Episode 85: Scrum Australia 2014 Vox Pop

31/01/201521/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Tony and and sometimes over modulated Craig (with Renee popping up from time to time) roam the floor at lunchtime at Scrum Australia in Sydney and talk to some interesting Scrum folks along the way about their thoughts on the conference and the Scrum community in general:

Shane Sendall (Suncorp) – end to end delivery and design patterns for teams, minimum loveable products, looking at flow efficiency
Justin Urbanski (Rally) – Scrum Alliance Coaching Clinic, minimum viable bureacracy, scaling
Ben Hogan (Tabar) and Martyn Frank (CBA) – teams overcommitting, Scrum in 60 seconds, visual facilitation inspired by Lynne Cazaly, kanban in curriculum development in universities
Neil Killick (MYOB) – spoke with Craig Brown running the #noestimates Puzzle Game, 40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes, Tony suggests #lotsofestimates, Neil’s posts on #noestimates
Jason Yip (ThoughtWorks) and Sunish Chabba –…

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Episode 84: Retrospectives in Middle Earth with Rachael Tempest Wood

18/12/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Rachael Tempest Wood from Nomad8 in Wellington joins Tony and Craig in the Brisbane Queen Street Mall over lunch with a bonus busker on saxophone and they discuss:

PMI and Agile are completely different mindsets, PMI Project Managers are “the CIOs of their projects”
AgileWelly – strength through the struggle of doing Agile in government
Wellington Agile community led by TradeMe, Snapper, BNZ
Gojko Adzic – Specification by Example and Impact Mapping
Agile NZ conference
Retrospective design – creativity in facilitation is a gap
Esther Derby’s model for restrospectives
Paper Airplane game – using an abstract process to apply learnings to the real process

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Episode 83: Making Impacts with Gojko Adzic

30/11/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Gojko Adzic “does computers” which means he helps people deliver software and he caught up with Craig on a recent YOW! DepthFirst tour of Australia. Gojko is the author of numerous books including “Bridging The Communication Gap“, “Specification by Example“, “Impact Mapping” and “50 Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories“.

XP – started with “Extreme Programming Explained” which was really about developers ruling the world – XP is not dead, it won!
TDD has crossed the chasm to mainstream
Sturgeons Law – 90% of anything is going to be crap
Continuous integration and automation has opened up a world of possibilities
“Bridging the Communication Gap” – about finding ways to break dysfunctional processes in organisations
“Agile Testing” by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory
The most valuable companies in the world are software companies
It’s more about the right people…

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Episode 82: The Heckle Revolution

26/11/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig joins Darren Rogan, Ben Morgan and Leigh Appel in a special cross over episode with the Hack && Heckle Podcast to talk Agile and preview the upcoming YOW! conference that will be covered by both podcasts.

This episode has been released simulatenously as 088 The Heckle Revolution by Hack && Heckle.

Discussion points included:

Hack && Heckle interview with Scott Hanselman from YOW! 2013
Hack && Heckle intervoew with Ed Kmett from YOW! Lambda Jam 2014
Hack && Heckle Tech Project Tools Overview including Sprintly, Trello, JIRA and Pivotal Tracker
Half Arsed Agile Manifesto
40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes – The Lean Startup, Scaling Agile, Holacracy, Spotify Tribes and Agile Marketing
Not marketers, growth hackers!
50 in 50 keynote from YOW! 2010
YOW! 2014 preview, discount code is HECKLEREVOLUTION

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Episode 81: Resetting Agile & Devops with Justin Hennessy

06/11/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Sitting in a sometimes noisy coffee shop on a unusually cold Brisbane day, Craig sits down for a chat with Justin Hennessy, a Scrum Master, Devops and System Administrator all rolled into one!

“An Agile Team Reset” article on the Scrum Alliance
The High Performance Tree by Lyssa Adkins
resetting awesome
early Agile experience shaped by “User Stories Applied” by Mike Cohn
“Coaching Agile Teams” by Lyssa Adkins reshapes the way of thinking about about teams
Agile in Adelaide versus Agile in Brisbane
Coaching Circles with Lyssa Adkins
Devops is more of a culture than a title
being a Scrum Master on a single team is hard and the full-time role debate
infrastructure has become a form of coding in itself
infrastructure resource as part of a core Agile team
better management and testing of configuration artefacts, unit testing and CI frameworks
infrastructure deployment tools are often just another…

