Episode 93: I Like Big Boards

29/08/201521/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Craig and Renee are at Agile 2015 in Washington, DC and in the open jam area team up with Jason Tice and Natalie Simonsen from the “This Agile Life” podcast for a crossover episode. Joining in the roundtable conversation are Stephen Vance, Troy Tuttle, Jenny Tarwater, Abby Bangser and Serge Beaumont.

Stephen Vance shares highlights from the multi-team agile framework he has put in place at his organization with Natalie and Renee.
Abby Bangser and Jason Tice continue a discussion from Lean Coffee at Agile 2015 regarding the benefits of having a full lifecycle Kanban board (product envisioning thru development thru formal testing and acceptance by the customer).
While discussing the benefits of “Big Boards” the excellent session that Lisa Crispin and Emma Armstrong presented on User Interface testing came up
Next Jenny Tarwater gave props to John Krewson who did an awesome Improv workshop

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Episode 92: Agile 2015 Day 1

26/08/201521/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig and Renee visit Washington, DC for the Agile 2015 conference and debrief in the Agile Alliance Lounge after day 1:

Luke Hohmann keynote “Awesome Superproblems” – Innovation Games and book, Every Voice Engaged – challenge to play 2 games in the next year that will change the world
Lundy’s Law – “any team of programmers if given enough time will justify a total rewrite of the system”
Paul Goddard talk “Improvisssssing With Agile” – some good examples for team starters, new book “Improv-ing Agile Teams“
Will Evans talk “Learn Like A Scientist” – start with a problem, lots of good models and templates
Lots of different scaling solutions and related certifications being discussed at the conference
Larry Maccherone talk “Probalistic Forecasting for Math Mortals” – monte carlo forecasting is a useful tool for project planning (and superannuation!)
Ellen Grove talk “Games for Talking about Conflict Resolution” – lots of…

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Agile 2015 Sponsor Roundup #2

23/08/201521/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile 2015 conference ran in Washington, DC earlier this month with over 2300 attendees from around the globe. This is a second article in a series looking at the sponsors who supported the conference. They were each asked to answer three questions – Who, What and Why. Who are they, What were they offering at the conference and Why did they choose to sponsor this event?