Agile ME Summit 2015

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Discovering the wonders of the Agile World!

Learn how to run successful projects! Evidence* is non-disputable – Agile increases the chances of delivering successful products on time and within budget. At the same time, it unleashes innovation within an organization.

Join us for the Agile ME Summit 2015, the first community event of it’s kind in the Middle East. World-class speakers with, in total, more than 100 years of Agile experiences will share their knowledge and advises for how to become more successful. A one-day event full of exciting keynotes, presentations from world-class speakers and interactive workshops. This is a rare opportunity to share and learn from agile leaders, coaches and fellow practitioners. Only together, we can advance the agile adoption within the region.

Come and join us on the journey by reserving your seat.

*Standish Group Chaos Report


You can earn professional development units (PDUs) from the Project Management Institute or Scrum education units (SEUs) from the Scrum Alliance when you attend the Lean and Agile ME Summit 2016. One more reason to register!

Ways to earn SEUs for Scrum Alliance

Ways to earn PDUs for Project Management Institute

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Registration
08:00 - 09:00
Welcome to Agile ME
09:10 - 09:30
  • Michael Stump
Be agile. Scale up. Stay Lean with SAFe
09:30 - 10:30

Today’s successful companies are recognizing that software is increasingly a competitive advantage for their business. Real, tangible software development value occurs only when end-users are successfully operating the software in their environment. To ensure a faster flow of value to the business, the Scaled Agile Framework helps teams successfully deliver a differentiated and engaging customer experience, achieve quicker time to value, and gain increased capacity to innovate. The process of deploying software builds to production is no less important than developing and testing the new functionality. As an industry, we are currently mastering more Agile, better and faster methods for incrementally developing potential user value. In practice, however, these achievements are jeopardized by poorly managed deployments that happen too late in the lifecycle and delays value delivery. Bringing deployment operations (DevOps) onboard the Agile Release Train, engaging them in the PSI planning and other program level events, and establishing environments, practices and disciplined procedures in support of a continuous deployment pipeline helps the enterprise enable faster feedback and a more predictable value delivery rhythm. Join Michael Stump (Principal Contributor to SAFe), Thought Leader from Scaled Agile Inc. and software industry veteran to get an in-depth overview of how SAFe together with DevOps can provide the most customer value and quality in the sustainable shortest lead time.

Managing Director - EMEA, Scaled Agile Inc
Break and Networking
10:30 - 10:45
  • Andreas Hägglund
Unleashing the power of creativity and innovation
10:45 - 11:30

When used correctly Agile will help organizations to unleash the creative and innovative powers of its employees, making it a perfect fit for the UAE National Innovation Strategy aiming at turning the UAE into one of the most innovative countries in the world within seven years. As Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, said at the launch of the Innovation strategy “The competitiveness race demands a constant flow of new ideas, as well as innovative leadership using different methods and tools to direct the change.” This talk will go to the roots of Agile to show how it fosters innovation and directs it towards the benefit of the organization, as well as take a look at what innovation really is and what's usually blocking it, giving Agile adopters the tools they need to become more creative.

Agile Change Agent
  • Andrew Hiles
What would the A-Team do?
11:30 - 12:15

The success of Agile relies heavily on the performance of “the team”. The Agile manifesto principles refer to the team directly and on closer inspection relies heavily on the team as a key component to the success of the Agile principle. Frameworks such as Scrum, XP, DSDM all refer to the team, but all in a very different composition. In my talk I hope to cover the essential meaning of what an Agile team is and show directly an example of a team evolution. The main premise is to look at the organizational dysfunctions such as constraints, processes and rules that not only hurt teams, but teams and organizations could use to their advantage to make sure they are at the top of their game.

Scrum Coach and Trainer
Lunch
12:15 - 13:45
  • Javaid Ali
Teaching Agile at Universities
13:45 - 14:30

Several recent surveys show that agile methodologies like Scrum, Extreme Programming and Kanban have been successfully adopted by many companies for product development. However, the same surveys show that only few of the agile practices are applied consequently and thoroughly. This is to a great extent due to the lack of skilled personnel. University is the place where you can develop such skilled personnel. Like any other discipline taught in a university , “Agile” could also be a part of university curriculum and like other graduates produced by universities, an Agile project manager could also be produced. This session analyzes the current situation of teaching Agile at university level.

