It was a pleasure to be asked by Deepti Jain to represent the Agile Alliance as part of the Agile Career bootcamp for the Agility Today 2021 festival. The video of the ask me anything session is available on YouTube.
Hot 30 with Matty – 5 February 2021

The Hot 30 with Matty, counting down the hottest 30 Songs in Australia.
- Craig Smith with your latest Gossip and the U.K. Top 5.
- Steve Rickertt’s Hit Pick.
- The Juice Media.
- Richard Tucker with the U.S. Top 5.
- Your requests and shout outs.
- 1800 646 376.
- request@hot30withmatty.com.
Heard Coast to Coast on over 65 Stations in Australia and 25+ around the world.
Licenced Music Podcast World Wide through APRA AMCOS Australia – Switch Brisbane
Hot 30 with Matty 5 Feb 2021 (164 minutes)
Draft Published of the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching
The Agile Coaching Ethics Initiative has published a draft code of ethics that aims to raise the standards around agile coaching. It runs under the auspices of the Agile Alliance to independently represent the wider agile community.
The January 2021 draft of Code of Ethical Conduct consists of 18 points covering 9 subject areas:
- Confidentiality and information security
- Acting within your ability
- Introspection and continuing professional development
- Conflicts of interest
- Social responsibility, including diversity and inclusion
- Ensuring the relationship is valuable for both coach and the client
- Agreeing on boundaries
- Abuse of power
- Responsibility to the profession
The Ethics Scenarios provide guidance on how the code relates to common challenges experienced by agile coaches, whether they are experienced or new to the role.
The expectation is that anyone taking on agile coaching at any level in an organisation will be able to use this code to help guide their behavior when faced with ethical dilemmas.
For questions and feedback on the code of ethics and the related agile scenarios, you can contact the initiative team at AgileCoachingEthics@agilealliance.org.
InfoQ interviewed Craig Smith and Shane Hastie about the code of ethical conduct.
Source: Draft Published of the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching
Agile Coaching Ethics Initiative – Key Accomplishments & Highlights
The team working on the Agile Alliance Agile Coaching Ethics Initiative has been working steadily over the last six months and we have now published a draft Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching
Source: Agile Coaching Ethics Initiative – Key Accomplishments & Highlights
Hot 30 with Matty – 22 January 2021

The Hot 30 with Matty, counting down the hottest 30 Songs in Australia.
- Craig Smith with your latest Gossip and the U.K. Top 5.
- Steve Rickertt’s Hit Pick.
- The Juice Media.
- Richard Tucker with the U.S. Top 5.
- Your requests and shout outs.
- 1800 646 376.
- request@hot30withmatty.com.
Heard Coast to Coast on over 65 Stations in Australia and 25+ around the world.
Licenced Music Podcast World Wide through APRA AMCOS Australia – Switch Brisbane
Hot 30 with Matty 22 January 2021 (164 minutes)
Episode 191: Accelerating DevOps with Jez Humble
Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and after many years of chasing him around finally get to speak to Jez Humble, co-author of many fine books including “Continuous Delivery“, “Lean Enterprise“, “The DevOps Handbook” and “Accelerate” and they discuss:
- Accelerate is based on a research program where practices are validated on the impact they had on various organisations
- Agile Australia keynote “The Key to High Performing Tech Organizations“
- There is enormous scope to extend the Accelerate-type research to the rest of the value stream
- “Thinking Fast and Slow” – Daniel Kahneman shows that you can measure psychological and behavioural science
- Project Aristotle by Google – were able to replicate results around culture
- State of DevOps Report
- Jeff Smith at Suncorp
- We all want to ensure that people and data are safe – need to…
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Hot 30 with Matty – 15 January 2021

The Hot 30 with Matty, counting down the hottest 30 Songs in Australia.
- Craig Smith with your latest Gossip and the U.K. Top 5.
- Craig Smith’s Hit Pick.
- The Juice Media.
- Richard Tucker with the U.S. Top 5.
- Your requests and shout outs.
- 1800 646 376.
- request@hot30withmatty.com.
Heard Coast to Coast on over 60 Stations in Australia and 25+ around the world.
Licenced Music Podcast World Wide through APRA AMCOS Australia – Switch Brisbane
Hot 30 with Matty 15 January 2021 (165 minutes)
40 Agile Methods Goes Viral
Since first running the “40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes” talk in 2014, the sketch note graphic that Lynne Cazaly created as part of the talk has ended up in numerous articles, presentations and in multiple languages.

