Agile Tour Bangkok 2023
At Queen Sirikit National Convention Center
25 November 2023
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Story of Principles
Rethinking Agile Principles & State of Agility 2023
“58% of Agile Teams Fail, 88% are Scrum Teams. They are late, over budget, unhappy customers, and no sustainable pace. “ -J. Sutherland
This topic will be co-presented by Dr. Jeff Sutherland & Ethan Soo. Dr. Jeff Sutherland will talk about how he and the other 16 practitioners created Agile. What really happened in Day 1, 2, 3 in Snowbird, Utah. Then he proceeds to talk about what he observed now, why many are failing, and share the crucial knowledge to rethinking Agile Principles.
Dr. Jeff Sutherland
Ethan Soo
Story of Experience
Practical and Effective E2E Tests
E2E Test is an important automation testing method which is from user’s perspective and verify the system in an integrated way. This talk will cover the following key factors to build effective E2E tests:
1. Write business oriented test cases with spec by example.
2. Layer architecture for maintainable UI E2E tests
3. Use Docker to set up an isolated local environment to run E2E tests
4. Use “JFactory” to effectively and completely prepare test data
5. Use “DAL” to verify any kind test result data with a DSL
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Joseph Yao
Story of Transformation
3 centers of intelligence: Blind spot of transformation approach
Whenever leader start transformation journey, they will need to communicate and inspiring people to change. However, every one of us are receptive to different type of motivator. While someone might be more motivated when they see concrete examples, others also might hate concrete examples and view those as too rigid. (“This is not Agile. It’s about mindset.”). In this session, I will show how all of us have familiarity and blind spot when it comes to crafting and receiving transformation message. How that blind spot might be amplified wrongly in large organization? And how can we be more balanced. Based on 3 centers of intelligence theory (which derived from Enneagram).
Chakrit Riddhagni
Story of Team
Workshop : The Agile Coach's Dilemma: Beyond Rules and into Values
In this workshop, we will embark on a journey to uncover why Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, and passionate Agilists sometimes find themselves labeled as "Agile Police." But we're not here to dwell on the problem; we're here to arm you with dynamic solutions.
As a participant, you will dive into an innovative Role playing game. Picture yourself forming teams with different character classes from another world, and immersing yourself in quests that hold the keys to overcoming these challenges. Along the way, you'll acquire new tools and practices that will transform you from rule enforcers to agile champions.
Chris Kruppa
Story of Business Agility
Flow Mapping: Better Business Agility with Flight Levels
Organisations know that achieving better Business Agility is key for their long-term survival. However, most Agile Transformations fail to deliver their expected outcomes. Many lose momentum and are cancelled before they can be completed. So, why do we fail so often? Business Agility requires a fundamental change of perspective; moving from Resource thinking to Flow thinking. This change is hard and scary. So, instead, many companies focus on team-level agility and hope that is enough. Unfortunately, this rarely works.In this talk, Jose will explore how you can achieve better business agility by focusing on the Flow of work with Flight Levels.
Josh Casal
Story of Principles
Agile Preconditions - Reading Between Lines in Agile Manifesto
Just like growing plants, we need to create the right environment where the plants can grow. Agile implementation also requires the right preconditions to where it can show its value. A lot of time these preconditions are assumed because of our own cognition biases. When we realize the condition is not right, it is too late and Agile implementation ends up being not as successful.
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In this session, we will read between lines in Agile Manifesto & principles to discover what those preconditions are. Then we can assess whether how we can build those preconditions, or the operating context might not be the best fit for Agility.
Tanes Jedsadawaranon
Story of Experience
How McKinsey made me a better Agile Coach
Management consultancies like McKinsey, BCG, or EY tend to have a bad reputation in the Agile community. Most agile folks believe they don’t understand Agile well (or at all) and at best deliver “better waterfall”.
While there might be some truth to this belief, I can 100% say that working for McKinsey supercharged my Agile Coaching skills. This talk will be about what I learnt in my 7 years there.
Michael Chik
Story of Transformation
Exploring 3 disorienting paradoxes for transformation leaders
Numerous resources like Accelerate and Good To Great offer leaders guidance for transforming their organizations toward agility. However, many transformations end up being inhuman, incoherent, or incomprehensible. It's not that the principles are flawed, but the paradoxes within Agility often disorient leaders, causing them to take mistaken directions.
Let's unravel a couple of these paradoxes and look at fundamental notions (mindsets) that can act as a North Star
Giom Duquesnay
Story of Team
A sense making framework for coaches and teams
Sense-making frameworks provide a roadmap for exploring the unknown. They are enablers of shared understanding, informed decision-making and purposeful action.
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In this talk, I am going to describe a sense-making framework that can be used to explore team functioning. The framework is presented as a visual canvas which provides a focus for teams to explore different aspects of how they work together. It is a great tool for coaches but is also useful for teams to explore on their own.
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After introducing the canvas and explaining each of its sections, I will use the canvas to show how I make sense of some of the teams I have had the pleasure (or misfortune) to be part of.
