Conference Date: 25 April 2025
Mini-Workshop Date: 24 April 2025
Welcome to Agile Tour Luxembourg 2025!
We're excited to announce that this year's event will take place on 25 April 2025.
What's New?
In addition to the main event, we’re introducing a Mini-Workshop Day on 24 April 2025! This will be a fantastic opportunity to dive deeper into agile topics in an interactive format.
For more details on the mini-workshops, visit Sessionize.
Call for Speakers
We're now accepting submissions for both sessions and mini-workshops.
If you’re passionate about sharing your knowledge, submit your proposal by 24 January 2025!
https://sessionize.com/agile-tour-luxembourg-2025/
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dragos Dumitriu
Over the past 20+ years, I had the opportunity to work with organizations worldwide on their transformation needs building high-performance teams and award-winning service delivery models.
As a consultant and coach, I have been recognized for innovation, service delivery, and for leadership, including a "Lifetime Achievement Award" (2016) and “Distinguished Fellow” (2021) from Kanban University.
My work with David Anderson at Microsoft managing software engineering processes in 2005 is the genesis of the journey we know today as The Kanban Method. You can read more about this in chapter 4 of the best seller Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, by David J. Anderson.
I work with organizations like yours to co-create outcome driven solutions that optimize performance based on your strengths, constraints and customer needs.
FINAL KEYNOTE
Transforming Teams and Tribes with the Loop Approach at Telekom Security
Uli Pott
I will present how Telekom Security use the Loop Approach to transform teams and tribes as an organizational development approach.
More Speakers Coming Soon for Agile Tour Luxembourg 2025!
Happy Healthy Team
Vasilika Klimova
I have been working in web development for 13 years. I worked as a single developer, as a team member, team leader, and as a manager who is responsible for the success of the project.
Quite often, Frontend work is the final step before the releases.
How not to go crazy when you have just 2 weeks before the release, and the design is not yet fully ready?
What to do if you have a new technology stack and the team has not already handled it? What if the important developers leave the team before the release?
Let’s talk about how to build processes in a team to have a self-managing team with a healthy environment.
At some point, each of us realizes that our job is not only moving Jira tickets. 🙂
The Visual Agile Coach and the Power of Visuals, a journey from a blank sheet of paper to a mindset
Ben Walder
As complexity and the pace of change increases around us, we believe visuals and their ability to communicate quickly and effectively are an increasingly effective business tool - remember “A picture is worth a thousand words”.
And provides an immersive Visual Agile Coaching experience, exploring what it means to be a Visual Agile Coach, our Discover-Develop-Do mindset and lifting the lid on the Visual Agile Coaching Toolkit and invites particpants to help us with content for our second book focusing on the Future of Work.
The workshop is fully interactive with participants encouraged to start their Visual Agile Coaching from the very start.
Beyond Borders: Navigating Cultural Challenges
Manuela Raidl
In today's interconnected world, agile teams often blend diverse cultural backgrounds, creating both challenges and rich opportunities. Join me for this session to explore how intercultural dynamics shape collaboration in global agile environments.
Drawing on insights from Erin Meyer’s The Culture Map, we'll dive into key dimensions like communication styles, feedback cultures, trust-building practices, and leadership across cultures. Through real-life examples from my experience with teams in Austria, Germany, India, and Vietnam, you'll discover actionable strategies to transform cultural differences into collaborative strengths.
This session empowers to foster inclusivity and enhance team cohesion, turning potential conflicts into opportunities for growth. Learn how to bridge cultural divides and unlock the full potential of your globally distributed teams!
Achieving Scalable AI Transformation: An Agile Playbook for Modern Organizations
Edwige Fiaclou & Sébastien Burdin
As artificial intelligence increasingly gain the potential to reshape industries, organizations are faced with the challenge of navigating this tumultuous new ocean of possibilities and risks. This talk presents a practical framework for integrating Agile principles into AI transformation efforts, providing a playbook that empowers teams to navigate the complexities of scaling AI solutions. Attendees will learn how to leverage cross-functional teams, plan iterative experimentation cycles, and foster a culture that supports scaled continuous learning and adaptation.
Drawing on real-world experience feedback, we’ll propose some best practices for overcoming common obstacles in AI projects, from data management to model governance, and examine how Agile can enhance organizational resilience and responsiveness in an AI-driven landscape. Join us to discover actionable strategies for achieving sustainable, scalable AI transformation that aligns with your organization’s evolving goals and customer needs.
The Framework Illusion: Let’s Fix Your Value Delivery
Marin Niehues
Scrum, Kanban, XP, Prince2, SAFe, Nexus, LeSS, Spotify, ITIL, ADKAR, OKRs, CPM and the list goes on —we all love our frameworks. They promise structure, predictability, and results. But let’s be honest: more often than not, frameworks are where value delivery goes to die.
Frameworks were meant to be a tool—a means to an end. Instead, they’ve become the end themselves, shifting focus away from delivering value to ticking boxes and following processes. The result? Framework-centric approaches that prioritize rituals over results. And here’s the truth: your customers don’t care about your framework. They care about the value you deliver.
This session is for everyone who thinks about the value they generate for their clients: business owners, product managers, project managers, or even developers who care about the users of their products. If you’re tired of frameworks stifling creativity, slowing down delivery, and alienating your customers, it’s time to rethink and refocus.
