background, enabling them to select methodologies to work more efficiently and continue to set expectations. I have been coaching and training using many different agile methodologies including Scrum, Kanban, ScrumBan as well as having experience in scaling agile using the LeSS framework. I regularly keep up to date with new agile ways of working and attend the scrum alliance conferences. Agile is not just a job for me it’s a passion.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabrinabruce/
Ashish Kulkarni – CDO and Trustee
Award winning and experienced Solutions Architect, Solution Designer and Software Developer.
With my knowledge and experience, I can take any business requirement and convert it into a software solution.
I have experience designing and developing solutions on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud platforms and have used all major programming languages, databases and operating systems.
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashishkulkarni/
Anurag Shrivastava – Digital Content Lead and Trustee
Anurag is an Agile enthusiast with almost 14+ years of Software Management, Program Execution & Delivery and Agile Transformation experience. Adept at creating, leading and managing Agile teams in distributed setup. He has worn multiple hats in an Agile team – most recently worked as a Scrum Master mentoring and coaching geographically spread Agile teams.
Anurag is pursuing an Executive MBA from the Indian School of Business and loves to volunteer for National and International events and meetups. He was a flag marshal at the Formula 1 Indian GP in 2012 and 2013 and a Communication Marshal at the RUN Norwich race in the UK. He was a Servant Leader for AgilityToday2020 held in Gurgaon, India and a member of Agile Alliance. He loves to travel and works with different people across the globe to learn from them.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/anurag-shrivastava-30a51a3b/
Grace Johnson – World Ambassador Facilitator and Trustee
Grace is a Nigerian and lives in the city of Lagos, Nigeria. She has worked mostly as a Project Manager for close to five years in the housing sector. She started off working to deliver social housing in 2014, where Grace and her team successfully delivered a prototype of social housing in a State in Nigeria. They went on to record successes with some other states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, securing Lands without financial cost to the organisation, as one of their fundamental approaches to delivering social housing. She moved on at the end of 2015, away from social housing, focusing on all things leading to the production of sustainable housing; a housing approach focused on using sustainable materials in the housing production process. Being that power supply was and still is a major challenge in Nigeria, they focused on the use of solar as a major source of energy and an important theme in the design and construction of houses for their clients. Grace’s duties quickly changed overtime to Interfacing with investors, the government of states in Nigeria and clients.
Grace is a PMI certified project manager, with a Master of Science in project management and a first degree in urban and regional planning. The year 2020 has been a defining year for her, as it has allowed her to transit to the agile space. Her current focus is on all things agile and digital transformation. She is currently in the process of becoming a certified Scrum Master.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/graceijohnson
Yusuf Dean – Trustee
Yusuf is a generalist consultant, with a 25 year track record in using systems theory, complexity and Agile to help clients transform & change, from small startups to global giants that create our wealth, fuel our economies and have products in all our homes. Coming from a background on bank trading floors and consulting companies has allowed him to see the good, bad and amazing of getting things done, together with the methods and techniques that actually work in the real world. A realisation that great CEO’s and leaders empower first has shifted more and more of his thinking to the Agile way of operating, with the strong belief that no problem is insurmountable if we understand that ten brains are better than one. He works with the singular drive that Agile is a human movement, not a mechanical method, and we must embrace learning and change to sustain this.
Shelby Wilson – Organisational Engagement Lead and Trustee
Shelby Wilson is a coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer, and also loves when people break out into song!!
Her current focus is improving leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organisation coaching. Helping them unknot difficult, multiple departments problems within the finance world and more recently working in the insurance realm. She is passionate about helping organisations transform, to improve service delivery to customers, and improve the working lives of people within the organisation.
Her other focus is community of practices and speaks regularly around the UK on this to highlight how important people are to each other and ways of working. She is passionate about the people side of change, and focused on bringing meaningful change into organisations that will improve the lives of people.
