A decade and a half of talks, indexed by speaker

Every recorded session from Lean Agile Scotland, listed alphabetically by speaker. Find a name below, then follow the year link through to that talk's video.

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Abeba Birhane

In defence of uncertainty (2019)

Adam Yuret

"Productivity" is Killing Us (2015)

Adarsh Shah & Hibri Marzook

Using the Toyota Improvement Kata to solve hard problems (2019)

Adrian Cockroft

Speeding up innovation - tipping points (2023)

Aino Vonge Corry

Retrospectives antipatterns - avoid my mistakes (2022)

Aino Corry

Futurespectives in action (2019)

Aino Vonge Corry

Teaching & Learning or how to change a mind (2018)

Alex Harms

Psychological safety - the inside story (2017)

Alex Harms

Cultivating emotional safety for creative work (2016)

Alicia Juarero

Keynote: Think Safe-fail to thrive under conditions of uncertainty (2015)

Allan Kelly

Beyond Projects - transforming the model of IT work (2014)

Ana-Maria Lefterache

Constructive feedback: the art of building up not tearing down (2022)

Anders Iverson & Cliff Hazel

Evolution of tribes at Spotify (2015)

Anders Ivarsson

Scaling Agile with Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds (2013)

Andrea Provaglio

Leading within (2019)

Andrea Provaglio

Overcoming Self-organization Blocks (2014)

Andy Norton and Toli Apostolidis

Unicorn scale - team topologies at cinch (2022)

Andy Kemp & Chris Brown

Re-designing a service for vulnerable users in a digital age (2019)

Andy Carmichael

Time is an Asset, Delay is a Cost. Applying qualitative and quantitative analysis for competitive advantage. (2016)

Anne Dhir

The circle of life: lessons learned from killing services (2023)

Ben Conrad and Gerald Benischke

Securing digital services at HMRC Digital (2022)

Bob Marshall

Theories of Change (2014)

Bob Marshall

Organisational Effectiveness - Rightshifting & The Marshall Model (2012)

Brian Swan

Help, my tests are killing me (2013)

Brian Swan

TDD Pitfalls (2012)

Bruce Scharlau

Building a Better You Through Failure (2015)

Caitlin Cleveland

Bitter to better: harnessing pessimism to improve projects and lives (2019)

Cameron Tonkinwise

It's either Design or LeanAgile - transitions versus the test drive (2017)

Cansel Sörgens

How to create cross-departmental collaboration with OKRs? (2023)

Carina Zona

Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm (2016)

Carina C. Zona

Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm (2015)

Carly Richmond

Are they really using it? (2022)

Caroline Kirkhope

But...no one told me to do it (2017)

Cat Swetel

Overcoming inertia: where do we go from here? (2019)

Cat Swetel

Smoothing flow with skills liquidity (2018)

Cat Swetel

Why your agile can't scale (and what to do about it) (2017)

Cat Swetel

Using Metrics as a Map (2016)

Ceri Newton-Sargunar

Zombie apocalypse! overwhelm, conflict, stress and hope for teams facing the end of the world (2022)

Ceri Shaw

Join the Dark Side - why developers should choose management (2014)

Chisara Nwabara and Federico Nardini

How to make lean experiments work (2022)

Chris McDermott

Re-contextualising 20+ years of learning (2023)

Chris Rutter

DevSec-Oops (2022)

Chris McDermott & Marc Burgauer

Maturity Mapping: Using Wardley Maps and Cynefin to create context specific maturity models (2019)

Chris Young

Agile insights from the birth of the internet (2018)

Chris McDermott

Conference Close (2017)

Chris Matts

The LASCOT Community (2016)

Chris McDermott

It always takes longer than you expect (2016)

Chris Young and Kate Gray

Everything Communicates (2016)

Chris Corriere

The devOpsSec Dilemma: Effective Strategies for Social Networking (2015)

Chris Matts

Tilting at Windmills (2015)

Chris McDermott

It's Systems All The Way Down! (2015)

Chris Matts

Keynote: Real Options in the Real World (2013)

Christian Vos

The real value of a Definition of Done (2015)

Clarke Ching

Herding Killer Ducklings (2018)

Clarke Ching

Keynote: Rock, Paper, ... Stories (2015)

