Enabling Enterprise Business Agility

18/06/201918/06/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Caught up on a great webinar from Sally Elatta from Agility Health today, that is a good overview of the problems were all face with agility in the enterprise.

In the webinar she stepped through the Enterprise Business Agility (EBA) Transformation Journey. I liked her naming of team of teams of agility and its step between team and organisational agility. She also called out the difference between organisational agility being the value stream and management of the portfolio versus the operational agility which is the other key areas of the organisation.

This all built to the really well defined EBA model with its seven pillars.

Episode 164: Agile Australia 2017 Vox Pop #2

13/06/201913/06/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony are once again roaming the halls at Agile Australia in Sydney and finding random folks to talk to at the conference:

Sarah Romeyn from WorkCover Queensland – enjoyed Pete Steel talk “Developing an Experimentation Culture” and Sherif Monsour talk “The art of building a roadmap“
Rachel Slattery from Slatterys (organiser of Agile Australia) – 1,200 attendees (a sellout) at the conference, such a good level of goodwill in the Agile community, half of the conference are new people and 60% hear about it through word of mouth, all flavours of ice cream (even coconut apparently…), AgileAus hub for all things Agile in Australia
Melissa Perri keynote “The Build Trap“, teal organisations tend to form like that at inception, other organisations have the people but the process to get there is still hard
Adam Boas and Andy Kelk from Marketplacer – enjoying…

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Episode 163: Agile Australia 2017 Vox Pop #1

10/06/201910/06/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Tony and Craig are at Agile Australia 2017 in Sydney and wander the very busy hallways catching up with attendees and with old friends:

Sieger de Vries – enjoyed Matt Pancino talk “The future of Agile in the enterprise: has the war been lost?”, distributed Agile and use of partnering is here to stay
Mia Horrigan from Zen Ex Machina and Joseph Gard from Australian Taxation Office – lots of Agile interest in Canberra around scaling Agile and leading the change in government, enjoyed Barry O’Reilly keynote “Lessons deploying Lean Enterprise“
Venky Krishnamurthy from The Empirical Coach – LeSS is purely based on evidence from experiments that was created into a framework, enjoyed Jez Humble workshop and keynote “Continuous Delivery Sounds Great But It Won’t Work Here“
Steve Scotson from 4impact – enjoyed the high standard and breadth of subject matter around innovation and organisation change

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Episode 162: Leadership and Coaching Beyond the Team with Esther Derby

03/06/201903/06/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and catch up with Esther Derby, co-author of numerous agile books including Agile Retrospectives and Behind Closed Doors. We also ask the question whether Tony is cool or not….

Agile Australia keynote “Leaders At All Levels“
Leadership is the ability to adapt the environment so that everyone is empowered to contribute creatively to solving the problem
Need to develop the people we are leading as well as the environment
Need a bigger overlap of the knowledge in organisations so that we can make better decisions
Systemic failure that we assume because you are good at something (like software development) you will be good at management / leadership – they are very different skills
Three C’s – clarity (people know what to work on and how it fits into the big picture), conditions (the means to do the…

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Episode 161: State of Agile in Singapore with Stanly Lau

07/05/201907/05/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig is at YOW! Singapore and catches up with Stanly Lau, organiser of the Agile Singapore conference and the Agile Singapore meetup:

Bas Vodde was one of the early advocates for Agile in Singapore
The state of Agile in Singapore has progressed from “doing a standup” in 2010 to now many companies thinking about how they develop software better
A lack of knowledge in design principles by new software developers seems to affect how they tackle problems
The art of being able to sit down and pair in a team is an art that is being lost in the Agile community
You can learn a lot about a team by looking at their codebase
Good agile development practices require know-how and habit – does not come by nature

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Episode 160: Agile Lessons From My Younger Self with John Sullivan

23/04/201923/04/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig is at YOW! Hong Kong and has a chat with John Sullivan, the CEO at Elabor8, and they talk about his Agile journey in Australia from ThoughtWorks to Sensis to Qantas to MYOB and the challenges and learnings along the way

