What makes this Agile ours? A talk with previous Gordon Pask Award winners.

Level: Practicing

The Agile Alliance states that “The Gordon Pask Award recognizes two people whose recent contributions to Agile Practice make them, in the opinion of the Award Committee, people others in the field should emulate.” This panel brings together some of the previous winners so that they may share their contributions and help encourage others to participate in building the body of Agile knowledge. For the intermediate practitioner, it should reinforce the notion that as we practice Agile and learn how to adapt for the best outcome, sharing what we learn helps the whole community.

Process/Mechanics

3 iterations of 30 minutes each, with 20-25 minutes in each iteration dedicated to the discussion. Time limits will strictly be adhered to with a signal.

First Iteration

  1. Invite the audience to write questions and examples
  2. Briefly explain the award and introduce panel
  3. Prioritize a question and example backlog
  4. Discuss questions and examples from the backlog
  5. Reflect on the iteration

Next Iteration

  1. Collect new questions and examples for the backlog
  2. Check question and example backlog priority
  3. Discuss questions and examples from the backlog
  4. Reflect on the iteration

Last Iteration

  1. Collect new questions and examples for the backlog
  2. Check question and example backlog priority
  3. Discuss questions and examples from the backlog
  4. Reflect on the session

Bonus
We will take it to the Open Space for one more iteration

Learning outcomes
  • Understand what the Pask award is and why it is given
  • Gain insight in to how the Pask award members enable Agile in new areas
  • Learn how the Pask award functions as encouragement
  • Share innovative practices currently implemented in our community (by you!)
  • Strengthen the network of emergent Agile leaders
Primary target persona