Episode 165: Two Years and Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad

23/06/201923/06/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Craig and Tony sit down for a personal chat with the microphone turned on for the first time in 2 years (that is not an interview) (wow, time files…), unfortunately without Renee who was out sick:

State of the nation is a lot of dark / fake Agile and lack of collaborative connective tissues
Fail Agility – Craig and Tony’s keynote talk (Episode 150)
The word Agile is done, we are trying to harness agility
Heart of Agile – a reflective improvement framework that helps you find your way forward
The Agile Manifesto tells you the what, the Heart of Agile tells you the how
The Agile Revolution Podcast with Alistair Cockburn (Epsiode 49)
40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes diagram
Collision 2019 Toronto – Justin Trudeau, Capital One, BMO, Ev Williams, Timbaland, KFC
Stability in leadership and the stake in organisational success is important for…

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Enabling Enterprise Business Agility

18/06/201918/06/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Caught up on a great webinar from Sally Elatta from Agility Health today, that is a good overview of the problems were all face with agility in the enterprise.

In the webinar she stepped through the Enterprise Business Agility (EBA) Transformation Journey. I liked her naming of team of teams of agility and its step between team and organisational agility. She also called out the difference between organisational agility being the value stream and management of the portfolio versus the operational agility which is the other key areas of the organisation.

This all built to the really well defined EBA model with its seven pillars.

Episode 164: Agile Australia 2017 Vox Pop #2

13/06/201913/06/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig and Tony are once again roaming the halls at Agile Australia in Sydney and finding random folks to talk to at the conference:

Sarah Romeyn from WorkCover Queensland – enjoyed Pete Steel talk “Developing an Experimentation Culture” and Sherif Monsour talk “The art of building a roadmap“
Rachel Slattery from Slatterys (organiser of Agile Australia) – 1,200 attendees (a sellout) at the conference, such a good level of goodwill in the Agile community, half of the conference are new people and 60% hear about it through word of mouth, all flavours of ice cream (even coconut apparently…), AgileAus hub for all things Agile in Australia
Melissa Perri keynote “The Build Trap“, teal organisations tend to form like that at inception, other organisations have the people but the process to get there is still hard
Adam Boas and Andy Kelk from Marketplacer – enjoying…

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Episode 163: Agile Australia 2017 Vox Pop #1

10/06/201910/06/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Tony and Craig are at Agile Australia 2017 in Sydney and wander the very busy hallways catching up with attendees and with old friends:

Sieger de Vries – enjoyed Matt Pancino talk “The future of Agile in the enterprise: has the war been lost?”, distributed Agile and use of partnering is here to stay
Mia Horrigan from Zen Ex Machina and Joseph Gard from Australian Taxation Office – lots of Agile interest in Canberra around scaling Agile and leading the change in government, enjoyed Barry O’Reilly keynote “Lessons deploying Lean Enterprise“
Venky Krishnamurthy from The Empirical Coach – LeSS is purely based on evidence from experiments that was created into a framework, enjoyed Jez Humble workshop and keynote “Continuous Delivery Sounds Great But It Won’t Work Here“
Steve Scotson from 4impact – enjoyed the high standard and breadth of subject matter around innovation and organisation change

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Episode 162: Leadership and Coaching Beyond the Team with Esther Derby

03/06/201903/06/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and catch up with Esther Derby, co-author of numerous agile books including Agile Retrospectives and Behind Closed Doors. We also ask the question whether Tony is cool or not….

Agile Australia keynote “Leaders At All Levels“
Leadership is the ability to adapt the environment so that everyone is empowered to contribute creatively to solving the problem
Need to develop the people we are leading as well as the environment
Need a bigger overlap of the knowledge in organisations so that we can make better decisions
Systemic failure that we assume because you are good at something (like software development) you will be good at management / leadership – they are very different skills
Three C’s – clarity (people know what to work on and how it fits into the big picture), conditions (the means to do the…

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