Past Talks

Here is a list of all the talks I have given in the past couple of years.  If you are interested in having me speak on one of these topics or another, please be sure to get in touch.

• June 2024 – Scrum Day Guatemala: Precios de software simplificados 
• May 2023 – Scrum Gathering Portland: Putting the profit back into value
• February 2023 – Applied Frameworks webinar: Revving the profit engine
• January 2023 – Applied Frameworks webinar: How to read a software license agreement
• December 2022 – Applied Frameworks webinar: What is a Profit Stream™?
• November 2022 – Applied Frameworks webinar: Understanding value exchange models
• October 2022 – Applied Frameworks webinar: Putting the profit back into value
• July 2020 – Product Leaders Summit: Product playbook: why you need one?
• May 2020 – Applied Frameworks webinars: Why you need a product playbook & Product playbook: collaborative roadmapping
• October 2018 – eXperience Agile 2018: People over process, it’s still true!
• May 2018 – XP2018: User stories are fun! Capture the magic with Story Cubes^® & Innovation Games^®
• January 2018 – Agile Connect (Porto): Learning from product failure to achieve new product success!
• December 2017 – Scrum Day Malta: Accelerate change with powerful questions
• July 2017 – Agile Connect (Lisbon): The power to disrupt markets = Product Owners + Innovation Games^®
• May 2017 – San Diego Agile Product Managers: Value proposition design
• March 2017 – Scrum Day Perú: Cómo aprendí del fracaso del producto para lograr el éxito
• December 2016 – Scrum Gathering Portugal: Powerful questions for the Scrum professional.
• October 2016 – Scrum Gathering Munich: Learning from product failure to achieve new product success!
• June 2016 – Scrum Day San Diego: organizer & host
• May 2016 – Agile Portugal: Learning from product failure to achieve new product success!
• January 2016 – Agile Coaching Exchange (SoCal): User stories are fun! Capture the magic with Story Cubes^® & Innovation Games^®
• November 2015 – Scrum Gathering Prague: User stories are fun! Capture the magic with Story Cubes^® & Innovation Games^®
• September 2015 – Agile San Diego:  User stories are fun! Capture the magic with Story Cubes^® & Innovation Games^®
• August 2015 – Scrum Day Chile: Escribir historias usuario maravillosas 
• June 2015 – Scrum Day San Diego: organizer & host
• June 2015 – 12th Annual PMI San Diego Conference: Collaborative leadership series for Agile teams: Speak plainly and forcefully &  Facilitate successful outcomes 
• May 2015 – Agile Portugal: Write user stories maravilhosas
• May 2015 – Scrum Gathering Phoenix: Don’t crash.  Soar! It’s never too late to launch your Team towards success.
• December 2014 – Scrum Day Oviedo: Scrum – ¡El viaje intrépido!
• May 2014 – Scrum Day San Diego: organizer & host
• May 2013: 10th Annual PMI San Diego Conference: Escaping the meeting groan zone, Facilitation toolkit for project managers
• May 2013 – Scrum Gathering Las Vegas: Removing impediments with drawings
• April 2013: IIBA Orange County: Dynamics of group-decision making
• December 2012: Agile San Diego: Recognizing decay on teams: Tools for ScrumMasters to get teams back to value
• March 2012 – Madriagil: Una tarde con Scrum
• September 2011 – Agile Auckland: Removing Scrum impediments with drawings
• August 2011 – Agile 2011: Powerful questions, Removing impediments with drawings
• June 2011 – San Francisco Agile 2011: Improving flow with prioritization
• May 2011 – 8th Annual PMI San Diego Conference: New perspectives on estimating & planning, Doing the right things first
• January 2011 – Microsoft Southern California Code Camp (Fullerton): Scrum roles in action, ScrumMaster toolkit
• January 2011 – Agile Process Leadership Network (APLN) Orange County: Scrum roles in action
• November 2010 – Amsterdam Scrum Gathering: Powerful questions, Removing impediments with drawings
• October 2010 – Microsoft Southern California Code Camp (Los Angeles): Introduction to Scrum, ScrumMaster toolkit, Selling your ideas with a drawing
• October 2010 – PMI San Diego: Powerful questions
• October 2010 – Agile San Diego: Tools for ScrumMasters and Agile team leaders
• September 2010 – PMI Silicon Valley 2010 Symposium: Bridging the gap: linking strategic roadmap to tactical project plans (with Luke Hohmann & Margaret Motamed)
• August 2010 –  Agile 2010 Conference: Lean and Agile — Roommates, married or twins?
• June 2010 – Microsoft Southern California Code Camp (San Diego): Agile planning workshop (part I & II), Agile playground
• May 2010 – 7th Annual PMI San Diego Conference: Leaping to success with high performing teams, Agile playground
• April 2010 – PMI San Diego: The Scrum 50000 mile maintenance
• March 2010 – Orlando Scrum Gathering: Prioritization with Pugh, Insights into Scrum illuminated by Lean
• January 2010 – Microsoft Southern California Code Camp (Fullerton): Agile planning workshop, Debunking common Agile myths, Agile playground
• January 2010 – Extreme Programming (XP) San Diego: Agile playground
• November 2009 – Microsoft Southern California Code Camp (Los Angeles): Techniques for improving distributed Scrum teams, Insights into Scrum illuminated by Lean, Experiencing Agile through games
• October 2009 – Extreme Programming (XP) San Diego: Techniques for improving distributed Scrum Teams
• June 2008 – Microsoft Southern California Code Camp (San Diego): ScrumMaster tools for change, Top ten refactorings, What I learned about Scrum by doing it
• June 2007 – Microsoft Southern California Code Camp (San Diego): Self-organizing teams game, Top ten refactorings, Advanced refactorings
• June 2006 – Microsoft Southern California Code Camp (San Diego): Introduction to agile software development
• January 2006 – Microsoft Southern California Code Camp (Los Angeles): Introduction to agile software development, Top ten refactorings
• April 2005 – San Diego Chapter Association of Computing Machines (ACM): Reducing software development risk through Extreme Programming
• September 2004 – San Diego Society for Software Quality: Focusing software quality through customer involvement in the XP Planning Game
• June 2004 – Los Angeles Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN): Extreme Programming for one