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Scrum Facilitators Original Conference - Steve and Sjoerd
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In this podcast episode, Steve Trapps and Sjoerd Kranendonk discuss the upcoming Scrum Facilitators Conference. The main theme of the conference is original content, ensuring that attendees will experience something new and valuable. The conference aims to create a friendly and inclusive environment, where speakers have the freedom to experiment with different delivery styles. The organizers emphasize their role as facilitators, allowing the community to step forward and share their ideas. The call for speakers is open until June 15, and ticket sales have already begun, with a limited number available. The conference will take place in Amersfoort, Netherlands, on November 9.
Steve Trapps is a seasoned Scrum Trainer working with the selection committee for Scrum Facilitators' Original Conference. With a wealth of experience in agile methodologies, Steve brings a down-to-earth and engaging approach to his training sessions, helping professionals improve their understanding and effectiveness of Scrum.
Sjoerd Kranendonk is a skilled Scrum Trainer and co-organizes the Scrum Facilitators' Original Conference. Known for his interactive teaching style, Sjoerd likes to create an immersive learning environment, empowering professionals to enhance their Scrum practices.
Links:
- SF Original Conference - https://sfconference.nl (a few tickets left on june 7 2023!)
- Steve - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevetrapps/
- Sjoerd - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjoerdkranendonk
- Scrum Facilitators - https://www.scrumfacilitators.com
Are you working with Scrum/Agile and have similar stories and tips to share? Or do you know someone that you want to voluntell to be a guest? Reach out! podcast@scrumfacilitators.com
Also check out our website, LinkedIn and Meetup
Are you working with Scrum/Agile and have similar stories and tips to share? Or do you know someone that you want to voluntell to be a guest? Reach out! podcast@scrumfacilitators.com
Also check out our website, LinkedIn and Meetup
00:00:00 Steve Trapps
The main theme is that it's all original content.
00:00:03 Steve Trapps
So it is.
00:00:06 Steve Trapps
Well, as the word original means never been seen before.
00:00:11 Steve Trapps (intro/outro)
Welcome to the scrum Facilitators Community podcast.
00:00:14 Steve Trapps (intro/outro)
The place for real conversations around Scrum so.
00:00:18 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Welcome to the Scrum Facilitators podcast.
00:00:21 Sjoerd Kranendonk
My name is Sjoerd Kranendonk
00:00:23 Sjoerd Kranendonk
I'm here with Steve traps.
00:00:25 Sjoerd Kranendonk
We're joined reaching hands over over the channel.
00:00:30 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Because Steve's in the UK, I'm in the Netherlands and we're here today to discuss some exciting stuff we're working on because Steve.
00:00:39 Sjoerd Kranendonk
We're heading towards the second conference.
00:00:43 Steve Trapps
They said it wouldn't last.
00:00:45 Steve Trapps
We would never do it.
00:00:46 Steve Trapps
We did it.
00:00:48 Steve Trapps
They've got the second conference coming along in November.
00:00:51 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Yeah. We're, we're.
00:00:52 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Gearing up to prove we're not one trick ponies, right?
00:00:55 Steve Trapps
We're 1 1/2 because we're halfway through doing it. No, it's it's good, it's exciting, it's good. And and the fact that actually there.
00:01:05 Steve Trapps
The the love and the community for it again, that's I think that's what I'm noticing is the fact people are actually wanting to before or the first time people can be curious.
00:01:15 Steve Trapps
And wonder what's going on.
00:01:18 Steve Trapps
There's been a lot of love from the community in which, you know, curiosity is a good thing the first time.
00:01:26 Steve Trapps
It's with the scrum facilitators.
00:01:27 Steve Trapps
It's an original conference.
00:01:29 Steve Trapps
And apparently people liked it so much they're willing to sign up and do it again in November.
00:01:35 Steve Trapps
So this is good and.
00:01:38 Sjoerd Kranendonk
So, so, so that, that's that's because people might be listening to this, that didn't go to the conference or haven't heard about it before.
