Regional Scrum Gathering Nigeria 2020

Do you like pizza? Are you interested in Kanban? Do you want to focus more on delivering value quickly and effectively If so, there's no excuse for skipping this game!

In the Kanban Pizza Game, you will experience firsthand the benefits of a Kanban System, by simulating the frantic pace of ordering pizza. The Kanban Pizza Game demonstrates the path from an existing process to a Kanban System and starts right where you are unlike other Kanban games that usually focus only on the flow of an existing Kanban System.

You will learn to use the five basic practices of Kanban which are, visualize the workflow, limit Work-In-Progress, manage flow, make process policies explicit & minimize waste, and keep up with customer demand and at the end understand how Kanban and its evolutionary approach to change can be applied to software development. The game is fun, the activity level stays high and it offers a complex simulation that includes changes in flow, while the difficulty progresses.

Whether you are a novice seeking to learn Kanban in a memorable way or a seasoned practitioner looking for a great simulation to teach Kanban to others, this is the session for you.

Ever wondered how to bring some life into decision making on product direction and feature choices to customers/consumers if you don’t have access to the customers to ask them? How often has Product Owners or organisations to that matter, delivered what they deem as value to customers and it’s not turned out to be what the customers want. Sad to say but some 'acclaimed' Agile teams/organisations continue to face this because;
a. They choose not to engage their customers early enough
b. Release cadence is too long thereby increasing the feedback loop.
c. Feedback loop not in place to encourage customers to feedback through the Product Owner or other open channels.
d. Product Owner is inexperienced and don’t have the know-how or embody the values and principle of agility by engaging the customer or satisfying what the customer wants rather than what they want to release.


By the end of this workshop you will have learnt: • Why constellate the direction of your product? • What constellations is and how to use it • How to set-up for a constellation • How to use constellation to get a sense of what to build first - priorities

Distributed teams are proliferating in all kinds of workplaces, especially with agile software development teams. In this session, Heidi will address ways to overcome common challenges, improve communication, and increase engagement in a virtual environment. She will provide recommendations to encourage better collaboration and teamwork, and how to have effective online meetings.  

Historically, different departments of our organizations operate in silos by design. Talking about Agility and Agile Mindset in these organizations sounds strange, if not useless. This session will focus on the need for change and some of the steps to take in moving away hierarchical and command and control culture and organize effectively for Business Agility.

This is session will consist of a exercises using Agile Simulation with Scrum, Lego and Chocolate (

Retrospectives are one of the most important Agile events and can also be the most difficult.  If you are new to running Retros, or looking for some new ideas to improve your Retros, this workshop will take you through Esther Derby & Diana Larsen's Retrospective Structure to add to your toolbox.
This workshop covers 3 areas

• what is a Retrospective 
• how to have a retrospective 
• some tips for a great retrospective

This session is part talk and part discussion, about how I took my work home with me and made Personal Kanban a part of my everyday life. Even in its simplest form, Kanban can add a level of organization to the lives of even the most disorganized people.

In this session, participants will:

• Understanding why kanban works, even at home
• How to get your family to use kanban
•    How to find the motivation to stick with kanban

Its been over 30 years since the software industry caught the Agile bug. While there is still room for improvement, Agile has proven to be very successful in helping software organizations deliver products faster, reduce complexity, lower cost and deliver higher quality to its customers. As technology, market, and environmental complexities and their interactions have rapidly increased, it has become imperative to adopt an agile mindset if organizations desire to increase their market share and stay relevant. Agile has proven to be successful in many industries beyond Software, however, many non-tech teams still struggle with applying the agile way of working due to limited case studies and success stories on implementation.  

In this workshop, participants will not only gain new knowledge by learning how non software teams ranging from business operations, HR, Marketing, Recruiting Call centers just to name a few have successfully transformed their work processes from waterfall to agile but they will also get hands on experience on how to kick start an agile team in their workplace and gain the tools needed for continuous success.

You are a Scrum Master, but you find yourself in between jobs. You begin your search. How do you choose the home that will be a great fit for you? How do you know which company you want to be adopted by? This talk is a fresh way to look at the companies that may be trying to hire for a role they don’t understand and don’t want to pay for.

Human beings are creatures of habit. However, embracing new habits and making them stick are not as trivial as they may first sound. It takes discipline and courage to adopt new practices instead of old ones and turn them into a routine of behavior which is repeated regularly. Yet how can we achieve that? And how can we break some previous learnt habits which persist in organizations for years?

Join us in this interactive hands-on session and explore a simple yet powerful tool which you can bring back to your workplace and serve your colleagues and you well.