She holds an alphabet spaghetti of certifications but believes that people are always the way forward
With her passion and enthusiasm she hope she can leave the place she’s been last in a better place
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelby-wilson-8bb19684/
Dominique Causse – Organisations and Trustee
Dominique Lives in Paris, He first got interested in iterative / incremental approaches, human factors when he started working as a developer, back in 1989. He drifted away from software development and got interested in complexity through transformational program management, and then onward to agile thinking. He has been doing consulting, teaching and academic research on agile transformation for the past 6 years. His main interest has now drifted toward adaptive organizations.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcausse/
Marina Arefyeva – Ambassador and Trustee
Marina is an agile coach and community builder with 10+ years experience, working on creating an awesome and inclusive new agile community across all Russia.
She experiments and pilots agile ways of working in companies and government structures that are new to working with agile ways of working. She has experience in hiring internal scrum masters and agile coaches from her own school alumnus. This network has made a huge impact and great change in the organisations. She also helps with the product management culture setup and teaches scrum masters, agile coaches and product coaches through her independent Creative Thinking consulting company co-owned with Montessory Expert.
Marina spent time working as software developer and quality manager in Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, Siberia whilst studying in Novosibirsk State University and had practice in scientific research organizations in computer technologies.
She also worked as the first Scrum Master in Russia’s largest IT company Yandex in 2012-2015 and at Russia’s largest telecom MTS as an internal agile coach in 2017- 2018.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/arefyeva/
Khurshid Akbar – Trustee
He is a seasoned knowledge worker, leader and coach. He specialises in product and process design, business communications, open/agile mindset development and Organizational/Team transformation.
As part of the team of Professional Services at SaskTel, he heads the Agile process and practices discipline serving both internal groups and consulting for external clients. He has engaged with his clients’ individual teams, multiple teams across departments and C-level executives to bring Agile process and practices to their organisations.
His specialties are: Agile Coaching, mentoring, training, team building, product & process design, and knowledge work.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/khurshid-akbar/
Myles Hopkins – Ambassador and Trustee
Myles is a business agility influencer and leads the business agility community in Africa and the Middle East. He is the founder of Be Agile and has been a globally respected consultant for the past 19 years. He focuses on adding tangible value to organisations through enabling them to develop winning and actionable strategies, core adaptability and agility, and the innovative and engaged culture needed to deliver high impact results.
Myles is a sought after speaker at international conferences, Meetups and Webinars. His company – Be Agile – won the 2020 World Agility Foundation award for the work they do in building agile communities.”
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/myles-hopkins-6048b6/
Valentina Aleksina – Scrum Master and Trustee
Valentina lives in Moscow, Russia. She has been working in IT since 2006 and for the last 4 years she has worked in FinTech managing Software Development. They use Scrum methodology, so she is interested in getting more experience with it. She speaks Russian, English and German. In July 2020 Valentina got a Diploma of Harvard Business School in “Disruptive Strategy and Innovation” course. She is a passionate traveller and likes experiencing new places, cultures, food. She also loves Alpine skiing and French bulldogs.
