You can find slides for my recent talks at https://speakerdeck.com/mkilby
2025
- Skip the Path – Find Your Career Trails, AgileDC (Oct 2025), Tysons Corner, VA
- Inspirational Sparks with Line Morback (Sept 2025) – Distributed Agile Retrospectives (private talk online)
- Skip the Path – Find Your Career Trails (April 2025), Orlando Code Camp. Sanford, FL (Orlando)
- Skip the Path – Find Your Career Trails (March 2025), Agile Open Northwest, Seattle, WA
- The Agile Network mini-conference talk, Jan 2025, with Dave Prior – Your Productivity Survival Kit (public online talk)
2024
- (see the 6 podcasts I was interviewed on)
2023
- Agile2023 (July 2023) – Workshop with Dave Prior and Tim Nolan, Tuning Your Distributed Team with a Right Environment Exercise, Orlando, FL
- (Also see the podcasts I was interviewed on)
2022
- Virtual Agile Meetup (Oct 2022 online) – Remote Work: Innovation or Downfall of Agile?
- North Carolina PMI Agile Community of Practice (July 2022 online) – Communicating for Change in non-software agile teams
- slides – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uyGIdgBtc0vuhI0lbeX5gynFYbYEiIIDq8EJcvBh8U8/edit#slide=id.p
- private talk (July 2022) – The State of Agile in 2022
- Scrummaster Summit Online (April 2022 online) – Remote Amplifies and Hybrid Divides
- Agile Leadership Monthly call with Scott Dunn (April 2022) – Open Q&A on remote work with Certified Agile Leadership alumni
- Comparative Agility Meetup (Jan 2022 online) – Lead Your Hybrid Remote Team to Success: Focus on Principles and Outcomes with Johanna Rothman
- (Also see the 4 podcasts I was interviewed on)
2021
- Agile Arizona (Nov 2021 online) – Remote, Hybrid, or Something Else? (slides: https://speakerdeck.com/mkilby/where-does-our-future-lead-hybrid-remote-or-elsewhere)
- Agile Access Freestival (Oct 2021 online) – Remote, Hybrid Remote or Elsewhere?
- Silicon Valley Alliances (Oct 2021 online) – Remote, Hybrid Remote, or Elsewhere?
- Agile Alliance SaveOurShip event (Oct 2021 online) – remote collaboration workshop
- What is Remote Work? (Sept 2021 online) – Coffee Talk by CertiProf with Mark Kilby – English
- Remote Lab (Sep 2021 online) – Securing Your Remote Life (Personal Cybersecurity)
- ProductTank Orlando (Sept 2021 online) – Mentorology 101 with Aaron Kesler
- Mural Board – anyone with link, VIEW ONLY – https://app.mural.co/t/k5labs2581/m/k5labs2581/1630680129715/bec81cdefae96f46aadd8af3d25e7bd3e6235482?sender=mark7770
- Exercise slides, VIEW ONLY –https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KD-ZW8el0tJ6qFqny6g7cDaG8swvltYc2FPRiAcfQRI/edit#slide=id.gf4bc8ef221_0_0
- Agile NOVA (Aug 2021 online) – Where Does Our Future Lead? Remote, Hybrid Remote or Elsewhere?
- Qiqocon (Aug 2021 online) – When you’re in the ick, principles should stick!
- Rock Strategy Summit (Aug 2021 online) – Keynote with April Jefferson
- Agile SoCal Meetup (Aug 2021 online) – AMA on Remote teams
- Agile 2021 conference (July 2021 online) – Where Does Our Future Lead? Remote, Hybrid Remote or Elsewhere?
- Agile Leadership Network DC Chapter (July 2021 online) – Where Does Our Future Lead? Remote, Hybrid Remote, or Elsewhere?
- AgileTO (Toronto) (June 2021 online) – Unscripted Conversations – with April Jefferson
- South Florida Agile (June 2021 online) – Scrum Master’s Super Power of Observation in Virtual Teams – with Savita Puhja
- Agile100 conference (May 2021 online) – Open Space and Agility – with April Jefferson
- LeanAgileGlobal conference (May 2021 online) – I Wish Remote Work Was More Difficult
- Agile Denver Meetup (April 2021 online) – Open Space: Surface, Reflect, and Explore with April Jefferson
- Portland Agile PM Roundup AgilePDX (April 2021 online) – Open Space: Surface, Reflect, and Explore with April Jefferson
- PMI North Saskatchewan (March 2021 online) – Navigating Change When Rapidly Remote
- Meeting School webinar (March 2021 online) – 3 Keys to a Successful Remote Hiring Process with Johanna Rothman
- TriAgile conference (March 2021 online) – Walking Through Chaos with an Open Mindset
- Chain Conversation on Communities Today (linked podcast interviews) (March 2021 online)
- Raleigh Agile Leadership Network (March 2021 online) – 3 Disciplines for Leading a Distributed Agile Organization
- (Also see the 3 podcasts I was interviewed on)
2020
- Lean Agile Network (Nov 2020 onine, Toronto) – Scrum Master’s Super Power of Observation in Virtual Teams (co-presented with Savita Pahuja)
- Youtube (1h 14min): https://youtu.be/PKtGLsaAX1s
- AgileDevOps Virtual (Nov 2020 online) 3 Disciplines for Leading a Distributed Agile Organization
- Agile Online Summit 2020 (Oct 2020 online) Holding the Space that Customers Need Now – co-presented with April Jefferson
- Agile Neighborhood (Aug 2020 online – hosted by Think Agile, South Africa) Your Next Workplace: 3 Perspectives
- Agile Denver Meetup – Navigating Change When (Rapidly) Remote (July 2020 online – full Mentimeter version)
- LeanAgile.Global conference (July 2020 online) – Your New Workplace: 3 perspectives
- Distributed Agile Teams Conference (June 2020 online – hosted by Future.Works) – Navigating Change When (Rapidly) Remote
- Youtube (42min) : https://youtu.be/b6G0dcNdRd8