Phil Robinson
Story of Business Agility
Workshop: Introducing Agility through Improvisation Games
Introducing your teams and stakeholders to Agile is hard, especially if they’ve never worked in an agile environment before. This workshop lets participants experience emergent behaviour and adaptiveness by playing improvisation games. Improvisation is a form of unscripted theater and a gateway to agile thinking and action. It creates a safe and fun space to embrace experimentation and failure. With these games, you will open the hearts and minds of teams and stakeholders.
Ruben Canlas Jr
Story of Principles
Workshop: Introspecting Agile Principles Through
Gamification Way
The purpose of this workshop is to enable participants to challenge the 4 Values & the 12 Principles of the Agile MAnifesto. Objective is to ensure that as a community we identify the relevance of the Agile Principles and provide an opinion on the same back to our community leaders
This entire exercise would be done through a Gamification way with the participants moving into break out rooms and trying to explore the relevance of Agile Values & Principles. Tools used include Playing cards, Story Cubes, & mapping values and principles
Ashutosh Bhatawadekar
Story of Experience
Building an E2E Mobile community in the context of LeSS
This is a real and ongoing story of how we support a digital bank to grow end to end (e2e) mobile test automation capabilities through Communities of Practice. Started with 3 people, the community has grown to 17 people from 4 requirement areas contributing to automate the test cases.
Learn the challenges of e2e test automation, how we experiment and set up interventions to kick off a community. You will also learn how we manage the tensions of the need to automate more after the word of the community got out.
Chanita
Stanley
Story of Transformation
Thorough Agile Transformation of Mobile Phone Company — Large Scale Scrum Adoption
It is a agile transformation journey of a mobile phone company, where we spent 2 years to help the client. This is a thorough and progressive LeSS adoption, which covers many perspectives of software product development. There are many interesting experiments during the transformation.
This topic covers the whole journey, organizational changes and engineering improvement. I have lots of learnings and reflections, and I think you can also get something out of it.
Jackson Zhang
Story of Team
Notes from the Field:
(Experiments in) Creating and Sustaining High Performing Teams
As team leaders and coaches, we all would want to assess our teams as “high-performing”. But what does it actually take to create and sustain a team that can consistently be called a high-performing team?
Paul will share his observations and learnings from leading the Ekipa Consultancy team across three countries over the last five years, as well as coaching several client teams across South East Asia during that time.
Paul Hutton
Story of Business Agility
Building innovation within bureaucracy: Agile for business
In the realm of financial business, I know that building innovation is no walk in the park. And when you're navigating the complex corridors of a large company, the challenges can seem insurmountable. But what if I told you that there's a way to break free from bureaucracy's shackles and create an innovation bubble?
Discover the strategies and tactics that can turn your organization into a hotbed of innovation. Learn how Agile methodologies can be your secret weapon to drive change, foster creativity, and build an environment where innovation flourishes.
I'll share real-world stories and practical insights on how we've created innovation bubbles within large organizations using Agile for Business.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to break down barriers, navigate corporate complexities, and spark innovation that can propel your business to new heights.
Kris Limpavuttivaranon
Story of Principles
Open Discussion: Rethinking Agile and Why Your Culture Is Getting in The Way
We (Jakkris & Tareef) will discuss and share our experiences across multiple perspectives - IT, business, management, culture. We’ll share our success and heartbreaks, how leadership and culture are the key “secret sauces” of any transformation (especially Agile). They either transform an organization anew, or relegate it into “business as usual”, which may not always be “good”! We hope to stir reactions & participations!
Jakkris
Tariff
Story of Experience
Build a Full Potential, Harmonious Team with Beer Barrel Lesson
Have you ever had stress? I do. I want to make everyone happy, but I have to ask my team to do something they don’t like to. I kept those stress inside myself like a beer barrel. I like to make everyone happy and like me, but I realize I cannot, I am not a beer. One day I found a technique to become much happier. I became a better person., I found a place where everybody knows my name. How to find this place, come and join my workshop, and I will let you know.
Thawekiat Chatchalermwit
Story of Transformation
Dojo Coaching Case Studies: Real-Life Example of Transformational Coaching
Certification doesn't guarantee coaching excellence. Many certified Scrum Masters struggle to guide teams effectively. They end up as event facilitators, administrative assistants, or even unintentional project managers, missing the essence of effective coaching. In this talk, I will walk into the heart of these challenges by sharing real-life case studies, drawing from my coaching experience. I will not only uncover the common pitfalls but also showcase tangible examples of how I've coached teams using the Dojo approach. Gain actionable insights beyond certifications to boost your team's performance.
Praweena Sriprayoonsakul
Story of Team
How to coach Agile Teams in cultural diversity?
Since the Agile Manifesto is born (2001, so 20y+ ago, the world wasn’t what it is today. Diversity wasn’t a topic. Most of brilliant Agile Coaches have been naturally embracing diversity as if they were gifted with it. COVID and the growth of technologies has been definitely impacting and shaping the teams. Diversified Remote Teams. This talk will focus on How to coach Agile Teams in our new world of Diversity, respecting the culture, personality and integrating DEIB principles
Anais Victor
Story of Business Agility
The main pitfalls implementing OKRs in an agile environments
As OKR Asia, we had a lot of start-up and tech clients over the years who already tried and implemented OKRs before engaging us as they were running into issues due to set-up and change management issues.