Julia Shipitsina-Buchholz – Marketing, Academic and Trustee
Freelance strategist & marketing director in Riga/Moscow/Palma
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/julija-sipicina-buhgolca-37a6b915/
Katie Seivwright – Interaction Designer and Trustee
Interaction Design Student at The Glasgow School of Art, Marketing Circle Member at The Agile20Reflect Festival
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-seivwright-227048149/
Sathpal Singh – Events and Interview Co-ordinator and Trustee
Sath is a technology leader, passionate Agilist and Visual Storyteller. He started his career as a Software Engineer after graduating with a BEng(Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, he moved from technical hands-on roles into management and leadership roles and has over 20 years of professional experience across the public, private and voluntary sectors and has led numerous cross-functional teams, departments and divisions. He has also been responsible for a number of complex and high profile digital programs and transformation initiatives working across a number of sectors, notably travel and tourism, energy and the drinks industry with global brands and international clients.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sathpal/
Jerome Arockia – Proposals Lead and Trustee
Enterprise Agile Consultant with 19 Years of Experience in Software Industry and in that 10+ years of Agile Coach/Scrum Master / RTE experience for large programmes / platform teams. Experienced Agile Coach and Scrum Master with good Coaching & servant leadership skills with the ability to develop high performance and self-organised feature teams. Have worked extensively in the Implement and Embed phase of Bank’s Agile transformation programme (organise the work, organise the people, speed up the work). Good experience in designing and implementing scaled agile operating models for the Bank (Business, Change, Technology) based on industry frameworks (SAFe,LeSS,Scrum@Scale,Spotify)
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerome-arockia-51bab238/
Advisors
Craig Cockburn
Craig Cockburn (“coburn”) started his career as a software engineer before progressing into test management, project management and programme management. During this time he wrote the UK’s first guide to getting online, is credited with inventing an early browser and appears on the credits for HTML. A early adopter of remote working, Craig wrote a research paper on this practice in the early 1990s. He was Programme manager on a delivery for Southwark council which won IT Project of the Year from the British Computer Society and worked across the UK, Scottish and Northern Irish public sectors, including close collaboration with strategic communications in Downing Street.
During the last 10 years, Craig has specialised more on helping clients with agile delivery and transformations in the public and private sectors with a particular emphasis on banking and finance. During this time Craig has completed a diploma in digital leadership with distinction, obtained multiple certifications in enterprise agile and received an acknowledgement in Agendashift by Mike Burrows. He is a Chartered Fellow of both the British Computer Society and Chartered Management Institute.
Craig is based in Edinburgh, Scotland and has recently spoken at a number of conferences and events including Agile Tour London, Lean Agile Exchange and Coaching Agile Journeys on visualising strategy in a complex landscape and innovative learning practices.
Geetha Ramachandran
Geetha Ramachandran is an Agile Coach, Change Management Practitioner and a professional Personal & Business Coach accredited with the ICF. As a Leadership Transformation Coach, Geetha is qualified to run The Leadership Circle, a global profiling tool for leaders. With an engineering background, as an Agile Coach, Geetha focusses on the people & process dynamics aspects of building teams. Geetha received a “Made a Difference” award for team transformation and “The Telegraph Woman of the Year” award for her organisational transformation efforts. She is the Founder and Director of Powerfully Human Coaching & Consultancy Ltd.
Richard Cornelius
Richard is a lean-agile transformation specialist, preferring to build continual learning organisations, leading IT and business agility transformations that are aligned to both organisational and cultural needs, rather than impose any specific framework or a fixed scope transformation.
His personal lean-agile journey started in the early 1990’s with lean improvements and subsequently built on that with various agile and scaled agile frameworks, systems thinking, theory of constraints, Agendashift partner etc.
Whilst having this wide spread of knowledge over many years, he loves being a practitioner, especially as a culture hack, passionate about people and their ways of working, whilst comfortable working strategically with executive and senior management or creating and improving development teams.
His role for the Agile20reflect is primarily as an Advisor, using his broad experience to take a wide view rather than delving deeply into any circle. He is also active in the Risk Circle, again taking a pro-active approach to building resilience and robustness.
Oana Juncu
Oana likes to call herself an Agile Leadership DJ mixing whatever practices help people share ownership and become proud of their outcomes.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/oanajuncu/
Sathpal Singh
Sath is a passionate, energetic and people-oriented technology and agile leader. He believes in the power of coaching and mentoring, and is an avid visual practitioner.
Having amassed over 20 years of industry experience with international clients and global brands. He has moved from hands-on engineering roles into management and leadership positions spanning both the public and private sectors. At present Sath is leading initiatives to build engineering capability and enhance culture in the finance sector.
