Episode 102: The Essence of Microservices (and Agile) with Scott Shaw

25/01/201625/01/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Tony and Craig are at YOW! Conference and in the hallway ambush Scott Shaw, the Director of Technology (Australia) at ThoughtWorks and talk about the state of microservices and Agile:

Scott’s YOW! talk “Avoiding Speedbumps on the Road to Microservices“
Microservices are just a different way to build applications that get away from monoliths
Beth Skurrie, Evan Bottcher, Jon Eaves case study at YOW! – “The Odyssey – From Monoliths to Microservices at realestate.com.au“
Essentials for microservices include Domain Driven Design, security and identity and change management
Simon Brown talk at YOW! – “Agility and the Essence of Software Architecture“
Cloud and infrastructure as code has changed the way we look at applications and have allowed microservices
The essence of Agile is the team taking ownership of the business success of whatever it is they are building and keeping that ownership over the longer…

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Episode 101: The Lean Mindset with Mary and Tom Poppendieck

15/01/201615/01/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig catches up with two luminaries in the Agile and Lean space, Mary and Tom Poppendieck at YOW! Conference to talk about agile, lean, rapid feedback, culture and leadership. The discussion points include:

Making the link between lean and software development and discovering that waterfall makes no sense
The origins of the first book: Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
Agile is not lean in software development, Agile is lean in a delivery organisation
How long does it take you to put a single line of code into Production?
The manifestation of lean really kicked off in 2010 with both the rise of DevOps and the Lean Startup
Delivery organisations versus engineering organisations and the journey of Agile
Agile has not well addressed delivering the right stuff, solving the right problem and the architecture of rapid deployment
Only two goals at ING: Deliver every two weeks and don’t crash production, resulted…

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Episode 100: 100th Episode Spectacular

07/01/201607/01/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

100dpp Craig, Renee and Tony come together to celebrate 100 episodes of The Agile Revolution, and review the journey of both the podcast and Agile in general over the last 4 and a half years and surprise themselves on how many things have changed but how many things have remained the same.

Thank you to all of our guests and to our loyal listener(s) for helping us reach 100 episodes!

TheAgileRevolution-100 (82 minutes)

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David Hussman on the Uncertainity Movement

01/01/201620/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

David Hussman shares his thoughts around the Uncertainity Movement and moving from progress to product, as well as NonBan, Dude’s Law, Cardboard and the horizon of electronic card boards.

Source: David Hussman on the Uncertainity Movement

Episode 99: 99, Not Out!

23/12/201523/12/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Despite not feeling well, a sick Renee, a very sick Tony and a trying not to get sick Craig, get the band back together to discuss all the latest in the Agile world, including:

New Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his drive to be Agile, our thoughts on the National Broadband Network (NBN), Australia’s Data Retention laws and the importance of Emotional Intelligence
The Project
Five years, building a culture, and handing it off – the thoughts of outgoing Etsy CTO Kellan Elliott-McCrea
The Nexus Guide (and no, it’s not a new Google phone or a car but yet another scaling framework) and its associated Scaled Professional Scrum Assessment
The Oath of Non-Allegiance
Sanjiv Augustine new book Scaling Agile: A Lean Jumpstart
The Story Behind How Pocket Hit 20 Million Users with 20 People
New CIOs: How to succeed in the first 120 days (and Renee’s quiz…

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Geoff Wilson and Amanda Stockwell on Agile Agencies and UX

22/12/201520/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Geoff Wilson and Amanda Stockwell from 352 Inc talk about the advantages of Agile in a digital agency, approaches to user experience and the redevelopment of planningpoker.com.

Source: Geoff Wilson and Amanda Stockwell on Agile Agencies and UX

Michael Hamman, Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd on Integral Agile and Coaching for Teams, Management and the Enterprise

10/12/201520/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Michael Hamman, Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd of the Agile Coaching Institute talk about Integral Agile and the personas of Agile Coach, Enterprise Agile Coach and Organisational Leader.

Source: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/agile2015-hamman-adkins-spayd

Episode 98: The Heckle Revolution YOW! 2015 Edition

09/12/201509/12/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

YOW_2015_Conference_-stacked-PNG Craig joins Darren Rogan, Ben Morgan and Leigh Appel in another special cross over episode with the Hack && Heckle Podcast to talk software development, Agile and preview the upcoming YOW! conference that will be covered by both podcasts.

This episode has been released simulatenously as H&&H 131 – Hack and Heckle / Agile Revolution Discuss the YOW! Conference.

Discussion points included:

A discussion about our upcoming 100th episode
a discussion about behind the scenes of organising and schedulinf the YOW! 2015 conference
YOW! 2015 speakers and topics including: Adrian Cockroft, Troy Hunt, Aaron Bedra, microservices, Pragmatic Dave Thomas, Anita Sengupta, Dan North, Dean Wapler and Docker
Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development
YOW! 2014 videos
YOW! Bubs – childcare at a technical conference
The YOW! tour and Brisbane
Windows 10 upgrades
The pros and cons of Scala and FORTRAN versus Java

TheAgileRevolution-98 (50 minutes)

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YOW! 2015 – 40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes

03/12/201505/01/2016 / Craig Smith / 10 Comments

YOW_2015_Conference_-stacked-PNG My presentation from YOW! 2015 called “40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes” is available on Slideshare. The video is also available on YouTube.

With 73% of the world using Scrum as their predominant Agile method, this session will open up your eyes to the many other Agile and edgy Agile methods and movements in the world today For many, Agile is a toolbox of potential methods, practices and techniques, and like any good toolbox it is often more about using the right tool for the problem that will result in meaningful results.Take a rapid journey into the world of methods like Mikado, Nonban, Vanguard and movements like Holocracy,Drive and Stoos where we will uncover 40 methods and movements in 40 minutes to help strengthen your toolbox.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Software developers, Agile coaches / Scrum Masters, technical leaders, business analysts, testers and anyone with an interest in the variety of approaches available to Agile teams and organisations.

It was a privilege to be invited to speak at YOW! 2015 which is considered to be the leading software development in Australasia. The talk was delivered in 3 cities: Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. It was also an honour to have some of the most influentional people in the Agile community attending including Dave Thomas, Dan North and Don Reinertsen.

Here are some of the live tweets from each of the 3 conference talks:

Great lightning survey of agile methods by Craig Smith at #yow15. @OptiverAsiaPac pic.twitter.com/MrwgYZ69tr

— Gregory Saunders (@grgsrs) December 3, 2015

Craig Smith giving a fun talk at #yow15. "40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes". pic.twitter.com/awWDxNqV9y

— Joseph Yoder (@metayoda) December 3, 2015

Enjoying Craig Smith’s light hearted but info-packed talk on agile methods. #yow15 pic.twitter.com/L28UalD7y6

— Katherine Lim (@kml) December 3, 2015

Finally catching @smithcdau "40 Agile methods in 40 mins". 3rd times a charm. #yow15 #Brisbane

— Stacy Porter (@mr_stacyporter) December 7, 2015

You can’t say you’re truly agile until you’ve got across the water-scrum-fall problem @smithcdau #yow15 pic.twitter.com/mkaXOJqFY1

— Videesha Saparamadu (@videesha) December 7, 2015

Is there an agile method to decide which agile approach to use? 40 agile methods in 40 minutes by @smithcdau #YOW15 pic.twitter.com/d8a1KNFpFb

— JP Graham (@graham_jp) December 7, 2015

Got lots of good reading ahead thanks to @smithcdau!! Loved 40 agile methods in 40 minutes! #yow15

— Jenna Payette (@jenna_payette) December 7, 2015

So far today I've learnt cool stuff from @tastapod @adrianco and @smithcdau Now time for gourmet beach lunch #yow15 pic.twitter.com/7y01e9CfKA

— James McMenamin (@ithoughtisaid) December 7, 2015

Oh god. And now MoSCoW. @smithcdau should’ve warned audience about possibility for traumatic flashbacks. #YOW15 pic.twitter.com/VUG9TLr6cT

— Kris Howard (@web_goddess) December 10, 2015

Huh. You don’t usually see Eli Whitney mentioned at tech conferences. @smithcdau #YOW15

— Kris Howard (@web_goddess) December 10, 2015

“The biggest mistake is having a DevOps department“ – @smithcdau #yow15

— roman tarnavski (@romant) December 10, 2015

The problem with @smithcdau’s #YOW15 talk is I’ve now got a list of like 20 software methodology books I actually want to read.

— Kris Howard (@web_goddess) December 10, 2015

My favorite official agile methodology so far from @smithcdau's "40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes" talk at #yow15. pic.twitter.com/qXCgnV92Qf

— Ben Teese (@benteese) December 10, 2015

That was a great session on Agile Methods @smithcdau. Thank you. #yow15 #raccoon

— roman tarnavski (@romant) December 10, 2015

#spotify #squadification #agile buzzword bingo #yow15 https://t.co/1XOJcmSXpw pic.twitter.com/b5HeO28SQX

— Jerry van Leeuwen (@jerryjvl) December 10, 2015

I guess it was bit hard to come up with 40 name to fill the 40 Agile methodology names promised in that talk #yow15! https://t.co/3AvBA8aYlo

— Meligy (@Meligy) December 10, 2015

#scrum #lean #adsd #kanban buzzword bingo #winning more, @julliettajung #yow15

— Jerry van Leeuwen (@jerryjvl) December 10, 2015

I remember when XP was this New Big Thing at my first dev job back in 2000. Wow. Just dated myself. #YOW15 pic.twitter.com/QcwJGzQpMS

— Kris Howard (@web_goddess) December 10, 2015

DAD is #agile … WAT!? #yow15 https://t.co/yZil5xr1Qg pic.twitter.com/u98rSfaH4R

— Jerry van Leeuwen (@jerryjvl) December 10, 2015

Very interesting talk @ #YOW15. Hope 2 see full slides & video soon @smithcdau @davidayalas @asamo7 @llorencfranco https://t.co/SD6AEiZVER

— jmirap (@jmirap) December 10, 2015

Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory on (More) Agile Testing, Learning and New Approaches

02/12/201520/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory talk about how they came to collaborate on the “Agile Testing” books, the testing skillset and approaches to learning, and new and interesting approaches to testing.

Source: Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory on (More) Agile Testing, Learning and New Approaches