Clarke Ching

Benefits Before Features - How to Deliver LOADS More Value by Not Doing Stuff (2015)

Clarke Ching

Learn Lean from Fast Fashion - why Zara clothing should be your Agile/Lean role model (2014)

Clarke Ching

Soup From Stones - How to force collaboration to happen. (2013)

Clarke Ching

Cash-Flow Driven Development (2012)

Claudio Perrone

Keynote: Beyond Value Streams: Experimental evolution in action (2013)

Clem Pickering & Robert van Kooten

Imposter syndrome: 2 roles, 2 viewpoints, same challenge (2019)

Cliff Hazell

How visualisation helps navigate our complex environment (2015)

Dan Ashby

Evolving Our Testing: Assessing Quality Throughout The SDLC (2023)

Dan North

Keynote: Kicking the complexity habit (2014)

Daniel Vacanti

How an expedite request sunk the Titanic (2017)

Darci Dutcher

How I (a UX practitioner) learned to stop worrying and love agile (2013)

Darren Byrne

Pumping your Continuous Delivery Pipeline: An approach to accelerating Time to Value (2016)

Dave Snowden

Keynote: Humans are neither ants nor data processors (2016)

Dave Snowden & Simon Wardley

Moderated panel discussion with Jabe Bloom (2016)

Dave Snowden

Keynote (2013)

David J Anderson

Individually Smart, Collectively Stupid - the great 21st Century Management Challenge (2012)

Dimitar Bakardzhiev

#NoEstimates Project Planning using Monte Carlo simulation (2014)

Dominica Degrades

Aligning technology & Business Teams (2016)

Dr Sal Freudenberg

Six thinking modes for getting you unstuck (2017)

Dragan Stepanović

Async code reviews are choking your company's throughput (2022)

Duncan Nisbet

Followership - sometimes leadership can go f-ck itself (2019)

Eddie Kenny

XP revisited: rediscovering XP as a pathway to enhanced agility (2018)

Eeva Partanen

Roller derby case study: creating a successful team from scratch - how did we manage it? (2023)

Egor Sviridenko

I SEE! - or how unconventional visualisation helps in agile projects (2013)

Elizabeth Ayer

Zen and the Art of Continuous Delivery (2015)

Emily Webber

Why can't we all just get along? (2023)

Emily Webber

Whole-team responsibility: why really working as a team leads to great delivery (2018)

Emily Webber

Communities of practice, the missing piece of your agile organisation (2016)

Erwin Van der Koog

The 'only' two things you need to scale agile (2016)

Esko Kilpi

New economic spaces - new management? (2017)

Esther Derby

Keynote : Still No Silver Bullets (2014)

Eveliina Vuolli

Clarity before speed - Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) applied in practice (2016)

Florian Eisenberg

Leadership on all levels. Why? And how? (2012)

Francis Fish

Lean isn't Lean (2013)

Gary Fleming

Let's begin: dive into discovery (2022)

Gary Fleming

The board whisperer (2018)

Gary Fleming

Deployment is not release (2017)

Gary Fleming

Kitchen Kanban: A Fable (2016)

Geoff Johnson

Strangler figs and minimum viable replacements (2022)

Gil Zilberfeld

Rebooting ALM (2015)

Gitte Klitgaard

Enabling people to embrace change (2018)

Gitte Klitgaard

The Imposter Syndrome (2016)

Gitte Klitgaard

Stress and depression – a taboo in our time - how love for your work can hurt you (2014)

Gordon McMahon

299162290 (2018)

Gordon McMahon

SOLID TDD (2013)

Greg Brougham

The design of organisations (2017)

Greg Brougham

Use of A3 in Design Governance (2016)

Greg Brougham

The Future of Consulting (2015)

Greg Brougham

Bounded Lean Startup - Looking at Lean Startup Through the Lens of Cynefin (2014)

Gwenno Haf Hughes

Healthy teams are happy teams (2022)

Hakan Forss

The red brick cancer (2013)

Hannah Dell'Armi & Stephen Mounsey

Creating the first internal Agile coaching service in Government (2023)

Heidi Helfand

Dynamic reteaming at fast-growing companies (2018)

Helen Lisowski

Playing the Chaos Lottery (2017)

Helen Lisowski

Listening with your eyes (2016)