Sath is a Chartered IT Practitioner (CITP), Chartered Manager (CMgr) and Fellow of the Learning & Performance Institute (FLPI). He undertakes a number of additional voluntary roles and is currently a BCS Agile committee member, Organiser at The Future of Work Scotland meetup and sits on the board of CMI Scotland. He also holds PSM, PSK and PSPO Agile certifications, and a diploma in Digital Marketing.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sathpal/
Muhammad Jamil
A passionate agilist, community builder, and an agile leader. With about 13+ years of experience in Information Technology, I played several key roles as Agile Coach, Agile Transformation Leader, Tech Evangelist, Development Manager, Project Manager, Enterprise Architect, Team Lead, Scrum Master, Mentor and Speaker. Able to wear different hats over the years, I always thrive to drive change culture parallel to the adoption of Agile mindset through Organisation change expertise, excellent facilitation, conflict resolution.
I enjoy Scrum to solve complex problems (not only in Software but also in other domains) and Coaching to help people excel by unlocking their potentials. I love reading, writing, public speaking, and have a healthy discussion about coaching, Agile and Scrum. My consulting experience spans across a plethora of mission-critical Software development, Digital Transformation, Agile Transformation, and modernisation projects for Federal Government agencies in Bahrain & KSA (iGA, TRA, SLRB, ELM, HRDF), Government-sponsored enterprise, Financial and IT organisations, Corporate and Retail Banks (Ithmaar Bank, Riyadh Bank, Meem Bank, Bank AlBilad).
I love to volunteer, share knowledge and help grow the agile community. I am currently hosting a weekly agile pro bono cohort in GCC to help promote agile practices and build a local agile community in gulf region. I am also an active member of Pakistan Agile Scrum Exchange (PASE). I love coaching and am aspiring to become a ICF accredited professional coach in near future.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/muhammad-jamil/
Karl A L Smith
Karl Smith is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a member by invitation of BCS ELITE (Effective Leadership in IT) the CIO & CTO group and European CIO Association. He mainly works as an interim consultant, CIO, CTO, CDO or CXO but also joins companies on a permanent bases to deliver the digital transformation or organisational change they are seeking.
He has been involved in Human Centred Design since 1989 and an Agile practitioner since 2004 involved in supporting both business agility and technology adoption of Agile in context of specific organisations. Including Enterprise Agile Portfolio management and an extension of SAFe towards Customer Journey Target Operating Models focused on Idea to Value for Outcome based Transformations.
He has always been fascinated by how technology can augment the lives of humans;
“My desire was not to build things that humans already do but to find out how technology could evolve our human experience.”
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlsmith2/
Agile20Reflect Patrons
Arie van Bennekum
Arie is a pragmatic who embeds his pragmatism in structure, discipline & common sense from his early days in the health care and the military forces up to where he is today. This eventually led to being one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. Over the years Arie has become an expert on Agile transformations and Business Agility. Arie is working for Wemanity (www.wemanity.com) these days as thought leader and within Wemanity responsible for international transformations (across the globe) and works with an international team to get this done. Next to this work in Agile and Agile transformations Arie lectured at the Rotterdam University (20 years), Amsterdam (7 years) and Utrecht (3years) on topics such as Agile, (Agile) project management and Facilitation. His IP is to be found at www.integratedagile.com and www.arievanbennekum.com. His first book is about how to handle change and objectives as an individual (#YouAreTheArchitectOfYourOwnLife) and his second book on Business Agility (#ReachingForBusinessAgility) is coming out soon.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariev3/
Johanna Rothman
Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams do reasonable things that work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can then decide how to adapt their product development.
With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 18 books about many aspects of product development. Her most recent books are the Modern Management Made Easy series, From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams, and Create Your Successful Agile Project. Find the Pragmatic Manager, a monthly email newsletter, and her blogs at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannarothman/
Alistair Cockburn
Co-author of the Agile Manifesto, created Heart of Agile. Creatively showing a humane way forward since the 1990s. Asked by IBM in 1991 to create a new and modern methodology for the IBM Consulting Group, Dr. Alistair Cockburn started studying how teams succeed. His team was one of the few that succeeded with commercial object-technology projects in the mid-1990s. His book Surviving Object-Oriented Projects showed how they did that.Continuing his research, including being special advisor to the Norwegian Central Bank in the late 1990s, Dr. Cockburn co-organised the event that changed the software industry, the writing of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development (http://agilemanifesto.org), generally just called the Agile Manifesto. He received his Dr. Philos. from the University of Oslo in 2003, the same year he organised the first Agile Development Conference.
