Episode 135: DevOps & Electric Cloud with Anders Wallgren

01/09/201701/09/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Craig speaks to Anders Wallgren from Electric Cloud about Continuous Delivery and DevOps at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta. The topic of conversation included:

“Release It!” by Michael Nygard
We can’t declare victory on Agile, but it is the winning methodology
We are now plumbing the last mile of deployment and we also need to move it left
Joshua Kerievsky Agile 2016 keynote on “Modern Agile“
Software process is like human DNA, we are different but essentially the same
Gene Gotimer Agile 2016 talk “Experiences Bringing Continuous Delivery to a DoD Project“
You will fail if you don’t pay attention to the cultural aspects of Agile and DevOps
State of DevOps Report
Critical to automate everything to eliminate manual process errors and loss of valuable data
DevOps is starting to push into complex and regulated environments like finance, health and aerospace with an…

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ThoughtWorks Sold to Private Equity Firm Apax Partners

01/09/201701/09/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Global software development and digital transformation company ThoughtWorks is to be acquired by London-based private equity firm Apax Partners. The terms of the deal were not disclosed and it is expected to close in Q4 2017.

Source: ThoughtWorks Sold to Private Equity Firm Apax Partners

Agile 2017 Keynote: Creating Leadership and Engagement at Every Level

22/08/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

At the recent Agile 2017 conference in Orlando, David Marquet, retired Navy captain and author of best selling book “Turn The Ship Around!” gave an entertaining keynote on intent-based leadership.

Source: Agile 2017 Keynote: Creating Leadership and Engagement at Every Level

SoftEd Agile Program & Portfolio, Facilitation & Coaching Programs

07/08/201729/12/2018 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

I recorded a bunch of short videos for SoftEd on a number of our ICAgile training programs – namely Adaptive Program and Portfolio Management, Agile Facilitation and Agile Coaching. The full suite of videos is available on the SoftEd YouTube channel.

Adaptive Program and Portfolio Management

Agile Facilitation

Agile Coaching

Episode 134: Unicorns, Distributed Teams and Agile User Groups with Mark Kilby

26/07/201726/07/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig is at Agile 2016 in Atlanta and catches up with Mark Kilby, an Agile Coach at Sonatype and co-founder of Agile Orlando and Agile Florida. Along the way they discuss:

“Extreme Programming Explained” by Kent Beck (the white book)
Memories of Jean Tabaka and her book “Collaboration Explained”
We should be collaborating with leaders rather than working for them
InfoQ interview “Mark Kilby, Stephanie Davis and Rick Regueira on Effective User Groups & Remote Agile“
“Can you be remotely Agile” Agile 2015 experience report
“Audacious Salon – Distributed Agile” session output from Agile 2016 conference
Virtual Team Talk group (started in Berlin, ironically at a conference)
“Communicating and Collaborating: How Distributed Agile Teams Can Thrive” Agile 2016 workshop with David Horowitz
Distribution tips: don’t force distributed teams, it needs to be a choice; it’s a…

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Episode 133: Rules Are For Pussies!

07/07/201707/07/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig and Renee are both in Sydney and catch up around the kitchen table to discuss a bunch of things happening in the Agile universe:

Renee is watching “The Leftovers” while Craig has been binge watching “Mad Men” and they talk about TV show podcasts such as “The West Wing Weekly“
ANZ (one of Australia’s big four banks) is diving into Agile (everywhere but bank branches)
Silicon Valley Agile (Scrum) reference (NSFW!)
UK is wasting 37 million pounds per year on failed Agile projects (but the devil is in the detail not the headline)
IBM calling remote workers back to the office – is it about trust, staff reductions or something else?
The Thomas Allen Curve
17 Essential Hacks Every Scrum Master Should Know

"SAFe doesn't require your management to change in any meaningful way" says @jboogie at #CraftConf
— Dan North (@tastapod) April…

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Episode 132: Usability Made Easy with Steve Krug

28/06/201728/06/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Tony, Craig and Renee are at Agile Australia and catch up with Steve Krug and talk usability and along the way try to figure out whether Tony is lean, agile or just old…

“Don’t Make Me Think” book, now in 3rd edition
Agile Australia keynote “You’re not doing usability testing? Are you…nuts?“
need to start doing usability early, to find issues early and have time to fix it
Laura Klein’s book “UX For Lean Startups” is a good book on lean
issues with lean from a usability perspective is failure and disruption
usability is a user advocate role
cubicle test – draw a paper prototype and ask the person in the next cubicle to fill it out and observe the issues
CX is basically UX owned by marketing!
UX is design where usability is more about testing
start by taking to customers then do regularly…

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Episode 131: Program Management Envato Style with Adrian Fittolani

21/06/201721/06/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Renee, Tony snd Craig are at Agile Australia and sit down with Adrian Fittolani from Envato and discuss program management and monte carlo simulations. Renee also makes an estimate that is super accurate!

Envato – a marketplace for creative assets
Lisa Frazier talk at Agile Australia “Leadership in the Digital World“
utilise bottom up program management at Envato, they have 4 main themes as a company and use self organising themes to meet those themes
had to evolve from co-located teams as could not find local resources, they now have any person working in any team wherever they are and make that work, they try to keep teams in close timezones and use asynchronous communication tools, have a policy to work anywhere and additionally a policy to travel and work from anywhere in the world for 3 months
the teams responsibility is to radiate program status, currently using…

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Episode 130: Agile Australia 2016 Vox Pop #2

31/05/201731/05/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig and Tony are roaming the conference floor again at Agile Australia in Melbourne talking to more interesting people in the Australian Agile community: