Episode 20: Lean Start-ups with Joshua Kerievsky

23/12/201105/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Joshua Kerievsky, founder of Industrial Logic spends time with Craig and Renee going through some of his elements of his Lean Start-up presentation at the YOW! Developer Conference in Brisbane.

Within this podcast we learn what exactly a Lean Start-up is and how it isn’t just for new entrepreneurs.

In addition to the Lean Start-up presentation Josh also did a fantastic presentation on the Limited Red Society which focuses on using metrics and visualisation of these to behaviourally change a developer so that their tests pass sooner and more often with less compilation errors.

Other than being an early pioneer in eXtreme Programming, he is also the author of the best-selling Refactoring to Patterns book and provides Agile training from an amazing technical depth of experience.

TheAgileRevolution-20 (26 minutes)

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The Agile Community Needs to Embrace… Agile Thought Leaders at YOW! Australia 2011

21/12/201130/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

What is the most important thing that the Agile community needs to embrace in 2012 and beyond? InfoQ had the opportunity to attend the recent YOW! Australia Software Developer Conference and took the opportunity of having such a large number of Agile speakers in one place to sit in on the sessions and ask them their thoughts on this question.

Source: The Agile Community Needs to Embrace… Agile Thought Leaders at YOW! Australia 2011

Agile 2012 Submissions Now Open

15/12/201130/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Submissions are now open for the Agile 2012 conference to be held in Dallas, Texas from August 13-17, 2012. Submissions are open until February 19, 2012.

Source: Agile 2012 Submissions Now Open

Episode 19: Luna Tractor with Nigel Dalton

13/12/201105/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Nigel Dalton from Luna Tractor in Melbourne gives us the low down of his presentation from the YOW! Developer Conference in Brisbane.

A brief summary of the discussions include

how Agile was at play in the aerospace and military world since World War II
business strategies and how Agile can help us rapidly adapt to commercial changes
Lonely Planet‘s agile journey including it not just being for software development
fail quickly, be safe to fail
for agile to grow further we need to focus less on commercialising or packaging it tightly into a box
culture and behavioural habits
consulting in Agile
developers working in harmony and a focus on strong collaboration with the business; and team sizes

TheAgileRevolution-19 (40 minutes)

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Agile Academy Meetup: Agile & Lean Games

05/12/201106/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Last week, the Agile Academy had a games night for its November 2011 meetup, to cap off the year, hosted by Adrian Smith from Ennova.

The three games we played were the XP Game, Lean Paper Plane Game and Kanban Soduko. We ended the night with the Marshmallow Challenge.

You can also view the pictures from the night.

Episode 16: Motivated To Make Walls Fun

30/11/201105/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

With Tony on assignment on an island, Craig and Renee talk about motivation, Renee makes a ballsy prediction about fun and we talk about dead walls, tools for walls and everything in between:

Quotes:

Definition of Done should define minimum for checked-in code (beyond compilation): no dead code, commented-out code or TO DOs (done, right?)
— Kevlin Henney (@KevlinHenney) October 30, 2011

@kaleidic @KentBeck taught us: "A comment is the code's way of asking to be made more clear."
— Ron Jeffries (@RonJeffries) May 22, 2012

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Episode 18: Scrum vs Kanban War

28/11/201105/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Breaking out from our normal format Craig, Tony and Renee talk about the recent flurry of tweets from the Scrum and Kanban communities.

It all started with Jeff Sutherland and his tweet and blog cross reference: Deep analysis of #kanban by Jim Coplien

The twitter feed that was captured by us (and hence is not a comprehensive feed on the subject and contains some leetspeak cleanup) includes:

David Anderson (@agilemanager):

Interesting FUD Jeff, I thought you were more professional than this?

Jim’s post on Jeff’s blog contains lies which fly in the face of the well documented evidence with teams around the world

Jeff and Jim, I challenge you to produce the evidence to backup claims like…

“Kanban (the methodology) discourages teamwork and increases the risk of not completing agreed work”

I often wonder how people without integrity go through life and live…

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Episode 17: Bad Smell Bingo

15/11/201105/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

With Tony MIA, Craig and Renee talk about bad smells, geek stuff and daily retrospectives:

Bad Smell Bingo for stand-ups:

Starts late
Not everyone turns up
Not enough of a quorum
Not standing up
Running over 10 minutes (too long)
No focus on roadblocks
Not touching cards
No understanding/association to a story
Talks too long (particular individual)
Not focussing on the three questions (What I did yesterday, What I plan on doing today and roadblocks)
No consistency in the way it is run
Too big
Directed to PM
Directed to IM/Scrum Master
Conversations are not off-lined
Conversations are off-lined too quickly
Risks to delivery not understood
No one volunteers to help
Too short/not meaniful enough
Too boring/monotonous
Run like…

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Agile 2011 Videos Now Available On New Agile Alliance Learning Center

15/11/201130/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Alliance have recently launched a new Learning Center, with the highlight at launch being the availability of keynotes and selected presentations from the Agile 2011 conference.

Source: Agile 2011 Videos Now Available On New Agile Alliance Learning Center

The Questions when Measuring Agile Adoption

25/10/201130/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

There have been numerous attempts over the years to determine the best way to measure the effectiveness of an Agile adoption. Some recent articles have reignited the debate around the most useful metrics.

Source: The Questions when Measuring Agile Adoption