Henrik Berglund

Real Teams (2012)

Henry Coles

Testing like it's 1971 (2015)

Highlights from Lean Agile Scotland 2014

A look back at the 2014 conference (2014)

Ian Brockbank

How do you "push responsibility down" and "empower the team"? (2013)

Ian Carroll

Rightshifting in action, using Kanban for organisational change (2012)

J. B. Rainsberger

Keynote: The Next Decade of Agile Software Development (2014)

Jabe Bloom

In the mind of Jabe Bloom (2018)

Jabe Bloom

Entanglements disentanglement (2017)

Jabe Bloom

The Temporal Materiality of the Intangible and the Problem of Future Knowledge (2016)

Jabe Bloom

A History of Design's Sense of Complexity (2015)

Jabe Bloom

Cucumbers and Fish - What is Called Culture (2015)

Jabe Bloom

Keynote: Decisions and Futures: On Designing Boundaries, Systems, and Distributed Cognition (2014)

Jabe Bloom

What is the value of Social Capital? (2013)

Jac Hughes and Peter Hopes

Tales from the sea - can royal navy discipline improve your company's agility? (2022)

Jack Spencer

Systems thinking approach to building strong teams - a case study within Skyscanner (2023)

Jasper Sonnevelt

Portfolio planning and prioritisation at scale (2016)

Jasper Sonnevelt

Spotify transformation at Dutch multinational (2015)

Jasper Sonnevelt

Kanban. Restart with why (2013)

Jasper Sonnevelt

Top down or viral spread. What works in your context? (2012)

Jenny Martin

Collaboration-driven development outside in (2017)

Jeremy Nelson

Patterns for Change (2015)

Jez Humble

Keynote: Continuous Delivery Sounds Great But It Won't Work Here (2016)

Jim Benson

Keynote: Freedom Doesn't Come in a Box (2013)

Joakim Sundén

You can do better than the Spotify Model (2017)

Joe Wright

Keynote: The good, the bad, the open-plan: Creating environments for collaborative knowledge work (2019)

Joe Wright

Time bandits: don't let these vampires get you (2018)

Joe Wright

Confessions of a Tech Lead (2015)

Joe O'Brien

People Patterns (2012)

Joe Wright

Continuous Delivery - A Better Software Deployment Strategy (2012)

John Clapham

Limit your DIP (decisions in progress) (2022)

John Allspaw

People are the adaptable element of complex systems (2019)

John Clapham

Resilience - how to bring your best through the worst (2019)

John Le Drew

The 5 pillars of collaborative product ownership (2019)

John Le Drew

Swearing, nudity and other vulnerable positions (2018)

John Harvey and Andy Foster

The many agile faces of AutoTrader.co.uk (2013)

John Peebles

How to Build the Perfect Product Your Users Want But Can't Describe (2013)

John Peebles

People: Your Most Agile Ingredient (2012)

Jon Terry

This Has All Happened Before (2016)

Jose Casal

Are We Really Thinking (2016)

Jose Casal & Calum Shepherd

Kanbanising the Scottish Government (2015)

Julia Wester

Transforming forecasts with probabilities (2022)

Julia Wester

Boosting agility by scaling decision-making (2018)

Julia Wester

The lagom paradox: sometimes less can be more (2018)

Julia Wester

Taming the chaos - beyond the quick wins (2017)

Julia Wester

Let's not get rid of (all) the managers! (2016)

Kaimar Karu

AI bias and other ethical challenges we need to address (2019)

Kaimar Karu

Enterprise service design (2017)

Karl Scotland

Fidelity: The Lost Dimension of the Iron Triangle (2023)

Karl Scotland

Predictably agile (2022)

Karl Scotland

Understanding Kanban Thinking (2012)

Kate Gray

First Principles - what don't we know? (2017)

Katherine Kirk

Dark Collaboration (2016)

Katherine Kirk

Keynote: Why Team Happiness can be the Worst Thing to Aim For (2015)

Katherine Kirk

Navigating Politics in Agile/Lean Teams (2014)

Kenny Baas-Schwegler

How domain-driven design enabled scaling a big ball of mud product (2023)

Kenny Baas-Schwegler and Evelyn Van Kelle

Autonomy, is that what we really want? (2022)

