Episode 184: Agile Virtual (Pizza) Summit with Adam Weisbart

22/05/202022/05/2020 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Craig, Renee and Tony catch up with old friend and “irregular” guest Adam Weisbart about Agile Virtual Summit, Recess retrospectives, Build Your Own Scrum and making your own pizza.

Renee realised Washington state is nowhere near Washington, DC
Agile Virtual Summit 1-5 June 2020 – a collection of great speakers and registration is free!
Distributed retrospectives – important that people give a voice-over to the items that they add
Tips for Remote Agile ceremonies – recreate being in the same room with technology as much as possible, avoid the asynchronous Slack bots, actually standup,
At Slack, you are not allowed to hold a meeting via Slack!
Recess – retrospectives in a box!
Making virtual retrospectives fun – change them up, craft retrospectives into a story (Recess does this), remember the future (where would you be if you had the most awesome sprint ever)
The next thing in Agile just…

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Episode 168: Agile 2019 (Un)bagging

09/08/201909/08/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig and Renee are in Washington, DC at Agile 2019 and ahead of day one have some fun and decide to open up the swag bag after collecting the badges and see what is inside:

Air Force One Experience next to the conference hotel in National Harbor
Women In Agile 2019 conference tshirt
Octo Consulting and Lockheed Martin webcam covers and/or popsocket
ICAgile pen
Express Scripts blue tape
Freddie Mac gum (because great teams stick together)
Excella bottle opener
Scrum Inc mobile phone credit card holder
Scrum @ Scale metal straw (which Renee thought looked like a recorder case)
Scaled Agile wooden phone holder
PMI metal straw (which Renee thought was a pen)
Paperwork from Planview (giving away a Yeti Hopper), Lockheed Martin, Insight, Nisum, LitheSpeed (and the theagilevmo.com), Cprime, Esther Derby and her new book “7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change“, Adventures…

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Episode 163: Agile Australia 2017 Vox Pop #1

10/06/201910/06/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Tony and Craig are at Agile Australia 2017 in Sydney and wander the very busy hallways catching up with attendees and with old friends:

Sieger de Vries – enjoyed Matt Pancino talk “The future of Agile in the enterprise: has the war been lost?”, distributed Agile and use of partnering is here to stay
Mia Horrigan from Zen Ex Machina and Joseph Gard from Australian Taxation Office – lots of Agile interest in Canberra around scaling Agile and leading the change in government, enjoyed Barry O’Reilly keynote “Lessons deploying Lean Enterprise“
Venky Krishnamurthy from The Empirical Coach – LeSS is purely based on evidence from experiments that was created into a framework, enjoyed Jez Humble workshop and keynote “Continuous Delivery Sounds Great But It Won’t Work Here“
Steve Scotson from 4impact – enjoyed the high standard and breadth of subject matter around innovation and organisation change

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Opinion: What 2017 Has in Store for Culture & Methods

12/01/201712/01/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

We polled the InfoQ Culture & Methods editors for their takes on what 2017 has in store for the technology industry, what are the trends which we see coming to the fore and what the implications will be for organizations around the globe.

Source: Opinion: What 2017 Has in Store for Culture & Methods

Mik Kersten on Current and Future ALM Trends

16/11/201516/11/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Mik Kersten talks about current and future trends in ALM and the support for approaches like large scale Agile, DevOps, Docker, Big Data, functional languages and the Internet of Things.

Source: Mik Kersten on Current and Future ALM Trends

Bas Vodde and Craig Larman on Large Scale Scrum

14/11/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Bas Vodde and Craig Larman talk about Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), its origins, and the focus on simplicity, as well as the corresponding website and their new book “Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS”.

Source: Bas Vodde and Craig Larman on Large Scale Scrum

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

27/09/201527/09/2015 / 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.

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

Episode 94: Agile 2015 Wrap Up

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

The Agile Revolution Podcast

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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YOW! West 2015: 40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes

26/05/201505/01/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

My presentation from YOW! West 2015 called “40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes” is available on Slideshare.

