Each game represents a different scenario with multiple challenges to overcome in order to produce a successful result. For this session, you “puppetmaster” two Agilists, an Enterprise Agile Coach and a team based Agile working with a large organization with many teams.

At the start of each game you’ll be presented with a description of the scenario and a choice of 3-5 actions you can take such as “Work with the team to figure out what they would like to do next” or “Present your recommended changes to the CTO.” Each action has the potential to uncover additional information and/or actions that you can take. There are many branching paths, and it will feel just like working with real people: determining what approach is appropriate in each situation: powerful questions, teaching, facilitation, or providing expertise. Along the way you’ll interact with teams, team members, stakeholders, and leaders in the organization.

You’ll have a chance to practice many coaching skills including: powerful questions, emotional intelligence, rapport building, acting as a mirror, encouraging and supporting learning and growth, and pivoting between coaching and providing expertise. The game is meant to be played in small groups of 2-4 people to encourage discussion and to provide an opportunity to learn from each other. Think “escape the room” style fun and collaboration.

To get an idea of what these games are like, you can try the ones we have online which are focused on individuals: (https://facilitivity.com/online-games/). In this session we’ll mostly be playing the game, but it is perfectly ok to be a spectator.

About the Speaker:

Damon Poole is an Enterprise Agile Coach and the co-author of Professional Coaching for Agilists (Addison-Wesley). In addition he offers ICAgile and ICF accredited coach training programs. He has coached and trained thousands of people at companies such as Capital One, Oanda, Ford, Perforce, and Fidelity. As a coach of coaches at Eliassen, Damon led the Agile Delivery team which grew to hundreds of Agile Coaches and other Agilists in the field. He is an International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach, International Coach Academy Certified Professional Coach, and ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching. Damon frequently presents at local and international Agile meetups and conferences such as the Agile Alliance Conference, Play4Agile, and Agile and Beyond. He has also co-created a series of popular Agile games such as User Story Games, Agile Coaching Games, Heroes of Agility, and a small collection of online games. Learning through play is a consistent element of his work.

In this game, the entire audience will be the playing pieces, navigating a whole-room maze to discover new markets and new products. Will you be able to generate enough money to stay in business? You’ll start as a “traditional” organization and have the opportunity to transform into a thriving Agile organization by applying concepts such as self-organization, cross-functional teams, MVPs, breaking work down by value, and more. Come to play and learn in a way that is only possible in-person! Then, bring the game back for your own in-person company event.

About the Speaker:

Damon Poole is an Enterprise Agile Coach and the co-author of Professional Coaching for Agilists (Addison-Wesley). In addition he offers ICAgile and ICF accredited coach training programs. He has coached and trained thousands of people at companies such as Capital One, Oanda, Ford, Perforce, and Fidelity. As a coach of coaches at Eliassen, Damon led the Agile Delivery team which grew to hundreds of Agile Coaches and other Agilists in the field. He is an International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach, International Coach Academy Certified Professional Coach, and ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching. Damon frequently presents at local and international Agile meetups and conferences such as the Agile Alliance Conference, Play4Agile, and Agile and Beyond. He has also co-created a series of popular Agile games such as User Story Games, Agile Coaching Games, Heroes of Agility, and a small collection of online games. Learning through play is a consistent element of his work.

The panelists:

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert
ANE Founder and Past President

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert is an independent Agile Coach and past president of Agile New England. As an electronics & software engineer for medical, aerospace, Industrial applications she was among the first to apply Agile methods to embedded systems work. Co-author of book series “Agile Methods for Safety-Critical Systems”, coaching Agile teams and managers since 1998. https://leanagilepartners.com.

Mike Dwyer
ANE Founder

Mike Dwyer has been active in the Agile/ Scrum communities for 20+ years as a practitioner, coach and teacher. Currently, he is curious about the power of the followers who make up the majority of team and Agile organizations.

Damon Poole
Past ANE President

Damon is an Enterprise Agile Coach, Coaching and Agile instructor, and the co-author of Professional Coaching for Agilists (Addison-Wesley). He has coached and trained thousands of people and presented at a wide variety of conferences and meetups. He has also co-created a series of popular Agile games including Heroes of Agility.

Johanna Rothman
Longtime, Frequent Speaker

Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice
for your complex problems. She helps leaders and teams learn to see
practical alternatives that help them achieve more agility in their
work. With that knowledge, they can choose what—and how—to adapt their
product development. See her writing and other resources at jrothman.com
and createadaptablelife.com.