Kenny Baas Schwegler

Crunching 'real-life stories' with DDD EventStorming and combining it with BDD techniques (2018)

Kev McCabe

Mikado Method - Making Code Changes Less of an Impact (2012)

Kevin Hall

Learning to Succeed by Failing (2015)

Kevin Murray

Transforming NHS Choices with Agile and Lean UX (2015)

Kevin Behr

"First In Last Out" – Devops and its roots in coal mining. (2014)

Kim Ballestrin

Why complexity needs the opposite of normal (2017)

Kim Ballestrin

Taking Care With What We Leave Behind (2016)

Kim Ballestrin

Navigating Project Uncertainty - An Explorer's Toolkit (2015)

Klaus Leopold

Lean business agility (2017)

Lanette Creamer

Small Agile Projects (2015)

Larry Maccherone

Quantifying the Impact of Lean, Kanban, and Agile Practices (2013)

Lauren Gilchrist

5 Ways to Outsmart Your Brain and Make Better Product Decisions (2014)

Laz Allen

Continuous improvement by the numbers, and the culture (2022)

Laz Allen

Tales of a ToC Apprentice (2016)

Lean Agile Scotland Highlights 2016

A look back at the 2016 conference (2016)

Lean Agile Scotland 2015 Highlights

A look back at the 2015 conference (2015)

Lean Agile Scotland 2013 Promo

A look back at the 2013 conference (2013)

Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks (2018)

Linda Rising

Thinking fast and slow (2018)

Liz Pope

Maximising 10% time (2019)

Liz Keogh

Safe-to-Fail (2016)

Liz Keogh

Capability Red: Requirements at Scale (2014)

Liz Keogh

Respect for People (2012)

Louise Elliott

Punishment Driven Development (2016)

Luke Hohmann

Awesome Superproblems (2017)

Lyndsay Prewer

Embracing collaborative chaos - running chaos days on large platforms (2019)

Lyndsay Prewer

Reimagining agile ceremonies - improving engagement, outcomes and service delivery (2018)

Marc Burgauer

The Eupsychian Manager (2016)

Marc Burgauer

Do More Sh*t Together: Social Networks at Work (2015)

Marc Burgauer

"What's the worst that can happen?" - How authentic connection enables change and innovation (2014)

Marc Johnson

Decisions: How Can We Better Make Them (2013)

Marcel Britsch

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should... thoughts on ethical product delivery (2023)

Marcel Britsch

Bringing product thinking into DevOps (2022)

Marcel Britsch

Managing complexity of discovery phases (2018)

Marcin Floryan

101 Things Software Never Learned in Architecture School (2015)

Markus Andrezak

Lean Product is about the people - Putting it all together (2014)

Martin Wasielewski

How do you spot a great leader among the crowd? (2022)

Martin Bate

Agile and agencies: a user guide (2019)

Martin Burns

Push It Down (2016)

Martin Burns

Plumbing For Profit (2016)

Martin Burns

Independence, Devo-Max and Centralisation: Power Structures in Delivery Organisations (2014)

Martin Burns

Dive Into A3 Thinking (2013)

Martin Burns

IBM: Evolving Lean in Enterprise Delivery (2012)

Maryse Meinen

Mind the Gender Gap (2015)

Matt Wynne & Sinead Shackley

4DX - a sustainable system of continuous improvement (2017)

Matt Wynne

Beyond BDD (2015)

Matt Wynne

Communication Hacks (2014)

Matt Wynne

Why Agile Fails (2012)

Matthew Philip

Bringing Forth Flow from Blockers: How to Use Blocker Clustering to Improve Predictability (2015)

Mattia Battiston

Unlocking technical excellence as a business advantage at giffgaff (2023)

Mattia Battiston

The science of happiness (2018)

Melissa Perri

Keynote: The Build Trap (2016)

Melissa Perri

You Have 3 Seconds to Impress Me (2013)

Michael Hill

Optimising for complexity (2017)

Michal Pyla

Managing products without stakeholders? (2019)

Michiel Rook

Beyond continuous delivery - learn, adapt, improve (2019)

Michiel Rook

I deploy on Fridays (and maybe you should too) (2018)

Mick Barry

Schooled (2015)

Mike Sutton

The linky art and joy of saying yes to almost everything (2018)

