Agile on the Beach 2016
2016-07-06..2016-07-07
Falmouth, United Kingdom
[Agile on the Beach 2016, Agile on the Beach 2018, Agile on the Beach 2019, Agile on the Beach 2021, Agile on the Beach 2023, Agile on the Beach 2024, Agile on the Beach 2025]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Team Motivation - CDK Local | Kwasi Owusu-Asomaning, Andy Bowskill, Chris Camacho | 28m |
Claims that teams need autonomy, mastery and purpose and then gives concrete practices: run short feedback loops (daily joins, unit tests) to be "wrong fast"… | ||
| StringTheory: Hidden Connections in Teams | Eben Halford | 51m |
Summarizes 20 years of team research (Hackman) into concrete rules: teams need a bounded social system, interdependent work, stable membership, a compelling… | ||
| Performance Management: the new team responsibility | Adam Polczyk | 44m |
Presents a concrete alternative: a lightweight team 360 process implemented as the Team‑sense tool, combining competency ratings, strictly anonymized team… | ||
| Keeping distributed agile teams ‘face to face’ | David Longman | 41m |
Shows how small, practical changes measurably cut friction: moving developers and testers to sit together halves defect churn and speeds delivery; splitting… | ||
| Empowering Teams To Change | Mia Filisch, Hanif Jameel | 16m |
7digital reorganizes from component teams into cross‑functional feature teams (teams of about 4–6 people) that pull work from a single backlog shown on a… | ||
| Accelerated learning with Mob Programming | Karel Boekhout | 29m |
A process for teaching junior teams through repeated mob sessions: weekly and occasional full-day runs with 4-minute rotations where the driver types but stays… | ||
| Winning your clients’ trust with Agile project management | Laura Delnevo | 39m |
Cameron & Wilding applies concrete Agile practices to win repeat clients at The Telegraph Media Group, Sage and The Economist: one chat room per project plus… | ||
| Ship fast! | Judith Andresen | 39m |
Argument: shorten lead time by running tiny experiments — pick the true minimum viable piece, the baby elephant, not a half-built fleet. Example: deploy a… | ||
| Incredible Agile Teams | Ian Hawkins | 42m |
Thirty-plus scrum teams across medical imaging test practices like mob testing, which finds defects that solo testing misses, and regular pair programming to… | ||
| Design a Degree 2.0 | Toby Parkins, Lyssa Fee-Crump | 35m |
Plans to crawl and evaluate 1200 degrees across the UK using an industry-validated methodology and an independent research partner, aiming to publish a ranked… | ||
| Agile values and principles for non software teams | Roberta Stafford | 26m |
Practical steps for non‑software teams at Capital One: set a clear start with why (six cross‑functional teams given a 10% web drop‑off reduction goal), make… | ||
| Using Landing Pages to Prove Business Value | Luke Szyrmer | 20m |
Use landing page MVP tests plus paid ads and simple hypothesis checks against a Business Model Canvas to measure real demand, not opinions. Example… | ||
| Iterative Persona | Adrian Howard | 20m |
Argues that personas must be built iteratively using team workshops, lightweight research and regular revisits rather than big up‑front studies. Describes a… | ||
| How to do effective research in an irrational world | Kat Matfield | 45m |
Anecdotes and experiments show users lie to future, present and past: a focus group all say they’ll buy the new product yet every person takes the £30 voucher… | ||
| Growing Skills : I AM DIGITAL | Mike Trebilcock | 35m |
Claims a narrow local pipeline: only about 10% of students took GCSE Computing in 2013, 61 students took A‑level Computing in Cornwall in 2015 and roughly 80… | ||
| UX and A3 Thinking | Cat Swetel, Mike Caponero | 48m |
Shows how an empathy map plus an A3 template turn guesswork into disciplined PDCA/PDSA cycles: pick a specific customer (property owner, parent, jaded user)… | ||
| User Stories and other agile failures | David Espley | 28m |
Large corporates pile rules onto processes (example: a 12-stage handover between requirements and production) and prefer buying innovation; expect slow… | ||
| Running Killer Workshops without killing yourself | Darci Dutcher | 45m |
Facilitation advice from someone with over a thousand workshops: focus on goals, stay neutral, and prepare backups. Use KJ/dot voting and thumb voting to… | ||
| Faster feature discovery with Google Design Sprints | Darwin Peltan, Alastair Lee | 43m |
Google Ventures’ Design Sprint compresses discovery into a five-day Sprint that maps Monday to Friday: Monday defines target, Tuesday produces sketches and… | ||
| Accounting for Agile software | Brett Ansley | 47m |
Shows how to ditch individual timesheets and instead extract feature-level cost from delivery tracking: count finished stories/points per feature, convert a… | ||
| TDD as if You Meant It | Keith Braithwaite | 28m |
Demonstrates evolving a working tic-tac-toe engine in short TDD loops using Ruby/RSpec, enforcing three rules: only write production code to make a failing… | ||
| How to bring your personas to life without an exorcist | Mike Rawling | 01h 24m |
Personas often become dusty, unvalidated "ghosts"—made up at kickoff, ignored afterwards—so revive them with pragmatic research: collect single attributes on… | ||
| Are projects agile? | Andy Longshaw | 37m |
Workshop runs groups that classify organisations into four contexts – agency, systems integrator, software vendor and software-as-a-service vs bespoke client… | ||
| User testing on a shoestring | Dan Goodwin | 01h 19m |
User testing on a shoestring – Dan Goodwin, fffunction
