Agile Tour Brussels 2022

28 October from 08:30 to 18:00
Brussels @ Sparks
The oldest agile conference in Brussels
200+
Attendees
1
Day
10+
Talks

About Agile Tour Brussels

Agile Tour Brussels is one of the biggest conferences about agility in Belgium.

We are a part of the Agile Tour, a series of non-profit events over several cities throughout October and December.

Over the years we welcomed speakers and participants from different continents.

The goal: to spread the agile values, principles and practices, to share experiences and to strengthen the community.

The talks and workshops should cover - but not only:

  • Agile Everywhere
  • Agile Management & Leadership
  • Coaching & Facilitation
  • Product Management
  • Technical Excellence
  • Trends

This year, we are super exited to welcome you to an in-person Agile Tour Brussels! Join us this year to share your ideas and experiences with a vibrant community of Agile practitioners!

Speakers

Christophe Martinot
Spain

Session: Business Agility, a fantasy or a necessity?
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Artur Margonari
Belgium

Session: The 10 Vicious Circles @ Work: Detecting and Breaking Them Up
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Charles-Louis de Maere
Belgium

Session: Let's go Clean - an exploration of Clean Language
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Linda de Roo
Netherlands

Session: Running Uphill - 3 practical lessons in collaboration from a unique team in a complex SAFe implementation
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Thomas van Zuijlen
Netherlands

Session: Running Uphill - 3 practical lessons in collaboration from a unique team in a complex SAFe implementation
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Rico Trevisan
Belgium

Session: 7 things I learned about beer and agile coaching
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Sergii Martyshko
Belgium

Session: 7 things I learned about beer and agile coaching
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Fabricio Buzeto
Brazil

Session: Gall's law applied to distributed systems
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Yekaterina Pavlenko
Belgium

Session: Agile Master Career: How do you grow inside the company?
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Manaëlle Perchet
Belgium

Session: Can we be agile without being sustainable? When performance criteria evolve.
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Yves Hulet
Belgium

Session: Can we be agile without being sustainable? When performance criteria evolve.
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Joke Vandemaele
Belgium

Session: The GROWTH coaching program
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Tiago Garcez
Belgium

Session: The GROWTH coaching program
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Jan Van Ryswyck
Belgium

Session: Well-Balanced Test-Driven Development
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Olivier Rouhaud
France

Session: What I've learned after 1 year of agressive scale-up
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Etienne Darquennes
Belgium

Session: Scrum and Low-code
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Luca Minudel
UK

Session: Agile 2022: Beauty and the Beast
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Workshops

Koen Vastmans
Belgium

Session: Slicing the Cake - a game to learn how to apply Richard Lawrence's story splitting patterns
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Frederik Vannieuwenhuyse / Philippe Vandessel
Belgium

Session: A retrospective's anti-patterns retrospective
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Yves Hanoulle
Belgium

Session: How to make hybrid meetings work?
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Hania Ferdoud
Belgium

Session: How to make hybrid meetings work?
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Dimitri Bauwens
Belgium

Session: Let the drawing beast out
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Programme

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08:00 to 09:00

Plenary
Welcome

09:00 to 09:30

Plenary
Pitches

09:30 to 10:20

Plenary

The world we live in has never been so volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous: doesn't that remind you of something?

Isn't agility this continuous capacity of adaptation, constantly renewed, both in its mindset and its practices?

And yet...the best impact is sometimes the one that we don't create (and that we measure). Especially when it comes to the environment.

In a world where inequalities are increasing and where global warming reminds us of our responsibility every day, it is the responsibility of each and every one of us to "embody the change we want to see in the world".

In fact, these concerns have an impact on companies: 88% of them, in France, declare that they are aware of the need to act and to transform themselves.

The sole criterion of economic performance is no longer enough: companies must be economically viable, have a positive impact on society, and do so while respecting the environment.

What about you? Do you think that companies take into account these performance criteria in their agile transformation? How will you participate in the co-creation of sustainable agile?

Running Uphill - 3 practical lessons in collaboration from a unique team in a complex SAFe implementation

Plenary

Running Uphill is an interactive experience report by PO Linda de Roo and Scrum Master Thomas van Zuijlen.

Over the course of seven months, Linda and Thomas worked together in a unique team set up as part of a SAFe Agile Release Train within the Netherlands’ largest insurance corporation.

Their session is aimed at POs and Scrum Masters, who get to actively reflect on collaboration challenges using real-life wicked problems from Linda’s and Thomas’s team.

Running Uphill uses those examples as the jumping-off point for stories from two perspectives, sharing doubts, losses, and wins from both sides of the Product Owner/Scrum Master sandwich.

Take-aways are presented as three concrete learnings to apply, around escalations, trust, and taking small steps toward empiricism in the unlikeliest of circumstances.

11:30 to 12:20

The GROWTH coaching program

Plenary

Employers are searching for innovative ways to attract quality talent, bridge the skills gap, and retain their best employees. The solution is simple: a development plan…but let’s face it some generic training courses will just not cut it as these statistics tend to demonstrate:

  • A well-planned employee training program would positively impact engagement for 93% of employees,
  • 85% of employees want to choose their own training times and remain in control of their training schedule, and
  • 91% of employees want personalised, relevant training.

That’s why organisations and HR managers are looking for effective solutions to offer personalised training and development opportunities at a large scale that would benefit both the individuals and the organisation.

This is where GROW enters the game.

Not only GROW offers people a self assessment tool, it allows them to build personalised learning programs based on current skills and growth objectives, to get personal knowledge maps and to track progress across 200 learning objectives grouped around 7 topics divided in 3 skill levels.

