Agile London

Agile encourages us to embrace change, but how do we balance adaptability with the need for a stable, long-term product vision?

As meet-ups go, this one was right up there! Last night Agile London & Oliver Bernard were hosted by The Football Association at Wembley Stadium where, in addition to pizzas, we got to see the largest stadium in the UK, and second largest in Europe (behind Camp Nou), in all it's glory, packed with Agile enthusiasts...! If the above wasn't enough, we also heard some fantastic talks from Cormac Kennedy, Beks Yelland & Sheetal Thaker (who stepped in to speak at a moments notice). Three highly-engaging talks, which drew some great questions from our audience. Special thanks to Cormac Kennedy for arranging this one, it's not easy, and to everyone who came along, it's great to see so many people sharing such interest in topics around Agile. We're up next in November with Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, keep an eye out for updates! If you would like to host Agile London or Product London in 2025, I am taking bookings, so do reach out! Jessica Keightley, Alex Scriven #agile #agilelondon

On the off chance you haven't heard... Agile London is back next Wednesday, hosted by The Football Association at Wembley Stadium! The event space gives us a spectacular view of the famous pitch and across the evening we'll hear from Beks Yelland, Cormac Kennedy & Ben Maynard, followed by a Q&A. Spaces are now very limited, and this isn't one you'll want to miss so get signed up via the meet-up link below and we'll see you there from 5.30pm! https://lnkd.in/eQbCEJWW Alex Scriven, Jessica Keightley, Oliver Bernard #agile #agilelondon

Our next .NET in London event will be hosted by SEFE Marketing & Trading Ltd at their brilliant office in Regent’s Place on Thursday 26th September at 6:30pm. Topics for the evening include: - Changing landscape and the impact on the market - Dominique Both - 2 Days in the life (Day Ahead & Intraday) - Gonzalo R. - Manual to automated position management/trading and increased volumes - Kelvin Harrison - An Evolution of DevOps at SEFE Trading - Ben Hegarty As always our generous hosts will also provide food and refreshments. There are limited spaces for this free event, so please do not hesitate to sign up at our meetup page:

Delighted to announce our next fixture for Agile London is a 5.30pm kick off on 25th September with The Football Association at none other than the famous Wembley Stadium!! Across the 90 minutes, pizza and refreshments will be served and we'll be hearing from three fantastic speakers: Cormac Kennedy (Head of Application Development at The FA) with: “Agile, it’s a funny old game. What can agile leaders learn from football?" Ben Maynard (Founder of 'Sheev') with: "Purpose, People & Product: Uniting Vision and Execution with a PoEM" Beks Yelland (CPO at Syndi Health & Founder of The Female Product Lead) with: "How to be agile and adaptive in your strategic thinking" As always, spaces are limited and you will not want to miss this one, so get yourself on the team-sheet as early as possible! Hope to see you there for a 5.30pm kick off! Alex Scriven, Jessica Keightley, Oliver Bernard https://lnkd.in/eQbCEJWW

We'll just leave this here....The Football Association #agilelondon

Last Friday was the end of the 4 week Digital (Tech) T-level industry placement supported by Argus Media. We remember conversations with Caroline Loubert, Andrew Godfrey and Jon Peterson started back in May 2023 about a collaboration and it went along the lines of "we love the talks and insight days you're doing, we would love to do something longer, something impactful" ...and so just over a year later we have had Karolina Kamionka Rona Nteeba Gainelle Sarmiento and Nyashadzashe Zinyuke from Ursuline High School Wimbledon join the team at Argus Media for 4 weeks as full-time apprentices. 🙌 This is a major contribution to their 45-day mandatory company placement they need to get their qualification! At the age of 16/17, the students have gained invaluable insight across tech including: 🗞 Different roles across Product Management, UX Design, Engineering, QA, Service desk. 🐞 They found a software bug in their first week! 😯 They've been surprised about how similar their course content is to the real world ↗ Different pathways people took to get into tech 👍 👎 What jobs they like and what they don't want to do! ...and outside of the above, they loved how friendly, welcoming and supportive the team are and will miss you (and the pool table 🎱 ) Thank you to everyone at Argus Media for this unforgettable opportunity 👏👏 Meltem Dincer Tunde Jinadu Theodora Winful Naushine Robinson Assoc CIPD Halima Bhayat Oliver Bernard

We can’t believe it’s already July; the first half of the year has flown by! Below are some highlights so far: 🧠 We welcomed Anita Patel to deliver Neurodiversity training to both our team and clients, fostering a more inclusive and understanding environment. 🙋🏽♀️ We created OB Women's Employee Resource Group (ERG) which has already arranged free sanitary products and period days. ⃝ We kicked off OB Roundtables including discussions with OB Senior Tech Leaders on AI, Product teams on Operating Models and Kotlin's community Q&A Evening hosted at OB HQ. 🏃♂️ We launched the OB running club, clocking over 5,000km together! Including a city run for Men's Mental Health awareness week 2024 💪 👏 Hosted some fabulous tech community meetups with monday.com, Skyscanner, Mindful Chef | B Corp, UnderwriteMe, Builder.ai, LexisNexis and 1ovmany | B Corp™. This is part of our continued commitment to fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing within the tech community. 🏳️🌈 Volunteering for Pride by training and supporting over 800 amazing volunteers who made this year's parade unforgettable. 👧 Future CodeHers inspired over 2000 girls involved in Tech Careers Fairs, Insight Days, Careers talks, Tech lunches , work experience with AllSaints and not forgetting the 4-weeks T-level Industry experience with Argus Media ⚽ And not forgetting our surprise visit from the legendary Bryan Robson, our director Billy Jenkins all time hero! We are looking forward to seeing what the next 6 months brings 🙌

Given the lure of sitting in a rooftop bar and enjoying the weather, we had a solid turnout last night for our event with Skyscanner! Katie Andrews, with her talk on "A Bake of Guide to Delivery" discussed whether your teams are delivering show-stopping value or facing a technical challenge! Jack Spencer discussed "Introducing Skyscanner to Systems Thinking" Providing tools and ideas that enable colleagues to see local optimisations and think more deeply about future changes. Two fantastic talks that really engaged the audience! Thank you to all that attended and keep an eye out for our next event, more details soon! Alex Scriven, Jessica Keightley, Oliver Bernard

We're delighted to be collaborating once again with Skyscanner on Wednesday 26th June from 5.30pm for our next Agile London meetup! 😬 Across the evening we'll hear from Jack Spencer, who will be talking about Introducing Skyscanner to Systems Thinking, followed by Katie Andrews who will be giving us a 'Bake Off' Guide to Delivery! Spaces are filling fast, so get signed up via the following link to avoid disappointment: https://lnkd.in/e5HRe4gq #agile #agilelondon #meetup Oliver Bernard, Alex Scriven, Jessica Keightley