Jakub Jurkiewicz

 
 

Currently, the founder of the Agile Coaching Lab, participated in his first standup in 2005 and facilitated his first retrospective in 2007. Previously an agile practice lead, agile coach, software developer, team leader, scrum master and agile consultant. He took his first Agile Coaching position in 2013 and failed miserably. Since that moment, he has been exploring the craft of agile coaching and leadership. Jakub has worked in a startup where agility and change were harnessed daily and in big corporations where people were afraid to mention their ideas. He learned that only through collaboration, openness and trust one could build a thriving environment for change, growth and innovation.

 

Jakub gained a PhD from his research on bringing agility and automation to requirements analysis. He continues his research as a Research Product Owner at the Business Agility Institute. He hosted and facilitated Agile Coach Camps, Product Tank Unconference and Global Code Retreats. Jakub has spoken at several conferences, including Agile 2021, Agile India 2020, 2021 and 2022, Agile on the Beach NZ 2019 and 2020, 2019 Agile for Business Forum, Agile NZ 2017, GeeCon 2014, EmpiRE 2012, BIS 2007.

Agile Taboo - agile words that cannot be spoken

45 min workshop

This workshop is based on the popular game called Taboo. The game's objective is for a player to have their partners guess the word on the player's card without using the word itself or five additional words listed on the card. And in our case, the words will be agile-related, allowing us to look at agility from a bit different perspective. We will work in teams in short timeboxes, allowing everyone to participate. This session guarantees energy, laughter, enthusiasm and a new look at the agile knowledge base.

Learning outcomes

  • Learning how vast the agile knowledge domain iss

  • Learning approaches, frameworks and techniques that have been used in the agile community

  • Finding new ways to describe well know agile-related terms

  • Learning new techniques to teach agile-related topics