Episode 76: Agile Australia 2014 Vox Pop #1

22/08/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne, Craig and Tony grabbed the microphone and scoured 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:

Maxime Groenewoud – Project Manager, enjoyed hearing about new practices including microservices architecture
Nigel Dalton – CXO at REA Group, Agile Australia advisor, highlight of the conference was an Ellen DeGeneres moment getting a selfie with Brant Cooper, excited to hear about holocracy at Zappos, at REA have been disrupting through bringing virtual reality to real estate, “there is one innovative startup in real estate in Australia each week!”
Steve Lawrence – Agile Coach and Agile Australia stream chair – has been watching the scaled agile debate and the learnings allowing us to take the message into the business
Paul Detheridge –…

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Episode 75: Agile Expedition with Alan Bustamante

13/07/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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At Agile 2013 in Nashville on a park bench, in a garden, near a waterfall that is ever present, Craig catches up with Alan Bustamante to talk about his Agile expedition. Along the way they chat about:

the enormity of the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville and the average weather outside
the use case approach in the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and how it set the scene for Scrum and Agile
bringing architects along for the Agile journey
an initial lure for Agile – “the pressure of letting the team down is greater than staying resistant”
Agile Cincinnati and the take up in Cincinatti and Colombus
the need to “get back to making work fun and building relationships”
Alan’s work at Seapine Software and “The Agile Expedition” book
Alan’s conference tip: make it a goal to meet at least one person and get to know them
Advice: “there are bigger…

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Episode 74: Visual Mojo with Lynne Cazaly

29/06/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Live at Agile Australia 2014, Craig and Renee talk all things visual with one of Australia’s top visual facilitators, Lynne Cazaly:

What is Visual Facilitation and Graphic Recording
You can use visuals even if you can’t draw
Lynne’s story into Visual Facilitation
How to anchor emphasized words
The benefit of a chisel tip
The girl who played with paper presentation at Agile Australia 2014
Tools that are useful – the good ol’ finger, brushes, procreate, sketches, inkflow, sketchclub
The benefit of bringing people up to speed with visual stories
To split or not to split – facilitation and the visual scribe
Turning your back on the room – a no go or a load of tripe?
Preparation – to spend time upfront or not, using templates
Facilitation through lean coffee wall (gather, sort, do)
Using visuals to engage and distill information for future visibility
Lynne’s next course in Melbourne…

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Episode 73: What Made You An Agile Coach?

26/05/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Tony asks a philisophical question , whilst Renee harnesses her nineties pop star – Ice Ice Baby and Craig marvels at Tony’s cool intro – probably the coolest intro he’s done since the eighties.

Craig entices us to save the environment by using Octopads instead of sticky notes – with Luke Stephenson
Renee get us game playing with the Lean Startup game”Snowflake” from TastyCupcakes.com
Carrying on the game theme ,Devops-against humanity
Tony asks ….What Made You An Agile Coach?
I didn’t sign up for all this people Sh**t from @flowchainsensei
TDD is dead .Long live Testing from @dhh
Ship It Day! with Renee
The “Safe Segment” – discussing Safe Training blog from Steve Barrett

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Episode 72: Shipping at Facebook with Joel Pobar

22/05/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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From YOW! 2013, Craig and Renee talk to Joel Pobar, currently working at Facebook as an Engineering Lead and talk about:

Joel’s journey to Facebook
Common Language Runtime (CLR)
Building and shipping fast
The value of a developers time and their critical paths
A day in the life of a Facebook manager
Who is the Product Owner in an infrastructural team?
A/B (experimentation) testing in New Zealand
Stabalisation and release process
Recruiting the right people
Pulling out the sharpies when pivoting on PHP
Striving for infrastructural efficiency and how to empower the team to this goal
Owning the stack from the bottom to the top and its impact on agility
Checkout HHVM, the Facebook Engineering Blog & Open Compute

You can contact Joel at facebook or on twitter at @joelpob.

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Episode 71: Essential Scrum with Kenny Rubin

03/05/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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At Agile 2013 in Nashville, TN, Craig catches up with Kenny Rubin, author of “Essential Scrum” and Scrum trainer and coach at Innolution. While sitting in the corridor, they talk about:

Essential Scrum – the success and background of the book
Visual AGILExicon® – free image library to describe Scrum and Agile in a visual way
The lack of Agile (and technical) audio books
Strategies for Agile Portfolio Management and Scaling with Feature vs Component Teams talk at Agile 2013
The size of the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville
Contact Kenny to speak at your user group / meetup if he is passing through your town!

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Episode 70: Hello Is This Thing On?

09/04/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig, Renee and Tony catch up again and discuss the wonderfully diverse world of Agile :

Tony starts the SAFe conversation again via @RonJeffries blog post SAFe – Good not Good Enough
I want Agile back , you ? via Tim Ottinger
Craig brings the Raccoon back whilst discussing ” Reports of Agile’s death” from @jbrains, “Agile is Dead (Long Live Agility) ” from @pragdave
What is ScrumStudy and the “Scrum Master Certified” ? via @sdunnrocket9
We’ll ask for estimates @jonelf
Renee gets in a shameless plug for the “Who Is Agile in Australia and New Zealand ?” Book
Siemens success story ” Kanban at Scale” via InfoQ
“Kanban in Action” book review via authors @marcusoftnet and @joakimsunden
“The Human Side of Agile ” book review @gilbroza

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Episode 69: DevOps with Michael Nygard

29/03/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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At YOW 2013 in Sydney, Craig and Renee catch up with Michael Nygard and discuss the world of DevOps including:

Michael’s book “Release it!: Design and Deploy Production Ready Software“
What DevOps really is
The values of DevOps and its relationship to the Agile Manifesto
Could DevOps have occurred without Agile?
How much of Release it is still holding well?
Anti-patterns in DevOps (eg. a separate DevOps group)
Cognitect and Closure
Development is production
Where does ITIL fit in with DevOps?
Why Problem Management may no longer be relevant
How good are we really in DevOps?

You can contact Michael on twitter at @mtnygard or at the Think Relevance Blog.

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Episode 68: Together Again Like Peas & Carrots

24/03/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Can you believe it ! Yes it’s a real Forest Gump moment, the revolutionists are finally back together again just like peas and carrots . They are back to their best discussing :

What is Agile 2014 ? Inspired by The Dark Side of Scrum – Thomas Schranz – @__tosh
Renee gets agile academic : Understanding Post-Adoptive Agile Usage – an Exploratory Cross-Case analysis : Mali Senapathi and Ananth Srinivasan
Tony befuddles Craig and Renee with a great question : Two top tips to enable the people to uptake agile and empower them ?
Laminating not slicing : Alistair Cockburn
Tony quotes “Cher” (yes that’s right “Cher”) and turns back time
37 Signals becomes Basecamp
CSIRO builds Sophie a dragon

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Episode 67: A Boys Night Out

18/02/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony take the opportunity in Renee’s absence to talk about the year that was , conferences and workshops attended and generally cover all things Agile: