Organizations often rely on “borrowed metrics” inherited from leaders, legacy systems, or outdated operating models as measures that create the illusion of progress without a genuine connection to customer value. This session reveals why misaligned metrics distort decisions, fragment teams, and quietly erode business agility. Anthony Coppedge introduces two tools created through enterprise-scale practice: the Outcome-Driven Alignment Model (ODAM) and the Retrospective Radar. Together, they expose the gap between what teams measure and what customers actually need, making value visible through aggregated feedback at scale. Participants will learn how to replace inherited measures with meaningful ones, align around outcomes instead of outputs, and use feedback-powered clarity to guide decisions, direction, and delivery. When teams illuminate what truly matters, the illusion of progress dissolves — and real value finally comes into view.

Accelerate your Agile transformation by mastering the crucial element of trust, beginning with your executive sponsors:

• Discover key leadership archetypes and engaging tactics for fostering solid relationships with each.
• Learn how to deliver trust-building tools for executive sponsors in ways that resonate.
• Show them that cultivating strong partnerships and psychological safety within their own teams creates a powerful, unified force for change.

AI is transforming how Agile teams identify needs, develop solutions, and deliver value. This session explores practical, team-ready approaches to integrating AI throughout your Scrum process—from early discovery and story crafting to prototyping, testing, and presenting outcomes that matter. You’ll learn what it looks like to integrate AI into your day-to-day work, not as a gimmick, but as a teammate that sharpens your focus, expands your reach, and frees you up to do your best thinking. Expect to leave:

• Knowing what AI can (and can’t) do,
• How to safely integrate AI into development flows to improve outcomes,
• Feeling inspired and empowered to experiment, and
• Ready to take action with clear next steps tailored to your Scrum role.

Agile has long promised greater speed, and lower risk. But organizational processes limited the scope of what one truly agile team could accomplish. But imagine what a truly agile AI-assisted team could do! The emergence of agentic AI has changed software development forever. But some teams are seeing rapid productivity gains, while others see almost no benefit (not unlike the adoption of Agile). It turns out many of the core principles of Agile make the difference for effective or ineffective application of AI. Join this session to learn about the foundational context your team needs to create to allow effective AI development. You'll see how to bridge your working knowledge of Agile with the new critical feedback loop your team needs to master. We'll discuss some common concerns, and how to use the principles of agility to mitigate them.

Delivering valuable software is a core principle of an Agile team. But as teams create organizations and as organizations become an enterprise, it’s easy for clarity about what is valuable to become muddled or lost in translation. Development teams drift away from customers and direct contact with the gemba, where the product is actually used. This session invites participants to dive deeper into the definition of value. What does it mean for software to be “valuable?” How do we know if we are generating value or if any given development activity is producing value? The session will also introduce participants to several methods and techniques for how to create, capture, and deliver value.

Agile promised adaptability, alignment, and predictable delivery, yet most teams still operate in a fog of changing priorities, hidden work, and mounting pressure. In this session, engineering leader Jay Paulson reveals the hidden system beneath every high-performing organization: a simple leadership rhythm that turns visibility into stability, and clarity into confidence. Through real case studies, including protecting $15M in projected revenue by avoiding a two-month delay during a nationwide digital commerce platform rollout for a large enterprise organization, Jay shows how organizations can reduce chaos without adding process, tools, or ceremonies. Attendees will learn to “see” the real patterns in delivery, how to read early signals to create better options, and why confidence is the true currency of alignment. Practitioners and leaders at all levels will walk away with a deeper understanding of how trust, flow, and clarity combine to create predictable outcomes and how visibility beats velocity for long-term performance.

In the race to quickly deliver value, organizations often focus on tools and frameworks while overlooking the single greatest driver of velocity: Trust. Low trust is visible in organizational friction, resulting in endless approvals, destructive conflict, and slow delivery. This session moves beyond theory to explore how intentional trust behaviors can be directly mapped to faster delivery. We will identify areas of mistrust (interpersonal conflicts, control mandates) along with the often hidden “friction tax” it imposes on delivery speed. We’ll then share actionable strategies for repair, including using a shared vocabulary to redirect focus on the problem rather than the person. Attendees will complete a self-assessment to pinpoint trust gaps in their own context and learn to strategically choose and maintain high-trust partnerships to accelerate their team's value stream.

Agile teams often rely on retrospectives to learn from problems after they’ve already occurred. But what if teams could practice responding to likely challenges before delivery gets disrupted? This interactive session adapts a well-established practice from security and disaster recovery—tabletop exercises—and applies it to Agile team delivery and performance. Instead of breaches or outages, teams role-play realistic delivery scenarios such as mid-sprint executive requests, unexpected dependency failures, shifting priorities, or capacity disruptions. After a brief introduction, participants will experience a live mini-tabletop exercise and then work in small groups to run scenarios themselves. These exercises consistently reveal surprising weak spots in communication, decision-making, and team norms—creating opportunities to strengthen them proactively. Attendees will leave equipped to run their own tabletop exercises and respond to delivery challenges with clarity and confidence.

New technologies, evolving customer expectations, and increasingly competitive markets demand that organizations rethink how they create and deliver value. Focusing solely on output, efficiency, or internal process optimization is no longer enough; to thrive, teams must embrace a customer-centric mindset of agility, experimentation, and continuous improvement. This session is not about theory—it is a call to action. Max will draw on two decades of experience to explore how to identify and measure customer value in tangible, actionable terms—moving beyond abstract concepts to define value in ways that teams can align around and improve daily. You’ll hear techniques for evolving team behaviors, building feedback loops, and fostering the culture needed to respond effectively to rapid change, and leave with concrete frameworks, tools, and a renewed clarity and motivation to deliver better value at greater speed.

Agile changed everything. It wasn’t just a methodology, it was a movement that redefined how we deliver value, collaborate, and lead. Today, the world of work is moving faster than ever. Technology, market shifts, and AI are rewriting the rules, and the question isn’t “Will Agile survive?” but it’s “How will Agile leaders thrive?” The answer lies in what brought us here: our adaptability, resilience, and a relentless focus on people. These qualities uniquely position Agile practitioners to lead in this era of speed and complexity. In this session, participants will discover how to pivot with confidence, amplify their impact, and lead boldly to create value at the speed of change. Participants will:

• Leverage Agile Principles for the Future – Understand your strongest assets in the new world of work.
• Lead Boldly Through Change – Learn practical strategies to create value at speed.
• Apply and Practice – Engage in interactive exercises and real-world scenarios to turn ideas into actionable leadership skills.

Agile leaders are under pressure to “show green” while juggling shifting priorities, dependencies, and now AI. The result? Watermelon dashboards, status looks green on the outside, but everyone inside the delivery system knows it’s red. In this session, Nidhi will share a practical playbook for moving from watermelon status to decision-ready flow, based on launching dozens of Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and coaching Project Management Offices (PMOs), product leaders, and teams in complex environments. We’ll look at how to design a minimal set of flow and risk signals, then use AI as a thinking partner to surface patterns, test scenarios, and craft clearer updates for executives—without losing context or accountability. You’ll leave with concrete templates for:

• Building an “honest” risk radar from existing agile data
• Using AI tools responsibly to sharpen your thinking
• Coaching teams and leaders to have better conversations about risk, not just prettier reports

Agile teams often rely on retrospectives to learn from problems after they’ve already occurred. But what if teams could practice responding to likely challenges before delivery gets disrupted? This interactive session adapts a well-established practice from security and disaster recovery—tabletop exercises—and applies it to Agile team delivery and performance. Instead of breaches or outages, teams role-play realistic delivery scenarios such as mid-sprint executive requests, unexpected dependency failures, shifting priorities, or capacity disruptions. After a brief introduction, participants will experience a live mini-tabletop exercise and then work in small groups to run scenarios themselves. These exercises consistently reveal surprising weak spots in communication, decision-making, and team norms—creating opportunities to strengthen them proactively. Attendees will leave equipped to run their own tabletop exercises and respond to delivery challenges with clarity and confidence.

No, Agile isn’t dead...but the era of big “Agile Transformations” is OVER. After years of over-hyped promises and underwhelming results, many organizations have scaled back or outright rejected Agile, cutting roles like Scrum Master and Agile Coach along the way. Welcome to Agile’s Post-Transformation Era—a time to move beyond frameworks (important, but not what makes us Agile) toward a more grounded, resilient people-centered approach to agility…and future-proof yourself, and your organization, to thrive in the face of AI-fueled volatility, ambiguity, and complexity. This session will:

• Uncover the Root Causes behind the decline of Agile Transformations
• Explore what Agile’s post-transformation era means for us as practitioners and community.
• Re-frame Agility, and our role in shaping and enabling it, shifting from frameworks to strengthening our organization’s continuous-improvement muscle.
• Gain practical re-tooling strategies for navigating today’s evolving Agile landscape and the rapidly accelerating AI era, with clarity and a renewed sense of purpose.