Esther Derby
Author of 7 Rules for Positive Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results. Esther draws on four decades of experience leading, observing, and living through organizational change. Esther started her career as a programmer, and quickly realised that while her job description referred to computers, her real work involved changing the way people worked, and supporting them though that process. In 1997, she founded Esther Derby Associates, Inc., and works with a broad array of clients from Fortune 500 companies to start ups. Her approach blends attention to humans and deep knowledge of complex adaptive systems.In addition to consulting, Esther has an extensive background in designing and leading experiential learning. She teaches workshops both on-line and in-person around the world. Her workshops support leaders to explore how they can adapt the environment to amplify empowerment, engage in joint problem-solving, and evolve their systems towards better results.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/estherderby/
Lyssa Adkins
Agile & Exec Team Coach, Virtual Facilitator & Systems Coach, Co-leader TENWOMENSTRONG. I am an Agile + professional coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer. My current focus is improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organisation systems coaching. Making difficult decisions faster and with clear alignment, unknotting challenging multi-department impediments, creating the conditions for smooth organisational delivery, helping leaders take up the “Agile transformation” that is theirs to make…this is where I thrive and help thrive.My Agile community focus is amplifying women’s voices, which is why I am a founder of the TENWOMENSTRONG #WomeninAgile programs.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyssaadkins/
Sally Elatta
I am simply a transformer. Someone who is really passionate about transforming individuals, teams and organisations to doing what they do better. I believe in enabling Business Agility so our customers can thrive in a competitive world.My leadership style is summarised as.. BE BOLD .. BE REAL and Lead with LOVE
BE BOLD is why my amazing team and I have a BIG dream to bring measurement, continuous improvement and business agility to all major enterprises around the world.
It’s also why I started SudanNextGen.com, a non-profit that aims to help Sudan leapfrog into the future after its recent revolution led by women and youth.
Learn More: https://www.AgilityHealthRadar.com
Learn Agile: https://www.AgileVideos.com
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/elatta/
April Jefferson
Coach, Facilitator, Speaker, Co-Creator of Tabi Game, Co-Founder of Future of Work 24 Hour Global Gathering & Women In Agile Open. Experience Craftswoman & Mindset Harmonizer that Nurtures the Journey to Nourish YourselfI lead with empathy and courage while partnering with others to help unlock their full potential. Believing the path to authentic growth and change begins with invitation and a people centered approach. Favoring a blended mindset of agile, lean, design thinking, open space, teal, and improvisation when engaging. I value connecting people to ownership of their needs and goals.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/soulcraftswoman/
Simon Wardley
Thought Lord, Mapper, Junior DevOpper, Destroyer of undeserved value. Lawful / Chaotic Evil often Good.Explorer of uncharted spaces. Twice voted in the UKTech50, Judge in Nesta’s Open Banking and Netflix’s Open Source competitions, Co-Chair of OSCON Europe, Cloud Camp and Map Camp. Regular speaker on the global tech circuit.
Linkedin : @swardley
Peter Merel
CEO XSCALE Alliance, Peter is Australia’s longest serving agilist and played a part in the formation of the Agile Alliance. Credited in Beck’s first XP book, Peter created the first agile training games and ran them at the first agile conference, XP2K. He led transformations at GMAC and Websense in the US, and IAG, CBA and Ray White in Australia.In 2015 Peter founded XSCALE Alliance as “the Linux of the Agile world”. Gartner recognised XSCALE in its 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 market guides for Enterprise Agile Frameworks, and XSCALE coaches in a dozen world capitals are collaborating on it as an open learning ecosystem engaging banks, insurers, health and telco corporations.
