Plaster Group was delighted to participate in another successful Agile Open Northwest at Seattle center. AONW is an annual open space conference giving Agile practitioners a place to discuss ideas, challenges, and techniques.
This year the theme was “Stories Form the Frontier” and diversity of the sessions was incredible, including topics like:
- The Six Trumps: 6 Learning Principals that Trump Traditional Teaching. In case you were wondering, they are:
- Movement trumps sitting.
- Talking trumps listening.
- Images trump words.
- Writing trumps reading.
- Shorter trumps longer.
- Different trumps same.
- Playing the Scrum Master of Scrum Masters role
- Practices to Cultivate Presence
- Agile Games
- High Quality Software Practices
- Kanban in a SAFe/Scrum World
- Participatory Budgeting
- Testing: the Impediment to Agile Delivery?
- Coaching as Negotiations
- The Thermodynamics of Emotion
- Don’t Manage Dependencies, Break Them
- Being Agile but Pretending to do Waterfall
- Working with Offshore and Other Remote Teams
- Self-organization vs. Self-management
Numerous and detailed session notes inclusive of photos can be found here. Keep an eye out for next year’s registration as attendance is limited to keep this conference intimate!
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Plaster Group’s multi-talented Sr. Agile Consultant Aki Namioka co-chaired Agile Open Northwest this year, in addition to hosting a wonderful music session.
