Episode 185: Heart of Agile Academy with Alistair Cockburn & Soledad Pinter

13/06/202013/06/2020 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Tony, Renee and Craig speak to Alistair Cockburn and Soledad Pinter about the newly launched Heart of Agile Academy:

The Heart of Agile Academy is the opportunity to reset Agile learning with a clean sheet of paper
The core design decisions were to remove the classes being tied to a title and to be better at the specialities that make up the Heart of Agile
Heart of Agile is just four words or focus areas: Collaborate, Deliver, Reflect and Improve
Alistair and Ahmed Sidky tried to solve this problem in 2010 when they launched ICAgile
There are over 3,000 different certification programs for Agile
The Academy has courses at different levels that are taught by Agile experts from around the world (and in multiple languages)
There is an accreditation ladder and process for bringing on new courses and trainers
Designed to be a marketplace for Agile classes and open…

Episode 181: Change it with the BOSSAnova with Jutta Eckstein

26/03/202026/03/2020 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Craig and Tony are at YOW! conference in Brisbane and chat with Jutta Eckstein, author of “Agile Software Development in the Large“, “Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams“, “Retrospectives for Organisational Change” “Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in Your Project Portfolio” with Johanna Rothman and “Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy: Survive & Thrive on Disruption” with John Buck

Smalltalk and pattern languages was where a lot of the early work and a lot of the early players converged
Scrum had great marketing and certification over Extreme Programming
Agile Software Development in the Large came out in 2004 and was probably way before its time
Craig Larman and Bas Vodde book “Scaling Lean & Agile Development“
IBM book “A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum“
A framework is not…

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Episode 177: The Human Side of Agile for Non-Software Teams with Gil Broza

31/12/201931/12/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Renee and Craig are at Agile 2019 in Washington, DC and talk to Gil Broza, Agile Mindset and Leadership Coach / Trainer at 3P Vantage and author of “The Agile Mind-Set“, “The Human Side of Agile” and “Agile for Non-Software Teams” and they talk about:

Agile 2019 talk – “How to Help your Non-Software Colleagues Adopt Agile“
Outside of software, they notice Agile and want what they have – a different team experience and doing things better
Focus on a principle based transformation rather than practices – have conversations early and often on how we want to be and how we want to operate
The Agile Manifesto principles are partial and software heavy, the values and beliefs are the root and leadership should keep these alive
26 principles in “The Agile Mind-Set” book and includes transparency (which is harder in areas…

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Episode 170: Agile Our Way at Flinders University with Kerrie Campbell

15/09/201915/09/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig is as LAST Conference in Canberra and with guest co-host (and co-founder of LAST) Craig Brown they talk to Kerrie Campbell, the CIO at Flinders University in Adelaide and they talk (amongst some unscheduled cup stacking) about:

LAST Keynote talk “Flinders University Transformation“
Leadership through seeding rather than driving by changing language, building mindset and removing impediments
Open the kimono and leaders do Agile by example and muddle through it publicly
Story telling to move through the change
Eliminating the PMO – don’t need a middle man to get in between the IT and business to slow you down and sort out the projects if the team is cross skilled and cross facilitating
Disrupted finance through asking for a five year envelope of money and working and modelling the work that is ready to be done
Heart of Agile takes the complexity out of Agile –…

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Episode 165: Two Years and Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad

23/06/201923/06/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony sit down for a personal chat with the microphone turned on for the first time in 2 years (that is not an interview) (wow, time files…), unfortunately without Renee who was out sick:

State of the nation is a lot of dark / fake Agile and lack of collaborative connective tissues
Fail Agility – Craig and Tony’s keynote talk (Episode 150)
The word Agile is done, we are trying to harness agility
Heart of Agile – a reflective improvement framework that helps you find your way forward
The Agile Manifesto tells you the what, the Heart of Agile tells you the how
The Agile Revolution Podcast with Alistair Cockburn (Epsiode 49)
40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes diagram
Collision 2019 Toronto – Justin Trudeau, Capital One, BMO, Ev Williams, Timbaland, KFC
Stability in leadership and the stake in organisational success is important for…

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Episode 116: The Heart of Modern Agile

07/10/201607/10/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony are sipping a sarsaparilla or two on a balcony in Brisbane and start trying to dissect the state and heart of modern agility:

You can trust the team if you listen to them
Keys to transformation is LLL – leadership, leadership, leadership
If you have Agile leaders maybe you don’t need Agile coaches
Craig and Renee’s talk “Coaching Nightmares: Lessons We Can Learn From Gordon Ramsay“
Heart of Agile by Alistair Cockburn – collaborate, deliver, reflect and improve
Agile is Dead (Long Love Agility) by Dave Thomas and the related YOW! Conference talk
Modern Agile by Joshua Kerievsky – also the original article and the keynote talk at Agile 2016 – make people awesome, deliver value continuously, make safety a prerequisite and experiment and learn rapidly
Survey to rewrite the Agile Manifesto (again)
Tony is a tenner – he believes in “simplicity is the art of…