Agila Sweden is a conference for anyone interested in agile methods and wants to learn more about how to make system development more efficient, more fun and more value-creating.

For two days at the end of May, a meeting place was created where participants gathered to exchange experiences, knowledge and ideas with each other.

The participants at Agila Sweden represented a wide range of experience, from managers to programmers, some were complete beginners, others contributed a lot of experience. Regardless of background and experience, everyone shared their experiences and challenges.

Omegapoint Group AB presented an impressive group of speakers who all attracted a large audience and received great appreciation for their presentations.

Here is a brief summary of Omegapoint's talks including a film from their respective presentations.

The next conference will take place on May 23 – 24, 2019.

Guide your brain correctly

Jenny Svensson Höglund – scrum master, agile coach and organizational developer at Omegapoint Umeå

Why is it so easy for me to follow and test some people's ideas when I can be so skeptical of others' suggestions? This question made me think about how leadership is practiced, what today's research says about the brain and how it relates to Google's results about kindness and security in teams? The answer to these questions led me to Neuroleadership. Curious? – Come and listen to a short version of how you can create the best conditions for your employees' brains.

https://agilasverige.solidtango.com/video/led-hjarnan-ratt?query=led

3R – a flexible architecture keeps attacks away

Dan Bergh Johnsson – Vice President Omegapoint Academy

Cloud and virtualization are sometimes described as problematic when it comes to security. However, if you are inspired by the design and architecture needed to function well in a cloud environment, you also get features that lead to unexpectedly high security. By designing our systems according to the stateless principle, with service discovery and external configuration, we can suddenly manage our instances in such a way that so-called ”Advanced Persistent Threats” attacks become almost impossible to carry out. Our system has become ”Secure by Design”.

3R – a flexible architecture keeps attacks away – Dan Bergh Johnsson explains that by being inspired by the design and architecture needed to function well in a cloud environment, you also get features that lead to unexpectedly high security.

https://agilasverige.solidtango.com/video/3r-en-lattrorlig-arkitektur-haller-attackerna-borta?qid=3655713

Oops, we did it again.

Magnus Tholén – project manager and COO at Omegapoint Stockholm

Here is a very retro retrospective based on RUP. Few people mention RUP in discussions about agile development, but when used correctly, it was entirely possible to work agile with RUP. This little talk highlights the mistakes people often made with RUP and are in the process of making with Scrum.

https://agilasverige.solidtango.com/video/oops-we-did-it-again?qid=3655722

The ART of being a team

Jennie Mårtensson – agile coach, business developer and consulting manager at Omegapoint Stockholm

This whole thing about well-functioning teams….how hard can it really be? Why do some teams work so amazingly well and others not at all? I will talk about three cornerstones for creating amazing teams – how their absence is noticeable, and also give tips for how to build them. The ART of being a team

https://agilasverige.solidtango.com/video/the-art-of-being-a-team

Minimum Viable Security

Sebastian Åkerman – Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and consulting manager at Omegapoint Stockholm

The term Minimum viable product (MVP) is used to describe the smallest amount of requirements or features that we have to implement to get a product that we can evaluate from a user perspective. That is, the cheapest we can get away with in order to actually test our product idea. Minimum viable security is based on the same principle. What is the lowest level of security that we can get away with without jeopardizing our customers' trust or risking violating laws and regulations? An MVP exposes limited functionality and information to a (usually) limited user group. Do we need to implement all the security requirements needed for the complete solution also for an MVP? Or can we find a minimum level of security that is sufficient for the limited risk exposure that an MVP entails?

https://agilasverige.solidtango.com/video/minimum-viable-security?qid=3655751