Episode 116: The Heart of Modern Agile

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

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…

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Episode 109 – The Art of Agile Fluency with James Shore

01/06/201601/06/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony at the Agile Australia conference sit down with James Shore, best known as for his work as author of “The Art of Agile Development” and co-creator of the Agile Fluency Model and talk about a wide range of Agile topics including:

“Java Modeling in Color with UML” book mentioned Feature Driven Development (an Australian Agile method!), learnt a valuable lesson to pay attention to the financials and, no matter how much you talk to your customer, seeing is not enough (they need to use it)
“Extreme Programming Explained“, both editions are the same problem but coming from different experiences with the benefit of seven years of experience
the bulk of the “Art of Agile Development” book, particularly section 2, is mostly online, the major thing that probably needs to be updated is the section on customer testing
Agile Australia keynote “The Reward”
language…

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Episode 108 – SAFe from the Source with Dean Leffingwell

18/05/201618/05/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Renee, Craig and Tony (with a lurking Em Campbell-Pretty) in a very busy corridor with random bells ringing, catch up with Dean Leffingwell, author of numerous books including “Agile Software Requirements” and “Scaling Software Agility” and the creator of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in a very candid discussion:

the journey to SAFe included as a developer building the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ride and infusion pumps and generally a mission to make quality better
epiphony around Agile was the step change around how teams perform and how they like their work when they perform better
not everything that is old is stupid, “we are discovering new ways of developing software” and we need to ask ourselves are we still discovering
Scrum is the only method that defines what a software team is (roles and size)
SAFe is not a war it is…

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Episode 106: Turning the Agile Ship Around with David Marquet

29/04/201629/04/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Tony, Renee, Craig and special guest host Tyson Nutt catchup with David Marquet, author of “Turn The Ship Around!” and the “Turn Your Ship Around” companion workbook at the Agile Australia conference and talk about how similar a nuclear submarine and an Agile team really are:

leadership is not about telling people what to do and how to do it
all investments in human beings are long term
the approach spread from the bottom up, now the book is on the official reading list of two Navy’s (including New Zealand)
“I intend to” does not mean they get to do it – gives psychological ownership and to spark the conversation
thinking out loud is about saying what is going on in our head, this even works when teaching your children how to drive!
feed the beast – don’t respond by hiding, feed them with as…

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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 103: Agile Australia 2015 Vox Pop

08/04/201608/04/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony are once again roaming the floor, this time at the Agile Australia conference in Sydney, looking for interesting people in the Australian Agile community. While walking around the floor they run into:

Rachel Slattery (SlatteryIT) – organiser of Agile Australia talks about the record crowd, selection of speakers and the number of first timers new to Agile
Kim Ballestrin – organiser of Cynefin Melbourne Meetup Group discusses what’s new in the Cynefin world and enjoyed the talk learning about the model used by Flow Perth
Ben Melbourne and Jean D’Amore (ThoughtWorks) – discussed applying Agile techniques to reality television (and podcasts), Ben’s workshop on “Using Design Thinking to Drive Agile Planning” and Jean’s talk on “Delivering with microservices or how to iterate towards sophistication”
Daniel Luschwitz (SoftEd) – talked about the strengths of ICAgile over other approaches and the Agile…

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Episode 102: The Essence of Microservices (and Agile) with Scott Shaw

25/01/201625/01/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Tony and Craig are at YOW! Conference and in the hallway ambush Scott Shaw, the Director of Technology (Australia) at ThoughtWorks and talk about the state of microservices and Agile:

Scott’s YOW! talk “Avoiding Speedbumps on the Road to Microservices“
Microservices are just a different way to build applications that get away from monoliths
Beth Skurrie, Evan Bottcher, Jon Eaves case study at YOW! – “The Odyssey – From Monoliths to Microservices at realestate.com.au“
Essentials for microservices include Domain Driven Design, security and identity and change management
Simon Brown talk at YOW! – “Agility and the Essence of Software Architecture“
Cloud and infrastructure as code has changed the way we look at applications and have allowed microservices
The essence of Agile is the team taking ownership of the business success of whatever it is they are building and keeping that ownership over the longer…

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Episode 100: 100th Episode Spectacular

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100dpp Craig, Renee and Tony come together to celebrate 100 episodes of The Agile Revolution, and review the journey of both the podcast and Agile in general over the last 4 and a half years and surprise themselves on how many things have changed but how many things have remained the same.

Thank you to all of our guests and to our loyal listener(s) for helping us reach 100 episodes!

TheAgileRevolution-100 (82 minutes)

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Episode 99: 99, Not Out!

23/12/201523/12/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Despite not feeling well, a sick Renee, a very sick Tony and a trying not to get sick Craig, get the band back together to discuss all the latest in the Agile world, including:

New Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his drive to be Agile, our thoughts on the National Broadband Network (NBN), Australia’s Data Retention laws and the importance of Emotional Intelligence
The Project
Five years, building a culture, and handing it off – the thoughts of outgoing Etsy CTO Kellan Elliott-McCrea
The Nexus Guide (and no, it’s not a new Google phone or a car but yet another scaling framework) and its associated Scaled Professional Scrum Assessment
The Oath of Non-Allegiance
Sanjiv Augustine new book Scaling Agile: A Lean Jumpstart
The Story Behind How Pocket Hit 20 Million Users with 20 People
New CIOs: How to succeed in the first 120 days (and Renee’s quiz…

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Episode 96: YOW! 2014 Brisbane Vox Pop

30/09/201530/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Clearing out the backlog, Craig and Tony roam the corridors at YOW! 2014 in Brisbane and talk to attendees and old friends and colleagues. Despite Tony’s fetish with pineapples and the fact it took 96 episodes to get a mention of ISO-9126 they talk to:

Craig Aspinall on hosting the highly rated talk by Troy Hunt on “Hack Yourself First” and Peter Bell on “How to Undo Almost Anything with Git” and that listening to security talks is like watching horror movies, completely terrifying and entertaining at the same time!
Jason Royals and Carlo Simbag on cheesecake and great talks by Troy Hunt, Jez Humble, Gojko Adzic and Gabrielle Benefield
Andrew Newman on using Scala in the enterprise, keynotes from Martin Thompson and Todd Montgomery as well as Ed Kmett
Sharon Robson on using Agile at Tatts Group, her favourite standard ISO-9126, Boehm’s Quality Tree, getting…

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Craig Smith

Australian Agile Coach & IT Professional

Tony Ponton

Episode 116: The Heart of Modern Agile

Episode 109 – The Art of Agile Fluency with James Shore

Episode 108 – SAFe from the Source with Dean Leffingwell

Episode 106: Turning the Agile Ship Around with David Marquet

Episode 104: Agile Australia 2015 Vox Pop #2

Episode 103: Agile Australia 2015 Vox Pop

Episode 102: The Essence of Microservices (and Agile) with Scott Shaw

Episode 100: 100th Episode Spectacular

Episode 99: 99, Not Out!

Episode 96: YOW! 2014 Brisbane Vox Pop

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