Peter also has three decades in delivery programs. He played leading roles on the $9B CBA Mobile Channel “Kaching” product, Invensys “I/A Systems SCADA” which controls a third of the world’s oil infrastructure, and Telstra’s OMP grid which controlled Austalia’s international telco network for 2 decades. He authored patents in scheduling, e-currency, pattern recognition and social ratings, led multiple startups and open source projects including the original Wikipedia wiki engine.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/petermerel/
Ellen Grove
interim Managing Director at Agile Alliance. Helping organisations, leaders and teams deliver better results through coaching them to bring about the circumstances in which they can work most productively and create real organisational change. As a business agility coach, I help teams and leaders in all parts of the enterprise to actively address the organisation’s most pervasive problems. I introduce techniques from Scrum, Lean, Kanban, Extreme Programming, and Systems Coaching to promote successful collaborative environments that can adapt to changing business circumstances. I deliver training and workshops in a variety of experiential formats to build the foundations for an agile mindset and practices, and use coaching and facilitation to solve the tough people problems and overcome obstacles to organisation change at the team, managerial and corporate levels. I often work with teams to develop coherence and resilience in turbulent business environments.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellengrove/
Roman Pichler
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roduct Management Author, Consultant and Trainer, Roman is a leading product management expert specialised in digital products and agile practices. He teaches product managers and product owners, advises product leaders, and helps companies create successful product management organisations.
Roman is the author of three books on product management and one on Scrum. He writes a popular blog at romanpichler.com/blog, hosts his own product management podcast, and offers a range of free product management tools.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanpichler/
Askhat Urazbaev
Agile & Organisational Coach, founder of ScrumTrek, partner and DataMonsters, entrepreneur.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/urazbaev/
Gabrielle Benefield
Gabrielle Benefield is an author, speaker, innovator, and founder of Mobiusloop.com. Mobius is a radically simple way to get to the outcomes that really matter. It acts as a navigator, creating a continuous flow of innovation from discovery, to design, to delivery. Gabrielle is an advocate for purposeful innovation and believes the relentless pursuit of ‘more, more, more’ gets in the way of success. Since developing the earliest inception of Mobius in 2009 she has helped individuals and organisations all over the globe, including Google and Red Hat solve complex problems in a transformational way.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/gbenefield/
Our Key Early Supporters
We owe a huge debt of gratitude to our Early Supporters they have really helped the idea grow.
Arie Van Bennekum
Craig Brown
Craig Cockburn
Daniel Mezick
Dave Snowden
Dianna Larsen
Ellen Grove
Evan Leybourn
Geetha Ramachandran
James Grenning
Jim Benson
Johanna Rothman
Karl Scotland
Karl Smith
Luke Hohmann
Mark Dalgarno
Mike Carew
Mike Leber
Nick Argall
Richard Cornelius
Roman Pichler
Sathpal Singh
Scott Ambler
Soledad Pinter
Thanks for all your support… and learning! (We love you)
Press Coverage and Media
Agile20Reflect Festival Press Coverage
TRANSMEDIA Mundial de Agilidad: Abierto e Inclusivo durante todo el mes
Digital Journal Agile20Reflect Festival Free Global Agile Festival over 550+ Events Starts 31st Jan
HR Connect Mundial de Agilidad: Abierto e Inclusivo
PR.com Agile20Reflect Festival the Largest Free Global Agile Festival in History Starts on Jan. 31
Digital Journal Agile20Reflect Festival event submission deadline extended to 27th of January
Crunchbase Agile20Reflect Festival
Agile20Reflect Festival Team
Scott Seivwright, CEO Agile20Reflect Festival: What the Dickens is it about?