The Agile Revolution episode 159 “What Colour Agile Would You Like Today with Nigel Dalton”
“Extreme Programming Explained” by Kent Beck
Sensis was a very early corporate in Australia that adopted Agile from beginning to end, moved teams out of the building so they could work uninhibited in an Agile way
The technology teams almost always aren’t the problem with product delivery – it is the product team taking an idea from the top to the bottom of the organisation and getting it in a form that is fit for customers
Not happy Jan! – Sensis had their focus on print and was not…

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Episode 159: What Colour Agile Would You Like Today with Nigel Dalton

16/03/201916/03/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig is at YOW! Hong Kong and is sitting with Nigel Dalton, Chief Inventor at REA Group and the Australian “Godfather of Agile” and they reminisce about:

Anita Sengupta’s YOW! Hong Kong keynote “The Future of Mars Exploration“
Akin’s Rules of Spacecraft Design – “don’t mess it up, there are people involved”
Nigel Dalton’s YOW! Hong Kong talk “Agile is the Last Thing You Need“
The two early experiments of Agile in Australia – Lonely Planet and Suncorp
The success of the REA technology teams today was the move into multidisciplinary teams where the influence comes from product – it was a difficult decision and chaos at the time
John Sullivan’s YOW! Hong Kong talk “A Presentation to Myself on Organisational Agile Transformations“
ANZ is disrupting the power base of senior management – Shayne Elliott video about their way of working and Bluenotes…

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Episode 158: Jugaad Agility with Naresh Jain

12/02/201912/02/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig is at YOW! Lambda Jam in Sydney and speaks with Naresh Jain, co-founder of the Agile Software Community of India (organising body of Agile India), conference organiser of many other software conferences in India and creator of ConfEngine and they chat about:

The original Test Infected article
Cruise Control started as an idea to write a cron job to check out code, compile and run tests
Without good processes and tools the individuals and interactions become much harder
Agile India conference – running since 2005, one of the earliest Agile conferences
Agile is a given way to do things, but we are still not seeing the benefits – need to build capability in user first / product thinking, need autonomy to deliver end-to-end customer value (startups within a startup), need to build a learning culture and expert people / craftsmanship and need to focus on continuous delivery

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Episode 157: Transforming the UK Government Digital Service with James Stewart

02/02/201902/02/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig is at YOW! West in Perth and has a conversation with James Stewart, formerly Deputy CTO for the UK Government and co-founder of the Government Digital Service. In varying locations they talk about:

YOW! West keynote “Lessons Learned as a Government CTO“
UK government had some large IT failures in the last like the NHS National Program for IT (12 billion pound failure), but now lots of successes like Spine 2
Agile techniques have been successful in the UK government not just because other approaches have failed so badly but the cost of an IT project is only a fraction of the overall cost of a system
The Government Design Principles – start with user needs – successful projects start with clearly articulated principles, did not realise how much they would resonate
Worked around a number of government process early on, support from the…

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Episode 156: LAST 2018 Brisbane Vox Pop

16/01/201916/01/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony are at LAST Brisbane 2018 in their home town of Brisbane and wander the lunch hall speaking with members from the local Agile community:

Craig and Tony’s keynote
Frank Valks, Paul Thornton and Felix Kiefer from AginicDS – the state of Agile in Brisbane versus the UK, James Hayes and Shannon Russell talk “Agile in Education: How agile is empowering teachers and principles in the Northern Territory“, there is no one recipe for Agility (start with a framework and adjust) and Agile BI
Ed Wong, co-founder of LAST Conference – the inspiration behind LAST Conference and the 10th anniversary of the Melbourne Agile and Scrum User Group and the challenge of getting more people to talk about Agility
Shannon Russell from the Department of Education Northern Territory – the state of the Northern Territory Agile community is small and growing, mainly around government…

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