Alex Sloley
Alex Sloley is an agile evangelist. On top of his busy career working in companies around the world, he is an avid member of the agile community and he published his book “The Agile Community” in 2022. He speaks regularly on the global stage and is an organizer of conference organizers. He specializes in agile training, coaching, and transformations. For those who are in the know, Alex is the Scrum Alliance Shepherd of the global Agile Coaching Retreat Advisor Team, a member of the Scrum Alliance Coaching Advisory Team, and the Co-Chair of the Agile Alliance Agile Coaching Ethics Initiative Team. For the rest of us, that means Alex helps a lot of people and is a mover and shaker.
On the tech side, Alex is a 15-year veteran of Microsoft, where he was a Scrum Master, Scrum of Scrums Master, and Product Owner. During his tenure at Microsoft, he shipped in over ten Microsoft products, worked with Microsoft Research on high-profile projects, and led his organization into an enterprise-level implementation of Scrum. Alex is a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach, an ICAgile Authorized Instructor, and a Kanban University Kanban Coaching Professional. And a bit of an overachiever. He likes beer.
The Fine Art of Zero F***s Given
20 min Talk
A fundamental and critical skill for any agile coach or leader is the pursuit of the fine art of "Zero F***s Given" ZFG.
In contrast to how ZFG is often described on the interweb, ZFG does not mean "I don't care"! ZFG is a mindset that embraces a myriad of concepts: fear, empathy, objectivity, neutrality, bias, drama, emotional intelligence, and more! Understanding the philosophy of ZFG will empower you to embrace this powerful skill so that you can become a more effective agile coach and leader.
Who might be interested?
Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Agile Coaches, Managers, Executives, Change Agents
Agile Cheer- Bring it on!
45 min Workshop
High-performing teams is what every agile coach, agilist, and organisation hopes teams become. High performance is more than just efficiency, productivity, and delivery. A high-performing team might need a little support and encouragement along the way! Our session focuses on how the team itself can become their own cheerleaders, creating a culture where they actively cheer themselves on to success and high-performance.
"You better bring it! Oh, it's already been broughten!" The purpose of cheerleading is to support and encourage teams to achieve peak performance – they give the team the extra oomph to carry them over the goal line! The cheerleaders not only support and celebrate the wins, they also encourage the team when they need to push through their trials and tribulations. Cheerleaders build the hype of the team’s fans by creating infectious energy – just imagine your stakeholders hyped up because of your awesome team! In this session, an enterprise agile coach and an award-winning former professional cheerleader will take lessons from professional cheerleading and apply them in an agile team context. They will cover the 4 pillars of agile cheerleading – synchrony, chants, formations, and emotions and explore the fundamentals and benefits of an agile cheer so that you can super-charge your teams. BE! AGILE! BE! BE AGILE!
This is a highly interactive workshop session with 2 facilitators Alex Sloley & Roslyn Martin. The facilitators are partners in this session! They equally share stories and speak about the concepts in the session. A large portion of this is activity based, and this is where our pro cheerleader shines. They bring years of professional sports team cheerleading experience to the workshop and guide everyone, in the actual cheerleading. Our agile coach then weaves the cheerleader stories into agile team stories and their coaching experiences into how to create high-performing teams. As for the participants, no mobility is required to engage in the cheers. The activity and the engagement of people cheering together can be a wonderful experience, especially in our time of mostly remote working.
Roslyn Martin
Roslyn is a director at The Strategy Group, a consulting firm that helps organisations improve their human experience and innovation strategies. Roslyn is an expert facilitator, who specialises in unleashing the collective intelligence of groups in fun ways to bring fresh perspectives, and thus, creative solutions to gnarly problems.
Prior to consulting, Roslyn was Customer Experience Lead and Product Manager at a large multinational company where she helped develop new ways of working with her teams to place the customer at the centre of key business decisions. She studied Marketing and Psychology in her undergraduate degree and completed her Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in 2022. She has toured the world speaking at conferences and podcasts on creative ways of working to unleash the potential of teams.
Roslyn was a professional dancer and choreographer and is qualified to teach classical ballet through the Royal Academy of Dance. When not working or dancing you'll find her playing with her children or curled up on the front deck of her farmhouse reading a social science book or historical novel.