Episode 73: What Made You An Agile Coach?

26/05/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Tony asks a philisophical question , whilst Renee harnesses her nineties pop star – Ice Ice Baby and Craig marvels at Tony’s cool intro – probably the coolest intro he’s done since the eighties.

Craig entices us to save the environment by using Octopads instead of sticky notes – with Luke Stephenson
Renee get us game playing with the Lean Startup game”Snowflake” from TastyCupcakes.com
Carrying on the game theme ,Devops-against humanity
Tony asks ….What Made You An Agile Coach?
I didn’t sign up for all this people Sh**t from @flowchainsensei
TDD is dead .Long live Testing from @dhh
Ship It Day! with Renee
The “Safe Segment” – discussing Safe Training blog from Steve Barrett

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Episode 72: Shipping at Facebook with Joel Pobar

22/05/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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From YOW! 2013, Craig and Renee talk to Joel Pobar, currently working at Facebook as an Engineering Lead and talk about:

Joel’s journey to Facebook
Common Language Runtime (CLR)
Building and shipping fast
The value of a developers time and their critical paths
A day in the life of a Facebook manager
Who is the Product Owner in an infrastructural team?
A/B (experimentation) testing in New Zealand
Stabalisation and release process
Recruiting the right people
Pulling out the sharpies when pivoting on PHP
Striving for infrastructural efficiency and how to empower the team to this goal
Owning the stack from the bottom to the top and its impact on agility
Checkout HHVM, the Facebook Engineering Blog & Open Compute

You can contact Joel at facebook or on twitter at @joelpob.

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Episode 71: Essential Scrum with Kenny Rubin

03/05/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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At Agile 2013 in Nashville, TN, Craig catches up with Kenny Rubin, author of “Essential Scrum” and Scrum trainer and coach at Innolution. While sitting in the corridor, they talk about:

Essential Scrum – the success and background of the book
Visual AGILExicon® – free image library to describe Scrum and Agile in a visual way
The lack of Agile (and technical) audio books
Strategies for Agile Portfolio Management and Scaling with Feature vs Component Teams talk at Agile 2013
The size of the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville
Contact Kenny to speak at your user group / meetup if he is passing through your town!

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Repairing Outlook 2010 Auto Complete Cache

25/04/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The auto complete cache in Outlook remembers all of the addresses that you have emailed and auto completes them when you enter an email address into the To: (or CC: or BCC:) field in Outlook. There are numerous fixes around on the web, but this one sorted the issue for me today on a stubborn Windows 7 machine with Outlook 2010 installed (with Google App Sync).

Close Outlook and go to %localappdata%\Microsoft\Outlook\ and rename RoamCache to old_RoamCache
Restart Outlook using the command line switch /cleanautocompletecache (“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Outlook.exe” /cleanautocompletecache). This will rebuild the autocomplete cache.

These steps are based on an article at Spiceworks here: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/16443-repair-autocomplete-cache-in-outlook-2010. The second step was missing in the official Microsoft article.

Episode 70: Hello Is This Thing On?

09/04/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig, Renee and Tony catch up again and discuss the wonderfully diverse world of Agile :

Tony starts the SAFe conversation again via @RonJeffries blog post SAFe – Good not Good Enough
I want Agile back , you ? via Tim Ottinger
Craig brings the Raccoon back whilst discussing ” Reports of Agile’s death” from @jbrains, “Agile is Dead (Long Live Agility) ” from @pragdave
What is ScrumStudy and the “Scrum Master Certified” ? via @sdunnrocket9
We’ll ask for estimates @jonelf
Renee gets in a shameless plug for the “Who Is Agile in Australia and New Zealand ?” Book
Siemens success story ” Kanban at Scale” via InfoQ
“Kanban in Action” book review via authors @marcusoftnet and @joakimsunden
“The Human Side of Agile ” book review @gilbroza

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Episode 69: DevOps with Michael Nygard

29/03/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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At YOW 2013 in Sydney, Craig and Renee catch up with Michael Nygard and discuss the world of DevOps including:

Michael’s book “Release it!: Design and Deploy Production Ready Software“
What DevOps really is
The values of DevOps and its relationship to the Agile Manifesto
Could DevOps have occurred without Agile?
How much of Release it is still holding well?
Anti-patterns in DevOps (eg. a separate DevOps group)
Cognitect and Closure
Development is production
Where does ITIL fit in with DevOps?
Why Problem Management may no longer be relevant
How good are we really in DevOps?

You can contact Michael on twitter at @mtnygard or at the Think Relevance Blog.

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Episode 68: Together Again Like Peas & Carrots

24/03/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Can you believe it ! Yes it’s a real Forest Gump moment, the revolutionists are finally back together again just like peas and carrots . They are back to their best discussing :

What is Agile 2014 ? Inspired by The Dark Side of Scrum – Thomas Schranz – @__tosh
Renee gets agile academic : Understanding Post-Adoptive Agile Usage – an Exploratory Cross-Case analysis : Mali Senapathi and Ananth Srinivasan
Tony befuddles Craig and Renee with a great question : Two top tips to enable the people to uptake agile and empower them ?
Laminating not slicing : Alistair Cockburn
Tony quotes “Cher” (yes that’s right “Cher”) and turns back time
37 Signals becomes Basecamp
CSIRO builds Sophie a dragon

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Episode 67: A Boys Night Out

18/02/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony take the opportunity in Renee’s absence to talk about the year that was , conferences and workshops attended and generally cover all things Agile:

A managers guide to attending agile team events – Illustratedagile.com
Lyssa’s “Coaching Agile Teams” book
Steve Blank – Why Continuous Deployment May Mean Continuous Customer Disappointment
YOW 2013 wrap up
Lyssa Adkins / Michael Spade – Coaching Agile Team workshop
Ilan Goldstein – Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners

Twitter Quotes: @RonJeffries, @WendyAppell, @drunkcod

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Episode 66: Agile Coaching with Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd

11/02/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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At YOW 2013 in Sydney, Craig, Renee and Jeremie Benazra catch up with Lyssa Adkins, author of “Coaching Agile Teams” and Michael Spayd, both Agile Coaches at the Agile Coaching Institute and chew the fat on:

What is Agile?
Lyssa’s “Coaching Agile Teams” book
The difficulties in being an Agile Coach
The XP Coach
Coaching as a more mature version of leadership
Where professional coaching fits into Agile Coaching
Why Agile Coaches are sought after whereas general organisational coaching is less prevalent
The training of managers and its impact on mindsets
Michael’s “Coaching the Agile Enterprise” book
Team coaches vs enterprise coaches – what is the difference
Scrum Mastering an enterprise transformation
ICAgile
How to teach a pig to sing
The coaching oath of non-allegiance
Certified Scrum Coach versus ICAgile Coach
The myriad of skill sets needed as an Agile Coach
Agile…

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2013 WordPress Review

02/01/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.