Episode 188: Doing Agile Right with Steve Berez & Tony Christensen

30/12/202030/12/2020 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Tony and Craig catch up with Tony Christensen and Steve Berez, co-author of “Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos” as well as from Bain & Company and they chat about:

Saw a lot of companies doing agile wrong and a lot of pain suffering and probably worse off than when they started – book is to try to share learning and get agile on the right track
The conditions for agile to flourish need to change, particularly beyond team level
RBS – one of the key impediments was funding, changed to funding persistent teams
Most organisations have a dissatisfaction with their financial process – need to have an honest conversation around the pain points of trust and process and seeing the promise of early return
Bosch – were not innovating as quickly as they needed to, now using Agile for product design, manufacturing process and supply change…

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Episode 159: What Colour Agile Would You Like Today with Nigel Dalton

16/03/201916/03/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig is at YOW! Hong Kong and is sitting with Nigel Dalton, Chief Inventor at REA Group and the Australian “Godfather of Agile” and they reminisce about:

Anita Sengupta’s YOW! Hong Kong keynote “The Future of Mars Exploration“
Akin’s Rules of Spacecraft Design – “don’t mess it up, there are people involved”
Nigel Dalton’s YOW! Hong Kong talk “Agile is the Last Thing You Need“
The two early experiments of Agile in Australia – Lonely Planet and Suncorp
The success of the REA technology teams today was the move into multidisciplinary teams where the influence comes from product – it was a difficult decision and chaos at the time
John Sullivan’s YOW! Hong Kong talk “A Presentation to Myself on Organisational Agile Transformations“
ANZ is disrupting the power base of senior management – Shayne Elliott video about their way of working and Bluenotes…

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Episode 134: Unicorns, Distributed Teams and Agile User Groups with Mark Kilby

26/07/201726/07/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig is at Agile 2016 in Atlanta and catches up with Mark Kilby, an Agile Coach at Sonatype and co-founder of Agile Orlando and Agile Florida. Along the way they discuss:

“Extreme Programming Explained” by Kent Beck (the white book)
Memories of Jean Tabaka and her book “Collaboration Explained”
We should be collaborating with leaders rather than working for them
InfoQ interview “Mark Kilby, Stephanie Davis and Rick Regueira on Effective User Groups & Remote Agile“
“Can you be remotely Agile” Agile 2015 experience report
“Audacious Salon – Distributed Agile” session output from Agile 2016 conference
Virtual Team Talk group (started in Berlin, ironically at a conference)
“Communicating and Collaborating: How Distributed Agile Teams Can Thrive” Agile 2016 workshop with David Horowitz
Distribution tips: don’t force distributed teams, it needs to be a choice; it’s a…

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Episode 112: Inside Spotify with Anders Ivarsson

06/07/201606/07/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Renee and Craig are at the Agile Australia conference and talk to Anders Ivarsson, an organisational coach at Spotify, and learn some of approaches that make Spotify tick:

Agile Australia talk “Autonomy and Leadership at Spotify” and workshop “Organisational Improvement: Design-inspired Problem Solving”
Agile Coaches spend time with squads versus a new role of organisational coach that looks at the culture, ways of working, vision and systemic wastes
Spotify is not a model
Original Spotify scaling paper, never imagined the spread or the impact
Spotify have shared a lot of the things that have worked well, but they do also have challenges as well – one is alignment across teams as the organisation gets bigger so they have been working on visualisation and prioritisation
Spotify Culture videos (Part 1 and Part 2)
use microservices to ensure that the organisation can work in the…

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Episode 104: Agile Australia 2015 Vox Pop #2

19/04/201619/04/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony wander the lunchtime floor on day 2 of Agile Australia conference in Sydney, looking for more interesting people in the Australian Agile community. They chatted to the ones who couldn’t quite run fast enough away from the microphone including:

NZ Ben Gracewood (Vend) and Anders Ivarsson (Spotify) – overview of Ben’s talk “What if there were no rules?“, Tony learning a new word (connaissance) and the motto of not being a “duck” is his talk and Anders about his talk “Autonomy and Leadership at Spotify” and that we shouldn’t call Spotify a model!
Chris Chan and Dylan Verheijden – the (Agile) Australian tradition of the Tim Tam Slam, Linda Rising’s keynote and her myth on smart people not being rational, James Shore’s keynote and inspirations around the Agile Fluency Model
Bernd Schiffer and Poppy Schiffer (#agilebaby) – Bernd’s talk “Concrete experimentation in Agile environments

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Episode 87: Coffee From The Trenches with Henrik Kniberg

16/03/201521/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Renee and Craig catch up with Henrik Kniberg at Scrum Australia 2014 where he tries coffee for the first time in ten years at the Paramount Coffee Project (the best coffee in Sydney according to Renee). Apart from getting his verdict on the brew, they also talk about:

First time back in Australia in a long time to keynote at Scrum Australia 2014
Craig’s interview “Henrik Kniberg on Lean From The Trenches, Translating the Agile Manifesto and Living Agile” from Agile 2012 in Dallas on InfoQ
“Scrum and XP From The Trenches” and how the book was written in 3 days
Ivory Tower Syndrome – you can get good at describing crap in a believable way if you don’t have connections to reality
“Kanban and Scrum: Making The Most of Both“
Spotify – 25 coaches with 25 pet approaches, the culture and the fundamentals in…

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