Agile + DevOps East 2022 - Agile Teams & Leadership
Wednesday, November 9
A Team is Virtual, Their Fears are Real. Time for a Team Reboot!
Have you noticed lately that something is off with your team's dynamic? Disengagement, unproductive conflicts, siloed work can all be symptoms of a larger underlying problem. Whether you are a Scrum Master, an Agile coach or group's leader, it is never easy to initiate a conversation about the "elephant in the room".
This session will introduce you to three coaching tools ("Fear in the Workplace", Safety in the Workplace" and MinSpec) that can help your facilitate these discussions in a fun, non-threatening way, and lead the group through re-defining their ways of working. You will...
Transformation Leadership in Action
Leading and driving change in our companies, organizations, and teams can be as difficult as pushing a wet rope uphill! Even with the best processes and best tools in place, we may not achieve our business and customer satisfaction goals because our work environment is stuck in the status quo. Ultimately transforming an organization is about changing culture. Culture is influenced by our values, beliefs, goals, assumptions, purpose, priorities, and other factors. Therefore, transformational Leadership is a key ingredient in driving cultural change. Join Mike Sowers to learn more about the...
Thursday, November 10
Congratulations! You're a leader! Now what?!
You’ve done it! You’ve finally gotten into that leadership position, whether it be a test lead, test manager, or even test director. Now what? You’ve gotten to this point because of your technical skills. Always one to jump in and fix things or get things done. However, now your job is people. You’ve gone from doing the testing to leading people who do the testing. What does this mean for you? In this talk Janna will talk about the transition from individual contributor to leader. What do you do when the skills that got you here aren’t the same as the skills that you need to be a good...
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7 Strategies To Build High Performing Teams
If you are a supervisor or a team leader, you know how difficult it is to manage distributed teams with constant pressure to perform and deliver quality product/service on time. This is especially true for offshore teams who are in different timezones, regions, cultures and working styles. If you do not put in effort to come up with effective strategies to manage these teams, it may eventually lead to low team morale, disgruntled employees, and most importantly poor performance. This is the reason why companies are investing millions of dollars in training, organizational and team...