Agile Expert Certified
  • Kemal Bajramovic
Business Representative as a Successful Agile Product Owner
13:45 - 14:30

With a short introduction to the role of Product Owner in a Scrum team, this lecture aims at demonstrating the unique leadership role that the business representative could and should assume in agile projects. Business representative as a Product Owner provides more direct availability of functional knowledge and stakeholder expectations to the project. Decisions can be taken on the spot. Mutual understanding of the business and development perspective is much higher, so any functional, budgetary, legal or other issue is less demanding. But great power of Product Owner comes with huge responsibility – as this person’s professional life becomes dedicated to the well-being of the project and the product being developed. Lecturer will provide a hands-on experience with thinking and collaboration tools and practices in moving and shaping a product vision to a product that the end-users will love.

CSA BiH, Head of IT Deptt.
  • Fariz Saračević
Battle of the Worlds - Lego Building Block Workshop
13:45 - 14:30

Learn how to apply principles of lean to discover and eliminate waste throughout the development lifecycle. In this interactive session, participants will experience a simulated production line, encounter common challenges and apply lean practices to improve in their efficiency and effectiveness. Participants will be introduced to concepts such as push versus pull systems, traditional versus Agile, elimination of waste through interactive presentation, discussions and hands-on activities.

Senior Offering Manager, IBM
  • Burak Uluocak
An Enterprise Agile Transformation Story: Türkiye Finans Participation Bank
14:30 - 15:15

The presentation will cover the agile transformation story and practices of Turkiye Finans Participation Bank information technologies group that include organizational changes and development of all IT projects using Scrum framework.

Head of IT Transformation & PMO
  • Mohammad Nafees Sharif Butt
Toolset for Creating a Potentially Shippable Product Increment
14:30 - 15:15

Many organizations compromise on the quality of product in pursuit of quick time to market and in greed of cramming more features in. The end result is the exact opposite of a “shippable product increment” at the end of each Sprint. Tactics like employing several hardening sprints towards the end of release cycle to prepare the product for release are far too common. In a way, this anti-pattern bemoans a waterfall approach and is in total contrast to the Agile Manifesto and the Principals behind the Agile Manifesto. In this talk, we will discuss the set of tools that an agile team can employ to continue delivering a potentially shippable product increment at the end of every Sprint.

Scrum Coach || Director IT, Waseel ASP || Founder Riyadh Agile & Scrum User Group
Break and Networking
  • Husni Roukbi
Large Scale Agile Transformation
15:15 - 15:30

The agile manifesto introduced a new way of implementing software development projects which resulted in a dramatic improvement in these types of projects. Agile success at the project level has prompted IT leaders within organization to try to scale it to the enterprise level with less success rate. In this interactive session, we will review the various approaches to large-scale agile transformation, discuss the transformation road map and organizational change management required as well as key drivers/sponsors required for a successful agile transformation. We will discuss how to measure transformation progress, and outline possible challenges and corresponding solutions.

Agile Coach & Program Manager
  • Jason Jones
User Stories and User Story Mapping
15:30 - 16:30

There are two eternal challenges to Software Development Projects. One is that there are always more to build than we have time or resources to do. Always! The other is that all project problems ultimately comes down to poor communication. User Stories is really the promise of a conversation and User Story Mapping is a proven way of using Stories for doing release planning. Thus, this session will address both eternal challenges. The simplicity of the technique makes it a great starting point on the agile journey for most companies and will also help you improve the User Experience of your product. Join Andreas in an interactive session filled with hands on exercises that provides you with all the tools you need to start using User Story Maps at your work place.

Agile Coach & Consultant
  • Pierre Hervouet
I want everything now
15:30 - 16:30

Based on real examples we are going to introduce & play to the innovation game® And see how they can be used to achieve the prioritization challenges that we are facing at different level of the project (portfolio, features, and tasks). There’s no question that modern work practices have solved much of the quality and process issues that plagued organizations in the past but there are still hard problems to be solved. One of the largest is prioritization. It’s not enough to know what features your customers want; you need to know which features are essential and which ones can be tabled until the next phase. However, many of the methods for prioritization even after the advent of agile leave much to be desired. Based on real examples we are going to introduce & play the innovation game® and see how they can be used to achieve the prioritization challenges that we are facing at different level of the project (portfolio, features, and tasks).

