The Agile Revolution: Recent Episodes
The Agile Revolution
Join Craig, Tony and Renee on a journey through the world of Agile as they look at recent blogs related to Agile, investigate practices and techniques, look at tools and answer your questions. The revolutionists focus on not just Agile as it relates to software development but also how it applies to business, transition, culture, people and a whole lot more!
Renee and Craig are at Agile2019 in Washington, DC and catch up with Sanjiv Augustine, author of “Managing Agile Projects” and “Scaling Agile” and founder and CEO of Lithespeed: Craig’s InfoQ interview with Sanjiv “Leadership is about managing change while management is about managing complexity… you need to be both” Lithespeed = flexible speed “Reinventing … Continue reading →
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, … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Craig fires some questions at Ron Lichty, co-author of “Managing the Unmanageable” and the “Study of Product Team Performance“: Author of machine Language programming books “Programming the Apple IIGS in Assembly Language” and “Programming the 65816“ Managing the Finder team at Apple – hired for stellar C++ coding ability and customer empathy Software development is … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
One of the strengths of the agile approach to delivery is flexibility in responding to changing circumstances, and there is no better example of this than the current lockdown. I’m sure you have heard the political adage: “Don’t waste a good crisis.” which allows us to reflect on how ways of working are currently being … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and (despite a bin rolling by) sit down with Barry O’Reilly, co-author of “Lean Enterprise” and author of “Unlearn” and they talk about: Reminiscing about Barry’s resume that includes CitySearch (and its competitor Zip2 owned by Elon Musk), Snake, Wireless Pets on Nokia and Lilo & … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are at YOW! conference in Brisbane and chat with Jutta Eckstein, author of “Agile Software Development in the Large“, “Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams“, “Retrospectives for Organisational Change” “Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in Your Project Portfolio” with Johanna Rothman and “Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and have a rockstar moment and catchup with Kent Beck, the creator of Extreme Programming, the pioneer of xUnit and author of numerous books including “Extreme Programming Explained” and “Test Driven Development“: Extreme Programming (XP) was born at Chrysler by letting go of conventional wisdom and … Continue reading →
Tony and guest host Phil Gadzinski talk to Alistair Cockburn for a brief overview and understanding about the Heart of Agile (and the link to how it all started in Australia): Scrum training had turned into training wheels and consistency – wanted to get back to the essence of Agile Progression from shu (follow techniques), … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and wander around the hallways talking to different speakers, hosts and attendees: Highlights included Kent Beck keynote “3x Explore, Expand, Extract“, Anita Sengupta keynote “The Future of High Speed Transportation“, Brendan Gregg keynote “Cloud Performance Root Cause Analysis at Netflix” and Jessica Kerr (keynote “The Origins of … Continue reading →
Renee and Craig are at Agile 2019 in Washington, DC and talk to Gil Broza, Agile Mindset and Leadership Coach / Trainer at 3P Vantage and author of “The Agile Mind-Set“, “The Human Side of Agile” and “Agile for Non-Software Teams” and they talk about: Agile 2019 talk – “How to Help your Non-Software Colleagues … Continue reading →
In this previously lost and unreleased podcast from 2012 (we found it on a SD card that was thought to be lost forever), Craig catches up with Sandy Mamoli at Agile 2012 in Dallas, Texas and chat about Personal Kanban and how everything is bigger in Texas. It’s amazing how much hasn’t changed in this … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and chat with Sandy Mamoli, Agile Advisor and Coach at Nomad8 and co-author of “Creating Great Teams” and they chat about: Nomad8 is a managerless agile coaching collective in New Zealand, based on the Crisp model The lost podcast Kanbanfor1 (and Jim Benson – Personal Kanban) … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and talk to Heidi Helfand, Director of Engineering Excellence at Procore Technologies and author of Dynamic Reteaming and they talk about: YOW! 2017 talk “Dynamic Reteaming: The Art & Wisdom of Changing Teams“ The general belief is the best teams are the ones that are stable … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and catch up with Joshua Kerievsky, CEO of Industrial Logic and founder of Modern Agile and they talk about: Episode 20: Lean Start-ups with Joshua Kerievsky Industrial Logic and the Extreme Programming Playing Cards If you are a consulting company and don’t have your hands dirty … Continue reading →
