Episode 193: Agile Australia 2019 Vox Pop #2

15/02/202115/02/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Craig and Tony are once again roaming the halls at Agile Australia in Sydney and once again chat to some old friends from the Australian Agile community:

Keynotes from Ali Walker and Marty Cagan
Elabor8 (nice plug Tony)
Sharon Robson from enterprising agility – enjoying the recognition that Agile adoption starts from the top down, agile at scale is about the thinking and thought processes being applied throughout the entire organisation, looking forward to Sandra Davey on “Upon retrospective: the board went Agile“
Steve Lawrence – a member of the “11 club”, agile should be a mechanism to create greater value not reduce headcount, every small step you take is a step forward

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Episode 192: Agile Australia 2019 Vox Pop #1

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Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and run into some old friends:

Cathy Tang – “stroke the ego and crack the whip”, making the leap from logistics to Scrum Master
Rachel Slattery – Agile Australia Director and Director of Slatts Group, surprised by the large number of new attendees
Keynotes by Emma Murray and Jez Humble
Hayley Pepper from Sunsuper – enjoyed talk by Roger Almeida “Lessons from leading a “you build it, you run it” team” about platform teams
Charlotte Hinton from Service Innovation Lab and organiser of AgileWelly – each year we hear similar problems and are we making traction, enjoyed talk by Sarah Taraporewalla “Complex is easy, it’s simple that’s hard“

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Episode 191: Accelerating DevOps with Jez Humble

15/01/202115/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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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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