Episode 182: Unlearn-ing with Barry O’Reilly

16/04/202016/04/2020 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and (despite a bin rolling by) sit down with Barry O’Reilly, co-author of “Lean Enterprise” and author of “Unlearn” and they talk about:

Reminiscing about Barry’s resume that includes CitySearch (and its competitor Zip2 owned by Elon Musk), Snake, Wireless Pets on Nokia and Lilo & Stitch using J2ME and eventually onto ThoughtWorks
Lean Enterprise was written after “The Lean Startup” was released but to explain how it works if you are not a startup and increase experimentation in organisations
When people can design good disciplined experiments, you have system to break down problems and grow your system and people
Fortune 15 executives and successful startup leaders don’t sit around and ask “if we are doing the framework correctly”- they have their own system, in the same way as Toyota created their…

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Episode 101: The Lean Mindset with Mary and Tom Poppendieck

15/01/201615/01/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig catches up with two luminaries in the Agile and Lean space, Mary and Tom Poppendieck at YOW! Conference to talk about agile, lean, rapid feedback, culture and leadership. The discussion points include:

Making the link between lean and software development and discovering that waterfall makes no sense
The origins of the first book: Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
Agile is not lean in software development, Agile is lean in a delivery organisation
How long does it take you to put a single line of code into Production?
The manifestation of lean really kicked off in 2010 with both the rise of DevOps and the Lean Startup
Delivery organisations versus engineering organisations and the journey of Agile
Agile has not well addressed delivering the right stuff, solving the right problem and the architecture of rapid deployment
Only two goals at ING: Deliver every two weeks and don’t crash production, resulted…

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Jeff Patton on User Story Mapping and Product Management

23/10/201520/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Jeff Patton talks about his book “User Story Mapping” and the background and approaches to the story mapping process as well as upcoming trends in relation to product management.

Source: Jeff Patton on User Story Mapping and Product Management

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 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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Todd Charron on Lean Startup Machine & Improv in Agile

05/03/201423/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Todd Charron talks about some of the outcomes from Lean Startup Machine in Toronto, applying Lean Startup in the Enterprise and how can us improvisation techniques in Agile to reduce our fears.

Source: Todd Charron on Lean Startup Machine & Improv in Agile

Declan Whelan on Agile Coaching, Lean Startups and the Agile Alliance

03/01/201329/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Declan Whelan discusses Agile Coaching and the lessons learnt returning to coding as part of a new lean startup as well Agile Coach Camp, pair coaching and his role on the Agile Alliance board.

Source: Declan Whelan on Agile Coaching, Lean Startups and the Agile Alliance

Episode 48: Declan (Not Dexter)

10/11/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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At Agile 2012 in Dallas, Texas, Craig chats with Declan Whelan, a Canadian Agile Coach at LeanIntuit, the CTO and co-founder of a new startup called Printchomp and a newly elected member of the Agile Alliance board. Amongst other things we talk about pair coaching, running a Lean Startup, the direction of the Agile Alliance and the future of Agile.

His talk at Agile 2012 (with Alistair McKinnell) was entitled “Simple Design Applied: Spend More Time Creating Valuable Code“. Look out for a longer video interview with Declan on InfoQ.

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Henrik Kniberg on Lean From The Trenches, Translating the Agile Manifesto and Living Agile

19/09/201229/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Henrik Kniberg discusses the journey to writing his latest book “Lean from the Trenches”, the translation of the Agile Manifesto as well as his recent travels and Lean Startup projects.

Source: Henrik Kniberg on Lean From The Trenches, Translating the Agile Manifesto and Living Agile