Customer-obsessed and product-focused – creating a climate where product management can thrive

Enterprise level transformation within a large corporate can be difficult, but with a compelling vision, the right environment and supporting processes it is possible to bring product transformation to life . Balancing transformation with delivery through making changing the way we work become part of the work we do.

Enterprise Agility through the lens of Data

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Mapping

Simon Wardley explains how he became interested in Mapping, the benefits his style of mapping provides along with examples of how they have helped organisations make and/or save millions.

On Leading Yourself - with personal authenticity

Leadership is not only about leading others but also about leading yourself. As it is important for a successful organisation to have clearly defined vision, mission and core values and to stick to them, the same should also be said for successful leadership.

Combining Agile Thinking with deep data expertise to deliver value; A data and analytics journey

Discovering, developing and making therapies of value for patients is both rewarding and incredibly hard. At GSK we are working to transform our pipeline through the development and application of advanced analytics, data science and visualisation.

The Art of Bureaucracy and Business Value

This talk will touch on the language to discuss value with the business, methods to cut through bureaucracy, and strategies for incorporating Agile teams and culture into the enterprise. Most of all, this book will startle you into new ways of thinking about the cutting-edge of Agile practice and where it may lead.

Networks, Serendipity and the flow of ideas

There is power in networks and the connections between people. Organisations where ideas can freely flow between people, are more successful, smarter and more innovative than ones where knowledge lives in silos.

Technology's easy, Culture is hard

11 Reflections on tackling the cultural elephant

Two years on from talking about ‘Tech is easy, Culture is hard’, Richard reflects on Nationwide’s and his own ongoing learnings.

How has HR got it so wrong?

A recent Forbes article quoted the depressing fact that 70% of us are unhappy at work. Yet more and more organisations are placing emphasis on the role of HR, with a higher number of CHROs sitting on boards than ever before. So what is going wrong?

Agile Cultural Change - One Superhero at a Time

Enterprise Cultural Change is HARD! Digital Transformation is pretty tricky too! A corporate ambition, strategy and direction is key but how do we also effectively engage the rest of the organisation at all levels to make it real, understandable, and inspire and excite people to be part of, drive, and embed, the change?

Turning Theory into Action: Building High Performing Teams via Psychological Safety at GSK

Talking about Psychological Safety has become ubiquitous. You cannot attend a meeting without hearing someone refer to it. In some organisations, it's at risk of becoming weaponised - if we talk about it enough, we don't have to actually put in the hard work.

Forever employable: how to ensure your career stays as agile as your work

In this talk becoming forever employable. Jeff shares his story of how the ideas behind agility, product thinking, design thinking, lean UX can be applied to professional development and our career growth and we are building a reality where opportunities continue to find us.

Culture ate our OKRs for breakfirst

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Driving enterprise change: Delivering a skills transformation at pace

Smart risk taking is becoming increasingly important for effective enterprise transformation. A key component is ensuring organisations have the understanding of how to drive key decisions with data and quantitative thinking. Harnesssing the power of the data & analytics (D&A) community through agile ways of working can accelerate this change.

SWARMing part III: achieving agility at scale

Business agility is no longer a luxury. In today’s market, companies that can’t adapt quickly to changing circumstances simply won’t survive. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how quickly the entire enterprise context can change.

Somewhere between concept and context, lies confusion

Somewhere between concept and context, lies confusion. We’ll be sharing our approach to evolving Ways of Working at Nationwide, how we’re demystifying business agility for teams and our key levers for success.

Leading for Better Value Safer Sooner Happier

Leadership will make it or break it.
Culture is the biggest lever to delivering Better Value Sooner Safer Happier.

Transforming a 200 year old enterprise towards fast feedback loops

In this war story I will talk about our journey and approach to transforming how our product and platform teams significantly increased flow, reduced handoffs and shortened feedback loops whilst increasing quality, security and compliance.

Three ways to implement DevOps

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Dev Sec Ops more of the same - back to the roots

Once so often it makes sense to repeat the basics: Using the CAMS acronym Patrick Debois will explain how devsecops is build upon the core tenets of devops, requires the same mindset and approach and ultimately forms a consistent feedback channel for the business on overcoming yet another bottleneck: security. Coming to a mature devops organisation near you, sooner rather then later.

Measure outcomes and deliver secure experiences your customer's trust

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The Three Cs: Covid, Cloud, and Change - The Wicked Problem of Covid and Sensemaking with Agile

In this talk, Toby Corballis discusses how and why leaders can use Agile for sensemaking during unprecedented times of high uncertainty.

Collaboration and transparency

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