Congratulations, you are agile. Your product is still late.

12 Mar 2026 04:00 PM

During this presentation, I will provide practical tips and tools for instilling quality at various levels that align with the reality of your products. We will delve into the realm of skilled exploratory testing to uncover risks that go beyond the obvious.
Agile promised speed, collaboration, happy customers. Instead, many teams drown in rituals, tickets, and chaos—shipping worse products faster. This talk shows why frameworks fail, how to spot agile fatigue, and what to do instead: focus on outcomes, not ceremonies.
What happens when product teams face frustration? Drawing on Hirschman’s classic “Exit, Voice, and Loyalty” framework, this talk explores how leaders can spot disengagement, harness healthy dissent, and build resilient teams that adapt instead of erode.
Join me on a decade-long journey of fighting spam on a dating platform. From wrestling with databases to streaming at scale with Kafka, we built a rule-based antispam system with AI on the sidelines. Meet Sheriff, Tracer, and friends – our heroes running spam through the meat grinder.