What I learned working for Elon Musk

Tesla doesn't use scrum, what do they use?!

Can you self-manage capital projects?!

How does SpaceX long-running hardware tests?!

What is agile hardware and hardware DevOps anyway?!

Can experienced agile software coaches start a hardware company?!

Authored Scrum Master (book), created eXtreme Manufacturing, founded WIKISPEED. ABI-agile.com

Speaker at Harvard, Airbus, Volkswagen, Agile Munich

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joejustice/

Team building and forming Agile in a Social Organization

What we did and what we learned from the process of implementing and adapting the "Agile" model to a leading social organization – the JDC – as a test case.  

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JDC Israel engages in innovation, development of social services, and works to address national socio-economic challenges, in partnership with the Government of Israel. As a development organization focused on strategic impact, we chose to assess whether and how the "Agile" method could suit our needs, and determine what is necessary in order to successfully build an adapted model.  

As part of a unique organizational pilot, we learned and operated "Agile" throughout the development processes, and created practices and operation mechanisms of the "Agile" method that suited us – to be used in professional roles, routines, evaluation, and teamwork. 
In this session we will present the unique learning and experience process, the dilemmas we faced along the way, and the challenges ahead. 
 

Zohar Vololvesky is a Human capital development manger for JDC Israel. She has along track record in Human Capital Capacity Building, Leadership development, professional and volunteer training, HR, and program management.
 

Tami Abend works to develop occupational social innovation and create advanced solutions in the world of employment. As part of her activities at JDC Israel - Tevet, she managed an employment program, helped establish a knowledge development and professional development system for employment professionals, and took part in adapting development methodologies, such as collaborative and dialogical processes, as well as "Agile". Today, Tami leads an ecosystem to advance technological and social innovation in the employment field.  

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Agile Unicorns

The story of a decacorn startup going Agile. Rapyd is a fast-growing startup that almost tripled its size within a year. In order to support the fast growth and still maintain our efficient delivery, we invent Rapygility - the Rapyd model for Agility. I will share with you how we built an Agile framework from scratch, created a coalition that will support it, faced our challenges, our failures, and the bottom line.

A software engineering manager and a pragmatic agile coach, striving for high performing teams. Worked in small startups as well as big corporates. Certified trainer, mentor, and lecturer for business agility in the Israeli industry and globally. Passionate mentor, optimistic motivator, patient listener, creative resolver and self-learner.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/erezmorabia/

Quarterly Planning - present progressive to future perfect

A quarterly plan is a great way to set short term objectives and get teams aligned. So how do you discuss initiatives that will get you there without preparing detailed specifications in advance? How do you identify gaps? And how does it scale when you have multiple teams and dependencies? Well… sorry to say that we don’t have all the answers. But we’re here to share our story - what we did, what worked for us, what we learned, and how we continue to adapt & learn from quarter to quarter.

Neta Agmon, VP Product

Nofar Ben-Kereth, R&D Operation Manager

Using brain science in your Scrum Events

Intrigued by a back of the room training on how the brain works in a training and learning setting, Evelin Learned more about the human brain & figured out one could also use Brain Science to keep the Scrum Events alive and worthwhile. In this session we'll explore how you could use this knowledge in your Scrum events.

With over more than 11 years in the Agile environment, I now fully focus on sharing knowledge; teaching, conferences, developing and improving of trainings and trainers. As a trainer at Xebia Academy I focus on teaching. I teach trainings from Scrum.org and I am also certified to teach the ‘Training From the Back of the Room’ and have co-created the Virtual Edition of it with Sharon Bowman.

Chemistry Research with Agile methodology

How StoreDot adopted Agile methodology, commonly used in the software world, in battery chemistry R&D.

As the Director of R&D Program Management at StoreDot, Carmit manages multiple R&D agile-based projects in the development of a proprietary extreme fast charging (XFC) Li-ion battery. Connecting between the corporate business and the research division, she manages R&D projects in multiple disciplines, including organic and inorganic synthesis, nanomaterial development and electrolyte development. Carmit joined StoreDot's electro-chemistry group in 2014 and then headed the company's battery innovation group.   Carmit has PhD and MSc in Biotechnology with focus on Electro-chemistry, both from Tel-Aviv University, and a BCs in Biotechnology Engineering from Ben Gurion University. 

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmit-ophir

Seeking Nirvana – Predictability in a Complex World

Inspired by the ground-breaking work by Daniel Vacanti, this session explores the different steps that allow us to build a predictable system in complex and uncertain environments. 

Jose Casal is a business agility consultant & trainer with extensive experience. He is dedicated to helping organizations and individuals embrace modern management concepts including Flow Thinking, Kanban, Flight Levels & Scrum. Strongly motivated towards continuous learning and research, he is able to help organizations achieve better Agility. His goal is to create thriving and engaged organizations. Jose is an international speaker and organizes the in-person Lean Agile London (LALDN) and the virtual Lean Agile Global (LAG) conferences. Jose's experience covers the full breadth of Agile approaches. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), Flight Levels Guide (FLG), Professional Kanban Trainer (PKT), Enterprise Kanban Coach (EKC) & Certified Trainer for Training from the BACK of the Room! (TBR-CT). He is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). He co-founded Actineo Consulting LLP in 2015.

Scale Heroes: case study panel

A panel of Scale Heroes, who will share their challenges, struggles and gains in the transition to Agile at Scale.

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Please come with questions, no answers are guaranteed, though...

In the panel will participate:

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Idan Shalmon & Vadim Reznikov

The product and development managers from Spiral Solutions

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Meytal Gilat-Tal 
Senior Program Manager at Western Digital

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Rony Maimon
Group Development Manager at Amdocs

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Ilan Sherman 
Senior Agile Coach in Ajimeh and a Certified SAFe trainer

So your R&D is agile but what about your product?

While many organizations are very adept at agile R&D methods still many of them struggle when it comes to adopting an entrepreneurial mindset at a product level. Any organization that wishes to effectively innovate has to develop this agile mindset in a broader context. This session will focus on the basic tools and principles of this mindset and cover the main challenges facing those who implement it.

Over his career, Ahi Gvirtsman has accumulated a rich experience in forming, building and running innovation programs for various types of organizations both as the manager of such programs and as a mentor to innovation managers of diverse types of organizations (corporations, municipalities, military). He personally designed, built and managed the innovation program of HP’s software division covering 20,000 employees worldwide. In his book “The PEAK innovation principles”, released in 2017, Ahi Gvirtsman offers a common framework based on his experience that can be implemented by any type of organization in any industry as a way of turning itself into being innovation proficient. He is a 25+ year veteran of the software industry with roles ranging from large corporations to small startups and has an MSc in computer science from the Technion and an MBA from Tel-Aviv University. Currently, Ahi is the co-founder of Spyre, a company which guarantees at least a doubling of any organization’s innovation outcomes.