Speaking Engagements & Publications

Conference sessions

I’ve been fortunate to be accepted and asked to speak at a number of UK and international conferences. I’ve listed the sessions below, linking to abstracts, slides and videos where they are available:

• UX Cambridge 2011: UX & Agile: A retrospective (workshop)
• Agile Cambridge 2013: The Art of the Retrospective (talk) (slides)
• Agile 2014: What’s wrong with sprint retrospectives and how to fix them (workshop) (slides)
• ACCU 2015: What’s wrong with sprint retrospectives and how to fix them (workshop) (slides)
• Agile Cambridge 2017: Fantastic Beasts and where to improve them (workshop) (slides)
• Agile Manchester 2018: The ‘a’ word: how we broke and fixed team autonomy (talk) (slides)
• Agile Cambridge 2018: How to level-up learning and development (talk) (slides)
• Lean Agile Scotland 2018: Fantastic Beasts and where to improve them (workshop) (slides)
• Redgate – Level Up Conference 2019: Keynote (talk)
• Agile Cambridge 2019: Crucial Conversations in agile teams (workshop) (slides)
• Agile Manchester 2020 (Virtual): Crucial Conversations in agile teams (talk) (slides)
• SEACOM Global Enterprise Agility Month, July 2021: Three years of self-selection reteaming at Redgate (talk)
• Lean Agile Exchange 2021: Three years of self-selection reteaming at Redgate (talk) (slides)
• Agile Arizona 2021: Three years of self-selection reteaming at Redgate (talk)
• Øredev 2022: Four years of self-selection reteaming at Redgate (talk) (slides)
• Øredev 2022: Why one model can’t fit all – creating fulfilling engineering organizations (panel)
• Agile-Lean International 2022: Four years of self-selection reteaming at Redgate (talk)

Podcasts

I’ve been asked to be a guest on a number of podcasts, and you can find a collection of these below:

• Dynamic Reteaming at Redgate on Mastering Agility
• Talking reteaming on Agile.FM with Joe Krebs
• Level up your workspace on Ingeniously Simple
• Dynamic Reteaming (with Heidi Helfand) on Ingeniously Simple

Publications

I’ve also had blog posts and articles published on redgate and 3rd party sites, and I list them below for posterity too!

• InfoQ: Lessons Learned from Self-Selection Reteaming at Redgate (Nov 2021)
• Redgate Blog: What personal development means at Redgate (Feb 2019)
• Redgate Blog: A glimpse into the culture of our software development teams (Feb 2017)
• Redgate Blog: The 5 big benefits of automated deployment (Mar 2015)
• Ingeniously Simple: Several articles published on www.ingeniouslysimple.com (2018- )