AVS 2020 All-Access Pass

Agile Virtual Summit 2020

How 14,500 Agilists Turned Lockdown Into a Launchpad for High‑Performing Teams (And How You Can Now Tap Into the Same 5‑Day “Crisis Playbook”)

Dear Agile Leader,

In June of 2020, while the world was in COVID lockdown, most teams were just trying to survive:

• Endless Zoom calls
• Remote teams drifting apart
• “Agile” in name only

At that exact moment, we brought together the most battle‑tested agilists on the planet for a 5‑day virtual experience that over 14,500 people registered for—making it the largest agile event in history.

Now you can plug into the recordings of that historic Agile Virtual Summit 2020 and use the same ideas, tools, and mindsets that helped thousands of leaders turn chaos into clarity… and distributed groups into real teams.

Inside AVS‑2020, you’ll discover how to:

• Get real collaboration instead of lip service
• Build psychological safety and high performance
• Fix retros that haven’t produced a real change in months
• Lead through disruption, uncertainty, and nonstop change
• Protect your own energy and sanity while doing it

Here’s just a sample of what you’ll find inside this 5‑day summit:

Team Performance, Flow, and “Are We Really a Team?”

• The “silo‑of‑one” trap Jim Benson sees in almost every organization—and a simple visual shift that instantly exposes schedule conflicts, hidden handoffs, and wasted work.
• Why “protecting the team” might be the very thing quietly killing delivery at scale—and what to do instead if you actually want work to flow.
• The 3 questions Chris Li uses to reveal whether your “team” is just a group of people on the same project… or a real team that has each other’s backs.
• How Richard Kasperowski gets teams into a state of high performance on purpose (instead of crossing your fingers and hoping “this one gels”)—and keeps them there with Core Protocols designed for psychological safety and emotional intelligence.
• The counterintuitive reason limits make you more agile, not less—and how Diana Larsen’s Agile Fluency lens helps you customize “just enough” Agile for your context, instead of copying someone else’s framework and praying.
• What over 100 successful and failed product teams taught Clinton Keith about delivering innovative products on schedule without burning people out—and the specific habits those “unicorn” teams share.

Leadership, Management, and Your Own Sanity (In a Crisis and After)

• The brutal internal question Tricia Broderick hears from the best leaders—“Am I actually adding any value?”—and how to answer it with concrete practices instead of impostor syndrome.
• Why management doesn’t disappear in agile (in Peter Green’s myth‑busting view), and the 3 types of work every organization needs someone to own—even if you’re “self‑managing.”
• The pivotal decision Scrum Alliance CPO Howard Sublett had to make when the global shutdown hit—why it was “messy, controversial, and risky as hell”… and how that story can become a blueprint for your next big pivot.
• How Kim Brainard uses the “magic of looking back” to help leaders turn brutal setbacks into fuel for a positively contagious culture.
• The hidden “momentum machine” Lyssa Adkins saw driving people to exhaustion before the pandemic—and the Personal Agility move she used to stay (relatively) sane when the world went fully virtual.

Retrospectives, Meetings, and Real Continuous Improvement

• The one “magic ingredient” Adam Weisbart adds to retrospectives that makes even the most introverted, disengaged teams forget they’re in a meeting. (Tarantino, Rowling, and Eminem use the same ingredient to mint millions—now you’ll use it to mint engagement.)
• How a cheap children’s product from your grocery checkout lane can unlock solutions your team thought were impossible—without you pushing a single idea.
• The 4 silent diseases killing your retros (Adam again)—and the one thing you must NEVER do if you want action items to turn into actual change.
• Why most virtual retros fail before they start—and how David Horowitz structures questions and interaction so distributed teams re‑create the magic of a live whiteboard online.
• The most common retrospective antipatterns Aino Vonge Corry sees around the world—and the simple countermoves that turn a “dead” retro into a learning engine your team looks forward to.
• Paul Tevis’ checklist for designing virtual meetings that don’t suck the life out of people—and how a few minutes of deliberate design flips a call from “another Zoom” into an engaging, productive working session.

Culture, DEI, and Change That Sticks (Even Under Pressure)

• The 3 personal practices Ronica Roth uses to quietly change culture—starting with nothing more than how you run your next meeting.
• Why diversity, equity, and inclusion are not the same thing—and how Michelle Johnson and Amy Burtaine show bias sneaking into teams even when “everyone means well”… plus concrete ways to build truly inclusive, high‑trust teams.
• How Diana Larsen reads disruptive current events—pandemic, social upheaval, economic shocks— through an agile lens, and the questions she asks to turn crisis into team, organizational, and even societal improvement.

Plus… Adam’s Candid Behind‑the‑Scenes Perspective

• Surviving “organizational backdraft” when your coaching actually surfaces painful dysfunction—Adam Weisbart’s mindfulness‑based toolkit for staying grounded when resistance flares up.
• What the community accidentally created together at this first, record‑breaking Agile Virtual Summit—and Adam’s glimpse into “what’s next” for this movement of practitioners who want agility that works in the real world.

Who You’ll Be Learning From

You get full access to sessions from:

• Adam Weisbart – AVS 2020 Kickoff, The MISSING Ingredient in your Retrospectives, What the Future Holds, Surprise Session, and more
• Jim Benson – Real Prioritization and Collaboration Strategies
• Tricia Broderick – Challenges Leaders Face… Personally
• Richard Kasperowski – High‑Performance Teams: Core Protocols for Psychological Safety and EI
• Diana Larsen – Current Events from an Agile Perspective; How Limits Empower Your Agility
• Peter Green – Management in Agile
• Richard Cheng – A Deeper Dive into the ScrumMaster Role
• Howard Sublett – The Power of the Pivot – Agile Companies Are Built for Times Like These
• Michelle Johnson & Amy Burtaine – Why DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) Matters
• Ronica Roth – 3 Ways to Begin to Change Your Culture
• David Horowitz – Virtual Retrospectives & Driving Continuous Improvement
• Chris Li – Are We Really a Team? – What Questions to Ask!
• Clinton Keith – Taming the Chaos – Lessons in Developing Products without Suffering
• Kim Brainard – The Magic of Looking Back; the Perseverance to Move Forward
• Paul Tevis – Designing Great (Virtual) Meetings
• Lyssa Adkins – Running Around Like Crazy? Use Agile on Yourself!
• AVS 2020 Pre‑Summit Interviews – Adam Weisbart & AVS 2020 Speakers

This Wasn’t Just Another Online Event. It Was a Turning Point.

In the middle of a global shutdown…
With teams scattered and scared…
More than 14,500 agilists chose to learn how to lead, not just cope.

Those 5 days in June 2020 captured the best thinking, the hardest‑won lessons, and the most practical tools our community had to offer.

Now you can plug into all of it—on your schedule.

If you’re serious about real agility—not posters, jargon, or “fake SAFe,” but better products, happier teams, and a saner life for you—then Agile Virtual Summit 2020 is your shortcut.