Daniel Terhorst-North uses his deep technical and operational knowledge to help business and technology leaders to optimise technology organisations. He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques.
With over three decades in IT, Daniel has built a reputation as a speaker at international conferences on topics from team dynamics and agile methods to programming and architecture. The originator of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Deliberate Discovery, Daniel has published feature articles in numerous software and business publications, and contributed to several books, although he has yet to publish his own!
He occasionally blogs at https://dannorth.net/blog/. You can read more about him at https://dannorth.net/profile/.
Most software delivery models are designed around ‘stable, long-lived teams’. Most agile methods embrace this as a core assumption, with the possible exception of Team Topologies' short-lived ‘enabling teams’.What if we turn this model on its head? Each quarter, the entire programme team, anything from 20 to 200 people, reorganise themselves based on the expected demand for the next quarter. Surel...
I've been using a technique called Event Storming in lots of different contexts. I use it to model legacy systems, to design new systems, to understand various convoluted business processes, primarily as an exercise in building shared understanding. I've also been coaching others and learning some surprising things about organisations.This session is a gentle introduction to Event Storming, some t...
Join Nigel Thurlow, a leading voice in systems and complexity thinking and the former Chief of Agile at Toyota, as he hosts what is likely to be a hot debate between two leading thinkers in this space. Dave Snowden the preeminent expert in complexity thinking, and Diana Montalion who comes from a systems architecture background and applies systems thinking to manage in complex environments. W...