Craig catches up with Sally Elatta, president of Agile Transformation and the founder of Agility Health Radar and they chat about: Companies struggle to get the metrics to know if their agile transformations are making a difference, hence the creation of Agility Health Radar Business Agility pillars – customer seat at the table, lean portfolio … Continue reading →
Craig is at Agile 2017 in Orlando, Florida and speaks with David Bernstein, author of “Beyond Legacy Code“, and they chat about agile technical practices: Agile does have something to with software development Agile 2017 talk “Create Software Quality The real value of Agile is in the technical practices so we can build iteratively, but … Continue reading →
Craig is as LAST Conference in Canberra and with guest co-host (and co-founder of LAST) Craig Brown they talk to Kerrie Campbell, the CIO at Flinders University in Adelaide and they talk (amongst some unscheduled cup stacking) about: LAST Keynote talk “Flinders University Transformation“ Leadership through seeding rather than driving by changing language, building mindset … Continue reading →
Craig is in Charlotte, North Carolina and catches up with Betsy Kauffman from Agile Pi and Oscar Rodriquez and they chat about: 40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes at Charlotte Agile Network meetup The role and the state of Agile coaching Agile Practice Guide ICAgile, the ICAgile Certified Expert In Agile Coaching (ICE-AC) and non-framework … Continue reading →
Craig and Renee are in Washington, DC at Agile 2019 and ahead of day one have some fun and decide to open up the swag bag after collecting their badges and see what is inside: Air Force One Experience next to the conference hotel in National Harbor Women In Agile 2019 conference tshirt Octo Consulting … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Melbourne and with guest revolutionist Toby Thompson (who was sitting at the table and initially didn’t want to speak on the podcast but then we couldn’t keep him quiet!) catch up with Jessie Shternshus, CEO at The Improv Effect and author of “CTRLShift“: Agile 2015 keynote “Individuals, … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Melbourne and talk to their former leader Jeff Smith, EVP and COO at World Fuel Services and former CEO of Suncorp Business Services: Australian Agile journey took him from Telstra, to a small startup and then to Suncorp, and later IBM and World Fuel Services Scale of … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony sit down for a personal chat with the microphone turned on for the first time in 2 years (that is not an interview) (wow, time files…), unfortunately without Renee who was out sick: State of the nation is a lot of dark / fake Agile and lack of collaborative connective tissues Fail … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are once again roaming the halls at Agile Australia in Sydney and finding random folks to talk to at the conference: Sarah Romeyn from WorkCover Queensland – enjoyed Pete Steel talk “Developing an Experimentation Culture” and Sherif Monsour talk “The art of building a roadmap“ Rachel Slattery from Slatterys (organiser of Agile … Continue reading →
Tony and Craig are at Agile Australia 2017 in Sydney and wander the very busy hallways catching up with attendees and with old friends: Sieger de Vries – enjoyed Matt Pancino talk “The future of Agile in the enterprise: has the war been lost?”, distributed Agile and use of partnering is here to stay Mia … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and catch up with Esther Derby, co-author of numerous agile books including Agile Retrospectives and Behind Closed Doors. We also ask the question whether Tony is cool or not…. Agile Australia keynote “Leaders At All Levels“ Leadership is the ability to adapt the environment so that … Continue reading →
Craig is at YOW! Singapore and catches up with Stanly Lau, organiser of the Agile Singapore conference and the Agile Singapore meetup: Bas Vodde was one of the early advocates for Agile in Singapore The state of Agile in Singapore has progressed from “doing a standup” in 2010 to now many companies thinking about how … Continue reading →
Craig is at YOW! Hong Kong and has a chat with John Sullivan, the CEO at Elabor8, and they talk about his Agile journey in Australia from ThoughtWorks to Sensis to Qantas to MYOB and the challenges and learnings along the way The Agile Revolution episode 159 “What Colour Agile Would You Like Today with … Continue reading →
Craig is at YOW! Hong Kong and is sitting with Nigel Dalton, Chief Inventor at REA Group and the Australian “Godfather of Agile” and they reminisce about: Anita Sengupta’s YOW! Hong Kong keynote “The Future of Mars Exploration“ Akin’s Rules of Spacecraft Design – “don’t mess it up, there are people involved” Nigel Dalton’s YOW! … Continue reading →
Craig is at YOW! Lambda Jam in Sydney and speaks with Naresh Jain, co-founder of the Agile Software Community of India (organising body of Agile India), conference organiser of many other software conferences in India and creator of ConfEngine and they chat about: The original Test Infected article Cruise Control started as an idea to write … Continue reading →
