Episode 66: Agile Coaching with Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd

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

At YOW 2013 in Sydney, Craig, Renee and Jeremie Benazra catch up with Lyssa Adkins, author of “Coaching Agile Teams” and Michael Spayd, both Agile Coaches at the Agile Coaching Institute and chew the fat on:

What is Agile?
Lyssa’s “Coaching Agile Teams” book
The difficulties in being an Agile Coach
The XP Coach
Coaching as a more mature version of leadership
Where professional coaching fits into Agile Coaching
Why Agile Coaches are sought after whereas general organisational coaching is less prevalent
The training of managers and its impact on mindsets
Michael’s “Coaching the Agile Enterprise” book
Team coaches vs enterprise coaches – what is the difference
Scrum Mastering an enterprise transformation
ICAgile
How to teach a pig to sing
The coaching oath of non-allegiance
Certified Scrum Coach versus ICAgile Coach
The myriad of skill sets needed as an Agile Coach
Agile…

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Episode 65: Becoming Agile… with Greg Smith

09/11/201305/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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At Agile 2013 in Nashville, TN, Craig catches up with his old friend Greg Smith (no relation), co-author of “Becoming Agile… In An Imperfect World” and Agile Coach at GS Solutions Group. Greg regularly assists Fortune 500 with their adoption of Agile and the quote of the podcast has to be “discipline or good software practices are proportionally inverse to how much money you make!”. Some of the topics of conversation were:

Fire the client!
The state of Agile in the United States
Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
The traditional practices are still important
“Becoming Agile… In An Imperfect World” and what would be added if it were written in 2013
PMI and Agile – should be used together
Scaling Agile and Essential Scrum by Kenny Rubin
Beyond Budgeting
Collaboration Culture and Teams track at Agile 2013
Story Mapping
Lean UX by Jeff Gothelf
Diversified –

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Episode 63: The Lean-Agile Project with Al Shalloway

10/09/201305/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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At Agile 2013 in Nashville, TN, Craig talks to Al Shalloway from Net Objectives in the open space area (ironically in front of a waterfall) about his current areas of interest in the Lean Agile community. Al has been a leading voice in the Agile community for many years, is the author of many software development and Agile related books and is a SAFe Program Consultant as well as a co-founder of the Lean Software & Systems Consortium. The topics discussed include:

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and the manifestation of Lean
Third Generation of Lean Agile or more simply The Lean-Agile Project
Kanban clarity
“When your up to your ass in alligators, it’s hard to remember you’re there to drain the swamp” – IBM
Aspire by Kevin Hall
Steve Chandler – “When things serve us they’re good, and when they don’t they’re not”
Singles

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Episode 62: Agile 2013 Days 3, 4 & 5

09/09/201305/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig continues his daily reports from Agile 2013 in Nashville with some observations on the sessions he attended on days 3, 4 and 5.

More in-depth notes will be available on Craig’s blog soon.

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Episode 61: Agile 2013 Day 2

07/08/201305/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig continues his daily reports from Agile 2013 in Nashville with some observations on the sessions he attended on day 2.

More in-depth notes will be available on Craig’s blog soon.

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Episode 60: Agile 2013 Day 1

06/08/201305/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig is in Nashville, Tennessee in the USA for the Agile 2013 conference,, and recaps the opening keynote as well as the day 1 sessions he attended.

More in-depth notes will be available on Craig’s blog soon.

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Episode 58: Don’t Drink and Podcast!

23/06/201305/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Renee are in Sydney and dangerously podcast after Renee’s one (1) drink and Craig’s two (2) drinks. Along the way they fumble over the following topics:

Agile Sydney meetup – Agile 101
Build Your Own Manifesto and Adam Weisbart’s Build Your Own Manifesto (and my Interview with Adam Weisbart at Agile 2012 in case you missed it)
Wordle – awesome word cloud generation tool
Agile observations from Dave Thomas (not Dave Thomas)
YOW! Lambda Jam and Lambda Jam and the buzz around functional programming
Emergent Design
Mike Cohn on “Hard to Read Handwriting is Best for User Stories” (and the associated research)
Craig’s notes from Tech Connect 2013 in Brisbane
Startup Metrics for Pirates (AARRR)
When would you pick waterfall over agile (…we think you know the answer!)
DWP drops agile from flagship government software project
New book Commitment from Chris Matts and Olav Maassen has…

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Episode 57: No, No, Noooo!

25/05/201305/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Tony, Renee and Craig meet in sunny suburban Sandgate and have an intense debate about the world of Agile while dealing with the 4:01 to Shorncliffe and beeping out Tony’s references to seagulls and respect.

Agile coaching is more about building the capacity of people and high performing teams rather than processes, the Situational Leadership Model, Shu Ha Ri and pragmatic coaching
No estimates – Purpose Of Estimation by Martin Fowler, The NoEstimates Movement by Ron Jeffries, numerous posts and an Agile Business Analysts Meetup by Neil Killick and numerous posts by Woody Zuill
Inspirational speaker Peter Williams from Deloitte
No prioritisation and no product owner movements
The Costs of Ignoring Employee Engagement
2012 Version One State of Agile Survey as well as Renee’s blog and Craig’s InfoQ post on the survey
Al Shalloway – Why I am No Longer With Lean-Kanban University
No videos from LKNA
Australian startup

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Episode 56: Scrum Australia plus a Hint of Peas & Apples

15/04/201305/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Renee rendezvous in Sydney for Scrum Australia and clear the backlog for a way overdue podcast. Whilst Craig battled a cold and Renee a fit of giggles, they discussed: