AGILE DAY KAUNAS

ALIONA VIRSUTIENE

Workshop

Navigating through conflict: using conflicts to build bridges, not to burn them

We are talking about greater and greater importance of the competence of being able to manage conflicts, being able to have crucial conversations, deal with different opinions. Most of the great scientists and authors agree that through conflicts we build stronger teams and we should welcome disagreements. However, when conflicts actually happen we often feel emotional, lost, frustrated, hurt, unappreciated, unheard. And then we hear feedback "You should overreact less, be less frustrated, less defensive, less aggressive" But I rarely hear someone telling how, or explaining what is really happening during the conflict in people brains and how to help yourself and others to have a nice conflict that connects, not puts us apart.
During the workshop, I would like to talk about the nature of a conflict, different conflict stages and personal reactions, how to find agreements that would suit both parties and make them feel heard, increase their buy-in and understanding of each other. 

the strengths and put them to together through constructive conflicts and unite by common purpose, you have a team where 2+2 can equal 16.

TOM GILB

Quantifying IT System Qualities: ‘Value Agile as it should be’.

Agile should be about delivering measurable ‘values’ to our stakeholders. Agile’s central idea is to measure if we are really delivering  value, and to ‘be agile’ if we are NOT, and to then change our designs and strategies, so as to deliver values and qualities: which are always the ONLY point with our projects. Can you quantify qualities like security, usability, and Technical Debt ? The first critical action, is to define the stakeholder critical values, quantitatively. The definition (Scale of measure and Targets) should not only be quantified and measurable. The definition needs to be structured to include who, what, why, when aspects of the problem. These enable us to selected critical slices of stakeholder reality for early delivery steps. This workshop will challenge you to define your own critical value objectives more clearly, and then demonstrate a method for doing so. If you want to go deeper we can offer the free booklet tinyurl.com/ValueAgile.

GIEDRIUS KRIŠČIUKAITIS

Mastering Change

"Mastering Change" - did you experience a change that was critical and never happened? Let's practice together how to approach such real life examples from Agile Teams. Using a simple framework we will learn from each other how to change things when change is hard. Feel free to bring your situations.

DOMINYKAS PUNIS

Break the ice!

Break the ice!
Ice-breakers are a powerful tool. They energise, they lighten up the mood and get us going, they help us switch contexts and foster creativity, they allow us to better understand ourselves and people around us. They are critical in building strong teams and relationships. 
However, it’s not the easiest task to find the right activity fitting your particular context and audience. If you don’t want to bore people with the out-dated team activities and don’t want to spend hours searching for the right one, let us help you! We’ll talk a little about the science behind them, will expand your toolkit with various exciting and never-seen (hopefully) activities and, of course, you’ll get the chance to experience the best ones! So join us and let’s break the ice!

ORNELA VASILIAUSKAITĖ

Q-Storming

Q-storming

‘Ask the right questions if you’re going to find the right answers’ V. Redgrave

If I had to explain Question storming in a sentence, I’d say that it’s a way to start if you don’t know where to start. It’s a simple yet powerful technique that helps you get unstuck, get started or simply get more out of your regular brainstorming sessions.

Instead of focusing only on what is known, Q-storming helps you discover the realm of unknowns. It helps you to understand the problem you’re facing, uncover paths and perspectives you didn’t even know existed. All of that helps you better prepare to solve the challenge you have in front of you.

However, trying it once is better than a thousand words, so join us and learn to Q-storm.

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I’ve been practicing Agile for over 5 years now and only scratched the surface. The idea of evergoing learning and improvement fascinates me. I enjoy gathering new ideas and techniques, discussing them with fellow practitioners and spending long hours talking about Agile, however I truly believe that the best way to learn is to practice.

Over those years working with multiple teams I’ve learned a thing or two and am glad to share it with other Agilists.

DANIL MICHAILOVAS

Open Space facilitator

People are not "resources". This belief led me on a 15 years journey of being a Developer, then Scrum Master and later Head of Department. As of today I'm helping companies to reach their goals as a professional Agile Coach. My aim is to impact businesses and individuals to adopt leadership practices that are both profitable and work well with human beings i.e. people - you and me.

EUROPA ROYALE KAUNAS HOTEL, LITHUANIA

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