00:01:45 Sjoerd Kranendonk
So what is the conference like is, is there a theme or what is it about?
00:01:51 Steve Trapps
The the main theme is that it's all original content, so it is.
00:01:58 Steve Trapps
Well, that's the.
00:01:59 Steve Trapps
Word original means never been seen before, never been heard before, so there's times you go to conferences and there's times you go to meet ups and you think ohh I really enjoyed it when I heard this person talk before and or.
00:02:13 Steve Trapps
It's an interesting topic, but I've heard it all before.
00:02:16 Steve Trapps
Yes, or I've seen this talk.
00:02:17 Steve Trapps
I've seen this presentation before.
00:02:19 Steve Trapps
How much value am I getting out of this one of the?
00:02:21 Steve Trapps
Things that the criteria is that we've got.
00:02:24 Steve Trapps
There's hey, this should never have been seen before.
00:02:27 Steve Trapps
Well, First off, this should be an interesting topic.
00:02:30 Steve Trapps
This isn't me talking about what I had for lunch yesterday.
00:02:35 Steve Trapps
It should be an interesting topic that the community feel and you know, we've got people reviewing the the submissions.
00:02:44 Steve Trapps
And so this is what we're keeping in centrally in our head is how interesting would this be the community.
00:02:49 Steve Trapps
And then once we get people into the room.
00:02:55 Steve Trapps
It's it's up to the uh the speakers to make it engaging to.
00:02:58 Steve Trapps
Make it a valuable thing.
00:03:00 Steve Trapps
And that's the key thing.
00:03:01 Steve Trapps
What we saw last year was people coming away, feeling that they'd seen and witnessed content they hadn't seen before, and it was done in a scale that was.
00:03:16 Steve Trapps
It felt like friends coming together.
00:03:20 Steve Trapps
There was something Syrian, one of the other scrum facilitators said.
00:03:23 Steve Trapps
Because, you know, we were running around trying to get things sorted first in the morning, or maybe it was the afternoon before the conference.
00:03:30 Steve Trapps
And Syrian was really calm.
00:03:34 Steve Trapps
Why are you so calm?
00:03:36 Steve Trapps
We're doing a conference tomorrow.
00:03:39 Steve Trapps
If it goes wrong, we've just got friends come.
00:03:41 Steve Trapps
Around and I thought that was really powerful insight because in my head it set the tone, it set the tone for that whole day.
00:03:50
Yeah, it did.
00:03:52 Sjoerd Kranendonk
And that's also the reason, Steve, why we decided this year to keep it the same, basically because last year we sold out I think way before the actual conference ran and yeah, like there were there were a lot of people that we had to like.
00:04:09 Sjoerd Kranendonk
To my feeling disappoint, so we discussed when planning the new conference like should we go to another venue to make it bigger?
00:04:17 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Like get hundreds of people in, see what could be the next step and we consciously decided with exactly this what you just said in mind to keep it at our own training location.
00:04:30 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Knowing that we could only sell 50 tickets, maybe stretch it up to 60, we'll have to see about that depending on how many speakers we get in at and stuff.
00:04:41 Sjoerd Kranendonk
But keep it small because we really like that aspect of it, and it also of course helps connect to the theme because it's an original conference.
00:04:50 Sjoerd Kranendonk
It should also be a safe space to experiment as a speaker, like not to experiment with quality, but to experiment with ways of delivery.
00:05:02 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Interactive work forums like maybe going without a PowerPoint for the first time in your career because we do coach people a bit on that right in the selection process.
00:05:11 Sjoerd Kranendonk
It's not like it's all up to them how they want to do it now.
00:05:14 Sjoerd Kranendonk
We have also certain guidelines that match our teaching style, for instance, because it does have to also make a difference, not just the original, but also like you're coming to Scrum facilitators.
00:05:25 Sjoerd Kranendonk
So it has to be feel a bit like that.
