Episode 137: The State of JIRA with Jake Brereton

03/10/201703/10/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Craig sits down with Jake Brereton from Atlassian who is the Senior Product Marketing Manager of JIRA while roaming the product halls at Agile 2016 in Atlanta.

JIRA is no longer just JIRA, now people outside of software are using it – now JIRA Software (that includes JIRA Agile), JIRA Core (lightweight version of JIRA) and JIRA Service Desk
Over 70% of users were using JIRA Agile
JIRA has over 1,000 addons in the Atlassian Marketplace, some exciting work being done around analytics and data
Many organisations are starting to question whether they need to adhere to all of the practices and overheads – find the way that is most efficient and productive that works for you
The double-edged sword of how configurable and customisable JIRA is – improved onoboarding experience, test instance with demo data and an active online presence
Acquisition of Status Page
Launched JIRA Software Mobile and…

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LAST Conference Brisbane 2017 – Mind the Gap: Realising the Value of Agility

29/09/201711/09/2018 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

My presentation from the LAST Conference 2017 in Brisbane called “Mind the Gap: Realising the Value of Agility” is available on Slideshare.

Agile has well and truly crossed the chasm and every organisation large or small seems to be in the middle of some sort of Agile transformation. Yet, look behind the covers and we have to ask ourselves the tough question of how well we are doing and how agile are we really?

So all aboard as we acknowledge some of gaps many organisations are facing and we question the true value we are delivering. More importantly, we will discuss how we might start to these issues, both inside our organisations and as individuals flying the agile flag.

YOW! Hong Kong / Singapore 2017 – Agile Coaching Nightmares: Lessons We Can Learn From Gordon Ramsay

15/09/201723/02/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

My presentation from YOW! Hong Kong 2017 and YOW! Singapore 2017 called “Agile Coaching Nightmares: Lessons We Can Learn From Gordon Ramsay” is available on Slideshare.

When you look for inspiration in the Agile Coaching community, the name Gordon Ramsay is probably not the first name to come to mind. He has been known to be belligerent, condescending and downright rude, but underneath this brute facade is a treasure trove of skills and talents that influence change.

In this presentation we will draw insights from his ‘Kitchen Nightmare’ escapades and draw parallels with how much his work aligns with that of an Agile Coach and the goal to successfully drive change and introduce a number of models and techniques that are indispensable in the coaching toolkit.

Here are some tweets and feedback from the talk:

You have to show some mastery – @smithcdau #yowhk pic.twitter.com/HUame1AuIq

— YOW! Conferences (@yow_conf) September 7, 2017

Good to have a Aussie presenting at YOW Singapore. What can we learn from Gordon Ramsay. Maybe some hard love?#YOWSG @smithcdau

— Malcolm (@after_12) September 11, 2017

Episode 136: Water-Scrum.org-Falling with Dave West

08/09/201708/09/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig catches up with Dave West, product owner and CEO at Scrum.org, at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta. They talk all things Agile and Scrum including:

Water-Scrum-Fall came about because Scrum is often delivered in the context of a organisational waterfall lifecycle
Scrum implies a magical Product Owner that is empowered and understands the market to effectively create a backlog and manage it and the Scrum Guide provides very litte guidance around this
Nexus is a way of getting multiple teams working from the same backlog and provides an exoskeleton to Scrum
“Scrum 21 Years and The Future” talk at Agile 2016
People don’t get Scrum, it is always surprising how few people have read the Scrum Guide
The Scrum Guide is in audiobook form (but not yet in Klingon)
The Sprint Review is not a phase gate, it is the opportunity to inspect and…

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Episode 135: DevOps & Electric Cloud with Anders Wallgren

01/09/201701/09/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig speaks to Anders Wallgren from Electric Cloud about Continuous Delivery and DevOps at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta. The topic of conversation included:

“Release It!” by Michael Nygard
We can’t declare victory on Agile, but it is the winning methodology
We are now plumbing the last mile of deployment and we also need to move it left
Joshua Kerievsky Agile 2016 keynote on “Modern Agile“
Software process is like human DNA, we are different but essentially the same
Gene Gotimer Agile 2016 talk “Experiences Bringing Continuous Delivery to a DoD Project“
You will fail if you don’t pay attention to the cultural aspects of Agile and DevOps
State of DevOps Report
Critical to automate everything to eliminate manual process errors and loss of valuable data
DevOps is starting to push into complex and regulated environments like finance, health and aerospace with an…

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ThoughtWorks Sold to Private Equity Firm Apax Partners

01/09/201701/09/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Global software development and digital transformation company ThoughtWorks is to be acquired by London-based private equity firm Apax Partners. The terms of the deal were not disclosed and it is expected to close in Q4 2017.

Source: ThoughtWorks Sold to Private Equity Firm Apax Partners

Agile 2017 Keynote: Creating Leadership and Engagement at Every Level

22/08/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

At the recent Agile 2017 conference in Orlando, David Marquet, retired Navy captain and author of best selling book “Turn The Ship Around!” gave an entertaining keynote on intent-based leadership.

Source: Agile 2017 Keynote: Creating Leadership and Engagement at Every Level

SoftEd Agile Program & Portfolio, Facilitation & Coaching Programs

07/08/201729/12/2018 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

I recorded a bunch of short videos for SoftEd on a number of our ICAgile training programs – namely Adaptive Program and Portfolio Management, Agile Facilitation and Agile Coaching. The full suite of videos is available on the SoftEd YouTube channel.

Adaptive Program and Portfolio Management

Agile Facilitation

Agile Coaching

Episode 134: Unicorns, Distributed Teams and Agile User Groups with Mark Kilby

26/07/201726/07/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig is at Agile 2016 in Atlanta and catches up with Mark Kilby, an Agile Coach at Sonatype and co-founder of Agile Orlando and Agile Florida. Along the way they discuss: