Christopher May
Global Agile & DevOps Coaching CoP Lead - Avanade Deutschland GmbH
Berlin, Germany
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Christopher has been working in project management for the last 25+ years and in agile coaching for the past 10 years. His passion is transformation; in the past he helped his clients as a consultant in digital and agile transformations. His view is always product and people centric. He loves agility, and teaches agility and project management as well as design-thinking for the past 8 years.
He loves to share his knowledge, teach others and engage with audiences.
He takes on new and interesting challenges and goes a step beyond.
Besides his professional passion in Transformation / consultancy, he is also very passionate about stand-up comedy, which he started 2 years ago, and he is very active in the German and international stand up scene in Berlin.
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AI & Agility: The Dynamic Duo for Disruption
This presentation, 'AI & Agility: The Dynamic Duo for Disruption,' explores the powerful synergy between Artificial Intelligence and organizational agility, presenting them as the indispensable partnership for navigating today's rapidly changing business landscape. We'll delve into how AI accelerates market shifts and demands a new level of responsiveness, evolving traditional agile practices into 'Hyper-Agility.' The session will demonstrate how AI acts as a catalyst for agility through intelligent insights, automation of mundane tasks, and accelerated experimentation. We'll also address critical challenges such as managing uncertainty and ensuring ethical AI, emphasizing the crucial role of human-AI collaboration. Through practical strategies and compelling examples, attendees will discover how to harness this 'dynamic duo' to proactively embrace disruption, foster continuous innovation, and secure a competitive edge in the age of AI.
Enable Happiness
We live in an ever-changing world. Distances become shorter; opportunities grow. For employers, the world is changing towards an employee's market. To get the best talent and GenZ employees you have to change.
If you want to succeed as an employer in today’s market with the evolving requirements of a new generation of employees, you must embrace change as well. Transformation is necessary. To cope with this new reality, companies need to enable happiness. This talk will dive into the topic of enabling happiness.
You must switch perspectives and take the stance and point of view of the current and future employees, so we understand their needs. With that we need to adapt and transform to get settled for the future. In this talk you will look at not only the needs of the employees but also companies and examples of companies that took that brave step towards a future that enables happiness.
In this talk you will learn to identify the needs of the next generations of employees to future-prove your business. You will learn to not only talk the talk, you will also to take action to embrace change. You will learn to understand the needs of your workforce and lose the fear of change.
Free your mind and the rest will follow - Delete your Backlog
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.
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