I had a blast at Agile on the Beach in July, and you can now catch up with all the talks! I spoke about mastering visual communication for your software design and architecture, helping you to get your message across in your diagrams and visuals.

Let me know what you think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx22ksECBw8&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=professional&id=PjpI-UvLmb

I'm really hoping to get to Agile on the Beach 2025. See you there!

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𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯 is not the way to go for diagrams, you want a 𝘾𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧 diagram. The word clean encourages a minimalist diagram, but minimalist doesn't mean easy to understand. A clear diagram helps the audience to understand the message. It doesn't include unnecessary details, but it also doesn't assume knowledge of details not included, like missing acronym definitions or labels.
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#aotb2024 #conference #slides #learning #communication #CoreSkills #visual #diagram

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: Agile on the Beach is over 😕 (except for the Retrospective Boat Party 😜💦), but it was an amazing learning and social experience! 😁

John Clapham gave a thought provoking workshop on turning theory into practice, so we can actually use our findings from the conference!

Hibri Marzook helped us analyse counter-intuitive ideas in software delivery.

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Agile on the Beach 2024 actually on the beach this evening! #bbq #marshmallows

And a great afternoon of workshops and talks. Thank you Mohit Chandna and Munish Malik for taking us on a (mini) Design Sprint to solve a real world problem in just 90 minutes!

Also a facinating overview of how the British (HM) passport office has replaced 98% of their legacy system for passport applications. Normally it's the last 10% that is hard, so you are #winning Sarah Ravenhill and Caitlin Smith!

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#aotb2024 has kicked off with some insightful talks. The #keynote from Dr Abeba Birhane on Hate scaling and racial dehumanization in #AI had some mind-blowing statistics & excellent recommendations for us all.

Stuart Munton talked to us about how to get out of the Product confidence trap, with tips for the overall process & tools to use at each stage.

Jim Barritt told us about how he has seen product, delivery, engineering and the customer interact & how we can facilitate this whole process.

Where could be better to connect and share agile and software practices than on the beach? I'll be entertaining you at Agile on the Beach for the Friday after-lunch-dip slot 😜 You can look forward to an exploding unicorn (no unicorns were harmed in the making of this talk) and lots of audience participation to get you revved up for the later talks, and the boat party for those lucky enough to get a ticket.

See you at #AOTB2024 in beautiful #Cornwall!

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