Karl Smith, CTO Storming Norming Performing Agile20Reflect Festival a view from the wings
Agile20Reflect Festival Supporters
Scrum.org Festival to reflect on 20 years of Agile
Agile Alliance Celebrating 20+ Years of Agility at the Agile20Reflect Festival
Project Management Institute PMI Chapter Opportunity The Agile20Reflect Festival
Agile Business Consortium Agile20Reflect Festival
YouTube Channels Associated
Agile20Reflect Festival Archive
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTkos6Vj6Ab17NVc-26MscQ
Agile World ®
Agile World https://www.youtube.com/@AgileWorld/
Agile World ® is News and Broadcast Network organisation based (originally in Hollywood, California) now in Geneva, Switzerland set up to make and distribute Agile media, entertainment and educational materials, it is an initiative of the nonprofit Agile World ® also based in Geneva, Switzerland. The Agile World talk show was created by Karl A L Smith based upon an homage to Wayne’s World and the Edinburgh Comedy Festival daily round up and Sabrina C E Noto as a way to garner engagement during a worldwide free festival in February 2021 that celebrated 20 years of Agile. Agile World News first show was recorded on the 31th of January 2021 and broadcasted on the 1st of February 2021 even though the show was created in October 2020. It continues today as a non-profit Entertainment and Education organisation for supporting people to gain free access to Agile education and continued professional development for existing Agile practitioners.
Together in February 2021 from 28 days Karl (volunteer, then CTO, then Trustee) and Sabrina (volunteer, then CMO, then Trustee) with other trustees, ambassadors, speakers and attendees from The Agile20Reflect Festival made 25 episodes, evolving the format as they went by experimentation. Working together within the Agile20 Reflect Festival the founders focused on the fun side of Agile, the humour is clear in their engagement with each other and their guests.
Agile20Reflect Festival Agile World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS5Y_-n7yR4&list=PLkZTsxKc21AADK5pUvydcOVWhPydoxAeJ
Agile World ® is now on 18 digital platforms and working on another 14 at the moment, it continues to strengthen its format through enabling content creators from other languages and time zone to encompass the world.
Agile World News Vision
Agile World ® is committed to people, their hopes and dreams and giving them a voice. It has focused on the thousands of people who make a difference every day supporting others in adopting, evolving and being Agile.
We are committed listening and communicating to everyone who needs support to evolve their lives
Agile World offers open programming and educational materials to anyone who wants to expand their knowledge of Agile and how it can aid them in their everyday life. Teachers, Architects, Government, Treasury, FMCG, Healthcare any kind of agile practice or experience is welcome. https://agile-world.news/about-agile-world/
Agile World Non-profit
Agile World ® is a philanthropic organisation that is supporting Initiatives that are creating free Agile entertainment and education resources for the public good, focusing on increasing the quality of life for everyone. https://agile-world.charity/what-is-agile-world/
Agile World ® founders Sabrina C E Noto and Karl A L Smith want to establish and support initiatives that create free multilingual educational and training resources that provide materials for everyone regardless of their current circumstances.
At Agile World ® we recognise that mindsets are not easily changed but need evidence before choosing change. It is essential to understand that better ways of living or working cannot be imposed, but rather they must show tangible benefits to people lives before they adopt them as better ways to live and they become the norm.
Mindsets change with benefits gained, Co-Founder Karl A L Smith
Our volunteers are amazing people who have made a commitment to help people they may never meet, all while working full time, managing their home lives and relationships and being good citizens.
Festival Calendar (sample February 10 2021)
https://web.archive.org/web/20210210053104/https://agile20reflect.org/festival/photo/
The Festival’s Your Agile Story Reflection Survey
The Agile20Reflect Festival cafe – Come chat, set up a voice room or go to the lounge
“No queremos hacer agilidad en las Organizaciones, Queremos hacer Organizaciones ágiles” Agile20ReflectFestival España
Get connected Eye Contact for True Connection Experiment
I’m not good enough! Why does the voice in my head say that & Imposter Syndrome
¿Qué no puede faltar en una transformación Agile? Backlog de Transformación Agile.