12:25 to 13:15

Agile 2022: Beauty and the Beast

Plenary

This session looks at the lessons learned in the last decade since Agile has become mainstream, gives an overview of the current challenges and pitfalls, and discusses with the audience suggestions on how to get to the good Agile.

13:15 to 14:15

Plenary
Lunch

14:15 to 14:30

Plenary
Pitches

14:35 to 15:25

Gall's law applied to distributed systems

Plenary

According to Gall’s Law, all complex systems that work evolved from a more straightforward system that also worked. I'll show you practical examples of how to start small and let complexity grow as needed—sharing how we identified the hints for improvement and the techniques and tools that supported it.

15:40 to 16:30

What I've learned after 1 year of agressive scale-up

Plenary

I joined a company on March 2021 and at the time there were 6 software engineers and about 60 employees company wide. One year later we have 250 software engineers and more than 800 people in the company!

We messed up a few things, learned a lot, and were successful in scaling (which is harder than it sounds).

I'm happy to share a few lessons learned during that time

16:35 to 17:25

The 10 Vicious Circles @ Work: Detecting and Breaking Them Up

Plenary

Vicious circle, harmful feedback loop, nasty self-reinforcing cycle... Call it what you want. They are present in pretty much every organization, causing all types of damage. The only way to stop them is to identify them first and then tackle them.

17:25 to end

Plenary
Drinks

7 things I learned about beer and agile coaching

Conference Room
How beer brewers do Agile






10:25 to 11:15

Let's go Clean - an exploration of Clean Language

Conference Room

What if there was a way for teams to gain clarity, to gain a better understanding at what success looks like for each of them? How would this change your team dynamics?

11:30 to 12:20

Business Agility, a fantasy or a necessity?

Conference Room

Today, 8 out of 10 employees are not engaged with the organization they work for. Yet most organizations are looking to grow and better serve their customers in an ever-changing environment. They tend to forget a critical part of the equation: their people.

What is important is that organizations offer their employees new ways of working, promoting a new mindset, putting employees at the heart of the organization, as well as their customers.

For marketing and sales teams, Agile is the best way to innovate and achieve growth. We will see, with a concrete case, how an organization managed to adopt Agile in its marketing department and what benefits it was able to obtain.

It doesn't matter whether the organization as a whole or a single department is agile according to the standards or not..... What matters is that the agile mindset spreads gradually.

An organization with motivated and committed people will always perform better than an organization that works with unmotivated people.

With 20 years of experience in the corporate world, Christophe will share his vision of the applicability of AGILE in the corporate world.

Scrum and Low-code

Conference Room

This is the story of a couple that everything separated:

Scrum manages the production of complex products over a long period of time with one or more teams working on the same backlog.

Low code allows development to be so fast that several solutions can be delivered in parallel by a single team.

Scrum allows you to start development quickly while refining the backlog as you go.

Low code delivers so fast that one must be clear and precise on the expression of the requirements before starting a development.

Add to that the witnesses of the wedding without any knowledge of Scrum and we have all the ingredients for a chronicle of a divorce announced.

And yet!

The use of Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation works wonders.

An empirical approach makes the Scrum Team more autonomous without knocking out its ability to deliver.

The roles in the Scrum Team do not change even if the cast changes significantly.

And above all

The 4 Agile values remain more than ever true indicators, provided that we remember that they advocate "MORE THAN" and not "IN THE PLACE OF".

In the mode of an interview, we will be two to share with you our return on an experience that started in the middle of a confinement and that will continue, who knows, until death do us part.

13:15 to 14:15

Conference Room
Lunch

14:35 to 15:25

Agile Master Career: How do you grow inside the company?

Conference Room

Many agile masters stop their agile career because they see no progression in their career. Great agile masters try to become Product Owners as they see that career as more profitable and respected. It does not need to be like that!! You can have a career and i can show you the possibilities :)

15:40 to 16:30

Well-Balanced Test-Driven Development

Conference Room

A simple practice like Test-Driven Development provides us with a lot techniques and patterns. How can we find a good balance in all these approaches?

10:25 to 11:25

Slicing the Cake - a game to learn how to apply Richard Lawrence's story splitting patterns

Workshops

Slicing user stories... Even though there are very good resources with patterns to help you slice user stories, applying these patterns properly does not seem to be that simple...

What if we could turn it upside down and start from the slices, see how they relate to a larger user story and then find out what slicing pattern is used? And what if this would also help you better understand story mapping? Curious how this works? Come see for yourself!

A retrospective's anti-patterns retrospective

Workshops

For all agilists, who want to improve their retrospectives, the retrospective's anti-patterns' retrospective, is an interactive workshop, that will give you insights, and learning, unlike books or talks, our session, leads you the way to real retrospectives, not superficial ones.

13:15 to 14:15

Workshops
Lunch

14:35 to 15:35

How to make hybrid meetings work?

Workshops

The current best answer to hybrid workshops is "don't do them". In this session we want to find a better solution to that question.







15:40 to 17:10

Let the drawing beast out

Workshops

Have you seen your peers doze off after one too many? Powerpoint slides that is!

Have you gotten in another endless discussion where people keep thinking that more words will clear out the problem?

It turns out that the phrase "a picture says more than a thousand words" also holds true in meetings, in collaboration sessions, or anywhere else on the workfloor.

Let's explore the possibilities you can have with just a few lines and basic forms and see how it can spice up (or clear out) your meeting!

Our programme is available on your mobile. Just download the app!

Venue

Sparks

Agile Tour Brussels takes its quarters at Sparks this year.

Address

60 Ravenstein street, 1000 Brussels →

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