Episode 70: Hello Is This Thing On?

09/04/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig, Renee and Tony catch up again and discuss the wonderfully diverse world of Agile :

Tony starts the SAFe conversation again via @RonJeffries blog post SAFe – Good not Good Enough
I want Agile back , you ? via Tim Ottinger
Craig brings the Raccoon back whilst discussing ” Reports of Agile’s death” from @jbrains, “Agile is Dead (Long Live Agility) ” from @pragdave
What is ScrumStudy and the “Scrum Master Certified” ? via @sdunnrocket9
We’ll ask for estimates @jonelf
Renee gets in a shameless plug for the “Who Is Agile in Australia and New Zealand ?” Book
Siemens success story ” Kanban at Scale” via InfoQ
“Kanban in Action” book review via authors @marcusoftnet and @joakimsunden
“The Human Side of Agile ” book review @gilbroza

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Episode 68: Together Again Like Peas & Carrots

24/03/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Can you believe it ! Yes it’s a real Forest Gump moment, the revolutionists are finally back together again just like peas and carrots . They are back to their best discussing :

What is Agile 2014 ? Inspired by The Dark Side of Scrum – Thomas Schranz – @__tosh
Renee gets agile academic : Understanding Post-Adoptive Agile Usage – an Exploratory Cross-Case analysis : Mali Senapathi and Ananth Srinivasan
Tony befuddles Craig and Renee with a great question : Two top tips to enable the people to uptake agile and empower them ?
Laminating not slicing : Alistair Cockburn
Tony quotes “Cher” (yes that’s right “Cher”) and turns back time
37 Signals becomes Basecamp
CSIRO builds Sophie a dragon

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Episode 67: A Boys Night Out

18/02/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony take the opportunity in Renee’s absence to talk about the year that was , conferences and workshops attended and generally cover all things Agile:

A managers guide to attending agile team events – Illustratedagile.com
Lyssa’s “Coaching Agile Teams” book
Steve Blank – Why Continuous Deployment May Mean Continuous Customer Disappointment
YOW 2013 wrap up
Lyssa Adkins / Michael Spade – Coaching Agile Team workshop
Ilan Goldstein – Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners

Twitter Quotes: @RonJeffries, @WendyAppell, @drunkcod

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Episode 57: No, No, Noooo!

25/05/201305/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Tony, Renee and Craig meet in sunny suburban Sandgate and have an intense debate about the world of Agile while dealing with the 4:01 to Shorncliffe and beeping out Tony’s references to seagulls and respect.

Agile coaching is more about building the capacity of people and high performing teams rather than processes, the Situational Leadership Model, Shu Ha Ri and pragmatic coaching
No estimates – Purpose Of Estimation by Martin Fowler, The NoEstimates Movement by Ron Jeffries, numerous posts and an Agile Business Analysts Meetup by Neil Killick and numerous posts by Woody Zuill
Inspirational speaker Peter Williams from Deloitte
No prioritisation and no product owner movements
The Costs of Ignoring Employee Engagement
2012 Version One State of Agile Survey as well as Renee’s blog and Craig’s InfoQ post on the survey
Al Shalloway – Why I am No Longer With Lean-Kanban University
No videos from LKNA
Australian startup

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Episode 53: Merry Xmas Mumbles

20/12/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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In this episode Tony, Craig and Renee once again meet in a dingy (and occasionally slightly noisy) cafe and discuss:

The Agile Alphabet (Koti Reddy Bhavanam)
The Agile Pocket Guide is released by Peter Saddington (@agileScout)
An Alternative to Agile Coaching (Phil Abernathy)
Agile Australia 2013 is now open for speaker submissions!
Agile 2013 in Nashville is now open too for submissions!

Quotes:

"True leadership is leading without selfish attachment." ~ Bhagavad Gita (3000BC) | Servant- or Host Leadership?
— Bob "The Disruptor" Marshall ♥️💎 (@flowchainsensei) June 1, 2012

https://twitter.com/CFOAmerica/status/151739448269344768

It's not deliver so fast that marketing doesn't have a chance to change their mind but deliver so fast that they don't have to #yow2012
— Jason Yip (@jchyip@mastodon.online) (@jchyip) December 7, 2012

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Episode 49: Merry Manifesto Madness with Alistair Cockburn

14/11/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Renee lob around to Tony’ abode to interview his house guest, Alistair Cockburn. Alistair spends time:

denying a K Stew affair
answering what brings him to Australia
plugging his fantastic Advanced Agile Course
presenting his thoughts on where Agile is going
answering how the Agile Manifesto has shifted and whether the last line should be shifted earlier
talking about the simplicity principle
explaining the difficulty of Agile Organisational transformations
answering whether transformation that succeed better can be big-bang or have to evolve
discussing the sticky middle management layer where transformations become hard
ponderings on what is happening in the ICAgile space
generally taking the p*ss out of Renee, Tony and Craig

You can contact Alistair Cockburn for any work opportunities or Advanced Agile Training on totheralistair@gmail.com or totheralistair@aol.com.