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Episode 80: Context Matters in SAFe with Em Campbell-Pretty

02/11/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne; Craig, Renee and Tony catch up with Em Campbell-Pretty to talk about the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as well as Impact Mapping and a variety of other topics:

Em’s Agile journey and how she came to Agile from the business side and discovered SAFe before it was SAFe
Australia’s first Agile release train and the SAFe Telstra Enterprise Data Warehouse Case Study
Pretty Agile blog – Adventures in Scaling Agile
Scaling Software Agility and Agile Software Requirements books by Dean Leffingwell
did SAFe without PSI Planning – doing textbook SAFe you will most likely fail – apply it to your context
SAFe is designed for big enterprise and is just where you start
Leading SAFe training – focus on lean principles and leadership
Epic – Feature – Story – why?
if your wall isn’t changing then your process is probably not changing (inspect and adapt)
key…

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Episode 79: Vomit Value with Jim Benson

09/10/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne, Jim Benson of Personal Kanban fame takes some time to talk with Craig, Renee, Tony and (a very silent) Kim Ballestrin and along the way they talk about:

early work implementing David J. Anderson’s Agile Management which resulted in Jim focussing on the person (Personal Kanban) and David focussing on the organisation (Kanban method) – two different viewpoints on the same solution set
XP, Scrum, Kanban method and Personal Kanban exemplify the people who created them
The Oath of Non Allegiance
Scrum vs Kanban
Why Limit WIP and Why Plans Fail books out now and working on an upcoming book about meetings
Individuals and interactions is redundant – relevant in 2001 to shake people out of complacency
Agile is anti-manager
Agile in knowledge work
WIP limits and avoiding “death flow”
Vomit Value – user stories with spurious and arbitrary value in a…

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Episode 64: Interstate 40 East with Nick Muldoon

05/10/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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On a road trip to Agile 2013 from Dallas to Nashville, Craig chats to Nick Muldoon while cruising in a Chevy Equinox eastbound on Interstate 40 between Memphis and Nashville. Nick is an Agile Coach at Twitter and formerly the Product manager for GreenHopper at Atlassian and whilst doing 65 miles an hour they chat about:

Interstate 40
Memphis – Graceland, Sun Records, Beale Street, BBQ
Atlassian and Greenhopper (renamed JIRA Agile at Agile 2013)
FOLIO for JIRA
Drive (Dan Pink) and ~~Fed-Ex~~ Ship It Days
Peter Senge and the Learning Organisation
Atlassian Blogs
JIRA Issue Collector
Agile approach at Atlassian and on the Greenhopper team
Twitter – 1,200 engineers to work 140 characters!
#Music (We Are Hunted)
The Fail Whale is harpooned and scaling Twitter (Agile, teams and platform)
SprintZero: The Physics of Agile Marketing
The convergence of Lean Startup, Growth Hacking and Agile…

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Episode 78: Renee-Renee-Renee

22/09/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Yes they’re at it again ! The revolutionists bring forth their innermost thoughts on the life the universe and most importantly Agile . Oh yeah and Craig and Tony ask the question repeatedly ….Renee,Renee……Renee

Wall street hands the whip back to their staff …Less deaths and sustainable pace
Via @jboogie : The Lean Product Management Manifesto
Lean Startup Website and the Principles of Lean Startup
Slicing Heuristic Concept Explained : Via @neil_killick :
Task based collaboration with Asana
JIRA Service Desk application
The new names for Distributed Agile and CoLocated Agile : Via Alistair Cockburn: @TotherAlistair
State of Agile Survey – Version One

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Episode 77: Agile Australia 2014 Vox Pop #2

02/09/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne, Craig and Renee grab the microphone again and wander the conference foyer in one of the breaks looking for interesting people in the Australian Agile community to ask them about what they are working on and their views of the conference.

The people they harassed include:

Tyson Nutt – believes giving teams empowerment is part of the core of strong Agile teams, Rachel Botsman on disruption was a highlight
Stephanie BySouth – enjoyed seeing new speakers and attendees and that we are taking agile outside of IT, looking to bring collaborative innovation into the space, co-organiser of Agile Coaching Circles Melbourne
Dipesh Pala – IBM is realising we don’t do Agile to our clients, we do Agile with our clients, spoke on how leaders can recognise the humans in our teams
Chris Chan – holocracy and the concept of no managers is pushing the boundaries, co-organiser of Agile…

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