Coffee Club E7: Building Community and Sharing Anticipation for the Berlin SAFe Summit
Apr 28, 2024
"I love the people; I love my community. But it’s hearing new problems and understanding where they fit in the landscape of how people are trying to advance agility in their company. For me, that’s always the best part of the summit!"
Eric Willeke
The Berlin SAFe Summit brought most of the Shaping Agility community together in one place for the first time since we formed. We seized the opportunity to record a face-to-face podcast, which was, more truthfully, the beer club than the coffee club.
Eric started the conversation by asking Ali, Saahil, and Mark what we were most looking forward to about the Summit. Somehow, that detoured into the backstory of how Shaping Agility began and the journey we’d been on together for the last year.
A joke about how we’d emerged from ‘early access’ kicked us down the gaming path. We found ourselves discussing vintage pinball machines and using mame emulators to record ancient video games so young students would understand our metaphors.
It was truly a joy to sit around a table in an Airbnb with rugs draped on the walls to reduce the echo and podcast-in-person!
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