Chet Hendrickson
Agile Expert

Chet Hendrickson has been involved with Agile Software Development since 1996, when as a member of Chrysler’s C3 project he helped develop Extreme Programming. Chet is the first signatory to the Agile Manifesto.

About the Speaker:

Damon Poole is a freelance Agile coach who has coached and trained thousands of people at companies such as EMC, Capital One, Oanda, Ford, and Fidelity. At Eliassen Group, Damon led the Agile Delivery team which grew to hundreds of Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches. He created Eliassen’s Agile Transformation approach and led the effort to provide opportunities for the coaches to advance in their coaching journey. He has learned from Agile Coaches in an enormous variety of client environments and from the wider international Agile community. Damon was president of Agile New England for two years and speaks frequently at Agile Alliance, Agile New England, Atlassian Summit, Agile and Beyond, and other Agile conferences.

Current and past presidents of Agile New England and illustrious  guests will offer short observations about Agile, Agile New England, and related topics over the past 15 years and into the future.

David Grabel
Vistaprint, Past President of Agile New England
Helping bring our best ideas to customers faster

Damon Poole
Nexxle, Past President of Agile New England
Reflections on the past, present and future of Agile

Tom Woundy
Mentor Graphics, Current President of Agile New England
Reflections on Agile New England and the role of the president

Brian Bozzuto
athenahealth, Founder of the Agile Games Conference
Looking at Agile transformations from the perspective of an internal coach

Steve Daukas
ScrumInc
Tips on how to get leadership to support Scrum transformation across the organization

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This highly interactive session introduces the idea of turning the process of introducing change upside down: moving from introducing change to enabling change and using a small amount of effort to effect a large change. The “Butterfly Effect” is based on using tools like ADKAR to determine the changes that are most likely to succeed and helping to implement those first.

The ADKAR model of individual change says that people change when they have the Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, and Ability (aka experience) to make the change in an environment where making the change is Reinforced (i.e. supported). By surveying the team’s Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, and Ability levels across a wide variety of possible changes, it is possible to find and implement the changes that are most likely to succeed.

Learning Outcomes

•  Four activities that you can use to effect change

•  Introduction to the ADKAR individual change management model

•  The relationship between the Sitir, Tuckman, and ADKAR change models

•  How to uncover and work with resistance

•  How to maximize your Return On Interaction (ROI)

•  The value of using an Agile Maturity Model

About the speakers:

Damon Poole is starting a new venture and is also serving as Consulting Agilist at the Eliassen Group. He is an entrepreneur and software industry veteran that deeply understands how to create an environment of technology and market innovation that leads to business success. Damon is a leader that believes in the incredible power of cross-functional, empowered, and focused teams.

Prior to his current role, he was Chief Agilist at Eliassen, where he was responsible for Eliassen’s Agile Delivery program and principal contributor to Eliassen’s Agile engagement approach. This approach helps organizations effectively adopt the principles and practices that lead to Agile’s benefits and scales from a single co-located team to global organizations with hundreds of teams.

Damon has trained thousands of people on Agile techniques and most recently created Eliassen’s Agile Coach Accelerator and Agile Coach Transformation workshops. He has provided Agile guidance to a wide variety of organizations including Fidelity, Ford, and Capital One. He has spoken at numerous events including the Agile Alliance conference, Agile Eastern Europe, and Agile New England (where he was previously President and Vice President). Damon is also a founder and past CEO and CTO of AccuRev (acquired by Borland) where he created multiple award-winning products including AccuRev and AccuWorkflow.

About the speaker:

Damon Poole is Founder of Valtivity, an Agile coaching and training company specializing in helping companies discover and implement their ideal way of working. Damon is also a Senior Coach in Eliassen’s Agile practice. His twenty years of experience spans the gamut from small collocated teams all the way up 80 team shops doing global development. Damon was President of Agile New England from 2008–2010. He writes frequently on the topic of Agile development, is the author of the web book “Do It Yourself Agile,” and a pioneer in the area of Multistage Continuous Integration and mixing Scrum and Kanban. Damon has spoken at numerous conferences including Agile and Beyond 2010&2011, Agile Business Conference, Q-Con, Agile 2008–2011, and Agile Development Practices. He is also a co-founder and past CEO and CTO of AccuRev. His blog is at http://damonpoole.blogspot.com