Agile Swarming 2023
who it's for
agile coaches, product managers, engineering managers, scrum masters, team leads, transformation leads, developers
topics
Kanban with STATIK; WIP limits and classes of service; assumption-first product discovery; cheap prototype and painted-door tests; MVP as build-measure-learn experiment; delegation board for empowerment; OKRs and measuring for purpose; feature factory to product shift; value stream mapping and DORA metrics; CI/CD with feature flags; role-combination anti-patterns; retrospective practice and anti-patterns
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| My journey from misshapen Scrum to reliable Kanban | Jakub Bażela | 35m |
Team replaces misfitting Scrum/SAFe rituals with a Kanban system using STATIK, resets Jira to task-based issues, and defines classes of service and explicit… | ||
| Are you doing product management or bullshit management? | David Pereira | 57m |
Argues that product work becomes “bullshit management” unless teams stop shipping features and start falsifying assumptions: he deletes 1,200+ stale backlog… | ||
| 7 steps to destroy an Agile Transformation | Luiza Lipień | 22m |
Seven concrete failure modes: no clear end goal so teams “do Agile” with no purpose; metrics explode or focus narrowly instead of measuring for purpose… | ||
| MVP – The Study of the Act of Faith | Wiesław Zagól | 19m |
The talk examines how to choose and validate the right minimal product approach (MVP, MLP, SLC, MMP, MMR, MSP, MAP) by running a fast feedback loop called the… | ||
| Never, ever hire consultants (before you see this presentation) | Igor Mróz | 28m |
Case studies show how common change practice breaks: organizations start at knowledge not desire, mis-scope workshops, and skip stakeholder mapping; one… | ||
| Spaghetti Agiliatore | Janek Mitkowski | 27m |
Combining roles like Scrum Master, Product Owner, line manager or Project Lead creates a reproducible role monster that eats time and focus: one example shows… | ||
| Learning from mistakes | Zuzana (Zuzi) Sochova | 01h 03m |
A sequence of concrete experiments and failures: trying to fake Scrum then adopting it properly after six months and seeing measurable team improvement… | ||
| Shared Leadership – leaders, leaders everywhere? | Jakub Perlak | 28m |
Argues that leadership is an emergent team property supported by studies (75 teams, ~308 people) and by practical experiments, not just top-down authority, and… | ||
| Whatever Works – Scrum, Kanban, or Nothing? | Katarzyna Banaś | 24m |
Argues that big tech often lacks a single companywide process and instead has engineers run projects with a simple rhythm: plan build and ship, then measure… | ||
| Agile Transformations are not about software | Tomasz Maj | 26m |
Argues organizations must scale holistically — strategy, people, process, technology and structure — not just add teams; recommends big bang shifts for policy… | ||
| TDD – Trust Driven Development | Tomasz Manugiewicz | 32m |
Claim: building everyday trust — shown as competence and character — lets teams remove manual approvals and shorten lead time. Uses Value Stream Mapping, DORA… | ||
| IMPACT - How to Switch from Feature Factory to Product... | Mateusz Trawiński | 09m |
A team stops a planned integration that would mass-post reviews and instead frames the problem as hypotheses about how to increase genuine Trustpilot ratings… | ||
| Be careful what you wish for | Magdalena Droździewicz | 14m |
Workshop converts metric-goals into a one-minute brainstorming game that finds terrible ways to hit targets: cut defect logging, close bugs without fixing… | ||
| “Keep it simple!” Retrospecting on retrospectives | Aneta Olejarka | 27m |
Claims that swapping fancy exercises for a short, metric-driven routine frees time and fixes real impediments. Uses flow metrics (lead time ~60 days revealed… | ||
| Dragging out and failing Agile Transformation – reasons | Magdalena Firlit | 44m |
Agile transformations often stall for years—one to three years is realistic but some programs run 10–15 years with little progress—because organizations hire… | ||
| Splitting the Team | Mariola Szot | 16m |
Two case studies compare outcomes when splitting a team: one split of 7 developers is announced with two weeks’ notice and imposed structure, causes anger… | ||
| The seven deadly sins of retrospectives | Marcin Aks Grochowina | 15m |
Covers common dysfunctions and myths around Agile retrospectives—why teams treat them as a boring obligation and why identified improvements often don’t… | ||
| I Respect Scrum, But… | Wojciech Gurgul | 15m |
Summarizes findings from a master’s research study on modifications to Scrum, reporting which Scrum practices teams and managers across industries actually… | ||
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