00:05:28 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Although yeah, there's also personal touch of course.
00:05:31 Steve Trapps
And you can say I saw that talk for the very first time at the Scrum Facilitators Conference, and now it's at Scrum Day World.
00:05:41 Steve Trapps
Being seen presented to however many hundreds.
00:05:44 Steve Trapps
Of people I.
00:05:45 Steve Trapps
Was there the exclusivity of seeing the first one and seeing how it's, you know evolved over time, so?
00:05:50 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Exactly. And it's also a really nice way to work with speakers, right, because we're we're paying all our speakers, we're having a flat fee. So we're not discriminating between keynotes or or workshops and UMUM.
00:06:03 Sjoerd Kranendonk
We do place a lot of trust in our speakers, as you said, like it's up to them to then make the day a success and we can only do, like, facilitate the surroundings.
00:06:16 Steve Trapps
And that's a key thing as well that.
00:06:19 Steve Trapps
We're here to help.
00:06:21 Steve Trapps
Make the day go smoothly and we also made a.
00:06:25 Steve Trapps
Conscious decision that none of us, none of the scrum facilitators would actually put a talk or workshop into that space.
00:06:33 Steve Trapps
Obviously things happened and last year we we unfortunately somebody dropped out and we were you know, hey we were agile, we responded and we spoke about Scrum Master 3.0.
00:06:46 Steve Trapps
But that was a a last resort kind of thing.
00:06:48 Steve Trapps
We we we we as a a group of people take the step back and allow the Community to step forward so you know.
00:06:55 Sjoerd Kranendonk
We're inviting people to come share their ideas, and we don't want to take a spot there with our ideas.
00:07:02 Steve Trapps
No, no, no.
00:07:03 Steve Trapps
It's so in.
00:07:05 Steve Trapps
We're not there to do that.
00:07:06 Steve Trapps
We're there to create that space that, that friendly.
00:07:08 Steve Trapps
Hey, we're with friends, so just cool.
00:07:12 Sjoerd Kranendonk
So we do have to point out at this moment in time, I'm hoping to get this podcast out quickly that the call for speakers is actually open till June 15.
00:07:23 Sjoerd Kranendonk
So if you have an idea and.
00:07:25 Sjoerd Kranendonk
You have not submitted yet, please go to SF conference dot now and submit your idea.
00:07:30 Sjoerd Kranendonk
It doesn't have to be polished, it can be experimental.
00:07:33 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Just give us.
00:07:34 Sjoerd Kranendonk
An idea of.
00:07:35 Sjoerd Kranendonk
The the general idea that you would like to talk about or the workshop.
00:07:39 Sjoerd Kranendonk
And we can start like our process of refining it, right, Steve?
00:07:44 Steve Trapps
Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely it's, you know, it's it's not polished.
00:07:49 Steve Trapps
It's the the if it's.
00:07:51 Steve Trapps
The If the seed is there.
00:07:53 Steve Trapps
If the idea is there.
00:07:55 Steve Trapps
Don't worry, there's plenty of.
00:07:56 Steve Trapps
Time we can we can work with that.
00:07:56 Sjoerd Kranendonk
You know, trust the process.
00:07:58 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Of of getting there and getting something valuable out and.
00:08:01 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Also, ticket sales have.
00:08:03 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Started so actually as we're recording this on June 1st, the tickets still started today.
00:08:09 Sjoerd Kranendonk
I think we already sold like 10 to 15 tickets and we only have 50.
00:08:15 Sjoerd Kranendonk
So I'm I'm hoping that maybe we have to put a message when we publish this.
00:08:19 Sjoerd Kranendonk
It's sold out already or just 20 tickets now.
00:08:22 Sjoerd Kranendonk
So I will make sure to put that in the show.
00:08:24 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Once when we publish, however, tickets are available, so if you are thinking well, I'd like to join.
