Mark Kilby, Stephanie Davis and Rick Regueira on Effective User Groups & Remote Agile

19/11/201520/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Mark Kilby, Stephanie Davis and Rick Regueira share their tips around reinvigorating their respective user groups and together building a statewide learning network as well working remotely Agile.

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Episode 97: 3 Things, 3 Letters (Git, CTO, MBA) with Peter Bell

06/11/201506/11/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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At YOW! Conference, Craig has a chat with Peter Bell, a contract member of the GitHub training team, co-founder of CTO School and the founder of the Startup CTO Summit series and they talk about approaches to learning Git, building better CTO’s and digital literacy for MBA’s.

YOW! 2014 talk “How To Undo Almost Anything with Git“
Balance the appropriate batch size for communicating with your team the work you have completed versus the appropriate batch size for if you mess up you can easily go back – this is typically 2-10 lines of code to the local repository
Most teams just need a master branch that is always releasable and all work done on feature branches that are merged into master
training.github.com – training options and a number of great resources
Learning Git – not easy to learn on the job, balance of basic how to use…

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Episode 96: YOW! 2014 Brisbane Vox Pop

30/09/201530/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Clearing out the backlog, Craig and Tony roam the corridors at YOW! 2014 in Brisbane and talk to attendees and old friends and colleagues. Despite Tony’s fetish with pineapples and the fact it took 96 episodes to get a mention of ISO-9126 they talk to:

Craig Aspinall on hosting the highly rated talk by Troy Hunt on “Hack Yourself First” and Peter Bell on “How to Undo Almost Anything with Git” and that listening to security talks is like watching horror movies, completely terrifying and entertaining at the same time!
Jason Royals and Carlo Simbag on cheesecake and great talks by Troy Hunt, Jez Humble, Gojko Adzic and Gabrielle Benefield
Andrew Newman on using Scala in the enterprise, keynotes from Martin Thompson and Todd Montgomery as well as Ed Kmett
Sharon Robson on using Agile at Tatts Group, her favourite standard ISO-9126, Boehm’s Quality Tree, getting…

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Sanjiv Augustine on Scaling Agile, No-Management and Agile 2015 Executive Forum

27/09/201520/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Sanjiv Augustine talks about his new book “Scaling Agile: A Lean JumpStart”, reinventing organizations and the implementation of no-management at LitheSpeed and the Agile 2015 Executive Forum.

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Episode 94: Agile 2015 Wrap Up

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

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Craig and Renee catch up after the last session at Agile 2015 in Washington, DC and talk about the highlights of the conference. Sitting in the atrium near a waterfall, they discuss:

Renee’s talk “Agile Passionfruits: Growing Agile Champion capability through a Learning Culture” received rave reviews
Stalwart sessions at Agile 2015
Day 3 keynote by Jessie Shternshus “Individuals, Interactions and Improvization”
Esther Derby and Mike Lowery talk “Coaching Flow: Moving Past Resistance”
Craig Larman and Bas Vodde talk “Introduction to Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)”
Dan Greening and Jeff Sutherland talk “Agile Leadership Patterns: The Agile Way of Doing”
Joint podcast with “This Agile Life” – our second favourite Agile podcast!
Skip Angel and Richard Watt talk “Outcome Driven Organizations (ODO): A new operating system for organizational change”
Day 5 keynote by James Tamm “Want Better Collaboration? Don’t be so Defensive!” and some shocking numbers around effectiveness
The conference hotel…

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Episode 93: I Like Big Boards

29/08/201521/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Renee are at Agile 2015 in Washington, DC and in the open jam area team up with Jason Tice and Natalie Simonsen from the “This Agile Life” podcast for a crossover episode. Joining in the roundtable conversation are Stephen Vance, Troy Tuttle, Jenny Tarwater, Abby Bangser and Serge Beaumont.