You can contact Renee for any work opportunities or Agile 101 Training at renee@theagilerevolution.com.

Special thanks…

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Episode 44: Typhoid Tony

30/08/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig, Renee and a little bit of Tony continue on their Agile journey covering…

Sponsume’s Agile in a Can (Jim Benson)
Is Publishing ready for Agile (Gabe Habash at Publisher’s Weekly)
Sh*t Bad Scrum Masters Say (Adam Weisbart)
Why Software Development Methodologies Suck (Jez Humble on DZone)
Renee’s Gamification and Agile presentation at LAST Conference Melbourne
PMI’s Pulse of the Profession 2012 Survey
Capability growing in core skills – is that the responsibility of Agile?

Quotes:

One of the first thing an #Agile coach shld be explaining to mgmnt – we will not be tracking things in a tool, we'll be too busy doing stuff
— Neil Killick (@neil_killick) July 15, 2012

could we all just agree that "code freeze" is a lousy metaphor and move on? maybe call it the "increasingly terrified of change" phase.
— Kent Beck (@KentBeck) July 26, 2012

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Episode 36: Revolution World Tour

24/07/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig, Renee and Tony talk about Fed… no, Ship It! days, recent changes to Yammer and LinkedIn and the 10 agile bloggers you should know about. We also review Tony’s recent excursion to BA World and Renee’s journey to KLRAT and ponder just why Tony has such an obsession with pants…

To Deliver Innovation Don’t FedEx It, ShipIt!
Yammer sells to Microsoft
LinkedIn blocks Twitter cross posts
10 Agile Bloggers You Should Know About But Don’t (Agile Bench)
Achievements (Renee’s article on Agile Scout)
BA World
KLRAT (Kanban Leadership Retreat Austria)
Renee’s recap of KLRAT
Hakan Forss’ recap of KLRAT and summary of whether the practices are in the right order
David J. Anderson’s new book – Lessons in Agile Management

Quotes:

Would you expect a jockey to make a great racing car driver? Would you expect a Project Manager to make a great Scrum Master or…

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Episode 31: An Apple A Day

16/05/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig, Tony and Renee talk about Apple, RFID story cards and ponder who is agile?

Quotes:

“The aim for any company is for everybody to gain – shareholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment – over the long term” – Deming

The myth "if you can’t measure it, you can't improve it" is easy to bust. Babies learn to walk without metrics.
— Henrik Kniberg (@henrikkniberg) May 11, 2012

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Episode 30: Eleven Dictums

30/04/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig, Tony and Renee get cynical about Agile, assist the search for 100 voices, talk about some recent posts by Steve Denning on management and Agile and lose count of the dictums.

The Cynical Agile Dictionary
My Coaching / Facilitation Toolkit
Looking for 100 Agile Voices We Should Hear More From
The Agile Project Manager Getting Out of Jail Free
Timebox != Commitment
Reminder of Agile Australia at end of May
LAST Unconference on 27 July in Melbourne
World BA Conference in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth in June
The Best-Kept Management Secret on the Planet: Agile
Why Can’t The C-Suite Grasp Agile Management
The Case Against Agile: Ten Perennial Management Objections

Quotes:

“I guess the reason that I don’t think the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto don’t own Agile is that I was doing Agile in the 90’s” – Alan Shalloway

“It’s difficult to get a man to understand…

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Craig Smith

Australian Agile Coach & IT Professional

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Episode 70: Hello Is This Thing On?

Episode 68: Together Again Like Peas & Carrots

Episode 67: A Boys Night Out

Episode 57: No, No, Noooo!

Episode 53: Merry Xmas Mumbles

Episode 49: Merry Manifesto Madness with Alistair Cockburn

Episode 44: Typhoid Tony

Episode 36: Revolution World Tour

Episode 31: An Apple A Day

Episode 30: Eleven Dictums

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