Craig is in Dallas, Texas, USA at the Agile 2012 conference. Today was day 0 and the annual AA-FTT workshop.
In-depth notes can be found on Craig’s blog.
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The Agile Revolution Podcast
Episode 38: Coding With Exceptions (The Agile Story)
This is a special mashup episode recorded in Auckland, New Zealand. Craig catches up with Mark Derricut from the Illegal Argument podcast and Craig Aspinall from the Coding By Numbers podcast. Not your usual Agile podcast, the discussion starts around the definition of Agile (“crash often, crash regulary”) and trying to define quality and ends up in a chat about wicked problems, devops and software development skillsets.
This episode has been released on the other channels as well (take a listen if you haven’t already)
- Illegal Argument (Episode 83)
- Coding By Numbers (Episode 37)
TheAgileRevolution-38 (67 minutes)
Episode 37: Sensational Sydney
Craig and Renee take a revolutionary tour of Sydney and speak to Jeremie Benazra and Dominic Franco about the Agile work that they are doing in Australia’s big city including Kanban, cultural differences, safety and edgy Agile.
TheAgileRevolution-37 (26 minutes)
Episode 36: Revolution World Tour
Craig, Renee and Tony talk about Fed… no, Ship It! days, recent changes to Yammer and LinkedIn and the 10 agile bloggers you should know about. We also review Tony’s recent excursion to BA World and Renee’s journey to KLRAT and ponder just why Tony has such an obsession with pants…
- To Deliver Innovation Don’t FedEx It, ShipIt!
- Yammer sells to Microsoft
- LinkedIn blocks Twitter cross posts
- 10 Agile Bloggers You Should Know About But Don’t (Agile Bench)
- Achievements (Renee’s article on Agile Scout)
- BA World
- KLRAT (Kanban Leadership Retreat Austria)
- Renee’s recap of KLRAT
- Hakan Forss’ recap of KLRAT and summary of whether the practices are in the right order
- David J. Anderson’s new book – Lessons in Agile Management
Quotes:
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Episode 35: Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners
Renee, Craig and Ilan Goldstein talk at Agile Australia 2012 about Scrum Masters, conferences, writing a book and the state of Agile amongst other things.
Ilan is the Director at AxisAgile, and he is the author of the Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners blog. He is currently writing a new book with the working title “Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners” for Addison Wesley as part of the Mike Cohn Signature Series.
TheAgileRevolution-35 (33 minutes)
Episode 34: Agile Australia 2012 Wrapup
Craig and Renee returned from the Agile Australia 2012 conference in Melbourne and share their highlights including:
- New Zealand BFF Douglas Talbot
- Keynote from Fiona Wood
- Agile: Looking Back, Looking Forward: Adapt, Innovate, Collaborate & Deliver with Craig Smith, Nigel Dalton, David Joyce and Simon Bristow
- Kanban Ice Cream
- Michael Bromley (NBN Co) on Hiring for Agility
- Bram Surti and Rob White (BNZ) on Mainframe Test Automation
- Agile Governance with Renee Troughton, Paul Watson, Sarah Pollard, Caroline Smart and Pete Tansey
- The Fall of the Project Management Office in ITNews
- Sandra Dalli and Sarah McAllister (BankWest) on Driving Agility
- Ilan Goldstein on the Role of the Scrum Master
- Activate Agile
- Andy Sheats (health.com.au) on Agile Start Ups
- ThoughtWorks Open House
- Croft Institute
- Roy Singham on Software for Humanity
- OpenMRS hack nights in Sydney and Melbourne
- James Hird on Leadership
- Martin Kearns
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Episode 32: Agile Australia 2012 Kickoff
Craig and Renee are at the Agile Australia 2012 conference speaker breakfast where they discuss the workshop day, the upcoming conference and their respective talks and a Lean Startup story about monkeys and bananas.
TheAgileRevolution-32 (9 minutes)
Episode 31: An Apple A Day
Craig, Tony and Renee talk about Apple, RFID story cards and ponder who is agile?
- Apple’s letter to employees by Apple
- Thinking Agile for Change Management? Think Again!
- Radio Story Cards
- Who Is Agile?
Quotes:
“The aim for any company is for everybody to gain – shareholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment – over the long term” – Deming
TheAgileRevolution-31 (43 minutes)
Episode 30: Eleven Dictums
Craig, Tony and Renee get cynical about Agile, assist the search for 100 voices, talk about some recent posts by Steve Denning on management and Agile and lose count of the dictums.
- The Cynical Agile Dictionary
- My Coaching / Facilitation Toolkit
- Looking for 100 Agile Voices We Should Hear More From
- The Agile Project Manager Getting Out of Jail Free
- Timebox != Commitment
- Reminder of Agile Australia at end of May
- LAST Unconference on 27 July in Melbourne
- World BA Conference in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth in June
- The Best-Kept Management Secret on the Planet: Agile
- Why Can’t The C-Suite Grasp Agile Management
- The Case Against Agile: Ten Perennial Management Objections
Quotes:
“I guess the reason that I don’t think the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto don’t own Agile is that I was doing Agile in the 90’s” – Alan Shalloway
“It’s difficult to get a man to understand…
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Episode 29: Offshoring at IBM
Craig, Tony and Renee talk about the news Scrum Inc style, discuss the coolness of Lego for reporting, chat about Net-Map and discuss the state of IBM.
- Scrum inc’s first monthly newsletter
- Fastcodesign’s How GM is saving cash using legos as a data vis tool
- Craig’s InfoQ article on Net-Map
- Why physical card walls are important?
- The experience of being coached
- Australian IT on Agile skills gain grounds
- IT News on JP Morgan adopts Agile in Australia
- ICringley’s Blog on IBM: Not your father’s IBM
Quotes:
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new” – Albert Einstein
“The greatest waste is failure to use the abilities of people. Learn their frustrations and contributions they’re eager to make” – Deming
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