Mike Sutton

Applicable learning from a long walk (2017)

Mike Perrin

On Team Interfaces - Defining Responsibility and Scope for Hypergrowth (2015)

Mike Burrows

Kanban is like onions! (2013)

Mike Burrows

Kanban the hard way (2012)

Monica Ugalde

How to find your lean agile strategy sweet spot (2022)

Naveed Khawaja

Purpose Powers Performance (2016)

Naveed Khawaja

The Outsourcing Dilemma & Agility (2015)

Naveed Khawaja

Never under-estimate the power of change agents (2014)

Naveed Khawaja

Coopeitive collaboration in High Performing Teams (2013)

Neha Datt & Marcel Britsch

The antidote to product management best practices (2023)

Neha Datt & Marcel Britsch

Continuous delivery: a product manager's perspective (2019)

Neil Crawford

Trunk-based development, continuous deployment and why you should adopt them (2019)

Neil Crawford

The better we are the better products we'll build (2017)

Neil Craven

Using Open source, agile and lean techniques to support a University Hospital in rural Haiti (2013)

Nick Maidment

The space in between - a tale of remote teams and distributed working (2019)

Niels Kee & Caroline McDowall

Taming the rhino (2017)

Omar Kareem

How an agile mindset enabled growth of $32 billion (2017)

Participant Interviews

Hear from participants at Lean Agile Scotland in 2012 (2012)

Patrick Eltridge & Jenny Wood

When storming is the work - large scale agile in a large organisation (2017)

Patrick Steyaert

Kanban systems for change (2016)

Paul Main, Donald Fraser and Mark Kiehlmann

How agile is helping increase Scotland's biodiversity (2024)

Paul Wilson & Alan Gardner

Distributed Agile Anti-patterns (2013)

Paula McLean

Becoming a Product centric organisation (2023)

Pawel Brodzinski & Katherine Kirk

Empathy: Beyond the Hype – dangerous, essential or misunderstood? (2016)

Pawel Brodsinski

Portfolio Kanban : Successful Evolutionary Change of Portfolio Management (2015)

Peet Michielsen

When you're moving house and the pipeline needs re-plumbing (2018)

Peter Faulks and Cameron Leask

Developing agility for a concrete world (2024)

Peter Aitken

How can our language and behaviour be more inclusive? (2017)

Piotr Burdylo

Managing a gang of chaotic software developers is complex (2012)

Rachel Davies & Arbër Pllana

Building Learning into Product Development (2015)

Rachel Davies & Aimy Ko

XP at Unruly (2014)

Richard Sheridan

Keynote: Build a Workplace People Love - Just add Joy (2015)

Roisi Proven

Compartmentalised empathy - how to support others without losing yourself (2017)

Roisi Proven

The Horrors of Enterprise Software (2016)

Rosemary King

Discovery is a team sport - how to de-risk research (2017)

Rosemary King & Simon Phillips

Maintaining Continuous Learning Under Pressure (2015)

Rouan Wilsenach

Fail better with QA in production (2019)

Ryan Greenhall

Freedom from Command and Control at uSwitch (2013)

Sal Freudenberg

Keynote: Fish Climbing Trees (2016)

Sallyann Freudenberg

Neuro-diversity and Software Development (2015)

Sami Honkonen

Experiments at the Emergency Clinic (2016)

Sami Honkonen

Trying to change company culture is a fool's errand (2014)

Sandro Mancuso

Crafted Design (2014)

Sandro Moncuso

Software Craftsmanship (2012)

Sarah Drummond

IYKYK - Designing a good full stack service (2023)

Seb Rose

Low code & no code solutions: Agile or fragile? (2023)

Seb Rose

Software contracts - agility in the world of micro-services (2022)

Seb Rose

Less is More: An Introduction to Low-Fidelity Approaches (2015)

Seb Rose

So long, and thanks for all the tests (2014)

Seb Rose

Bad Test, Good Test (2013)

Seb Rose

Common Objections to TDD (and their refutations) (2012)

Sebastien Lambla & Marcin Floryan

Your Agile is Dead (2015)

Simon Wardley

Going deeper with maps (2019)

Simon Wardley

Keynote: Crossing the river by feeling the stones (2016)

