In this episode Tony, Craig and Renee once again meet in a dingy (and occasionally slightly noisy) cafe and discuss:
Quotes:
https://twitter.com/CFOAmerica/status/151739448269344768
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In this episode Craig and Renee talk to Aino Vonge Corry (@apaipi) at YOW! 2012 and discuss:
Thankyou to the YOW! 2012 conference for inviting The Agile Revolution to record podcast interviews at the conference!
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Craig, Renee and Peter Sellars (from Auckland, New Zealand) talk about their first day at the YOW! 2012 Software Developer Conference, chatting about the speakers that they listened to and their thoughts on them including:
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I had hinted on Twitter and Facebook that it was time for the next chapter in my career. After almost 18 years with Suncorp and a myriad of roles in that time from software development, technical leadership and Agile coaching, it was time for a change.
Dave Thomas has always been a leader in the software development arena that I have always respected. We met in 2008 through a presentation and he gave at QUT and Suncorp and then through the international Agile conferences and the Brisbane JAOO / YOW! conferences.
When the opportunity came to work with Dave on YOW! Australia, it was an opportunity too good to pass up. So now I have put my contractor shoes on and will be working with YOW! Australia as their Director of Conferences and Workshops.
As for Agile Coaching, it is still very much my passion to help teams deliver great products, so I will be continuing to work in the Agile community as well.
Here is the post from the YOW! blog on my appointment.
We are very pleased to announce Craig Smith has joined the YOW! Team as its Director of Conferences and Workshops. Craig’s experience as a speaker, instructor, developer, workshop and conference organizer makes him the ideal person to work with the YOW! community, user groups and the technical community. Craig will be working closely with Dave, the YOW! Planning Committee and the global speaker network to ensure YOW! brings the right speakers to Australia. Craig will be at our final YOW! Night of 2012 with Greg Young, so please say hello. See you at YOW! 2012!
Dave Thomas
(This post was designed to come out in mid-November, but the workload in pulling off a conference like YOW! delayed it a little!)
Craig and Renee lob around to Tony’ abode to interview his house guest, Alistair Cockburn. Alistair spends time:
You can contact Alistair Cockburn for any work opportunities or Advanced Agile Training on totheralistair@gmail.com or totheralistair@aol.com.
You can contact Renee for any work opportunities or Agile 101 Training at renee@theagilerevolution.com.
Special thanks…
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At Agile 2012 in Dallas, Texas, Craig chats with Declan Whelan, a Canadian Agile Coach at LeanIntuit, the CTO and co-founder of a new startup called Printchomp and a newly elected member of the Agile Alliance board. Amongst other things we talk about pair coaching, running a Lean Startup, the direction of the Agile Alliance and the future of Agile.
His talk at Agile 2012 (with Alistair McKinnell) was entitled “Simple Design Applied: Spend More Time Creating Valuable Code“. Look out for a longer video interview with Declan on InfoQ.
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Craig chats with Adam Weisbart as he tries to enjoy his breakfast at Agile 2012 in Dallas, Texas. When not eating toast, he is creating awesome stuff for the Agile community at his website, teaching Scrum courses or coaching teams at CollabNet. His talk at Agile 2012 was entitled “Agile Antipatterns: The Agilist’s Guide to Traps, Tripwires and Treachery“. Look out for a longer video interview with Adam Weisbart on InfoQ.
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My lecture for students in SWEN302 Agile Methods at Victoria University of Wellington called “Going All XP On Your Business” is available on Slideshare.
My presentation from Fusion 2012 called “Going All XP On Your Business” is available on Slideshare.
When XP and Scrum were devised over 10 years ago, they were created to improve the delivery of software development projects. As many enterprises have matured in the Agile adoption, many of the business users on IT projects are now attempting to use Agile approaches on their own non-IT projects.
In this session we will cover using Agile in a non-IT environment and demonstrate how the original XP practices map extremely well over to business processes. And how those in SD can help your business counterparts.
Throughout the talk I will be referencing back to specific examples and case studies that we have experienced
in our organisation as we have rolled out agile processes across the enterprise. We’ll look at:
- Agile values for non-software development, including an updated look at the agile manifesto.
- Agile principles and why they make good business sense.
- Agile practices (such as TDD, standups, retrospectives, storycard elaboration and acceptance criteria
and planning approaches) and how to adapt them effectively into a business process (using case
studies as specific examples).- Mapping the XP, Scrum and Kanban practices to work in a business context.
- Agile vs Kanban and how to decide when which is most appropriate.
- What a business storycard looks like and why the elaboration and acceptance criteria are important.
- Project delivery and how iterative delivery applies (and what delivery looks like in a non-software development project).
Craig chats with Peter Saddington (an Agile Coach and Consultant who is probably best known as the face behind Agile Scout) at Agile 2012 in Dallas, Texas about Agile in the US Military, the top lists on Agile Scout, his newly rewritten book “The Scrum Pocket Guide” and the state of Agile (or “Raccoon”!)
Peter is also the Co-Founder of Action & Influence and his upcoming book “The Agile Pocket Guide” will be released via Wiley in late 2012. His talk at Agile 2012 was entitled “Scaling Product Ownership at the US Air Force“. Look out for a longer video interview coming soon on InfoQ.
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