Episode 53: Merry Xmas Mumbles

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XmasIn this episode Tony, Craig and Renee once again meet in a dingy (and occasionally slightly noisy) cafe and discuss:

Quotes:

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Episode 52: YOW! 2012 Retrospectives with Aino Vonge Corry

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Aino Vonge CorryIn this episode Craig and Renee talk to Aino Vonge Corry (@apaipi) at YOW! 2012 and discuss:

  • Retrospectives
  • Design patterns
  • Trojan retrospectives
  • Enterprise retrospective patterns
  • Retrospective facilitators – part of the team?
  • Distributed retrospectives (and a plug for Linoit)
  • The importance of acknowledging success and learning
  • Women in IT

Thankyou to the YOW! 2012 conference for inviting The Agile Revolution to record podcast interviews at the conference!

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Episode 50: YOW! 2012 Day 1 Wrap Up

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YOW! 2012Craig, Renee and Peter Sellars (from Auckland, New Zealand) talk about their first day at the YOW! 2012 Software Developer Conference, chatting about the speakers that they listened to and their thoughts on them including:

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Adam Weisbart on Agile Antipatterns and Tools to Make Agile Fun

Adam Weisbart discusses making Agile fun, through the use of resources he has developed such as “Build Your Own Scrum”, “Retrospective Cookies”, “Update The Card Wall” and “Agile Antipatterns”.

Source: Adam Weisbart on Agile Antipatterns and Tools to Make Agile Fun

Agile Tour Circling All Corners Of The World

Agile Tour is a yearly non-profit conference series that is hosted in a variety of cities worldwide throughout the months of October to December with the aim of connecting the Agile community. Now in its fifth year, the tour is currently making its way around the globe and is supported by both the Agile Alliance and the Scrum Alliance.

Source: Agile Tour Circling All Corners Of The World

Episode 49: Merry Manifesto Madness with Alistair Cockburn

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AlistairCockburnCraig and Renee lob around to Tony’ abode to interview his house guest, Alistair Cockburn. Alistair spends time:

  • denying a K Stew affair
  • answering what brings him to Australia
  • plugging his fantastic Advanced Agile Course
  • presenting his thoughts on where Agile is going
  • answering how the Agile Manifesto has shifted and whether the last line should be shifted earlier
  • talking about the simplicity principle
  • explaining the difficulty of Agile Organisational transformations
  • answering whether transformation that succeed better can be big-bang or have to evolve
  • discussing the sticky middle management layer where transformations become hard
  • ponderings on what is happening in the ICAgile space
  • generally taking the p*ss out of Renee, Tony and Craig

You can contact Alistair Cockburn for any work opportunities or Advanced Agile Training on totheralistair@gmail.com or totheralistair@aol.com.

You can contact Renee for any work opportunities or Agile 101 Training at renee@theagilerevolution.com.

Special thanks…

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Episode 48: Declan (Not Dexter)

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Declan WhelanAt Agile 2012 in Dallas, Texas, Craig chats with Declan Whelan, a Canadian Agile Coach at LeanIntuit, the CTO and co-founder of a new startup called Printchomp and a newly elected member of the Agile Alliance board. Amongst other things we talk about pair coaching, running a Lean Startup, the direction of the Agile Alliance and the future of Agile.

His talk at Agile 2012 (with Alistair McKinnell) was entitled “Simple Design Applied: Spend More Time Creating Valuable Code“. Look out for a longer video interview with Declan on InfoQ.

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Episode 47: $#*! Adam Weisbart Says

New Scrum Kickoff Planner Aims To Help Agile Teams Start on The Right Track

A new “Scrum Kickoff Planner” has just been released by Adam Weisbart with the aim of facilitating team discussion around the important facets of starting a new Agile team or project.

Source: New Scrum Kickoff Planner Aims To Help Agile Teams Start on The Right Track

Survey Confirms Biggest Agile Challenges Are Communication and Continuous Improvement

A new survey, conducted by Serena Software at the recent Agile 2012 conference in Dallas, Texas has confirmed that whilst projects using Agile are working well, they could be much better and some of the biggest challenges include upsteam and downstream communication.

Source: Survey Confirms Biggest Agile Challenges Are Communication and Continuous Improvement