DeliverCon2025
Key Details
📌 Defra, Foss House, Kings Pool 1–2, Peasholme Green, York, YO1 7PX
📅 10:00, Wednesday 21st May 2025
📃 Notes (Photos) - Google Photo Album
📚 Notes (Written) - Google Drive
📷 Pictures from the day - Google Photo Album
Agenda
Session 1
| Room | Session |
|---|---|
| Room A | Dealing with Burnout - Let’s talk |
| Room B | What is the most annoying think about being in delivery |
| Room C | Velocity is dead - What should we measure instead? |
| Room D | Delivery Manager joing an estabilisted team - how do you go about it? |
| Room E | What was the single most useful ‘thing’ you did / learned/ expreinced that helped you with your career |
Session 2
| Room | Session |
|---|---|
| Room A | How do we limit goverance to get stuff done? |
| Room B | How do you feel about the increaseing need to be more T shaped as teams & budgets strink? |
| Room C | “Keep Calm and use your DM Skills” - How to delivery manager a cyber attack. |
| Room D | Tips to manage deve while maintaing live services |
| Room E | How can we enable more transfers between departments |
Session 3
| Room | Session |
|---|---|
| Room A | Unite, find common issues and build a toolbox |
| Room B | How to share knowledge of common problems |
| Room C | Pre-discovery - what’s our role and how to add value? |
| Room D | Good product and delivery managers relationships |
| Room E | How to makthe e “good enough” the teams’s default |
Session 4
| Room | Session |
|---|---|
| Room A | How AI will change delivery management |
| Room B | How to wear many hats, eg merged PM/DM |
| Room C | How to bring back optimism |
| Room D | How DMs can affect product strategy |
| Room E | Emotional leadership as a DM |
Session 5
| Room | Session |
|---|---|
| Room A | Managing conflict in teams |
| Room B | Fully self organised teams don’t work |
| Room C | How to get senior management to investing teams, not projects |
| Room D | Dealing with pushy stakeholders who don’t get digital |
| Room E | Banish your facilitation gremlins |