Allan Kelly
where else to find them
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what they talk about
all 8 in the filters
where they keep going back
- Agile on the Beach4 editions2018–2023
- Øredev2 editions2019–2022
on a stage with
never shared a talk
who talks about the same things
- John Le Drew6 talks
- Daniel Terhorst-North42 talks
- Kent Beck14 talks
- Tim Ottinger7 talks
- Luca Minudel11 talks
- Jeff Gothelf8 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Honey, I shrunk the backlog | Agile on the Beach 2023 | 2023-07-06 |
Argues for deliberately deleting large product backlogs roughly every three months and replacing them with OKR-driven, just-in-time story generation: use… | ||
| Reawakening Agile with OKRs | Øredev 2022 | 2022-11-08 |
Claims that OKRs actually work with agile after experiments across multiple teams and that they can reawaken radical agile by aligning leadership missions with… | ||
| Always time for tea | Øredev 2022 | 2022-11-08 |
Claim: the natural state is "always time for tea" — there never appears a clean block of time to refactor so organize for constrained, recurring deadlines… | ||
| Reawakening Agile with OKRs | Agile on the Beach 2021 | 2021-09-02 |
Argues OKRs fit between two-week iterations and long-term strategy as a 3-month, test-first management cadence that sets measurable hypotheses (not epics) and… | ||
| Mission Impossible: The Product Owner | Agile on the Beach 2021 | 2021-09-02 |
Argues product owners are overloaded by scrum and organizations, lacking skills authority legitimacy time to prioritise effectively, and frequently become… | ||
| Mission Impossible: The Product Owner | Øredev 2019 | 2019-11-06 |
Argues the Product Owner role is often impossible because one person must cover skills authority legitimacy time, owning a single backlog and negotiating… | ||
| Evolution From #Noprojects to Continuous Digital | Øredev 2019 | 2019-11-06 |
Claim: projects are a 1970s hangover and must be replaced by continuous digital practices that fund teams not temporary scopes. Cites Domino’s app as the… | ||
| How to value a story? | Agile on the Beach 2019 | 2019-07-11 |
Uses planning poker cards and a fantasy currency called Cornish dollars to put numeric values on backlog stories, iterating through an MVP pet‑tracker: website… | ||
| Agile, Digital & the new business paradigm/heuristics | Agile on the Beach 2018 | 2018-07-12 |
Claim: the digital revolution is driven by Moore’s Law plus cheap CPU cycles and therefore agile is the process that matches digital. Evidence: transistor… | ||
| #NoProjects Beyond Projects - Why Projects Are Wrong & What To Do Instead | GOTO London 2015 | 2015-09-16 |
Argues that fixed-end-date projects turn working software into dead software and drive bad engineering tradeoffs, cites Capers Jones’s ~2% requirement churn… | ||
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