Agile Product Design, Agile on the Beach
https://speakerdeck.com/bouncingdan/usability-testing-on-a-sho… | ||
| Value | Andrea Provaglio | 45m |
Argues that Value is multidimensional and systemic, not just money, and shows concrete practices: map stakeholders as actors (power/interest quadrant), use… | ||
| The Agile Business – DSDM | Ed Holt | 29m |
Summarises market research showing agile is spreading beyond IT with DSDM roots from 1994, cites concrete metrics (eg 22% higher shareholder returns, 50% lower… | ||
| Case Study: Seven Years of Agile | Paul Massey | 35m |
Bluefruit adopts Scrum since 2009 and grows fivefold (previously 50% year‑on‑year), replaces fixed‑price scope with moved from fixed‑price to sprint‑billing… | ||
| Mindful Agile: The Foundation of How We Grow | Kamila Piorowska | 38m |
Claim: mindfulness increases team members' awareness so Agile practices actually stick. Offers quick, repeatable techniques: breathing patterns (three rounds… | ||
| Measuring Agile success | David Leach | 42m |
Argues that measurements must change behavior and gives concrete tools: uses the balanced scorecard with four perspectives and six–eight strategic metrics… | ||
| Learn how to improve velocity, predictability & agility | Jon Terry | 51m |
Claims a simple FSGD (Frequent Small Good Decoupled) rule drastically improves velocity and predictability across a 140‑person company used by sales… | ||
| Rising to the Agility Challenge | Dragan Jojic | 43m |
Argues that organisational agility needs everyone to know the intent (what and why), decide how to act, and genuinely care, with structural and cultural… | ||
| Can you be agile and compliant? | Stuart Ward | 44m |
Company moves a 100‑strong Product Delivery team from waterfall to agile in January 2015, reorganising into ~5–6‑person feature teams, adding a UX team, a… | ||
| Agile accountants and other rare specimen | Corinna Baldauf | 48m |
Company-wide agile adoption at sipgate shows concrete practices and results: accounting, legal and kitchen run standups and retros; developers pair into… | ||
| Agile Marketing: The Incomplete Guide | Gez Smith | 47m |
Based on two years' research at Bristol University and ten years using agile in marketing, the talk makes specific claims and gives concrete examples: a Shaun… | ||
| Testing in a Continuous Delivery World | Wouter Lagerweij | 42m |
Claim: flipping to continuous deployment forces practices like TDD and makes teams actually write tests instead of promising them, with some teams enforcing… | ||
| Smoothing the continuous delivery path- a tale of two architectures | Lyndsay Prewer | 40m |
Compares two delivery journeys: a greenfield stack of Scala, mongodb, Docker and a constrained .Net/Windows monolith, with one platform running 300+… | ||
| Penetration Testing in the Release Pipeline | DAVID BROWNHILL, CRAIG SCOTT-ANGELL | 31m |
Frameworks and tools are integrated into the pipeline so security checks run nightly and give actionable failures: BDD-Security drives OWASP ZAP, SSLyze… | ||
| Moving on Up - Agile at Sky | Sarah Glanville, Paul Lemon | 20m |
Creates a new agile hub of over 100 people in four months while mid‑delivery, using a lean‑startup approach with epics, stories and mirrored whiteboards to… | ||
| Build in Quality | Jo Cranford | 43m |
Argues that small “broken windows” hacks become runaway technical debt and that enforcing quality in-process stops it: CI (BillKite) runs rubocop, eslint, unit… | ||
| Continuously delivering software to big brands | Paul Boocock | 50m |
Codeweavers runs a CI/CD pipeline built on .NET, ASP.NET MVC/Web API, SQL Server/Cassandra/Postgres, Angular and Visual Studio, with Subversion over Git and a… | ||
| 2016 Keynote Linda Rising | Linda Rising | 39m |
Claims that Agile is proven lack no randomized controlled trials; decision-making relies on persuasive stories and placebo-like belief more than evidence… | ||
| Being Agile: business survival essentials | Marc Heasman | 23m |
Digital disruption forces seven concrete survival moves backed by numbers and examples: adopt customer focus (Amazon 300M accounts, 4M unique visits/day)… | ||
| 2016 Keynote - Rebecca Parsons, Thoughtworks, Agile on the Beach, Cornwall UK | Rebecca Parsons | 45m |
Argues for hypothesis-driven development with testable business metrics and rapid experiments rather than one big bet, recommends automating deployments so… | ||
| The design and implementation of cyber-dojo | Jon Jagger | 44m |
cyber-dojo is a browser coding dojo that runs user code on the server inside Docker images and later moves the Rails app itself into a Docker image… | ||
| Finding the merkle tree in the block chain forest | Jim Barritt | 43m |
Clear, technical walkthrough of how Bitcoin-style ledgers actually work: transactions signed with ECDSA produce 64-character SHA-256 hashes, transactions are… | ||
| Software Delivery - 10% time the pros and cons? | Elizabeth Pope | 40m |
Company implements Project Lounge: engineers stop sprint work one day a fortnight to experiment, learn or fix tech debt. Outcome includes a holiday countdown… | ||
| How we implemented TDD in Embedded C/C++ | Byran Wills-Heath | 38m |
Company has run TDD on embedded C/C++ since 2009 across ~30 projects and documents concrete practices: they run tests on the dev PC with sanitizers… | ||
| Panel Discussion and Close | Rebecca Parsons, Linda Rising | 50m |
An improvisational fishbowl improv panel lets audience members swap into one of four seats and feed questions written on Post-it questions, prioritised by the… | ||
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