00:08:30 Sjoerd Kranendonk
This and I can and am willing to travel to Amersfoort on November 9.
00:08:38
It's a lovely.
00:08:38 Steve Trapps
Place to travel to.
00:08:39 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Yes, yes, Steve, Steve does.
00:08:41 Sjoerd Kranendonk
A lot of traveling there.
00:08:42 Sjoerd Kranendonk
So he's the expert.
00:08:43 Steve Trapps
Yeah, I I love it.
00:08:45 Steve Trapps
I mean the air is OK, but Hansford itself is lovely.
00:08:49 Steve Trapps
You know, just tell work you come into a.
00:08:50 Steve Trapps
Conference and then spend.
00:08:51 Steve Trapps
The day in Amsterdam town centre, that's what.
00:08:54 Steve Trapps
I would do so.
00:08:55 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Yeah, it's it's a really cosy town. So, so and UM. And of course, it will be awesome to meet, meet you if.
00:09:01 Sjoerd Kranendonk
You come visit.
00:09:04 Steve Trapps
Lots of chip shops.
00:09:05 Steve Trapps
I seem to remember.
00:09:06 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Yeah, probably 8 shops.
00:09:07 Steve Trapps (intro/outro)
Lots of chip.
00:09:10 Sjoerd Kranendonk
You mean where you can get slice, right?
00:09:12 Steve Trapps
Yeah, fries, chips in UK.
00:09:14 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Just for the non UK people like.
00:09:16 Steve Trapps
Right, yeah, I've forgotten that big portions as well.
00:09:19 Sjoerd Kranendonk
If you say.
00:09:19 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Chips in the Netherlands, people think of crisps.
00:09:23 Steve Trapps
Yeah, but that's just cause they're crazy.
00:09:27 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Don't make me bring up Brexit.
00:09:30
But be careful about that.
00:09:33 Steve Trapps
Nearly mentioned the B word.
00:09:36 Steve Trapps
You started it well.
00:09:38 Steve Trapps
Technically, yes we did.
00:09:39
OK.
00:09:42 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Anyways, this is this is what you get when you come to the conference, we we shoot the ****.
00:09:47 Sjoerd Kranendonk
We are just friends doing stuff.
00:09:48 Sjoerd Kranendonk
And we talk about.
00:09:49 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Valuable stuff, just like we aim to.
00:09:51 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Do in this podcast each other.
00:09:52 Steve Trapps
Yeah, where to get good chips.
00:09:54 Sjoerd Kranendonk
And you can get good fries, fries.
00:10:00 Steve Trapps
Hope to see you there.
00:10:01 Steve Trapps
Hope to see you soon at the conference.
00:10:04 Steve Trapps
It will be really good to see if you know this if.
00:10:05 Steve Trapps
You can if.
00:10:06 Steve Trapps
You can make it you're you're going to learn something and.
00:10:10 Steve Trapps
It's all original.
00:10:13 Sjoerd Kranendonk
And if you have any questions, reach out to us and we'll try to make a few of these smaller podcast episodes, talking about conference, about how we're progressing and also sharing some, maybe some tips and tricks on how to organize your own conference, because we're getting that experience now because we didn't.
00:10:32 Sjoerd Kranendonk
For the second time.
00:10:34 Steve Trapps
It's the second album.
00:10:35 Steve Trapps
It's the problematic second album.
00:10:38 Sjoerd Kranendonk
The sophomore album?
00:10:39 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Oh, that's just always the the hard one.
00:10:41 Sjoerd Kranendonk
But but we're we're not going to postpone it for a few years.
00:10:44 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Just going to do it, no?
00:10:48 Sjoerd Kranendonk
OK.
00:10:48 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Thank you Steve, for for talking with me about this and no worries.
00:10:53 Sjoerd Kranendonk
Uh, let's see each other soon.
00:10:56
Might be good.
00:10:58
Bye bye. Take care.
00:11:02 Steve Trapps (intro/outro)
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