The video from the Agile Revolution LIVE! session that I co-hosted at the Agility Today 2021 Unconference with Renee Troughton and Tony Ponton is now available on YouTube. The audio podcast will be released soon.
Tony Ponton
Episode 193: Agile Australia 2019 Vox Pop #2
Craig and Tony are once again roaming the halls at Agile Australia in Sydney and once again chat to some old friends from the Australian Agile community:
- Keynotes from Ali Walker and Marty Cagan
- Elabor8 (nice plug Tony)
- Sharon Robson from enterprising agility – enjoying the recognition that Agile adoption starts from the top down, agile at scale is about the thinking and thought processes being applied throughout the entire organisation, looking forward to Sandra Davey on “Upon retrospective: the board went Agile“
- Steve Lawrence – a member of the “11 club”, agile should be a mechanism to create greater value not reduce headcount, every small step you take is a step forward
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Episode 192: Agile Australia 2019 Vox Pop #1
Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and run into some old friends:
- Cathy Tang – “stroke the ego and crack the whip”, making the leap from logistics to Scrum Master
- Rachel Slattery – Agile Australia Director and Director of Slatts Group, surprised by the large number of new attendees
- Keynotes by Emma Murray and Jez Humble
- Hayley Pepper from Sunsuper – enjoyed talk by Roger Almeida “Lessons from leading a “you build it, you run it” team” about platform teams
- Charlotte Hinton from Service Innovation Lab and organiser of AgileWelly – each year we hear similar problems and are we making traction, enjoyed talk by Sarah Taraporewalla “Complex is easy, it’s simple that’s hard“
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Episode 191: Accelerating DevOps with Jez Humble
Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and after many years of chasing him around finally get to speak to Jez Humble, co-author of many fine books including “Continuous Delivery“, “Lean Enterprise“, “The DevOps Handbook” and “Accelerate” and they discuss:
- Accelerate is based on a research program where practices are validated on the impact they had on various organisations
- Agile Australia keynote “The Key to High Performing Tech Organizations“
- There is enormous scope to extend the Accelerate-type research to the rest of the value stream
- “Thinking Fast and Slow” – Daniel Kahneman shows that you can measure psychological and behavioural science
- Project Aristotle by Google – were able to replicate results around culture
- State of DevOps Report
- Jeff Smith at Suncorp
- We all want to ensure that people and data are safe – need to…
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Episode 190: Talking Agile Live From The Man Cave with Serge Beaumont
Renee, Craig and Tony are together to chat with Serge Beaumont, Principal Agile Coach at Xebia, live from his man cave and despite showing their lack of mathematical skills in relation to dice they chat about:
- In relation to culture, if the human connections are there you can handle just about anything
- A foundational cultural aspect at Xebia is that they implemented Xebia Knowledge Exchange (XKE) – every second Tuesday the team has dinner and then has a mini-conference of about 20 streams
- Xebia were at the foundation of the ING Agile transformation
- Gloomhaven
- Rode PodMic
- You need leadership that truly believes in culture as a powerful thing
- Renee does story maps like trees and Serge prefers to ensure that he finds his epic on the horizontal slice rather than using the activities on the vertical backbone, building towards an MVP
- All backlogs should be tree structures
- An…
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Episode 189: The Alistair Cockburn Fan Club with Martin Kearns
Tony and Craig are at Agile Australia in Melbourne and they (finally) catch up with Martin Kearns, the Chief Digital Officer at Innodev and co-organiser of Scrum Australia, and they chat about:
- Alistair Cockburn gets mentioned at around the 2:30 minute mark, and Martin was responsible for first bringing him to Australia
- Being coached is being open to an experience you aren’t controlling
- Certified Agile Leadership
- Agile is always going to hurt, need to prepare for pain and enjoy it
- Australia 2030: Prosperity through Innovation – need to understand the environmental factors that are forcing Agility into organisations
- Knowledge of customers is more superior than ever before – due to education and social intelligence (Target inappropriate clothing for children)
- VUCA is here to stay – accept that you need to listen
- Australia Post is a good agile example organisation – reinvented themselves through identity services, travel…
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Episode 188: Doing Agile Right with Steve Berez & Tony Christensen
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 187: Domain Driven Yak Symmathesy with Jessica Kerr
Tony and Craig are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and chat to Jessica Kerr, software developer, consultant and symmathecist (look it up or listen to the podcast) and apart from our first live podcast sneeze they talk about:
- YOW! 2018 keynote “The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming“
- YOW! 2018 talk “Shaving the Golden Yak“
- Great teams make great people – if you want to become great as a developer, focus on the team
- You can’t document what is obvious to you – whenever you say the word obviously, replace it with “I cant explain it, but…”
- Yak shaving – all the tasks that you do that get in the way of your work
- If you are an agile person but you wish agile had more code in it – go to the Domain Driven Design community
- We need to embrace complexity…
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Episode 185: Heart of Agile Academy with Alistair Cockburn & Soledad Pinter
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…
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Episode 184: Agile Virtual (Pizza) Summit with Adam Weisbart
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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