Every team member can contribute to Digital Sustainability
Sylvain Chery
If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem!
As already 6 of the 9 planetary boundaries have already been exceeded, we all need to act starting from where we are. The AI boom is only making it worth.
If you're aware of all the impacts of our digital sphere, and if you work as an IT professional, you're certainly wondering what you can concretely do about it, as part of your day-to-day job.
After a brief reminder about the social and environmental impacts of IT, I will introduce key frameworks and practices for designing sustainable digital services and being respectful of all forms of living (human and others).
Then we will explore together how each IT team member, depending on her role, can contribute to this approach. We will focus on the job roles of the people in the room so that every participant can take away some concrete options to act in her specific context.
Scaling Agile: Implementing Successful Strategies in Large Organizations
Markus Willner
This 60-minute session will explore effective strategies for scaling Agile methodologies across large organizations, emphasizing best practices and real-world case studies. We will delve into the Flight Levels model and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), focusing on their artifacts, meetings, and roles to provide a comprehensive understanding of Agile scaling. Examples from Bosch and other companies.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the principles and challenges of scaling Agile in large organizations.
- Gain insights into the Flight Levels model and its application in Agile scaling.
- Learn about the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), including its artifacts, meetings, and roles.
- Explore real-world case studies demonstrating successful Agile scaling implementations.
- Identify best practices for integrating Flight Levels and SAFe to achieve organizational agility.
Free your mind and the rest will follow - Delete your Backlog
Christopher May
In many agile teams, the backlog is a central tool for organizing tasks and features. However, over time, backlogs become overloaded and a big topic dump, losing their primary function: to help teams focus and continuously prioritize value-creating work. This talk proposes a radical new approach: "Delete your Backlog."
The concept of "Delete your Backlog" challenges teams to rethink the need to continuously maintain a massive backlog and instead focus on the most valuable tasks. Overfilled backlogs create psychological burdens, reduce efficiency, and often contain outdated or irrelevant tasks that no longer generate value. Instead, the approach advocates for radical prioritization and frequent feedback cycles.
This Talk will explain why drastically reducing a backlog can be beneficial so that architectural approaches like emergent architecture can bloom and support team agility. By reducing waste teams can react more quickly to changes and better meet customers' immediate needs.
Finally, the presentation offers practical tips for implementation: how can teams effectively clean up their backlogs? What tools and methods help improve backlog management? By focusing on value and continuous feedback, agile teams can boost efficiency and achieve better long-term outcomes.
How to grow Product-led organization with OKRs: Aldi Süd case study
Victoria Sheer
Implementing OKRs in a large multinational corporation with rigid processes and hierarchy is an entirely different challenge compared to a mid-sized product company. But OKRs integrated into product operations can bring value to both, if applied right.
As a Product Strategy Operations Lead at Aldi Süd, I found the following three topics to be key while implementing OKRs in the most sensible way.
Product Strategy - What is the step-by-step process to craft a meaningful product roadmap that aligns with product strategy
Key Performance Indicators / Key Results - How to use KPIs and KRs correctly and why both are important
Product Analytics - How to integrate product analytics into the OKR process while avoiding creating silo processes
In this session, I will present a case study of OKR implementation at Aldi Süd e-commerce where I managed and provided hands-on tips for implementing OKRs.
Transforming into product organization and changing the role of Product Leaders in a large multinational corporation with rigid processes and hierarchy is an entirely different challenge compared to a mid-sized product company. But OKRs integrated into product operations can bring value to both, if applied right.
As a Product Strategy Operations Lead at Aldi Süd, I found the following three topics to be the key to enable Product Leaders to grow and generate value for the organization.
Product Strategy - What is the step-by-step process to craft a meaningful product goals and align them with the company strategy
Key Performance Indicators / Key Results - How to use KPIs and OKRs correctly and why both are important
Product Execution - How to align product roadmap and product strategy to enable the product team to deliver value
In this session, I will share a case study of Product Transformation at Aldi Süd e-commerce where I changed the processes, implemented OKRs and coached Product Leaders to live their new role
How Agile are companies in Luxembourg?
Krzysztof Jaros-Kraszewski
During the first quarter of 2024, PwC Luxembourg launched the fourth edition of the Agile Survey, as a follow-up to previous editions from 2017, 2019, and 2021. The survey was based on a set of questions originally developed by PwC Luxembourg and PMI Luxembourg Chapter and was conducted using a questionnaire of multiple-choice and open-ended questions, which allowed us to obtain a better understanding of the current state of the Agile methodology in the Grand Duchy.
Deceiving Ourselves: 10 Lies That Organisations Tell
Sander Dur & Ryan Brook
The talk is for those who are struggling to breakdown barriers in organisations and want to know that they are not alone with their struggles. Using a fictitious case study of a product development organisation (Magnum Opus), we will talk through the antipatterns that they are facing with an attempt to 'do' Agile. We want to try and disrupt the idea that organisational change has to be slow.
The talk is designed to be at odds with many other conferences talks attended. It is rooted in empathy and humor, with anecdotes and audience participation to make it personal. It is a 'troublemaker' session, structured to disrupt the status quo that is present in many organisations by pointing out the stupidity (in many cases!) of process.
Instead of focusing on goals, the 'Lies' that are talked about are system-focused i.e. consider the process rather than the aim, and only by changing the system can goals be purposely achieved.
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