Agile Swarming 2025
who it's for
agile coaches, engineering managers, product managers, engineering leaders, ux designers, scrum masters, organizational development consultants
topics
cycle time as primary metric; outcome-driven roadmaps; cross-cultural collaboration; technical debt valuation (CoDVA); dual-track agile with Figma; team health assessments and surveys; facilitated joint planning practices; agile governance and executive alignment; portfolio Kanban and flight levels; feature toggles for risk management; retrospective facilitation patterns; continuous improvement via virtues and ethics
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Get great things done together | Jenni Jepsen | 59m |
Four practical practices: Understand Together, Plan Together, Validate Together, Reflect Together. Uses facilitation to reduce wasted “wondering” (she cites… | ||
| Learn the Culture first, then go Agile! | Allen Jellas | 27m |
Two case studies show culture-first change: a 100-person Copenhagen fintech uses the N grid canvas, PI planning and Azure DevOps roadmaps to reorganize… | ||
| Is constant effectiveness analysis productive? | Wojciech Grabowski | 15m |
Defines effectiveness vs efficiency with concrete examples (waking up before sunset vs cost per value), then applies three decision tools—utilitarianism /… | ||
| Cycle Time is the only metric that counts | Tomasz Maj | 24m |
Claim: focus on cycle time as the leading metric, not ceremonies. Teams use Excel + Jira add-on and ChatGBT to generate cycle time scatter plots, find 85% of… | ||
| From Agile to Outcome-Driven | Paweł Feliński | 29m |
Argues that Agile alone rarely delivers value because organisations prize visible efficiency over hidden effectiveness, noticing only 1–2 customers in 15 years… | ||
| Collaboration Strategies for International Teams | Agata Kozicka | 29m |
Case studies apply Erin Meyer’s Eight Dimensions model to real IT projects and show concrete changes: switching from email to WhatsApp over email produces… | ||
| Team Assessments: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Denis Salnikov | 27m |
Compares lightweight Spotify squad health check and the deeper agile coaching growth wheel, then describes building a 23‑topic internal assessment in a Google… | ||
| Haunted Project Survival Guide | Paweł Zajączkowski | 32m |
Frames projects as haunted mansions and offers three concrete responses: confront (change the system), accept (reframe stress) or escape (leave). Calls out… | ||
| Bringing the Gap Between Agile, Engineering, and Leadership | T. Manugiewicz | 29m |
Executive Agile frames three practical gaps — mindset, language, accountability — and prescribes concrete steps: build executive awareness and buy‑in before… | ||
| Unveiling the Business Value of Technical Debt | Marek Stochel | 27m |
Continuous Debt Valuation Approach (CoDVA) maps technical‑debt items to prioritized features (pulled from AHA), scores them with a Codva index, and… | ||
| Overcoming Resistance: UX Practices in Agile Teams | P. Sushko, A. Leleno | 24m |
Motorola Solutions teams describe embedding UX into Agile by working one sprint ahead and running dual-track agile so design and development iterate in… | ||
| Is Agile still the answer? | Magdalena Droździewicz | 26m |
Argues that the Agile Manifesto and 12 principles remain the solid foundation: terms like story points, burndown chart and planning poker appear zero times in… | ||
| For effectiveness, Agile was never the answer | Kaja Kalmus, Tomasz Wilk | 34m |
Argues that Agile’s origin favors adaptiveness over measurable effectiveness and gives evidence: Standish Group 2022 finds 64% of delivered features are never… | ||
| Let's talk about Collaboration Debt | Marcin Aks Grochowina | 30m |
The talk introduces the concept of "Collaboration Debt," comparing it to technical debt and explaining how poor relationships, unclear communication and… | ||
| Govern your Agility | Ewa Koprowska | 30m |
Five concrete governance stanchions guide what to change: Conductive Leadership, Sensible Transparency, Patterns of Work, Data-Driven Decision-Making and… | ||
| Is Agile Still the Answer? Lessons from Real World Agility | Nicolas Brown | 01h 04m |
Traces real outcomes: Kanban boards and cycle‑time scatter plots show nearly doubled throughput for one team and a 50% increase in completed items for another… | ||
| The 4 Endings of a Retrospective | Dave Westgarth | 30m |
A practical framework maps four retrospective endings—bitter, bittersweet, semieet, sweet—to whether a team achieves its external wants and internal needs, and… | ||
| Commonalities between quantum physics and Agile | D. Markowska, P. Ślusarczyk | 11m |
Controlled measurements show concrete effects: watching code review cycle time cuts averages from >5 days to under 1.5 days while lapses in attention let it… | ||
| Can Agile and project management be compatible? | Gustavo Coutinho Fernandes | 30m |
Argues that Agile and traditional project management can coexist by splitting levels: use traditional PM for business-level commitments (dates, costs, resource… | ||
| Why Vocabulary Matters | Olena Miroshnichenko | 13m |
Defines five precise terms and shows how confusing them breaks teams: effectiveness = hitting the right target (a mobile app team builds a complex feature for… | ||
| The Real DDD: Delusion-Driven Development | Mateusz Trawiński | 18m |
Claims five core delusions: that agile speeds up fixed‑scope software (contradicted by scrum/kanban practice), that development is a linear production line… | ||
| Networking – why you should start NOW? | Urszula Zemlińska-Sikora | 13m |
Conference attendees measure networking as building and maintaining relationships, not just swapping business cards, and the session proves it with live… | ||
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