Episode 107 – Kanban in Action with Marcus Hammarberg

10/05/201610/05/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

MarcusHammarberg Marcus Hammarberg, co-author of “Kanban in Action” talks with Craig at YOW! West in Perth in a sometimes noisy coffee shop at the Parmelia Hilton Perth:

Craig’s quote on the book! “No mucking around … gets to the heart of kanban from the first page. A must-read!”
originally from Sweden, now working for The Salvation Army in Indonesia helping them become more effective
bitten by the Agile bug by demonstrating something embarrassingly small at the end of a sprint and yet he found the stakeholders were overjoyed at just seeing movement
Agile has changed many things that used to manual to be automated, such as testing and deployment, to fit in short cycles
Fred George’s talk “Agile Roots: Use JIT to Go Faster” at YOW! West (slides / video)
Marcus’ talks at YOW! West “Kanban in Action – A Practical Whirlwind Tour of Kanban” (slides

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Episode 106: Turning the Agile Ship Around with David Marquet

29/04/201629/04/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Tony, Renee, Craig and special guest host Tyson Nutt catchup with David Marquet, author of “Turn The Ship Around!” and the “Turn Your Ship Around” companion workbook at the Agile Australia conference and talk about how similar a nuclear submarine and an Agile team really are:

leadership is not about telling people what to do and how to do it
all investments in human beings are long term
the approach spread from the bottom up, now the book is on the official reading list of two Navy’s (including New Zealand)
“I intend to” does not mean they get to do it – gives psychological ownership and to spark the conversation
thinking out loud is about saying what is going on in our head, this even works when teaching your children how to drive!
feed the beast – don’t respond by hiding, feed them with as…

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Episode 104: Agile Australia 2015 Vox Pop #2

19/04/201619/04/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony wander the lunchtime floor on day 2 of Agile Australia conference in Sydney, looking for more interesting people in the Australian Agile community. They chatted to the ones who couldn’t quite run fast enough away from the microphone including:

NZ Ben Gracewood (Vend) and Anders Ivarsson (Spotify) – overview of Ben’s talk “What if there were no rules?“, Tony learning a new word (connaissance) and the motto of not being a “duck” is his talk and Anders about his talk “Autonomy and Leadership at Spotify” and that we shouldn’t call Spotify a model!
Chris Chan and Dylan Verheijden – the (Agile) Australian tradition of the Tim Tam Slam, Linda Rising’s keynote and her myth on smart people not being rational, James Shore’s keynote and inspirations around the Agile Fluency Model
Bernd Schiffer and Poppy Schiffer (#agilebaby) – Bernd’s talk “Concrete experimentation in Agile environments

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Episode 103: Agile Australia 2015 Vox Pop

08/04/201608/04/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony are once again roaming the floor, this time at the Agile Australia conference in Sydney, looking for interesting people in the Australian Agile community. While walking around the floor they run into:

Rachel Slattery (SlatteryIT) – organiser of Agile Australia talks about the record crowd, selection of speakers and the number of first timers new to Agile
Kim Ballestrin – organiser of Cynefin Melbourne Meetup Group discusses what’s new in the Cynefin world and enjoyed the talk learning about the model used by Flow Perth
Ben Melbourne and Jean D’Amore (ThoughtWorks) – discussed applying Agile techniques to reality television (and podcasts), Ben’s workshop on “Using Design Thinking to Drive Agile Planning” and Jean’s talk on “Delivering with microservices or how to iterate towards sophistication”
Daniel Luschwitz (SoftEd) – talked about the strengths of ICAgile over other approaches and the Agile…

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Towards The Agile Country (AgileTODAY)

01/03/201627/12/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

AgileTODAY is a publication associated with the Agile Australia conference. In the March 2016 edition I was invited to share my vision for the conference theme as part of my role as a conference advisor.

“Towards an Agile Country means that the Agile community can truly lead the charge in transforming Australia into an innovation and technical leader. By living the Agile values and helping others to find better ways of working together, focussing on delivery, focussing on the customer and keeping up with change, our size and diversity means we have the potential to become a world leader in many innovative fields. Our challenge is to move beyond software development teams and start solving the big problems.”

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

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

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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

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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

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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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Episode 99: 99, Not Out!

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

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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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Episode 98: The Heckle Revolution YOW! 2015 Edition

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

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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