The Delivery Space

The Impact of AI on Delivery Teams : Chris Alderson

Chris is a know-it-all about generative AI and all of the tools around it.
Chris helps teams build capabilities and systems which align them to  strategic goals. He believes that growing in-house digital capabilities, with team's easily able to understand their purpose, enables businesses to achieve lasting impact and accelerate the delivery of products.
So which tools will benefit your team?
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How Did Helen Become Kanban Queen? : Helen Meek

How does being a "Kanban Queen" help Helen and everyone around her?
Helen is an outgoing and driven coach and trainer who is passionate about working with Individuals, teams and organisations on their road to agility. Helen has worked with many varied organisations and teams in many different industries and brings this vast wealth of experience and knowledge to her training and coaching.
Connect with Helen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenjmeek/
The Kanban Edge website: https://kanbanedge.org/
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The Convergence, How AI is Going to Impact Agile Teams : Stuart Munton

How will AI impact the world of business, and most importantly, your teams?
Community and Curiosity are Stuart’s core values which have led him through his 20+ year digital career. Starting with pivotal Agile and Digital transformations for major players like ASDA / Walmart and the NHS, he became an agile advocate back in 2004.
Connect with Stuart: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartmunton/
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Shell Business Transformation : Shahzad and Niall

Shahzad is a lead agile coach, he has over 14 years of experience in partnering with organisations to achieve business transformation and customer satisfaction. He holds the Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) credentials, and he has extensive knowledge and skills in agile methodologies, training, mentoring, and analytical thinking.
Niall is a seasoned leader with over three decades of experience, transitioning from a software engineer to a dynamic cross-functional leader. His core philosophy centers on empowering individuals to reach their full potential, across various domains, including engineering, product development, data, architecture, user experience, and operations.
Connect with Shahzad: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahzad-nawaz727?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app
Connect with Niall: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niallhorley?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app
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Leadership Impact in the Delivery Space : Haroon Kahlil

Haroon Khalil is a Lean-Agile Practitioner and a Professional Coach, working with individuals, teams, managers, and Senior leadership teams to help them deliver results.
His favourite focus areas involve unearthing better ways to help people adapt to the pace of change in business environments, improve overall business performance, grow leadership capabilities at all levels, and support better ways of working to bring the delivery of purposeful outcomes to life.
He's worked with people from a wide variety of sectors, these include: Asset Management, Banking, Insurance, Consultancy, Recruitment, Start Ups, Retail, Sports, and Public Sector institutions.
 
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Exploring Serious Games : Jord Rengervé

For Jord, the best time to play a game, is always!
Jord is a freelance Agile Coach and Senior IT Program Manager. He supports the Agile transformation of companies and the development of the IT teams by putting in place collaboration best practices as communication models, visual facilitation, collective intelligence, meeting facilitation techniques and gamification. He supports company communication by creating posters summarising key points.  He also facilitates brainstorming workshops using visual canvas and facilitation techniques such as liberating structures.
Jord's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordrengerve/
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Roadmaps - A Challenge of Communication : Paddy Corry

Today you'll meet Paddy Corry, an expert in product roadmapping.
Paddy is an Agile Coach, most recently at SS&C, a global financial services and consulting business. With more than 20 years experience in software development, Paddy has previously worked as a Scrum Master, a Teacher, and a programmer for many years.
As an agile coach, he is experienced as a change agent, trainer, facilitator and coach. He particularly enjoys using coaching competencies to partner with product people and agile teams to help sharpen focus on goals and to help achieve business outcomes.
Paddy's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paddycorry/?originalSubdomain=ie
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The Happiness Blueprint : Antoni Tzavelas

Today you're going to meet Antoni Tzavelas, he might just be the happiest human on earth!
Antoni is a keynote speaker and leadership coach who has found his true vocation in igniting the spark of inspiration in others.
After successfully navigating the vibrant fields of fashion design, systems engineering, cloud engineering, cloud training, and team coaching, he began focusing on spreading the potent messages of happiness and empowerment, and his mission to illuminate personal and professional fulfillment paths for others.
Global engagements have seen him gracing stages at many conferences around the world. Such appearances are complemented by participation in countless community meetups where he has imparted his knowledge and insights, furthering an understanding of leadership, happiness, and engagement.
Antoni guides individuals to prioritize their happiness in every aspect of their lives. By offering straightforward, impactful strategies through keynote speeches and workshops, he empowers people to unlock their full potential. This is not just his career: it’s his mission to help make the world a more inspired and happier place.
 Antoni's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonit/?originalSubdomain=ca
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Overcoming Fear Based Leadership : Carmen Payne

Overcoming fear-based leadership means shifting from control and intimidation to trust, empowerment, and fostering a culture of psychological safety.  
Nisha and Carmen have worked together in teams to successfully overcome this regimented traditional type of leadership and seen amazing results.  
About our guest
Carmen Payne is the owner of SOAR! Transformational Life Coaching and is a  professional and personal development coach with 25 years’ experience in the areas  of leadership, coaching, mentoring, training, and project management. Prior to  making the leap from her 25-year corporate career, Carmen traveled the world, and  facilitated workshops, even as she developed, tested, trained, and partnered with  fortune 500 companies to deploy integrated IT solutions.  
Carmen obtained her ICF accredited coaching certifications at the Southwest  Institute of Healing Arts and with the Quantum Success Coaching Academy. Carmen  also holds certifications in Neuro Linguistics Programing and Time Line Therapy® and  is a certified Add Heart facilitator.  
Her services include personalized coaching, workshops, consulting and speaking.
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To Story Point or Not to Story Point? : Benjamin Huser-Berta and Peter Zylka-Greger

Story Points - Are they Helping or Hindering? 🧐Are they helping us deliver better?OR are they just fuelling endless debates?On our first episode of the new season of The Delivery Space podcast, Peter Zylka-Greger and Benjamin Huser-Berta join us to break it down. Here are some highlights:👉🏽 The story point debate—is it still relevant or outdated?👉🏽 How can story points be misused, leading to debates and frustrating planning sessions?👉🏽 The trap of equating story points to time and money and why this approach can backfire and set your team up for failure👉🏽 Alternatives to traditional story points that focus on data-driven approaches for more reliable planning. (Check out the links below for The Lighthouse Tool)👉🏽 How reframing estimating can humanise workspaces to get the best out of teams.Tune into the episode to get further insights. Link in the comments below ⬇ About our guestsBenjamin Huser-Berta is a seasoned Software Engineer and professional Scrum Master with a passion for transforming the way teams work. With experience as both a developer and an Agile Coach, Benji has seen firsthand how unproductive processes and overwhelming workloads can drain motivation and make work frustrating. He believes in creating a work environment that is both creative and fun, where teams can focus on delivering true value rather than just staying busy.Peter Zylka-Greger is an experienced professional who has worked with teams around the globe for many years. His passion lies in fostering real collaboration and helping teams reach their full potential. Peter believes that a successful team is more than just a group of individuals; but it requires building the right system around them, and a well-equipped toolkit for them to truly flourish. The approaches nowadays rarely look at the system at play and this part really excites him.
Our Let People Work Website: https://www.letpeople.work/
Our Lighthouse Tool: https://www.letpeople.work/lighthouse
Our Let People Work Training: https://www.letpeople.work/training
 
Connect with Benjamin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-huser-278759188/
Connect with Peter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterzylkagreger/?originalSubdomain=ch
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