Submissions are now open for the Agile 2012 conference to be held in Dallas, Texas from August 13-17, 2012. Submissions are open until February 19, 2012.
Source: Agile 2012 Submissions Now Open
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Episode 19: Luna Tractor with Nigel Dalton
Nigel Dalton from Luna Tractor in Melbourne gives us the low down of his presentation from the YOW! Developer Conference in Brisbane.
A brief summary of the discussions include
- how Agile was at play in the aerospace and military world since World War II
- business strategies and how Agile can help us rapidly adapt to commercial changes
- Lonely Planet‘s agile journey including it not just being for software development
- fail quickly, be safe to fail
- for agile to grow further we need to focus less on commercialising or packaging it tightly into a box
- culture and behavioural habits
- consulting in Agile
- developers working in harmony and a focus on strong collaboration with the business; and team sizes
Agile Academy Meetup: Agile & Lean Games
Last week, the Agile Academy had a games night for its November 2011 meetup, to cap off the year, hosted by Adrian Smith from Ennova.
The three games we played were the XP Game, Lean Paper Plane Game and Kanban Soduko. We ended the night with the Marshmallow Challenge.
You can also view the pictures from the night.
Episode 16: Motivated To Make Walls Fun
With Tony on assignment on an island, Craig and Renee talk about motivation, Renee makes a ballsy prediction about fun and we talk about dead walls, tools for walls and everything in between:
- Employee Engagement Levels in the USA (Modern Survey)
- Reality Is Broken (Jane McGonigal)
- SAP Golf Game for Sales Incentives (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- No STANZ/SDC for Australia (Software Education)
- Showcasing the Backend (Pragmatic Agilist)
- Atlassian Logo Redesign (Atlassian)
- Using an Apple TV for Wallboards (Atlassian)
- …it’s Not a Unit Test (SalientBlue)
- RedCritter Tracker
Quotes:
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Episode 18: Scrum vs Kanban War
Breaking out from our normal format Craig, Tony and Renee talk about the recent flurry of tweets from the Scrum and Kanban communities.
It all started with Jeff Sutherland and his tweet and blog cross reference: Deep analysis of #kanban by Jim Coplien
The twitter feed that was captured by us (and hence is not a comprehensive feed on the subject and contains some leetspeak cleanup) includes:
David Anderson (@agilemanager):
Interesting FUD Jeff, I thought you were more professional than this?
Jim’s post on Jeff’s blog contains lies which fly in the face of the well documented evidence with teams around the world
Jeff and Jim, I challenge you to produce the evidence to backup claims like…
“Kanban (the methodology) discourages teamwork and increases the risk of not completing agreed work”
I often wonder how people without integrity go through life and live…
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Episode 17: Bad Smell Bingo
With Tony MIA, Craig and Renee talk about bad smells, geek stuff and daily retrospectives:- Top ten reasons Darth Vadar was an amazing Project Manager
- Agile and Lean Software Development Linked In group renamed
- The IIBA BABOK Agile Extention
- One day on the USS Enterprise
- Daily Retrospectives
Bad Smell Bingo for stand-ups:
- Starts late
- Not everyone turns up
- Not enough of a quorum
- Not standing up
- Running over 10 minutes (too long)
- No focus on roadblocks
- Not touching cards
- No understanding/association to a story
- Talks too long (particular individual)
- Not focussing on the three questions (What I did yesterday, What I plan on doing today and roadblocks)
- No consistency in the way it is run
- Too big
- Directed to PM
- Directed to IM/Scrum Master
- Conversations are not off-lined
- Conversations are off-lined too quickly
- Risks to delivery not understood
- No one volunteers to help
- Too short/not meaniful enough
- Too boring/monotonous
- Run like…
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Agile 2011 Videos Now Available On New Agile Alliance Learning Center
The Agile Alliance have recently launched a new Learning Center, with the highlight at launch being the availability of keynotes and selected presentations from the Agile 2011 conference.
Source: Agile 2011 Videos Now Available On New Agile Alliance Learning Center
The Questions when Measuring Agile Adoption
There have been numerous attempts over the years to determine the best way to measure the effectiveness of an Agile adoption. Some recent articles have reignited the debate around the most useful metrics.
Source: The Questions when Measuring Agile Adoption
Episode 15: The Perfect World of Agile
The usual crew get together again:
- Henrik Kniberg’s Scrum from the Trenches
- Lyssa Adkin’s Coaching Agile Teams
- Retrospective Cookies (found by Lisa Crispin)
- Knowledge acquisition curve by Alistair Cockburn
- Agile after the chasm by Alistair Cockburn
- Rebooting the racoon by Craig Smith
- What I learned from Steve Jobs by Guy Kawasaki
- What everyone is too polite to say about Steve Jobs by Ryan Tate
- Why not velocity as an Agile metric by Esther Derby
- Working hard or hardly working by Esther Derby
- One Manifesto to Rule them all
- Leadership Skills: Tap into team member’s existing motivation by Christopher Avery
- What would an organisation that is using Agile to the max look like?
- SeeNowDo
Quotes
“Don’t mix dev ops with dev oops!”
“99% of we bapp bugs are caused by 1% of browser types #occupyinternetexplorer”
“Gartner’s analysts are predicting that by 2012 that Agile development methods will be used in…
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STANZ 2011: The Future Tester At Suncorp – A Journey of Building Quality In Through Agile
My presentation from STANZ 2011 that I delivered with Adrian Smith and Dallas Thorneycroft called “The Future Tester At Suncorp: A Journey of Building Quality In Through Agile” is available on Slideshare.
When Suncorp started down the path of rolling out its agile program over four years ago, it was viewed by many internally and the industry with much scepticism and angst, yet now it is approaching mainstream adoption in the industry.
One of the key challenges of becoming agile was improving our approach to testing and quality.
In this talk we will talk about why we had to change, why we had to improve the “speed to cool” in relation to testing, our challenges and approach and our blueprint for the “future tester” at Suncorp.
Like our agile journey, our vision for testing has been regarded as ambitious, so join us to hear why we believe raising the profile, empowerment and skillset of testing is critical to our (and your) future success.
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