Episode 29: Offshoring at IBM

23/04/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Craig, Tony and Renee talk about the news Scrum Inc style, discuss the coolness of Lego for reporting, chat about Net-Map and discuss the state of IBM.

Scrum inc’s first monthly newsletter
Fastcodesign’s How GM is saving cash using legos as a data vis tool
Craig’s InfoQ article on Net-Map
Why physical card walls are important?
The experience of being coached
Australian IT on Agile skills gain grounds
IT News on JP Morgan adopts Agile in Australia
ICringley’s Blog on IBM: Not your father’s IBM

Quotes:

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new” – Albert Einstein

“The greatest waste is failure to use the abilities of people. Learn their frustrations and contributions they’re eager to make” – Deming

In their desperation to reinvent management, some sad folks are twisting Agile into a new management paradigm. Kindly bugger off.
— Bob "The Disruptor" Marshall ♥️💎…

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Episode 28: Lean Starts Us Up and The Agile Top 20

05/04/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig, Tony and Renee go all Lean Start Up and look at who made the Agile charts.

Muda Manifesto (Paul Osborn’s response)
The Yearly Shallot :The Shallot.Org
The Top 20 Most Influential Agile People
Crowdsourcing and the University of Utah
Are you Agile or Iterative?
Lean Start Up Conference – Eric Ries
Craig illucidates whilst we ruminate on Eric Ries conference in Sydney

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Episode 27: Retrospective Cookies

21/03/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig, Tony and Renee sample some mmm… retrospective cookies:

Justin Hennessey’s An Agile Team Reset
Bob Marshall’s Agile Coaching is Evil
Thoughtwork’s Technology Radar
Retrospective cookies courtesy of Adam Weisbart
Update the card wall
Agile anti-patterns

Quotes:

“Value might flow. New products might flow. But does the learning your organisation makes flow from project to project?” – Michael Kennedy

“The more you create separate roots (value streams) the more you damage capacity” – John Seddon

A story is a promise for a conversation. An epic is a promise to break it down. #agile
— Renee Troughton (@AgileRenee) March 15, 2012

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Episode 25: Cultural transformations with Agile

26/02/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig, Tony and Renee debate the role of an Agile Coach and how cultural transformations fit in.

Meaningful work whilst investing for the future on the RallyDev blog
Coaching Agile Teams on the Scrum Alliance site
Failure IS an option
Passionate software testing by TestJutsu and Craig’s Atlassian article

Quotes:

“Management does not know what a system is” – Deming

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one” – Mark Twain

Try micro-handoffs, pairing, not logging bugs to help dev-tester workflow, prevent mini waterfall @bobgalen #STPSummit
— lisacrispin @lisacrispin@mastodon.social (@lisacrispin) February 21, 2012

Just remember, it is pressure that makes diamonds.
— Nilofer Merchant (@nilofer) February 23, 2012

There's a part of me thinks half the problem would go away if most devs could *actually code*. #appsec #owasp
— James McGovern (@mcgoverntheory) December…

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Episode 24: Ghost In The Room

09/02/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Renee stand idly by while Tony has a rare rant on Agile versus KANBAN versus the world and they cover Stoos in depth.

Quotes:

When confronted with a Best Practices, ask yourself who is it a best practice for? #entarch #bpms #cio RT @tetradian: RT @mcgoverntheory
— Gil Friend (@gfriend) December 4, 2012

"Transparency is like a disinfectant for business: it will purify things & help start the healing, but first it’s going to sting like hell"
— L▲uren H▲rrison (@Lozingers) January 28, 2012

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Episode 23: Revealing Frequency Foundation

22/01/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony listen to Renee’s revelations about the Frequency Foundation, and they talk about some Agile stuff too.

The Scrum Master Manifesto and Craig’s InfoQ article on it
Agile practice and work life balance
The 10 most annoying management terms of 2011
A quick introduction to Stoos (more on the next show)
Frequency Foundation’s Blog and the
Photo Analysis PDF (for
more details refer to Renee’s blog at http://agileforest.com).

Please note the 2007 reference to the start of the organisation is incorrect. The actual date was in April 2002.

Quotes:

My message to c-level group tomorrow: real agility's best measured by products produced, purchased and providing real value to real users.
— David Hussman (@davidhussman) January 9, 2012

If the Rapture doesn't happen today don't leap to the rational conclusion that its all made up illogical bullshit.
Just pick another date.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) December…

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Episode 22: New Years Revolutions

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

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Craig, Tony and Renee get together before the Christmas and New Years break to catch up on all things Agile:

Punctuated Equilibriums, Containers, and all things complexity and where Kanban fits in by Yuval Yeret
Warm Gun: Design for Continuous Deployment by Luke Wroblewski
Where is the proof that Agile works? by Scott Ambler
Is the Agile community still ‘uncovering better ways of developing software’ or just debating on whether to implement Scrum or Kanban by Jordan Bortz
Thinker’s 50 list and Forbes post The Industrial Age has finally run out of gas: An interview with Don Tapscott

Quotes:

In TDD, the tests that you automate are not executable specs. They are executable questions based on assumptions. #agile #testing
— Paul Carvalho (@can_agile) December 11, 2011

I bought a set of Zen flashcards. They were all blank.
— Kent Beck (@KentBeck) December 2, 2011

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Episode 18: Scrum vs Kanban War

28/11/201105/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Breaking out from our normal format Craig, Tony and Renee talk about the recent flurry of tweets from the Scrum and Kanban communities.

It all started with Jeff Sutherland and his tweet and blog cross reference: Deep analysis of #kanban by Jim Coplien

The twitter feed that was captured by us (and hence is not a comprehensive feed on the subject and contains some leetspeak cleanup) includes:

David Anderson (@agilemanager):

Interesting FUD Jeff, I thought you were more professional than this?

Jim’s post on Jeff’s blog contains lies which fly in the face of the well documented evidence with teams around the world

Jeff and Jim, I challenge you to produce the evidence to backup claims like…

“Kanban (the methodology) discourages teamwork and increases the risk of not completing agreed work”

I often wonder how people without integrity go through life and live…

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Episode 15: The Perfect World of Agile

20/10/201105/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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The usual crew get together again:

Henrik Kniberg’s Scrum from the Trenches
Lyssa Adkin’s Coaching Agile Teams
Retrospective Cookies (found by Lisa Crispin)
Knowledge acquisition curve by Alistair Cockburn
Agile after the chasm by Alistair Cockburn
Rebooting the racoon by Craig Smith
What I learned from Steve Jobs by Guy Kawasaki
What everyone is too polite to say about Steve Jobs by Ryan Tate
Why not velocity as an Agile metric by Esther Derby
Working hard or hardly working by Esther Derby
One Manifesto to Rule them all
Leadership Skills: Tap into team member’s existing motivation by Christopher Avery
What would an organisation that is using Agile to the max look like?
SeeNowDo

Quotes

“Don’t mix dev ops with dev oops!”

“99% of we bapp bugs are caused by 1% of browser types #occupyinternetexplorer”

“Gartner’s analysts are predicting that by 2012 that Agile development methods will be used in…

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Episode 14: Quoting Agile, Lean & Kanban

05/10/201105/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig, Tony and Renee talk about Lean Startups, Tony’s Agile training in India and great places to work, discuss Quotable Kanban and solve a listener problem, all in 50 minutes!