Talks and workshops.
Talks on AI adoption, product and engineering work, team autonomy and organisational change. Recent sessions and presentation materials are collected below.
The format and subject can be adapted for a conference, workshop or an internal team discussion.
Selected talks
| Year | Conference | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | PMI Agile 2026 | Your AI Writes Code Fast. Your Codebase Has Opinions |
| 2026 | Global Scrum Gathering | Stop the Drama: Coaching Teams Out of Psychological Games |
| 2025 | RSG Banff | Contracts, Coalitions, and Countermeasures |
| 2025 | RSG SingaporeKeynote | Agile Isn’t Dead, But It’s Tired — What Now? |
| 2025 | XP2025 | Contracts, Coalitions, and Countermeasures |
| 2024 | Business Agility Day | Emergent Strategies for Adaptive Organisations |
| 2024 | RSG StockholmFeedback | The Delicate Art of Scrum Master Leadership |
| 2024 | RSG SingaporeKeynote | Climbing the Leadership Ladder |
| 2024 | Agile Australia | From Fear to Outcomes |
| 2024 | XP2024 | Team Autonomy Unleashed |
| 2023 | Scrum Day EuropeFeedback | Nurturing Self-Management |
| 2023 | RSG SingaporeKeynote | Emergent Strategies for Adaptive Organisations |
| 2022 | Scrum Day Europe | From Fear to Outcomes |
Current topics
GenAI and the Engineering Operating Model
How AI adoption affects engineering practices, team structures and delivery economics, and the organisational changes that accompany new tools.
Team Autonomy at Scale
Authority, accountability and coordination in larger organisations, including the relationship between team autonomy and regulatory constraints.
Vertical Leadership Development
Vertical development theory and how leaders interpret complexity, relate to power and approach organisational change.
Power Dynamics in Transformation
Contracts, coalitions and authority during organisational change, drawing on Transactional Analysis and systems coaching.
Agile Isn’t Dead, But It’s Tired — What Now?
A MythChange discussion about agile practices: what has helped, what has proved difficult and what needs to change.
Stop the Drama: Coaching Teams Out of Psychological Games
A Transactional Analysis perspective on recurring patterns of conflict and resistance, and their implications for team coaching.
AI Is an Amplifier — Your Engineering Culture Determines Your AI ROI
The relationship between engineering practices, team autonomy and AI adoption, including the assumptions connecting productivity to business benefit.
When Your Metrics Lie: Flow Analytics and Organisational Dysfunction
A demonstration of FlowMaster using Jira data to examine cycle-time patterns and delivery constraints, including the limits of what those patterns can explain.
Conference feedback
Regional Scrum Gathering Stockholm 2024 · Stockholm, Sweden · September 9, 2024
Session feedback: 4.5 out of 5“Roman Lobus' session at Scrum Gathering Stockholm was an absolute highlight. His insights into the role of the Scrum Master in self-managed environments were both thought-provoking and practical.”
“Lobus expertly navigated the delicate balance between facilitation and authority, emphasizing the importance of empowering teams while providing guidance when needed. His anecdotes brought his concepts to life, making them relatable and actionable.”
“The session left me feeling inspired and equipped with new tools to enhance my own Scrum Master practice.”
Scrum Day Europe 2023 · Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Roman, practical, inspiring, applicable. Loved the bitesize approach of Roman. Would love to see more of him.”
“The practical applicability of Roman Lobus.”
Cited as the main reason they would return to the next conference.
Practical details
Travel and availability are discussed individually.
Keynotes (45–60 min) · Breakout sessions (30 min) · Workshops (half/full day) · Executive offsites
Remote delivery available. Happy to customise topics for your audience.
About the speaker
Roman Lobus speaks on AI adoption, product and engineering work, team autonomy and organisational change. His talks draw on experience in performance engineering, enterprise consulting and product leadership, with direct involvement in the design and implementation of change.
He began his career as a performance engineer in Ukraine. At HP, he managed mission-critical bank support contracts before moving into consulting. Later engagements included transformation leadership on a Shell project. He worked as an Agile Coach (vendor) within BHP's $300M Cloud Acceleration programme, focused on outcome-oriented ways of working.
He currently serves as VP of Agile Product and Portfolio Management at a leading global airline, where his work includes portfolio governance, product lifecycle redesign and AI adoption. He is also a Professional Scrum Trainer and an executive and team coach. He built FlowMaster to investigate delivery patterns using Jira data.
He is the author of The Art of Creating Self-Organizing Teams (Apress, 2026). His next book, The Predictability Loop, examines evidence, decisions and the economics of software delivery with AI. It is a work in progress, with publication expected in March 2027.
Leadership experienceSpeaking enquiries
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