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      <h1>Call for Proposals</h1>
      <p>We recommend you to follow the steps before to have a better understanding before submitting a proposal.
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      <p><em>Submissions are closed and we have <a href="https://confengine.com/agile-singapore-2016/schedule" target="_blank" >released the program</a>.</em></p>

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            Themes
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              Review Process
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      <h2>Themes</h2>
      <p>The following details provide some understanding of the themes and do not necessary represents the topics in the conference.</p>
      <h4>Coaching and Mentoring <small>not limited to...</small></h4>
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        <li>Role of Coach/Mentor in organisation and what they do</li>
        <li>Challenges working across a diverse set of domains: technical, HR, management, marketing, finance etc.</li>
        <li>Tools and techniques to help individuals and for various forms of facilitation e.g. teams formation, meetings of various purposes</li>
        <li>Learnings from other field e.g. neuroscience, psychology etc</li>
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      <h4>Collaboration, Culture and Teams <small>not limited to...</small></h4>
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        <li>Creating a high trust environment where Agile values and principles can thrive</li>
        <li>Building teams that enjoy working together</li>
        <li>Tools, practices, structure and policies that support better team work and collaboration</li>
        <li>Impact of rewards and punishment</li>
        <li>Contradiction between agile practices and existing policies</li>
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      <h4>Development practices and Craftsmanship <small>not limited to...</small></h4>
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        <li>Design patterns/principles, Exploratory Testing, TDD, Refactoring, Emergent Design, Continuous Delivery etc.</li>
        <li>Role of a tester in an agile team</li>
        <li>Sustaining test automation</li>
        <li>Build in quality</li>
        <li>Pair programming, mob programming, coding dojos etc.</li>
        <li>Cloud, Big Data, Security, Functional Programming</li>
        <li>Grow your engineering career</li>
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      <h4>DevOps <small>not limited to...</small></h4>
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        <li>Philosophies behind devops</li>
        <li>Tools and techniques supporting DevOps</li>
        <li>Culture challenges bringing dev and ops</li>
        <li>Helpful metrics</li>
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      <h4>Enterprise Agile <small>not limited to...</small></h4>
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        <li>Scaling Agile - Frameworks</li>
        <li>People (career) & Performance Appraisals</li>
        <li>Tools - Portfolio Management, Distributed Teams</li>
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      <h4>Leadership <small>not limited to...</small></h4>
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        <li>Leadership models and approaches to support, enable, and foster agility
        </li><li>Leadership characteristics in roles such as ScrumMasters, project managers, team members, functional managers, directors and executives
        </li><li>Transforming organizations from command and control management to servant leadership
        </li><li>Variety of decision making and influencing strategies
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      <h4>User Experience <small>not limited to...</small></h4>
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        <li>Integrating UX work into development</li>
        <li>Qualitative and quantitative research to make good decisions</li>
        <li>Connection of UX and innovation</li>
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      <h4>Working with Customers <small>not limited to...</small></h4>
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        <li>User Story Mapping, Lean Startup, Agile Contracts etc.</li>
        <li>Building the "right product"</li>
        <li>Transforming tensions to collaboration with customers</li>
        <li>Meaning of delivering value</li>
        <li>Maximum outcome with minimum effort</li>
        <li>Working with multiple customers and end-users</li>
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