Stephen Vance shares highlights from the multi-team agile framework he has put in place at his organization with Natalie and Renee.
Abby Bangser and Jason Tice continue a discussion from Lean Coffee at Agile 2015 regarding the benefits of having a full lifecycle Kanban board (product envisioning thru development thru formal testing and acceptance by the customer).
While discussing the benefits of “Big Boards” the excellent session that Lisa Crispin and Emma Armstrong presented on User Interface testing came up
Next Jenny Tarwater gave props to John Krewson who did an awesome Improv workshop

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Episode 92: Agile 2015 Day 1

26/08/201521/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Renee visit Washington, DC for the Agile 2015 conference and debrief in the Agile Alliance Lounge after day 1:

Luke Hohmann keynote “Awesome Superproblems” – Innovation Games and book, Every Voice Engaged – challenge to play 2 games in the next year that will change the world
Lundy’s Law – “any team of programmers if given enough time will justify a total rewrite of the system”
Paul Goddard talk “Improvisssssing With Agile” – some good examples for team starters, new book “Improv-ing Agile Teams“
Will Evans talk “Learn Like A Scientist” – start with a problem, lots of good models and templates
Lots of different scaling solutions and related certifications being discussed at the conference
Larry Maccherone talk “Probalistic Forecasting for Math Mortals” – monte carlo forecasting is a useful tool for project planning (and superannuation!)
Ellen Grove talk “Games for Talking about Conflict Resolution” – lots of…

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Episode 91: Coding The Architecture with Simon Brown

20/07/201521/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony talk to Simon Brown at the YOW! 2014 conference in Brisbane. SImon is the author of “Software Architecture for Developers”, creator of the C4 software architecture model and Structurizr. We tracked him down after his talk to talk about:

YOW! 2014 talk “Agility and the Essence of Software Architecture“
Create a software guidebook as opposed to big upfront documentation
Tony is an old BA apparently… Explains a lot 🙂
If you can’t sketch out your architecture, you don’t understand it
C4 model was created after observations many archtecture drawings don’t make sense
Tony shows his age again by referencing Mr. Squiggle (video)
A tiny percentage of architects understand UML – do you teach them UML or teach them something simple?
Structurizr replaces drawing boxes in Visio or OmniGraffle, creates the C4 model from Java code and keeps it up to date, other implementations

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Episode 90: Step Away From The Book

04/07/201521/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Renee catch up late in the evening to chat about recent Agile articles and events including:

Havard Business Review article “Time Management Training Doesn’t Work“
turn off Microsoft Outlook notifications (do as we say not as we do)
“Disruption and Recovery of Computing Tasks: Field Study, Analysis & Directions” – if you have read this, tell us about it!
Harvard Business Review article – “How to Help Someone Develop Emotional Intelligence” – find the dream!
Ron Jeffries want his XP back!
“Modern Extreme Programming” by Benji Weber – it’s not dead, just evolved
The 9th Annual State of Agile™ Survey – summary and thoughts
“Let’s Acknowledge SAFe for What It Is and Move On” by Mike Cottmeyer
Reactive Manifesto and how it applies to programming as well as human reactions
Our reading list includes,”No Estimates” beta book by Vasco…

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Episode 89: Intersecting Service Management, People Development & Agile

16/05/201521/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig gatecrashed the Australian ITSMF / ITIL conference, LEADit in Melbourne and in the hallway chats to Korrine Jones (an Organisational Development Consultant and running late for a plane) and Ian Jones (an IT Service Management expert) about how People Development and Service Management are intersecting with Agile and each other:

LEADit is the biggest service management conference in Australia – focus on disruptive service management, Agile, Lean, DevOps, Continuous Delivery
Challenges with virtual teams – not everybody is suited to working this way, need to take time up front on shared values and getting to know each other (and this can be done virtually if need be)
Measuring good teams – satisfaction surveys, team results, engagement levels
Agile Virtual ITSM Teams workshop
Opportunity for convergence between Agile and people development areas
Issue is how to translate Agile to Service Management – learn by continuous improvement and experimentation
Leading ITSM from…

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