Agile Catalyst - Agile Lebanon & Agile ME Founder
  • Amr Noaman
  • Mohamed Amr
A Practical Approach to Agile Adoption - Case Studies from Egypt
15:30 - 16:30

Agile Adoption is a big organization transition project. A big bang approach to Agile Adoption involves real risks and may lead to failure. Instead, small, continuous, and valuable improvements are more viable for most organizations. In this interactive session, we will start with an overview of the Agile mindset, values and principles, and will highlight the major differences between Agile and traditional approaches to managing software projects. Then, we will explain our approach for adopting agile which is incremental and iterative in nature. Finally, we will present some case studies and will share some interesting observations and conclusions collected through working with more than 40 companies during the last 6 years.

Co-founder & Principal Consultant at Agile Academy
Agile Coach and Trainer
  • Ahmet Akdag
Management in Agile
16:30 - 17:15

New ways of doing and thinking evolves as the world changes. During the first half of the 19th century operational efficiency and productivity were the most important ingredients in manufacturing, that’s way Taylor’s Scientific Management was popular and was actually working. The fact was, the need for change was low. But after 80’s things have started to change faster than ever. Hence, the market became turbulent and responding to change has become a necessity for the enterprises. Taylor’s thinker and doer separation was no longer working as a result of need for thinking and acting fast. This fact brought us to ‘Agility'. Agility is about responding to change fast and efficiently. Enterprises need to learn the new way of managing and doing things without wasting time with bureaucracy, command-and-control and too much audit to gain Agility which requires a mindset shift in management at all level. Enterprises need to explore the value in flexible strategical management, self-organization, bottom-up intelligence and having highly motivated individuals. The point is: shift will happen. Where will you position your organization? On the Agile side or the old-school side.

Aglility Consultant, Certified Scrum Trainer, Co-founder at ACM
  • Pierre Neis
Agile Animal Farm
16:30 - 17:15

When starting with Agile we often use the metaphorical approach of the story of « Lambs & Chicken » (former Pigs & Chicken). Animal are used to highlight and sketch our behavior within a group or across several groups. Based on scientific research outcomes, we will learn why instead being a Lamb, we are sometimes also Chicken, Cats, Bulls, Rats, Seagulls and so on. This session addresses the fundamentals of agile i.e. human being in a funny manner. If you want to learn with fun that’s the one for you!

Senior Lean Agile Coach | Scrum Coach & Trainer | Agile Management Catalyst
Retrospective and Closing Notes Agile ME
17:15 - 17:30
Ahmet Akdag

Ahmet Akdag

Aglility Consultant, Certified Scrum Trainer, Co-founder at ACM
Amr Noaman

Amr Noaman

Co-founder & Principal Consultant at Agile Academy
Andreas Hägglund

Andreas Hägglund

Agile Change Agent
Andrew Hiles

Andrew Hiles

Scrum Coach and Trainer
Burak Uluocak

Burak Uluocak

Head of IT Transformation & PMO
Fariz Saračević

Fariz Saračević

Senior Offering Manager, IBM
Husni Roukbi

Husni Roukbi

Agile Coach & Program Manager
Jason Jones

Jason Jones

Agile Coach & Consultant
Javaid Ali

Javaid Ali

Agile Expert Certified
Kemal Bajramovic

Kemal Bajramovic

CSA BiH, Head of IT Deptt.
Michael Stump

Michael Stump

Managing Director - EMEA, Scaled Agile Inc
Mohamed Amr

Mohamed Amr

Agile Coach and Trainer
Mohammad Nafees Sharif Butt

Mohammad Nafees Sharif Butt

Scrum Coach || Director IT, Waseel ASP || Founder Riyadh Agile & Scrum User Group
Pierre Hervouet

Pierre Hervouet

Agile Catalyst - Agile Lebanon & Agile ME Founder
Pierre Neis

Pierre Neis

Senior Lean Agile Coach | Scrum Coach & Trainer | Agile Management Catalyst

Event Detail

April 12, 2015 9:00 am
April 12, 2015 5:30 pm
Almas 1, 2 & 3
Hilton Dubai Jumeirah Resort, Dubai, UAE

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Lean and Agile Middle East
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A community organization founded by a group of Agile enthusiasts to promote Lean, Agile development principles and practices in the Middle East.

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