- Agile Day Atlanta (May 2020 online) – Lessons from the Rapidly Remote
- Navigating Change When Rapidly Remote (March-April 2020 online) – I lost track of the number of meetups I spoke at worldwide during this time, but it included agile meetups and PMI groups
- QCon London (March 2020) – 3 Disciplines for Leading a Distributed Agile Organization ( note: the London airports closed 6 days after I departed due to COVID-19)
- Lean Agile US (Feb 2020) – Learning Through Agile Writing
- retrium.com webinar (Jan 2020) – Building Better Virtual Workspaces
- (Also see the 9 podcasts I was interviewed on)
2019
- Agile DevOps East (Nov 2019) – Agile Actions for Facilitating Distributed Agile Teams
- Agile DevOps East (Nov 2019) – Lightning Strikes the Keynotes: Seeing Possibilities (Shu Ha Ri through a martial artist’s eyes)
- Youtube (4 min): https://youtu.be/Yb1mwtcraPI
- Private talk (Nov 2019 online) – 3 Mindset Shifts for Distributed Agile Teams (~40 online leaders)
- Private talk (Oct 2019 online) – 3 Mindset Shifts for Distributed Agile Teams (~40 online leaders)
- Agile2019 (Aug 2019) – 7 Principles for ANY Effective Agile Team, Collocated or Distributed – co-presented with Johanna Rothman;
- Agile2019 (Aug 2019) – Facilitating Distributed Teams
- Private Talk (July 2019 online) – Navigating Change with the J-Curve (~120 online: leaders and staff)
- Agile Orlando (June 2019) – Facilitating Distributed Teams
- Mile High Agile (May 2019) – Facilitating Distributed Teams
- Agile Dialogue Mississaugua (Mar 2019) – Facilitating Distributed Agile Teams (online to 20 people)
- LeanAgileUS (Feb 2019) – * Facilitating Distributed Agile Teams (50 people)
- (Also see the 10 podcasts I was interviewed on)
2018
- ITPalooza (Dec 2018) – South FL Agile Association – 8 Elements of Successful Distributed Agile Teams
- Remote Forever Summit (Nov 2018 online) – 8 Principles of Successful Distributed Agile Teams
- AgileDevOps East (Nov 2018) – 1/2 day workshop on building Successful Distributed Agile Teams AgileDC (Oct 2018) – 8 Elements of Successful Distributed Agile Teams
- Agile2018 (Aug 2018) – Distributed Agile Teams: Oxymoron or Option? – presented on the 8 principles and related practices of successful distributed agile teams,
- Agile2018 (Aug 2018) – You Have To Say More There: Effective Communication in a Distributed Agile Team – co- presented with Johanna Rothman on writing our book as a distributed agile team using principles in the book
- VTTalk Internal Affair (Jun 2018) – online conference
- DawsVCon18 (Jan 2018, online) – Agile Distributed Teams – Oxymoron or Option?
- (Also see the 3 podcasts I was interviewed on)
2017
- Orlando Code Camp (May 2017) – Can I Trust What I Can’t See?: Building Successful Distributed Agile Teams
- DFWScrum (Mar 2017) – Can I Trust What I Can’t See?: Building Successful Distributed Agile Teams
- LeanAgileUS (Feb 2017) – Can I Trust What I Can’t See?: Building Successful Distributed Agile Teams
- (Also see the 2 podcasts I was interviewed on)
2016
- Agile2016 (Aug 2016) – Communicating and Collaborating: How Distributed Teams Can Thrive – co-facilitated the distributed marshmallow challenge to illustrate 3 types of distributed teams: satellite, cluster, and nebula
- Agile2016 (Aug 2016) – Audacious Salon on Distributed Agile – One of the sessions of the inaugural Audacious Salon stage. Co-facilitated with Michael Herman by holding two 75 minute sessions of facilitated talks with some distributed team members from around the world. We explored the challenges and what were some of the solutions people were finding.
- Orlando Code Camp (May 2016) – Working in Distributed Space: Is there any hope? – facilitated an early version of the distributed marshmallow challenge to illustrate some of the challenges of different types of teams, Do I Know You? Building Rapport on Distributed Teams – talk on ways to build connections on distributed teams.
- Scrum Gathering Orlando (Apr 2016) – Are you Remotely Agile? – a bit of tongue-in-cheek presentation on how my fully distributed teams were using scrum for the last 2 years; Note: I was also co-leading volunteers with Becky Hartman and wrote blog posts on how we organized as a distributed team
- (Also see the 4 podcasts I was interviewed on)
2015
- Agile2015 (Aug 2015) – Can You be Remotely agile? – experience report on how my fully dispersed teams have been operating using agile principles for software product development
- Agile2015 (Aug 2015) – User Group Dying? Time to Start a State-Wide Learning Network – experience report on how 3 user groups in Florida organized as a set of distributed cluster teams to build a learning network and collaborate on multiple events.
- (Also see the 3 podcasts I was interviewed on)
Thanks
I have many more presentations not on distributed teams, but I just wanted to list these, so you would understand my depth on this subject. Thanks for reading this far. As a past reviewer, I appreciate the time you invest.
You can see all presentations since 2019 on distributed teams at: https://speakerdeck.com/mkilby (I find Speakerdeck much easier to work with now.)
Talks before 2019 can be found at https://www.slideshare.net/markkilby