XP 2025
Mon 2 - Thu 5 June 2025 Brugg - Windisch, Switzerland
Thu 5 Jun 2025 12:00 - 12:30 at 5.1A17 (Session) - Agile Practices Chair(s): Tomi Suomi

(*** updated based on conversations to focus more on the role of AI in keeping you on strategy and navigating change-on-change ***)

In agile, strategy is often an unchallenged contextual constraint. Yet, in today’s increasingly complex world, strategy is essential for steering adaptive organizations toward collective impact and resilience - making big dents in the universe without burning out or betting your company in the process.

In this talk, we’ll show you how to “hack your strategy” and return it to its rightful role. You’ll learn about practical techniques to bring strategy back into sustained focus. We call it “getting on and staying on strategy.”

We share a transformational approach and present use cases to demonstrate how agile organizations can stay aligned without sacrificing adaptability. Not only within one organisation, but across value chains and partner ecosystems.

By the end of this session, you’ll leave with actionable insights to keep your organization on strategy, no matter how complex the environment.

The presentation builds on Open Strategy, Collaborative Lean Portfolio Management and Adaptive Organizations.

For agile coaches looking to reinvent themselves, strategy as a topic is worth looking at. As ACs we have something unique to bring to the table - a secret we will share in the session.

STRATEGY UNLOCKED - Bring strategy back in agile (2025.06.05 STRATEGY UNLOCKED BRING STRATEGY BACK IN AGILE - XP2025 - Morten Elvang .pdf)1.64MiB

Morten Elvang is MSc and PhD from the Technical University of Denmark. He is experienced in helping large teams and organizations get things done. As an industry veteran and former European Lead of Business Agility in a global consulting firm, Morten can help you get a grip on complexity and turn it into something useful for your organization. He is a frequent speaker and a trained facilitator.

www.linkedin.com/in/mortenelvang

Thu 5 Jun

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11:00 - 12:30
Agile PracticesIndustry and Practice / Research Papers / Experience Reports at 5.1A17 (Session)
Chair(s): Tomi Suomi University of Jyväskylä
11:00
30m
Talk
Agile Effort Estimation Usage in the Sri Lankan Software Industry
Research Papers
Sean Jonathon Lee Auckland University of Technology, Mali Senapathi Auckland University of Technology
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11:30
30m
Talk
Escaping The Retrospective Theatre – How to Make Real Impact Again
Experience Reports
Jonathan Frankenberger BettercallPaul GmbH, Debbie Walter Carl Zeiss Microscopy Limited
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12:00
30m
Talk
Strategy Unlocked - How can we bring strategy back to agile?
Industry and Practice
Morten Elvang Thinking Twice Works
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