Craig continues his daily reports from Agile 2013 in Nashville with some observations on the sessions he attended on days 3, 4 and 5.
More in-depth notes will be available on Craig’s blog soon.
TheAgileRevolution-62 (13 minutes)
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Episode 61: Agile 2013 Day 2
Craig continues his daily reports from Agile 2013 in Nashville with some observations on the sessions he attended on day 2.
More in-depth notes will be available on Craig’s blog soon.
TheAgileRevolution-61 (17 minutes)
Episode 60: Agile 2013 Day 1
Craig is in Nashville, Tennessee in the USA for the Agile 2013 conference,, and recaps the opening keynote as well as the day 1 sessions he attended.
More in-depth notes will be available on Craig’s blog soon.
TheAgileRevolution-60 (15 minutes)
Episode 58: Don’t Drink and Podcast!
Craig and Renee are in Sydney and dangerously podcast after Renee’s one (1) drink and Craig’s two (2) drinks. Along the way they fumble over the following topics:
- Agile Sydney meetup – Agile 101
- Build Your Own Manifesto and Adam Weisbart’s Build Your Own Manifesto (and my Interview with Adam Weisbart at Agile 2012 in case you missed it)
- Wordle – awesome word cloud generation tool
- Agile observations from Dave Thomas (not Dave Thomas)
- YOW! Lambda Jam and Lambda Jam and the buzz around functional programming
- Emergent Design
- Mike Cohn on “Hard to Read Handwriting is Best for User Stories” (and the associated research)
- Craig’s notes from Tech Connect 2013 in Brisbane
- Startup Metrics for Pirates (AARRR)
- When would you pick waterfall over agile (…we think you know the answer!)
- DWP drops agile from flagship government software project
- New book Commitment from Chris Matts and Olav Maassen has…
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Episode 57: No, No, Noooo!
Tony, Renee and Craig meet in sunny suburban Sandgate and have an intense debate about the world of Agile while dealing with the 4:01 to Shorncliffe and beeping out Tony’s references to seagulls and respect.
- Agile coaching is more about building the capacity of people and high performing teams rather than processes, the Situational Leadership Model, Shu Ha Ri and pragmatic coaching
- No estimates – Purpose Of Estimation by Martin Fowler, The NoEstimates Movement by Ron Jeffries, numerous posts and an Agile Business Analysts Meetup by Neil Killick and numerous posts by Woody Zuill
- Inspirational speaker Peter Williams from Deloitte
- No prioritisation and no product owner movements
- The Costs of Ignoring Employee Engagement
- 2012 Version One State of Agile Survey as well as Renee’s blog and Craig’s InfoQ post on the survey
- Al Shalloway – Why I am No Longer With Lean-Kanban University
- No videos from LKNA
- Australian startup
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Episode 56: Scrum Australia plus a Hint of Peas & Apples
Craig and Renee rendezvous in Sydney for Scrum Australia and clear the backlog for a way overdue podcast. Whilst Craig battled a cold and Renee a fit of giggles, they discussed:
- Highlights from the inaugural Scrum Australia in Sydney
- LAST Conference 2013 in Melbourne is now accepting submissions
- Kenny Rubin’s presentations at Scrum Australia, his book Essential Scrum and his Visual AGILExicon
- Clark & Wheelwright study (1993) on Multitasking
- Complexity Thinking by Anton Rossouw and some of the models
- RubyConf Australia 2013
- Kim Ballestrin is off to LKNA!
- New certifications such as Kanban Coaching Professional and Disciplined Agile Certification
- Every Employee Should Work From Home (David Heinemeier Hansson on Forbes) http://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2013/03/29/david-heinemeier-hansson-every-employee-should-work-from-home/
- WIP Limits by Conversation (Pawel Brodzinski) – http://brodzinski.com/2013/03/wip-limits-by-conversation.html
- Scaled Agile Framework
- Dinosaur Train
- The Insufficiency of Scrum is a Fallacy – http://agile.dzone.com/articles/insufficiency-scrum-fallacy
- Amazon Acquires Goodreads: World’s Biggest Online Retailer Acquires Beloved Book Site – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/28/amazon-acquires-goodreads_n_2974572.html
- Renee has been…
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Episode 55: YOW! 2012 with Zach Holman
Our last YOW! 2012 interview, Craig and Renee have a talk to Zach Holman (@holman) from Github and chat about:
- The open source model – what is it?
- Meeting hate crimes
- Scaling organisational size
- Culture spreading outside of programming
- Being agile without being Agile
- Being enabled to make change
- Hack houses
- Working less makes better code
- Internal value adding tools
- Innovation and 20% time
- The challenge of working in teams
Thankyou to the YOW! 2012 conference for inviting The Agile Revolution to record podcast interviews at the conference!
TheAgileRevolution-55 (30 minutes)
Episode 53: Merry Xmas Mumbles
In this episode Tony, Craig and Renee once again meet in a dingy (and occasionally slightly noisy) cafe and discuss:
- The Agile Alphabet (Koti Reddy Bhavanam)
- The Agile Pocket Guide is released by Peter Saddington (@agileScout)
- An Alternative to Agile Coaching (Phil Abernathy)
- Agile Australia 2013 is now open for speaker submissions!
- Agile 2013 in Nashville is now open too for submissions!
Quotes:
https://twitter.com/CFOAmerica/status/151739448269344768
TheAgileRevolution-53 (34 minutes)
Episode 52: YOW! 2012 Retrospectives with Aino Vonge Corry
In this episode Craig and Renee talk to Aino Vonge Corry (@apaipi) at YOW! 2012 and discuss:
- Retrospectives
- Design patterns
- Trojan retrospectives
- Enterprise retrospective patterns
- Retrospective facilitators – part of the team?
- Distributed retrospectives (and a plug for Linoit)
- The importance of acknowledging success and learning
- Women in IT
Thankyou to the YOW! 2012 conference for inviting The Agile Revolution to record podcast interviews at the conference!
TheAgileRevolution-52 (36 minutes)
Episode 50: YOW! 2012 Day 1 Wrap Up
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:
- Don Reinersten‘s “The Practical Science of Batch Size”
- Fred George‘s “Programmer Anarchy”
- Dan North‘s “Embracing Uncertainty”
- Aino Vonge Corry‘s “Retrospectives, Who Needs Them, Anyway?”
- Marko Rodriguez‘s “Big Data”
- Michael Nygard‘s “Architecture and Design”
- John-Henry Harris‘ “Design and Innovation at the LEGO Group”
- Jeff Patton‘s “Co-making Great Products”; and
- Mike Lee‘s “The Most Important Minute of Your Life”
TheAgileRevolution-50 (39 minutes)
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