Episode 156: LAST 2018 Brisbane Vox Pop

16/01/201916/01/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Craig and Tony are at LAST Brisbane 2018 in their home town of Brisbane and wander the lunch hall speaking with members from the local Agile community:

Craig and Tony’s keynote
Frank Valks, Paul Thornton and Felix Kiefer from AginicDS – the state of Agile in Brisbane versus the UK, James Hayes and Shannon Russell talk “Agile in Education: How agile is empowering teachers and principles in the Northern Territory“, there is no one recipe for Agility (start with a framework and adjust) and Agile BI
Ed Wong, co-founder of LAST Conference – the inspiration behind LAST Conference and the 10th anniversary of the Melbourne Agile and Scrum User Group and the challenge of getting more people to talk about Agility
Shannon Russell from the Department of Education Northern Territory – the state of the Northern Territory Agile community is small and growing, mainly around government…

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Episode 155: Continuous Delivery Culture at Pushpay with Ian Randall

09/01/201909/01/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig is at YOW! West in Perth and sits down with Ian Randall, Engineering Lead at Pushpay and co-organiser of the Codemania conference in New Zealand and they chat about:

The size of the New Zealand banking system and small number of banks makes it very easy to innovate in the payments space
YOW! West talk “From Inception to Production – A Continuous Delivery Story“
The more times you the do the things that are hard and hurt, opens up the opportunities for automation
Blameless Retrospective (John Allspaw, Etsy, 2012) – promise that there will be no retribution or consequence for decisions that anybody made during an incident, they made the best decisions that they knew at the time, they were operating in a system that allowed you to make that system in the moment – therefore means that people are not afraid to make decisions because…

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Episode 154: Agile Rocket Science with Dr. Anita Sengupta

07/01/201907/01/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig is at YOW! West in Perth and sits down with Dr. Anita Sengupta, a rocket scientist and aerospace engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (and since this interview was recorded now a Senior Vice President at Hyperloop One). They geek out talking about space exploration as well as the important topic of diversity:

YOW! West keynote “The Future of Mars Exploration” and AATC 2017 keynote “Engineering the Red Planet“
7 Minutes of Terror: The Challenges of Getting to Mars
When you are doing something for the first time, you have to come up with out of the box solutions – first you need to make it work, and then you need to make it last
The biggest issue is to get enough people into the pipeline from under-represented groups, one thing we can do is more public outreach at the school level
You come…

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Episode 153: The Great Lean Debate – Live from LAST Brisbane 2018

01/01/201901/01/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Stephanie BySouth is the MC of the Great Lean Debate, a fun session recorded live at LAST Brisbane 2018. Ryan McKergow, Shane Hastie, Renae Craven are the “Legendary Agile Sh*t-talkers” team and Craig Smith, Mel Khim and Karyl Crick are the “Getting Agile Sh*t Done” team.