Schedule

8:00am - 9:00am

Registration

9:00am - 10:15am

Carriage Hall A

Keynote with Tripp Crosby

Keynote: HOW TO HAVE MORE, BETTER IDEAS

Tripp presents a case that everyone should be an 'idea person' no matter what their job title is, then he demonstrates a few practical ways anyone can make more space to have them. He uses his own story of success (and failure) to illustrate what it means to make space for self discovery and some very interactive audience exercises to demonstrate what it looks like to make space for others to have new ideas.

Presentation

10:15am - 10:30am

Break

10:30am - 11:30am

Carriage Hall B

A Quest for Business Agility

Speaker: Michael Nir

Or- – the good bad and ugly of lean agile and DevOps transformations Are you stuck in an agile transformation? Are you chasing team velocity without seeing any business impact? Do you manage an 18-month long roadmap, committing to 25 OKRs and shoving new features down the throat of your customers?

Maybe it is time to rethink your approach!

It has taken me over a decade, to make the transition from improving manufacturing environments with Lean, to conceptualizing agility within software and hardware organizations.

Asking the hard questions required to create quality software, faster, often rubs people the wrong way…. but without those questions you’ll keep hiring scrum masters who end up being JIRA admins and going through agile motions without winning the true benefits of lean agile and DevOps – necessary to drive business agility.

Presentation

11:30am - 12:30pm

Lunch

12:30pm - 1:20pm

Carriage Hall B

Kanban and Music

Speaker: Rand Eaton

Policies are one of the "hidden" aspects of Kanban. By documenting and publishing the "how" of our work we build trust, create opportunities to improve and unleash the personal initiative of our teams. Come learn more!

Presentation

1:20pm -1:30pm

Break

1:30pm - 2:20pm

Carriage Hall B

Lego Games - Delivering Against Impediments

Speaker: Ed Ballou

How is the team supposed to be successful with the same impediments, day after day? Play as a team to deliver products against a consecutively harder and unpredictable set of real world impediment themes. Is the game rigged or can your team rise to the challenge? Whether your team is functional or cross-functional, you will find an engaging way to see the problem space and practice solutions to real world problems.

2:20pm - 2:30pm

Break

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Carriage Hall A

PO Panel: Trane

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Stay for Lean Happy Hour!

8:00am - 9:00am

Registration

9:00am - 10:15am

Carriage Hall A

Keynote with Tripp Crosby

Keynote: HOW TO HAVE MORE, BETTER IDEAS

Tripp presents a case that everyone should be an 'idea person' no matter what their job title is, then he demonstrates a few practical ways anyone can make more space to have them. He uses his own story of success (and failure) to illustrate what it means to make space for self discovery and some very interactive audience exercises to demonstrate what it looks like to make space for others to have new ideas.

Presentation

10:15am - 10:30am

Break

10:30am - 11:30am

Captains

The Art of Product

Speaker: Matt Pappenfuss

What beliefs drive your product approach? Do you have a philosophy? I bet you do, even if you don’t know it. Let’s face it, Product Management is as much art as it is science. If you want to learn how your peers view “The Art of Product” and why, join this interactive discussion as we share high-level product approaches then tie them to ground-level techniques.

Presentation

11:30am - 12:30pm

Lunch

12:30pm - 1:20pm

Captains

Want Leadership Buy-in? Don't say the "S" word!

Speaker: Angela Johnson

Are your efforts in talking to leaders about the Scrum or Agile adoption at your organization resulting in positive change? Or more frustration and confusion? In this session we'll explore how to have more effective conversations with leaders without using the word Scrum. Or the word Agile either.

Presentation

1:20pm -1:30pm

Break

1:30pm - 2:20pm

Captains

Skills to Become a Better Leader

Speaker: Harvey Robbins

Have you ever counted how many leadership traits the literature says you should possess? 50+. Who can handle that many? A recent study broke these fifty down into two main categories of leadership skills that capture the essence of all effective leaders: smart and nice. This presentation covers the few critical leadership skills smart leaders rely on and which ones the nicest bosses use. While just knowing what leadership skills the best transformational leaders rely on is not enough to make you a better leader, it certainly can’t hurt.

Presentation

2:20pm - 2:30pm

Break

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Carriage Hall A

PO Panel: Trane

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Stay for Lean Happy Hour!

