Agile London

Last Friday was the end of the 4 week Digital (Tech) T-level industry placement supported by Argus Media. We remember conversations with Caroline Loubert, Andrew Godfrey and Jon Peterson started back in May 2023 about a collaboration and it went along the lines of "we love the talks and insight days you're doing, we would love to do something longer, something impactful" ...and so just over a year later we have had Karolina Kamionka Rona Nteeba Gainelle Sarmiento and Nyashadzashe Zinyuke from Ursuline High School Wimbledon join the team at Argus Media for 4 weeks as full-time apprentices. 🙌 This is a major contribution to their 45-day mandatory company placement they need to get their qualification! At the age of 16/17, the students have gained invaluable insight across tech including: 🗞 Different roles across Product Management, UX Design, Engineering, QA, Service desk. 🐞 They found a software bug in their first week! 😯 They've been surprised about how similar their course content is to the real world ↗ Different pathways people took to get into tech 👍 👎 What jobs they like and what they don't want to do! ...and outside of the above, they loved how friendly, welcoming and supportive the team are and will miss you (and the pool table 🎱 ) Thank you to everyone at Argus Media for this unforgettable opportunity 👏👏 Meltem Dincer Tunde Jinadu Theodora Winful Naushine Robinson Assoc CIPD Halima Bhayat Oliver Bernard

We can’t believe it’s already July; the first half of the year has flown by! Below are some highlights so far: 🧠 We welcomed Anita Patel to deliver Neurodiversity training to both our team and clients, fostering a more inclusive and understanding environment. 🙋🏽♀️ We created OB Women's Employee Resource Group (ERG) which has already arranged free sanitary products and period days. ⃝ We kicked off OB Roundtables including discussions with OB Senior Tech Leaders on AI, Product teams on Operating Models and Kotlin's community Q&A Evening hosted at OB HQ. 🏃♂️ We launched the OB running club, clocking over 5,000km together! Including a city run for Men's Mental Health awareness week 2024 💪 👏 Hosted some fabulous tech community meetups with monday.com, Skyscanner, Mindful Chef | B Corp, UnderwriteMe, Builder.ai, LexisNexis and 1ovmany | B Corp™. This is part of our continued commitment to fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing within the tech community. 🏳️🌈 Volunteering for Pride by training and supporting over 800 amazing volunteers who made this year's parade unforgettable. 👧 Future CodeHers inspired over 2000 girls involved in Tech Careers Fairs, Insight Days, Careers talks, Tech lunches , work experience with AllSaints and not forgetting the 4-weeks T-level Industry experience with Argus Media ⚽ And not forgetting our surprise visit from the legendary Bryan Robson, our director Billy Jenkins all time hero! We are looking forward to seeing what the next 6 months brings 🙌

Given the lure of sitting in a rooftop bar and enjoying the weather, we had a solid turnout last night for our event with Skyscanner! Katie Andrews, with her talk on "A Bake of Guide to Delivery" discussed whether your teams are delivering show-stopping value or facing a technical challenge! Jack Spencer discussed "Introducing Skyscanner to Systems Thinking" Providing tools and ideas that enable colleagues to see local optimisations and think more deeply about future changes. Two fantastic talks that really engaged the audience! Thank you to all that attended and keep an eye out for our next event, more details soon! Alex Scriven, Jessica Keightley, Oliver Bernard

We're delighted to be collaborating once again with Skyscanner on Wednesday 26th June from 5.30pm for our next Agile London meetup! 😬 Across the evening we'll hear from Jack Spencer, who will be talking about Introducing Skyscanner to Systems Thinking, followed by Katie Andrews who will be giving us a 'Bake Off' Guide to Delivery! Spaces are filling fast, so get signed up via the following link to avoid disappointment: https://lnkd.in/e5HRe4gq #agile #agilelondon #meetup Oliver Bernard, Alex Scriven, Jessica Keightley

Another fantastic evening last night, hosted by UnderwriteMe! A really insightful evening hearing from Ben Maynard speak about turning the blurry mess of traditional Product Visions into something clear, actionable and focused, followed by Jon Spruce on how to overhaul your LinkedIn presence, exploring how to update photos, headlines, and header banner to turn your profile from passive to powerful - Extremely helpful in this current climate! Big thanks to Ritika Singh & Robert Smyth for facilitating the event, then to all that braved it in the rain and got heavily involved in the Q&A! #agilelondon #agile #product

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Agile London is back on Tuesday 21st May from 5.30pm, hosted by UnderwriteMe! Across the evening (in addition to Pizza) we'll hear from Ben Maynard & Jon Spruce who will be speaking about how simplifying your product vision & organisation can lead to radical results and then how to unlock your LinkedIn to survive the job market wasteland! Both Ben and Jon have spoken at Agile London before, and were fantastic, so you won't want to miss this one! Get signed up ASAP to secure your spot, via this link: https://lnkd.in/djnWeneg Alex Scriven, Jessica Keightley, Oliver Bernard

An absolutely fantastic event last night, organised by Kevin Z. & Luke Hopkin and hosted by monday.com A massive thank you to our three speakers on the evening Chen Salomon, Emma Hopkinson-Spark & Chris Matts who delivered three really engaging and insightful talks! We are back next month at UnderwriteMe on Tuesday 21st May from 5.30pm where we will be hearing from Ben Maynard & Jon Spruce so keep an eye on meetup to book your place! #agile #agilelondon Alex Scriven, Jessica Keightley, Josh Caulfield, Oliver Bernard

Delighted to announce our final speaker at Agile London with monday.com on Tuesday 23rd April from 5.30pm Chris Matts (Program Manager at Luxoft) with 'Everything you know about developer productivity is wrong'. Don't miss hearing from Chris again, get signed up via our meetup link here: https://lnkd.in/e4aw5d6w Alex Scriven, Jessica Keightley

Very pleased to announce our second speaker of the evening at Agile London hosted by monday.com on Tuesday 23rd April! Emma Hopkinson-Spark (Chief of Staff at 101 Ways) with 'Agile Coaching isn’t Coaching' Don't miss this one, get signed up via the link below: https://lnkd.in/e4aw5d6w Alex Scriven, Jessica Keightley