Bathtub Conferences

ALEBathtub edition no V was a great experience again. Starting off 2012′a bathtub season, more than 100 people had registered and more than 70 actually showed up at the online event. This time we had great speakers and interesting topics on leadership, coaching, processes and (change) management in context of Agile & Lean.

The idea for including Lightning Talks by the participants turned out to be a nice complemental format, worth to be considered for next bathtubs. In the future it might just be announced up-front and – as per first feedback – being included earlier in the program, as well as supported on a trust level by letting all participants see, who else is attending the event.

We will be posting videos and slides here as soon as available. So please just come back or watch out on twitter for #alebathtub

• Slides by Jurgen Appelo: “About Stoos network and other stuff…“
• Slides by Antti Kirjavainen: “Letters from Agile Coach Camp Norway 2012“
• Slides by Christoper Avery: “Exercising Your Agile Leadership Gift“
• Slides by Stephen Parry: “Its not what you think, but how you think that matters“

In addition we were presented with two Lightning talks:

• Deborah was so kind sharing her insights and principles on how to organize a great community event (such as an Agile Coach Camp).
• Frank raised the attention of the community to the xALEc circle, he regularily organizes, straight ahead by means of google hangouts.

Christopher’s talk on the Leadership Gift raised some further questions by the participants, we couldn’t discuss due to time limitations during the event. Maybe some motivation for further personal thoughts or even public discussions or blog posts:

• How to sustain something like responsibility in an organization?
• Christopher mentioned, the leadership gift was a gift given from birth on. But what about people, hating to take responsibility due to their “character”. How can we motivate them?
• Are there any initiatives to educate “the next generation”? eg at schools, kindergarten etc. Maybe that’s easier educating kids properly into this direction, than changing already existing mindsets?

Meet you at the next bathtub shower.

The organizer team for the next Bathtub V (Catia Oliveira – Portugal, Henrik Taubert – Finland, Kjell Lauren – Finland, Michael Leber – Austria) talked to interested and interesting speakers during last weeks. We will again have a great agenda for the next event. We are now fixing things with speakers in order to let you asap know about the content. The date is envisaged for mid March and will also be announced soon.

So please stay tuned here or simply on twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Xing and all the other channels in your region – we will soon post the news.

PS: also don’t forget Bathtub is an ALE-rotation program across Europe. As a well-proven approach, there will probably also be people from Bathtub V co-organizing Bathtub VI. It might roll up to Scandinavia. But we always look for new people out of the communities from new countries in the #alenetwork, who have not yet organized – keeping networking, diversity and idea creation as core principles of the Bathtub idea. If you want to co-organize, also think about Bathtub VI

We have created a new google group for ALEBathtub, which shall from now on serve as central information hub around upcoming bathtub events (for organizers, speakers, retrospectices).

This year 2011 has been an amazing one for the Agile & Lean community, as a new pan-European network has been grown and spread – Agile Lean Europe.

Not only an unconference was successfully launched in Berlin with ALE2011 – an online format from and for the community was settled with the ALE Bathtub conference. Easy to contribute, listen and share, it simply brings together practitioners online, in a relaxed environment, from any space in the world, wherever you have access to the web.

We have seen four great bathtub conferences with very interesting presentations in 2011. And yes we will continue the journey in 2012. About 2 hours for one bathtub with up to 4 contributions – up to 25 minutes of presentation and 5 to 10 minutes discussion time slots each. Any kind of content related to agile & lean, a great diversity of presenters and audience, always followed by very lively reflextions on twitter.

Around Februrary / March 2012 the next bathtub will be on air. And if you want to share your experiences, ideas or vision, just get on board and be part of this wonderful oline conference. Simply join the new bathtub google group and provide a proposal. Also join this new google group in order to hear very soon about the next definite Bathtub date. Whether you are presenting or listening, your participation makes each bathtub a success.

Last but not least in 2012 we want the Bathtub organization see even more spreading around European countries. First organizer countries were Netherlands, Belgium, France, Portugal and Austria. In 2012 we will continue organization of Bathtub V from Austria and hopefully one or two organizers from a Northern or Eastern European country. And we count on its further dissemination across other countries.

We count on practitioners from allover Europe to keep new ideas for this format growing. And new ideas not only come from participants, but especially from new organizers. So if you want to organize one of the next Bathtubs in 2012 from another European country, just raise your voice and make your ideas happen.

ALE Bathtub IV - the Xmas Edition

Title: "ALE Bathtub IV"
Date:  Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Time:  9:00 PM - 11:00 PM CET

Register now by clicking the link below:
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/240049974

After registering you will receive a confirmation email
containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows(R) 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Macintosh(R)-based attendees
Required: Mac OS(R) X 10.5 or newer

Hello Bathtubers

Here goes our last update to our agenda:

“How we deal and track unplanned work items and save the meaning of velocity Radiator!”

Surprise Talk

“Where does the really bad code comes from” (not at all about programming!)

See ya Soon!

Bathtub IV  Plumbers

Howdy Bath-tubers

Ready for our Xmas-Bathtub? So here go first details:

BathtubIV – 6Th December  – 21PM-23PM CET

(Confirmed) SPEAKERS

We’ll keep you posted  with more info on the talks. Meanwhile Get Ready for your Warm Bathtub!

Ps: Registration details will be published later.

See Ya!

Cátia, Michael and Susana