"Harass me with pain or Alice in Agile land of Wonders" from Anna Lavrova

Anna will address issues of different "harassment" and how to deal with them - well known sexual one, messing with deadlines, changing requirements, adding new people into the project unexpectedly, releasing API with breaking changes and how we suddenly have to manage them, working long hours, making people work long hours and other stuff resulting in successful releases and one of the best team-spirited teams in the whole Ciklum (according to HRs).

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1. Harass me with Pain Adventures of Alice in Agile land of Wonders
2. Why me? ! 7+ years of Project Management in IT ! Certified Scrum Master ! Implemented Agile methodologies from scratch in 3 projects ! One of only 5+ female Project Managers in Ciklum ! Proud feminist setting new attitudes for Women in IT
3. That’s Alice! She wants to enter IT World of Wonders. What is there for her?
4. Which kingdom do you choose?
5. Gender bias
6. Harassment it is!
7. Non clear user stories
8. Non clear user stories Set intentions - not requirements Think of pornhub effect Experiment Talk to sales team
9. No Product Owner and Designer
10. No Product Owner and Designer Be the change owner Demo or die
11. Who changes requirements before demo?
12. Who changes requirements before demo? Business priorities matter Pornhub effect again
13. No breaking changes shall pass!
14. No breaking changes shall pass! Pay attention to release notes and prepare for worse Get more people involved
15. How to make people awesome?
16. How to make people awesome? Introduce mentors Hire juniors Have subteam leaders and secure broken leg effect Give enough power to team leads
17. Ultimate purpose of The Queen
18. Ultimate purpose of The Queen Create safe environment Be the NEEDED leader
19. Thank you and I’m open for the questions! facebook.com/lavrovanna lavrovanna@yandex.ru ua.linkedin.com/in/lavrovanna 0934548455