8:00am - 9:00am

Registration

9:00am - 10:15am

Carriage Hall A

Keynote with Tripp Crosby

Keynote: HOW TO HAVE MORE, BETTER IDEAS

Tripp presents a case that everyone should be an 'idea person' no matter what their job title is, then he demonstrates a few practical ways anyone can make more space to have them. He uses his own story of success (and failure) to illustrate what it means to make space for self discovery and some very interactive audience exercises to demonstrate what it looks like to make space for others to have new ideas.

Presentation

10:15am - 10:30am

Break

10:30am - 11:30am

Harvest Room A-B

Sprint Planning: Avoiding “Wonderland”

Speaker: Luke Johannessen

Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Alice: I don't much care where. The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go. Sprint Planning is an important event, and must be rooted in Product Vision. Join us for this session on holding an effective, focused Planning Event. We’ll explore how empowered team members determine solving the Sprint Goal to deliver a potentially shippable increment.

Presentation

11:30am - 12:30pm

Lunch

12:30pm - 1:20pm

Harvest Room A-B

Product Discovery: From Fighting Fires to Making Fireworks

Speaker: Elan Gibbons

Do you have competitors coming at you from every angle? Additional pressure from internal stakeholders? How can a Product Owner deliver true customer value in this game of whack-a-mole? If you are looking for ways to create more innovative, knock-your-socks-off releases this session is for you. Join this interactive discussion on building business cases, gaining buy-in, and using data to get the P.O. out of the firefighting business and into delivering results that make fireworks.

Presentation

1:20pm -1:30pm

Break

1:30pm - 2:20pm

Harvest Room A-B

From Crickets to Conversations: How to engage teams in Sprint Retrospectives

Speaker: Ileene B. Besselievre

Are you in the habit of walking up to a white board with a marker and starting your Sprint Retrospective off with “Ok what went well”? If all you hear is the sound of crickets chirping in response, this session is for you! We’ll focus on fun, different and engaging retrospective techniques! Participants will have the opportunity to learn techniques and practice them in this session to review Scrum Day MN.

Presentation

2:20pm - 2:30pm

Break

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Carriage Hall A

PO Panel: Trane

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Stay for Lean Happy Hour!

8:00am - 9:00am

Registration

9:00am - 10:15am

Carriage Hall A

Keynote with Tripp Crosby

Keynote: HOW TO HAVE MORE, BETTER IDEAS

Tripp presents a case that everyone should be an 'idea person' no matter what their job title is, then he demonstrates a few practical ways anyone can make more space to have them. He uses his own story of success (and failure) to illustrate what it means to make space for self discovery and some very interactive audience exercises to demonstrate what it looks like to make space for others to have new ideas.

Presentation

10:15am - 10:30am

Break

10:30am - 11:30am

Garden City

I Know My Top 5 Strengths, Now What?

Speaker: Teri Bylander-Pinke

Thousands of people take Gallup’s StrengthsFinder Assessment every day. They discover their top strengths in 4 distinct categories; executing, Influencing, Relationship Building, and Strategic Thinking. Each of those people is statistically unique. The likelihood of someone else having the same top 5 strengths in the same order as someone else is 1 in 33 million! Your results are nearly as unique as your fingerprint.

Teams benefit when they understand the strengths of people they work with. Few people/teams that take the assessment get to the application stage, where they learn how to leverage individual strengths to maximize team success. Let’s fix that. Come to this session and learn techniques to apply strengths with your team to improve engagement. StrengthsFinder assessment results not required.

Presentation

11:30am - 12:30pm

Lunch

12:30pm - 1:20pm

Garden City

Help Wanted: Seeking the Courageous

Speaker: Kim Hauf

Courage is NOT the absence of fear, transparency, vulnerability and grace rather they are a requirement. Kim would like to spend some time unpacking the value of courage and how it is a requirement if we are doing Agile right. She will share some personal stories regarding courage and how her company is striving to build a courageous culture. Courage grows when fear and action live at the same address.

Presentation

1:20pm -1:30pm

Break

1:30pm - 2:20pm

Garden City

Meetings Don't have to Suck!

Speaker: Steve Minor and Lee Eastman

Want to increase retention, collaboration, and engagement at your meetings, scrum events and training sessions? This session will leverage Training from the Back of the Room principles. Participants will leave with 6 principles to apply immediately trumping traditional practices.

Presentation

2:20pm - 2:30pm

Break

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Carriage Hall A

PO Panel: Trane

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Stay for Lean Happy Hour!