
Jess Long
Agile Coach
LeanDog
location_on United States
Member since 4 years
Jess Long
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Jess Long is an Agile Transformation Leader and Enterprise Coach for LeanDog. Besides authoring several online publications and appearing on multiple podcasts, she is an international speaker.
She was featured as the Opening Keynote Speaker at the 2018 Software-QS-Tag Conference in Frankfurt, Germany and has also spoken in Poland, Australia, Portugal and a variety of Agile conferences all across the United States.
Transforming Corporate America and living to tell about it is no small feat. She keeps some level of sanity by finding humor in otherwise absurd situations. When she's not coaching, she can be found on the beach with her 8-year-old daughter and 5-year-old identical twin boys or kayaking along the shoreline.
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Found In Translation - Building Alliances Through Analogies
20 Mins
Keynote
Executive
This will be a live example of how to use life events and analogies that are relatable to the fundamentals of Scrum. I will walk through my own personal backlog of living on the water and tie the trials and tribulations of such back to a Scrum Model. The details I share will be described in parallel to concepts that resemble a host of Agile themes. The intent is to have the audience consider some of their own personal experiences and how they can use those in future conversations to overcome challenges or resistance around transforming their model.
One short activity is facilitated during the presentation that engages the audience. This is intended to emphasize the importance of getting to know your audience and highlight the repercussions of relying on assumptions.
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Empowering Performance Through Servant Leadership
20 Mins
Keynote
Executive
This session is focused around leading your teammates toward success over managing them off a cliff.
Most of us who have had the pleasure of coaching a scrum team have adopted the mindset of servant leadership. But what about directors and middle management?!
Do you have teammates reporting to you who work on Scrum teams that you’re not part of?
Do you report to a manager that might as well be on another planet?
If you answered YES to either of these questions, this session is for you. We’ll talk through the shift of leading over managing and how we can use the framework of the retrospective as a tool to bridge gaps, manage performance and promote transparency. Whether you’re in a position of leadership or individual contribution, the values and mechanisms we review can be brought back to your organization.
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Kaizen Land - Gamifying Stand Up and Overcoming Anti Patterns
20 Mins
Keynote
Executive
Learn how the gingerbread men are taking over the daily Stand Up and forever changing the mornings of teams everywhere.
Have your Daily Stand-Ups become stale? We’ll talk through the evolution of an idea that ended up demolishing monotony, obliterating anti-patterns and spawning smiles… and to think, it all started when my daughter and I were playing Candy Land!
We’ll talk through the implementation of a game board during one team’s stand up through the infectious adoption and evolution of its existence. You’ll hear how teams tackled some of their greatest impediments and helped build a zone of psychological safety all while having fun.
By the end of this session, you’ll be prepared to bring this back to your team and create your own success stories.
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Found In Translation - Building Alliances Through Analogies
40 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
This will be a live example of how to use life events and analogies that are relatable to the fundamentals of Scrum. I will walk through my own personal backlog of living on the water and tie the trials and tribulations of such back to a Scrum Model. The details I share will be described in parallel to concepts that resemble a host of Agile themes. The intent is to have the audience consider some of their own personal experiences and how they can use those in future conversations to overcome challenges or resistance around transforming their model.
One short activity is facilitated during the presentation that engages the audience. This is intended to emphasize the importance of getting to know your audience and highlight the repercussions of relying on assumptions.
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Empowering Performance Through Servant Leadership
40 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
This session is focused around leading your teammates toward success over managing them off a cliff.
Most of us who have had the pleasure of coaching a scrum team have adopted the mindset of servant leadership. But what about directors and middle management?!
Do you have teammates reporting to you who work on Scrum teams that you’re not part of?
Do you report to a manager that might as well be on another planet?
If you answered YES to either of these questions, this session is for you. We’ll talk through the shift of leading over managing and how we can use the framework of the retrospective as a tool to bridge gaps, manage performance and promote transparency. Whether you’re in a position of leadership or individual contribution, the values and mechanisms we review can be brought back to your organization.
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Kaizen Land - Gamifying Stand Up and Overcoming Anti Patterns
40 Mins
Experience Report
Intermediate
Learn how the gingerbread men are taking over the daily Stand Up and forever changing the mornings of teams everywhere.
Have your Daily Stand-Ups become stale? We’ll talk through the evolution of an idea that ended up demolishing monotony, obliterating anti-patterns and spawning smiles… and to think, it all started when my daughter and I were playing Candy Land!
We’ll talk through the implementation of a game board during one team’s stand up through the infectious adoption and evolution of its existence. You’ll hear how teams tackled some of their greatest impediments and helped build a zone of psychological safety all while having fun.
By the end of this session, you’ll be prepared to bring this back to your team and create your own success stories.
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Empowering Performance Through Servant Leadership
45 Mins
Tutorial
Intermediate
This session is focused around leading your teammates toward success over managing them off a cliff.
Most of us who have had the pleasure of coaching a scrum team have adopted the mindset of servant leadership. But what about directors and middle management?!
Do you have teammates reporting to you who work on Scrum teams that you’re not part of?
Do you report to a manager that might as well be on another planet?
If you answered YES to either of these questions, this session is for you. We’ll talk through the shift of leading over managing and how we can use the framework of the retrospective as a tool to bridge gaps, manage performance and promote transparency. Whether you’re in a position of leadership or individual contribution, the values and mechanisms we review can be brought back to your organization.
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Kaizen Land - Gamifying Stand Up and Overcoming Anti Patterns
45 Mins
Experience Report
Intermediate
Learn how the gingerbread men are taking over the daily Stand Up and forever changing the mornings of teams everywhere.
Have your Daily Stand-Ups become stale? We’ll talk through the evolution of an idea that ended up demolishing monotony, obliterating anti-patterns and spawning smiles… and to think, it all started when my daughter and I were playing Candy Land!
We’ll talk through the implementation of a game board during one team’s stand up through the infectious adoption and evolution of its existence. You’ll hear how teams tackled some of their greatest impediments and helped build a zone of psychological safety all while having fun.
By the end of this session, you’ll be prepared to bring this back to your team and create your own success stories.
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Found In Translation - Building Alliances Through Analogies
45 Mins
Tutorial
Intermediate
Meaningful analogies, through words and imagery can help transform an individual’s mindset. Explore relatable parallels and impressionable pictures that help any cynic overcome self-imposed mental barriers around Agile. Discuss techniques for better assessing your audience and catering your communication accordingly. Use real life comparisons and relative material to challenge your listener’s world of familiarity and preconceived notions. Help launch Agile-foreigners and skeptics into a heightened sense of realizations and theories around Lean concepts and Agile specific principles.
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