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SWARMing: Scaling Without a Religious Methodology

Tue Mar 26, 18:00 - Tue Mar 26, 20:00

Allan Gray, V&A Waterfront

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SWARMing: Scaling Without a Religious Methodology


Dan North has spent the last few years showing all kinds of organisations how they can deliver faster, achieve better results with less effort, and have fun doing it. He has a wealth of experience and stories of alignment at scale, and not a formal scaling methodology in sight. This is not a coincidence. He has realised, and can demonstrate, why structured scaling methods simply can’t work for very long. Context is king: It constantly changes and we must continually adapt to it.


Come and learn how to sort the wheat from the chaff, the effective from the dogmatic, of scaling delivery, and find out why Dan is Scaling Without A Religious Methodology.


18:00 Drinks and mingling and stuff

18:30 Dan North talks about SWARMing

19:30 Q & A and natter natter

20:00 end --


Who is Dan North

Dan has been coaching, coding and consulting for over 25 years, with a focus on applying systems thinking and simple technology to solve complex business problems. He uses techniques from Lean operations, Theory of Constraints and Agile software development to help organisations anticipate and respond to the challenges of changing business needs.


Dan is the originator of Behaviour-Driven Development, an agile approach to software development that encourages teams to deliver the software that matters by emphasising the interactions between stakeholders. He also proposed Deliberate Discovery, which challenges assumptions around software planning and estimation. He argues that there are no best practices and that everything we do is subject to opportunity cost.


He is a popular keynote and session speaker at international technology conferences, on topics as diverse as software architecture, behavioural psychology, simplicity, uncertainty and learning. His presentation style has been described as Eddie Izzard meets the Architect from The Matrix.

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SWARMing: Scaling Without a Religious Methodology
Allan Gray, V&A Waterfront
1 Silo Square, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town, 8002
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