Episode 91: Coding The Architecture with Simon Brown

20/07/201521/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Craig and Tony talk to Simon Brown at the YOW! 2014 conference in Brisbane. SImon is the author of “Software Architecture for Developers”, creator of the C4 software architecture model and Structurizr. We tracked him down after his talk to talk about:

YOW! 2014 talk “Agility and the Essence of Software Architecture“
Create a software guidebook as opposed to big upfront documentation
Tony is an old BA apparently… Explains a lot 🙂
If you can’t sketch out your architecture, you don’t understand it
C4 model was created after observations many archtecture drawings don’t make sense
Tony shows his age again by referencing Mr. Squiggle (video)
A tiny percentage of architects understand UML – do you teach them UML or teach them something simple?
Structurizr replaces drawing boxes in Visio or OmniGraffle, creates the C4 model from Java code and keeps it up to date, other implementations

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Episode 88: Scrum Australia Anticast

14/04/201521/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Adam Weisbart turns the tables hosting an anti-podcast where he interviews Craig, Renee & Tony at Scrum Australia 2014 in Sydney on their highlights from the conference. The conversation included:

* Adam Weisbart’s “Agile Antipatterns” talk and his awesome Agile Antipatterns cards
* Craig Smith’s “40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes” talk (and the methods on the cutting room floor)
* Agile movements are just as important as methods
* Tony mentions the original Winston W. Royce “Managing the Development of Large Software Systems” waterfall paper – why??
* Henrik Kniberg’s “Scaling Agile @ Spotify” keynote
* Matthew Hodgson’s “Backlogs, Story Mapping and Star Wars” talk
* Knowing one of the organisers like Star Wars helps!
* Renee Troughton’s “Darth Vaderless Daily Scrums” talk
* Important to know the expectations that everyone else should be having on each other to…

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Episode 86 : Sticky Notes and Agile Stuff

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

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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

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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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Episode 85: Scrum Australia 2014 Vox Pop

31/01/201521/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Tony and and sometimes over modulated Craig (with Renee popping up from time to time) roam the floor at lunchtime at Scrum Australia in Sydney and talk to some interesting Scrum folks along the way about their thoughts on the conference and the Scrum community in general:

Shane Sendall (Suncorp) – end to end delivery and design patterns for teams, minimum loveable products, looking at flow efficiency
Justin Urbanski (Rally) – Scrum Alliance Coaching Clinic, minimum viable bureacracy, scaling
Ben Hogan (Tabar) and Martyn Frank (CBA) – teams overcommitting, Scrum in 60 seconds, visual facilitation inspired by Lynne Cazaly, kanban in curriculum development in universities
Neil Killick (MYOB) – spoke with Craig Brown running the #noestimates Puzzle Game, 40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes, Tony suggests #lotsofestimates, Neil’s posts on #noestimates
Jason Yip (ThoughtWorks) and Sunish Chabba –…

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Episode 84: Retrospectives in Middle Earth with Rachael Tempest Wood

18/12/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Rachael Tempest Wood from Nomad8 in Wellington joins Tony and Craig in the Brisbane Queen Street Mall over lunch with a bonus busker on saxophone and they discuss:

PMI and Agile are completely different mindsets, PMI Project Managers are “the CIOs of their projects”
AgileWelly – strength through the struggle of doing Agile in government
Wellington Agile community led by TradeMe, Snapper, BNZ
Gojko Adzic – Specification by Example and Impact Mapping
Agile NZ conference
Retrospective design – creativity in facilitation is a gap
Esther Derby’s model for restrospectives
Paper Airplane game – using an abstract process to apply learnings to the real process

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Episode 80: Context Matters in SAFe with Em Campbell-Pretty

02/11/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne; Craig, Renee and Tony catch up with Em Campbell-Pretty to talk about the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as well as Impact Mapping and a variety of other topics:

Em’s Agile journey and how she came to Agile from the business side and discovered SAFe before it was SAFe
Australia’s first Agile release train and the SAFe Telstra Enterprise Data Warehouse Case Study
Pretty Agile blog – Adventures in Scaling Agile
Scaling Software Agility and Agile Software Requirements books by Dean Leffingwell
did SAFe without PSI Planning – doing textbook SAFe you will most likely fail – apply it to your context
SAFe is designed for big enterprise and is just where you start
Leading SAFe training – focus on lean principles and leadership
Epic – Feature – Story – why?
if your wall isn’t changing then your process is probably not changing (inspect and adapt)
key…

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Episode 79: Vomit Value with Jim Benson

09/10/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne, Jim Benson of Personal Kanban fame takes some time to talk with Craig, Renee, Tony and (a very silent) Kim Ballestrin and along the way they talk about:

early work implementing David J. Anderson’s Agile Management which resulted in Jim focussing on the person (Personal Kanban) and David focussing on the organisation (Kanban method) – two different viewpoints on the same solution set
XP, Scrum, Kanban method and Personal Kanban exemplify the people who created them
The Oath of Non Allegiance
Scrum vs Kanban
Why Limit WIP and Why Plans Fail books out now and working on an upcoming book about meetings
Individuals and interactions is redundant – relevant in 2001 to shake people out of complacency
Agile is anti-manager
Agile in knowledge work
WIP limits and avoiding “death flow”
Vomit Value – user stories with spurious and arbitrary value in a…

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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 76: Agile Australia 2014 Vox Pop #1

22/08/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne, Craig and Tony grabbed the microphone and scoured the conference foyer in one of the breaks looking for interesting people in the Australian Agile community to ask them about what they are working on and their views of the conference.

The people they harassed include:

Maxime Groenewoud – Project Manager, enjoyed hearing about new practices including microservices architecture
Nigel Dalton – CXO at REA Group, Agile Australia advisor, highlight of the conference was an Ellen DeGeneres moment getting a selfie with Brant Cooper, excited to hear about holocracy at Zappos, at REA have been disrupting through bringing virtual reality to real estate, “there is one innovative startup in real estate in Australia each week!”
Steve Lawrence – Agile Coach and Agile Australia stream chair – has been watching the scaled agile debate and the learnings allowing us to take the message into the business
Paul Detheridge –…

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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