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Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 7:00 PM UTCEscaping Legacy - Wouter Lagerweij
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The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to bring you this intriguing session with Wouter Lagerweij as our penultimate event of 2024.

In this session we will explore how legacy makes everything difficult. You have a product in the hands of users, but delivery is slow, defects are everywhere, and estimation is a joke. Engineering is talking about a rewrite, but you can’t just stop and wait! Let me help you unravel the knot of your legacy and take back control over your systems, without stopping everything, and back to doing the work you love: putting a great product out!

Learning Objectives:

What You'll take away from this session:

● What is legacy, and technical debt? How do we always end-up with it? How can we avoid it?
● An alternative to the big-bang re-write and large scale refactoring that allows us to improve and still keep delivering at a healthy pace.
● What is the role of product owners, product managers, project managers, QA and other non-engineers when dealing with legacy systems?
Why are testing and legacy to closely connected?

Here's a little more about our amazing guest speaker:

Wouter Lagerweij is a technology and product leader and coach who knows how to align the strategy, product management and execution of software development. Having worked in all the different roles, he knows how to build an organization so that the whole becomes greater than the parts. He’s also the author of a new book: “The Product Owner’s Guide To Escaping Legacy”, explaining how product, and management, can play a central role in dealing with technical debt.
24 attendees+19
Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 7:00 PM UTCThe Hits and Myths of Intent-Based Leadership - Peter Russian
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The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to bring you this session on intent-based leadership with guest speaker Peter Russian as our finale to the 2024 event program.

Intent-Based Leadership challenges many of the traditional assumptions about leadership. As a result it can be misunderstood or misinterpreted. This session will explore common myths and highlight the benefits when implemented effectively.

Learning Objectives:

What You'll take away from this session:

· Leaders encourage people to speak up
· Everyone gets a say
· Giving control increases risk
· People should have autonomy to make decisions
· Every mistake is a learning opportunity

Here's a little more about our amazing guest speaker:
Peter is the CEO of Intent-Based Leadership International and has worked with David Marquet author of Turn the Ship Around since 2015, to promote and enable the use of Intent.
Prior to this he was CEO of Investors in People Scotland where he researched and promoted good practice in people management and development.
In the last few years he has worked with clients from NASA to a Formula 1 team, federal agencies to the fastest growing tech company in Europe.
Born in Scotland, raised in England, with a Venezuelan grandfather, he’s now based in Boston, USA where he leads the IBLI organization with teams in the US, UK, New Zealand and Scandinavia.
21 attendees+16
Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 7:00 PM UTCWorkshop Culture: a guide to building teams that thrive - Alison Coward
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The Future of Work Scotland team are thrilled to start the 2025 program with a session with author of Workshop Culture - Alison Coward.

When we run great workshops, teams can achieve amazing things together. With the support of an expert facilitator, a team collaborates effectively, builds new ideas, moves projects forward and even builds better relationships as colleagues.
Alison Coward loved the results she got for teams in the collaborative sessions that she facilitated, but often wondered when they finished, why does it have to stop here? Don’t we need all of these outcomes, every day? So she started to explore what facilitators did to make teams gel and how that could be extended beyond the end of a workshop.
She coined the term “Workshop Culture” and published a book on the concept in November 2023. The book explores the question – “what if every day felt like your team’s most productive away day?”
In this session, Alison will introduce you to the concept of Workshop Culture and explain its main ideas.

Learning Objectives:

What You'll take away from this session:

Why workshops are the solution to ineffective collaboration

How facilitation skills enable high-performing teams

The foundations of a Workshop Culture

Here's a little more about our amazing guest speaker:

Alison Coward is the founder of Bracket, a consultancy that partners with ambitious, forward-thinking companies to help them build high-performing team cultures. She is a team culture coach, workshop facilitator, trainer, keynote speaker and author of “Workshop Culture: a guide to building teams that thrive” and “A Pocket Guide to Effective Workshops”. Clients include: Google, Meta, Wellcome and the V&A. With 20 years’ experience working in, leading and facilitating creative teams, Alison is passionate about finding the balance between creativity, productivity and collaboration so that teams can thrive and do their best work together.
29 attendees+24

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