With 73% of the world using Scrum as their predominant Agile method, this session will open up your eyes to the many other Agile and edgy Agile methods and movements in the world today For many, Agile is a toolbox of potential methods, practices and techniques, and like any good toolbox it is often more about using the right tool for the problem that will result in meaningful results.Take a rapid journey into the world of methods like Mikado, Nonban, Vanguard and movements like Holocracy,Drive and Stoos where we will uncover 40 methods and movements in 40 minutes to help strengthen your toolbox.

It was a priviledge to have Marcus Hammarberg (author of Kanban In Action) in the audience for this talk.

Here are some of the live tweets from the talk:

Our very own @smithcdau takes to the red room stage with 40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes at 3:10pm #yowwest15

— YOW! Australia (@yow_oz) May 26, 2015

Agile: "It's more of a guideline, really" — @smithcdau (paraphrased) #yowwest15

— Bḝn (@bendechrai) May 26, 2015

Get the scrum guide for free at http://t.co/ZYfuLIlnRo /@smithcdau #yowwest15

— Bḝn (@bendechrai) May 26, 2015

Don't say you "do scrum but..", say you "do scrum and…" – it's one tool in your tool belt /@smithcdau #yowwest15

— Bḝn (@bendechrai) May 26, 2015

Remember DSDM? @smithcdau bringing back memories of yesteryear at #yowwest15

— Bḝn (@bendechrai) May 26, 2015

Amazing shoutout from @smithcdau about our book. We're blushing! Thanks a lot #yowwest15

— Kanban in action (@KanbanInAction) May 26, 2015

.@smithcdau: I'm a team of one and I'm awesome! #yowwest15

— Sam Ritchie (@FakeSamRitchie) May 26, 2015

#PRINCE2, in true waterfall style, are close to going over deadline in adding Agile certification to their repertoire /@smithcdau #yowwest15

— Bḝn (@bendechrai) May 26, 2015

#yowwest15 here's the @spotify videos that @smithcdau mentioned: http://t.co/4QsaVZRqbT and http://t.co/nEm0iTq1ao

— Marcus Hammarberg (@marcusoftnet) May 26, 2015

"#DevOps is a methodology, not a job role" — @smithcdau #yowwest15

— Bḝn (@bendechrai) May 26, 2015

Blown away by the knowledge and delivery from @smithcdau Excellent talk sir! #yowwest15

— Marcus Hammarberg (@marcusoftnet) May 26, 2015

Essence of agile? Don't exclude from consideration any idea based on its source; consider all to find best solution @smithcdau #yowwest15

— Bḝn (@bendechrai) May 26, 2015

#yowwest15 The Goal is a great book. Read it now! http://t.co/IM95TWjDqQ

— Marcus Hammarberg (@marcusoftnet) May 26, 2015

Now the #mikadoMethod is mentioned at #yowwest15 ping @ellnestam @danielbrolund

— Marcus Hammarberg (@marcusoftnet) May 26, 2015

The 40 agile methods talk is my new definition of a Crash course! My God this is fast, and informative. Thanks a lot #yowwest15

— Marcus Hammarberg (@marcusoftnet) May 26, 2015

#ScrumBut or not is only important if you're are selling Scrum ™. For the rest of us: but away. Or And away #yowwest15

— Marcus Hammarberg (@marcusoftnet) May 26, 2015

Great talk by @smithcdau. 40 Agile Methods #yowwest15

— Will Webster (@willwebst) May 26, 2015

Episode 86 : Sticky Notes and Agile Stuff

24/02/201521/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Renee sets the tone for the Podcast, talking sticky notes and a great new app Post it plus by 3m and tests them live on the podcast .

This week the team talk about :

Are performance reviews a waste of time ? Review from the Business insider
@agilescout Remove your constraints article piques Tony’s interest and then ends up with a debate around star treks relevance
Renee interrupts to provide the results of her tests with the sticky notes app

stickytest2

We discuss the new update to the LeSS (large scale scrum) framework by @less_works
Craig asks questions of Renee and Tony from an Agile Coaching course
Tony proves it’s live as he runs off to sooth his daughter, Craig and Renee take the opportunity to have some fun in his absence
Books The Revolutionists are Reading: Impact Mapping (Gojko Adzic), Lean Startup (Eric Ries), Bridging the Communication Gap (Gojko Adzic)

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