Sophie Freiermuth

The lean agile specialist and the subject matter expert: combining delivery and accompaniment (2019)

Sophie Manton & Holly Donohue

Out of the fog - our product team's journey to new heights (2018)

Sreekandh Balakrishnan and Simon Case

Machine learning at Travelopia (2022)

Stephen Janaway

My team is high performing but everyone hates us (2023)

Stephen McAinsh & Liz McLachlan

Using agile to protect Scotland's nature (2023)

Stephen Janaway

Testing - the good, the bad and the ugly (2018)

Stephen McAinsh and Irwin Fletcher

Hypnosis, Agility & Creativity (2013)

Steve Smith

Continuous delivery and the Theory of Constraints (2019)

Steve Smith

Resilience as a continuous delivery enabler (2018)

Steve Smith

Measuring continuous delivery (2017)

Steve Smith

End to End testing Considered Harmful (2016)

Steve Smith

The Death of Continuous Integration (2015)

Steve Tendon

Unity of Purpose and Community of Trust: Preconditions for the Hyper-Productive Organization (2013)

Steven Shorrock

We need to talk about engineering work (2022)

Steven Milne

Level up with Constraints (2013)

Stuart Munton

The product confidence trap (2023)

Stuart Leitch

Introducing the Theory of Constraints (The Parable of the Laundry) (2015)

Stuart Leitch

Surviving / Scaling at Skyscanner (2014)

Susan Almon

Do I really have to learn 'all the things'? (2016)

Susanne Kaiser

Adaptive socio-technical Systems with architecture for flow (2023)

Suze Haworth

Thinking more product: moving from scrum to dual-track agile (2019)

T.J. Sheehy

Chaplin's Craft (2012)

Tami Reiss

Everyone Should Be A Scientist (2015)

Thierry de Pauw

From bi-annual to fortnightly releases in 4 months for 15 teams & a single monolith (2023)

Thierry de Pauw

The practices that make continuous integration (2022)

Thierry de Pauw

Feature branching considered evil (2018)

Tobbe Gyllebring

Scaling - a layered perspective (2018)

Tobbe Gyllebring

Code, as if language matters (2017)

Tobias Goeschel

Domain prototyping - or "design is how it works" (2019)

Tom Adeyoola

Why your 'Brilliant' technology fails to have impact (2023)

Torbjorn Gyllebring

Can I help? (2015)

Torbjörn Gyllebring

Thermodynamics of Lean Leadership (2016)

Torbjörn Gyllebring

The Reverse Conway - organizational hacking for techies (2014)

Torbjörn Gyllebring

#NoMetrics - the ephemeral role of data in decision making (2013)

Torbjörn Gyllebring

Faith, Science & Rightshifting - a conversation about reciprocity (2012)

Trent Hone

Strategic agility through learning doctrine (2017)

Trent Hone

Complexity in Action - Organizational Learning in the U.S. Navy (2016)

Troy Magennis

Forecasting using data - answering how big, how long and how much (2017)

Valerie McLean and Sarah Murphy

Is UX part of your team's process, or part of its DNA? (2022)

Vimla Appadoo

Crisis culture: how to cope with chaos (2022)

Virginia Cagwin

Enterprise UX- The Next Generation (2015)

Wesley Gorman

Lean Into Your Learning (2012)

Will Evans

Dispositioning Advantage: A Pervert's Guide to Strategy Design (2016)

Will Evans

Heretics, High Priests, and Hagiolatry (2015)

Will Evans

Exploration & Exploitation Mindsets in Design-Driven Enterprises (2014)

Will Evans

LeanUX is a Useful F*&king Lie (2013)

Woody Zuill

Advanced software teaming (mob-ensemble programming) (2023)

Wouter Lagerweij

Defects: a final countdown (2022)

Wouter Lagerweij

Testing in a Continuous Delivery World (2016)

Wouter Lagerweij

Don't refactor. Rebuild. Kinda. (2015)

Zhichao Wu

Collective Learning in an Agile Software Development Environment (2013)

Zsolt Fabok

Bermuda Triangle of Transformations (2013)

Zsolt Fabok

Measure and Manage Flow in Practice (2012)

Édouard Gomez-Vaëz

Introducing test driven management - craft leadership as developers craft their code (2022)