Speaking
I am incredibly fortunate to have had the opportunity to speak at leading industry conferences as well as to various different client and internal groups on different topics related to Agile. For my talks, I like to combine humour, demonstrate fallibility (i.e. sharing things I got wrong!) and always providing real examples of application in the topic I'm speaking about. My hope is that by sharing my own experiences you come away with some new learnings and ideas for application within your own organisation.
Coaching In A Data-Driven World
39% of executives say their companies are highly data-driven, but mentioning data can often result in concerned faces. Why is this? Is it the toxic nature that 'metrics' have become synonymous with or is it because we view using data as a dangerous flirtation with placing more value in tools and processes? This session showcases how you can bring to life empiricism into your coaching toolkit. Enabling you to have more open, transparent conversations and informed decision making.
The Importance of Being Blocked
Despite our best attempts at creating small, cross-functional and autonomous teams, being “blocked” is unfortunately still a common occurrence with many teams. Teams often identify when work is blocked but then stop once unblocked, rarely investigating the reason(s) why the blockage happened. This talk demonstrates just how important being blocked is, the insights you may be missing out on and what data/metrics you can track for blocked work in order to quantify their impact.
How (Agile) Charts Lie
In recent years, measurement has increasingly gained more traction in our industry with many folks wanting to "measure" or even "measure what matters" when adopting new ways of working. Whilst this enthusiasm is great, it often is channelled in the wrong way. This session demonstrates just how prevalent lying with (agile) charts is, particularly with what will be some of your favourite metrics, as well as providing practical tips to improve the visualisation/usage of data within your teams and organisation.
“Really interesting and entertaining presentation on Data-Driven Coaching with a great message: use metrics not as a target, but to gain information, have safe conversations and model curiosity. I’d thoroughly encourage everyone to go to this session, great talk!”
“Coaching in a data driven world. Great talk from @nbrown02 at #LKCE18. lots of great examples and practical advice.”
“Thanks for a great presentation on data visualization! Some great ideas for us to extend our metrics for greater interpretability and ease of use/ application.”
“Great talk on data-driven coaching by @NBrown02 at #LKCE18, great examples. Also check out his data visualizations, great stuff.”
“Inspiring speech by @NBrown02! Metrics as coaching aid instead of metrics as targets. ”