Here are the ones that I am aware of:
Steve Denning has used the graphic numerous times in his articles on Forbes
… Yet what exactly is Agile? How do you explain Agile when there are more than forty different variants of Agile, as depicted in this graphic by Australian designer Lynne Cazaly… And what about all those Agile practices? There are more than 70 different Agile practices. Even the Agile Manifesto, with its four values and twelve principles can be a cognitive stretch for newcomers. How on earth can you explain such a bewildering blizzard of seemingly different ideas?
… There is also Agile in the sense of the various Agile brands promoted by consultants and trainers, of which there are hundreds. These are multiple variants of the same underlying idea of Agile. Yet often there is an insistence on using particular terms and specific named processes, which are defined in this way for the commercial purpose of distinguishing their offering from competing consultants and trainers. The result is mass confusion as shown in the diagram below.
What Is Agile? The Four Essential Elements
… For one thing, many different flavors of Agile have been disseminated by advocates, as shown in the figure below. These variants were issued with the best intentions. But in the resulting cacophony, it is easy to lose sight of what is essential to Agile. And it’s even easier for critics to conclude that perhaps Agile is no more than noise and confusion.
Why Finding The Real Meaning Of Agile Is Hard
“I talked to 50+ leaders and consultants about what ‘agile’ means,” the legendary professor of management science at the Stanford Engineering School, Robert I. Sutton, wrote on Twitter late last week. “Read 10+ books. I agree with many principles and grasped it when it focused on software. I am now confused. It has become a huge tent with varied jargon monoxide. Consider this graphic via @stevedenning.”
The Five Biggest Challenges Facing Agile
… Today there are multiple versions of what is meant by Agile…
Other references
Flow Framework — a fad, or here to stay? – Karsh Kunwar
Agile methods and frameworks are a dime a dozen (see below), with more methods & frameworks sprouting into existence all the time. Therefore, when I first heard of the new kid on the block — Flow Framework, I was both curious and skeptical.
Agile software development at a glance – Axon Active
When we speak of Agile methodologies, we speak of a way of working that entails a range of widely-adopted lightweight frameworks and methods. Not surprisingly, they include more than 40 Agile methods (see below). The most popular are Scrum, XP, Crystal, among others, whose inventions dated from the early 1940s to the 1990s even before the term “Agile” was coined.
Transforming Software Delivery – Roman Dumiak
OnAgile2017 – the Agile Alliance even used it for a conference, and yet the talk was never accepted in the USA!
Battle of the Frameworks: Choosing Agile Approaches in Government Project – Agile Government Leadership
Julien Karoubi – LinkedIn – it even attracted a post in French
“Les coachs agiles sont dogmatiques…” 👺
Il y a une différence entre donner un conseil, un avis, une préférence et forcer quelqu’un ! 🤗
Chacun peut avoir ses habitudes et ses références.
Historiquement, l’organisation du travail n’etait pas discutable dans l’entreprise.🤐
Plutôt séquentielle, plutôt hiérarchique, plutôt comme à l’usine (spécialisation et standardisation), plutôt pas le choix…😑
Désormais on a ➕ de choix, PRÉDICTIF ou ADAPTATIF, avec ou sans frameworks, avec beaucoup de possibilités au niveau des concepts.🎁
Mais on ne force personne ! 🕊
Offrir des choix, des orientations avec des arguments, fait aussi parti de ce métier :
Tout n’est pas égal à tout 🤔
Oui il y a des avancées, des plébiscites, des effets d’annonce, de l’excitation, de la naïveté des débuts, de l’ouverture, mais surtout de l’espoir.🌞
Plus de 40 méthodes, ce n’est pas une mauvaise nouvelle. 🤷♂️
Voici les slides :
https://lnkd.in/e3tzUY5Voici la vidéo :
https://lnkd.in/eVuF–NThks Craig Smith
Ceux qui empêche la réflexion, le choix, l’expression et l’argumentation, j’ai une pensée émue pour vous 😘
Hot 30 with Matty – 8 January 2021

The Hot 30 with Matty, counting down the hottest 30 songs in Australia.
- Craig Smith with your latest Gossip and the U.K. Top 5.
- Craig Smith’s Hit Pick.
- The Juice Media.
- Richard Tucker with the U.S. Top 5.
- Your requests and shout outs.
- 1800 646 376.
- request@hot30withmatty.com
Heard coast to coast on over 60 stations in Australia and 25+ around the world.
Licenced Music Podcast World Wide through APRA AMCOS Australia – Switch Brisbane
Hot 30 with Matty 8 January 2021 (166 minutes)
Episode 190: Talking Agile Live From The Man Cave with Serge Beaumont
Renee, Craig and Tony are together to chat with Serge Beaumont, Principal Agile Coach at Xebia, live from his man cave and despite showing their lack of mathematical skills in relation to dice they chat about:
- In relation to culture, if the human connections are there you can handle just about anything
- A foundational cultural aspect at Xebia is that they implemented Xebia Knowledge Exchange (XKE) – every second Tuesday the team has dinner and then has a mini-conference of about 20 streams
- Xebia were at the foundation of the ING Agile transformation
- Gloomhaven
- Rode PodMic
- You need leadership that truly believes in culture as a powerful thing
- Renee does story maps like trees and Serge prefers to ensure that he finds his epic on the horizontal slice rather than using the activities on the vertical backbone, building towards an MVP
- All backlogs should be tree structures
- An…
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