We would highlight the traps and pitfalls applying Goal Setting by OKRs in agile environments and what we learned from our clients and how steered OKRs in a more meaningful, inspiring and inclusive direction while focussing on results for the company and teams.
Carsten Ley
Story of Principles
From Projects to Products in Corporate World
In today's rapidly evolving corporate landscape, the paradigm of project-centric thinking is giving way to a more adaptive and customer-centric approach, creating long lasting product. I will be sharing real-world experience of this shift on how companies can navigate the challenges on the journey. From enhanced agility and customer satisfaction to optimized resource allocation and high performing team with agile mindset at the center
Thor Verapat
Story of Experience
Developer Experience
E2E Test is an important automation testing method which is from user’s perspective and verify the system in an integrated way. This talk will cover the following key factors to build effective E2E tests:
Delving into the intriguing world of Developer Experience (DX) and its pivotal role in optimizing software development processes. Day to Day engineers face challenges that slow down the execution, such as slow compile time, test that are expensive to run, Code Reviews, etc. Exploring some of the data collection methods used to identify these obstacles within developers' process. Join me as we unravel the nexus between developer productivity and their experience, answer the questions about how we measure developer efficiency and velocity and how behaviour is a key part even more than technology.1. Write business oriented test cases with spec by example. 3. Use Docker to set up an isolated local environment to run E2E tests
4. Use “JFactory” to effectively and completely prepare test data
5. Use “DAL” to verify any kind test result data with a DSL
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Joel Dickson
Drive "my-ISUZU" Growth with the LeSS Framework
By Tri Petch IT Team
In this insightful session, we'll explore how the 'my-ISUZU' mobile application leveraged the Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) framework to accelerate growth and enhance product value. We'll delve into the practicalities of implementing LeSS principles in a complex, real-world environment, focusing on how a leaner approach to processes and structure can drive efficiency and responsiveness.
Speaker
Mr. Chatchawal Issaraprateeprat, Scrum Master
TRI PETCH IT SOLUTIONS
Mr. Junya Yamamoto, UNYA YAMAMOTO, PRODUCT OWNER
TRI PETCH ISUZU SALES
Story of Transformation
The Guardian of Agile & Innovation Galaxy :
How to Skyrockets Business Outcomes
Integrating Agile and Innovation Management system creates a potent strategy for business success. Agile's adaptability, Design Thinking user-centricity, and Business Model Innovation strategies converge to form a comprehensive approach.
This framework enables rapid response to market changes, fuels creative yet practical solutions, and identifies new growth opportunities, resulting in elevated product quality, heightened customer satisfaction, and sustained profitability.
Ugeng Wijaya
How I leverage 5 Frameworks in an Agile Transformation
During 3+ years leading Agile Transformation in KBTG, an enterprise tech arm of Kasikorn Bank, Thailand, I have come across various situations that any single Agile Framework can not answer them all. After experimenting for a while, I have mixed at least 5 frameworks here to achieve tangible Agility and would like to share my experience, the architecture, the reason behind it, and what you might be able to leverage in any enterprise organization.
Wikanes Thongmee
Story of Team
Sparking Change: Fostering a Distributed Learning Culture for High-performance teams
Explore the dynamic shift from knowledge to skills, and discover how to scale up capabilities across your organization with a distributed learning culture. Uncover the power of Empowering Data-Driven Decision-Making, self-learning + collective insight
Anuchit Prasertsang
Agile Journey at ExxonMobil
By Chaiyaporn Laokriangkrai and
Preweena Sriprayoonsakul
Explore ExxonMobil's agile transformation journey, focusing on the critical role of leadership. Gain insights into how our leaders effectively navigated the shift to agile, creating a sense of urgency, emphasizing adaptability, and fostering a culture of continuous learning
Story of Business Agility
How to live with project mindset : Increasing Agility of Project Portfolio in actions
Since time immemorial, the project mindset has always been a common annoyance in the agile community, and we cannot deny that project-based work has become popular and standardized. Particularly large companies often have a strong project management process and project portfolio, which helps investors and stakeholders have a clear picture of profits and costs and the problems that occur in a complete manner. So what exactly is the real problem? And how can we use an agile mindset to work together? Is there a way for the project mindset to continue, or should it really die out?
Pichaya Penjan
Polarity Management: Not everything is a problem to solve
Some problems in organisations arise as a consequence of the system they are in. Therefore, solving the problem is like solving the symptom, but that doesn't address the reason why the problem happened in the first place. These problems are not meant to be solved with a one-sided solution but rather managed by balancing two or more competing polarities. Each polarity has its own set of positive strengths, but focusing too much on one can lead to a scarcity on the other side with negative consequences. Instead, the goal is to find a way to leverage the strengths of both sides while minimising the drawbacks. In this talk, we'll work on how to identify polarities and how to manage them.
