Episode 189: The Alistair Cockburn Fan Club with Martin Kearns

04/01/202104/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Tony and Craig are at Agile Australia in Melbourne and they (finally) catch up with Martin Kearns, the Chief Digital Officer at Innodev and co-organiser of Scrum Australia, and they chat about:

Alistair Cockburn gets mentioned at around the 2:30 minute mark, and Martin was responsible for first bringing him to Australia
Being coached is being open to an experience you aren’t controlling
Certified Agile Leadership
Agile is always going to hurt, need to prepare for pain and enjoy it
Australia 2030: Prosperity through Innovation – need to understand the environmental factors that are forcing Agility into organisations
Knowledge of customers is more superior than ever before – due to education and social intelligence (Target inappropriate clothing for children)
VUCA is here to stay – accept that you need to listen
Australia Post is a good agile example organisation – reinvented themselves through identity services, travel…

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Episode 167: Unlearning and the Improv Effect with Jessie Shternshus

07/07/201907/07/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Melbourne and with guest revolutionist Toby Thompson (who was sitting at the table and initially didn’t want to speak on the podcast but then we couldn’t keep him quiet!) catch up with Jessie Shternshus, CEO at The Improv Effect and author of “CTRLShift“:

Agile 2015 keynote “Individuals, Interactions and Improvisation“
CTRLShift – 50 games for different types of days you might be happening
Agile Australia keynote “Unlearning: The Challenge of Change“
When you are facilitating you need to know your audience and believe in what you are doing – to get people involved, do things in small groups in partners so nobody has the attention on them initially and then build them up to group activities
Make people safe and get them to laugh – then you have them for the ride
Tony imitates a…

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Episode 166: A Trip Down Agile Memory Lane with Jeff Smith

04/07/201904/07/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Melbourne and talk to their former leader Jeff Smith, EVP and COO at World Fuel Services and former CEO of Suncorp Business Services:

Australian Agile journey took him from Telstra, to a small startup and then to Suncorp, and later IBM and World Fuel Services
Scale of thought is more important than scale of people
The Suncorp Agile Academy was born out of the fact that learning matters, but the idea was for other companies to create content that could be shared in the Agile community which did not happen
Suncorp Building Quality In program
It all comes down to great people and working through problem
It’s hard for companies to build great leaders that are interested in building great teams
Jeff Smith keynote “Leading an Agile Company“
Availability is not a skillset
Thinking from a team point…

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