Craig is at YOW! West in Perth and has a conversation with James Stewart, formerly Deputy CTO for the UK Government and co-founder of the Government Digital Service. In varying locations they talk about: YOW! West keynote “Lessons Learned as a Government CTO“ UK government had some large IT failures in the last like the NHS … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are at LAST Brisbane 2018 in their home town of Brisbane and wander the lunch hall speaking with members from the local Agile community: Craig and Tony’s keynote Frank Valks, Paul Thornton and Felix Kiefer from AginicDS – the state of Agile in Brisbane versus the UK, James Hayes and Shannon Russell … Continue reading →
Craig is at YOW! West in Perth and sits down with Ian Randall, Engineering Lead at Pushpay and co-organiser of the Codemania conference in New Zealand and they chat about: The size of the New Zealand banking system and small number of banks makes it very easy to innovate in the payments space YOW! West … Continue reading →
Craig is at YOW! West in Perth and sits down with Dr. Anita Sengupta, a rocket scientist and aerospace engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (and since this interview was recorded now a Senior Vice President at Hyperloop One). They geek out talking about space exploration as well as the important topic of diversity: YOW! West … Continue reading →
Stephanie BySouth is the MC of the Great Lean Debate, a fun session recorded live at LAST Brisbane 2018. Ryan McKergow, Shane Hastie, Renae Craven are the “Legendary Agile Sht-talkers” team and Craig Smith, Mel Khim and Karyl Crick are the “Getting Agile Sht Done” team. The topics are: Scaling frameworks Estimates vs No-Estimates You … Continue reading →
Craig is at YOW! Conference and spends some time with Emily Webber, Agile Coach and author of “Building Successful Communities of Practice” and “The Agile Team Onion” and they chat about: The UK Government Digital Service and gov.uk (and the United States Digital Service and Australian Digital Transformation Agency) Government needs to be fast and … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference and are honoured to sit down with Robert C. Martin (aka Uncle Bob), signatory to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and author of numerous books including “Clean Code“, “The Clean Coder” and “Clean Architecture” and they discuss: YOW! 2016 keynote “The Scribe’s Oath” as well as “Effective … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony were privileged to be asked to be the keynote speakers at LAST Brisbane 2018. This is the audio from the keynote with introductions from long time listener Dave Pryce. You can follow along with the slides below: TheAgileRevolution-150 (49 minutes)
Craig, Tony and honorary Revolutionist Pete Sellars are at YOW! Conference and sit down with Dave Farley, co-author of “Continuous Delivery” and they chat about the following There are anti-patterns with doing XP at scale, continuous delivery was born from the learnings from that Continuous delivery is just extending continuous integration to more of the software development … Continue reading →
Craig is at YOW! Conference in Sydney and talks science and psychology with Dr. Brian Little, author of “Me, Myself and Us” and professor at Cambridge University and Carleton University and they analyse: Keynote talk at YOW! 2016 “Personalities at Work“ There are 5 dimensions of personality – OCEAN – openness, conscientiousness. extraversion, agreeableness and … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and wander around the hallways talking to different speakers and some attendees and volunteers: Woody Zuill and Paul Rayner – Beer Driven Development (the other BDD), Woody’s talk “Mob Programming, A Whole Team Approach” talk and Paul’s “EventStorming – Collaborative Learning for Complex Domains” talk, the … Continue reading →
Tony and Craig are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and catch up with Rebecca Parsons, the Chief Technology Officer at ThoughtWorks and the co-author of “Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change” and chat about the following: Rebecca’s keynote talk at YOW! “The Past and Future of Evolutionary Architecture“ Evolutionary Architecture is the next stage on applying Agile … Continue reading →
Craig is in Atlanta at Agile 2016 and catches up with Michael Feathers, author of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” and they talk about the following: Working Effectively with Legacy Code originally started as a book about Test First Programming but morphed into a book about the techniques for refactoring code in legacy systems The … Continue reading →
Craig is at Agile 2016 in Atlanta and catches up with his old friend Woody Zuill to talk about Mob Programming and #noestimates Craig’s InfoQ interview with Woody Zuill We need to work well together to get our work done Mob Programming originated at Hunter Industries, identified we can get a lot done if we … Continue reading →
The Agile community recently lost its friend and one of its most inspirational members in David Hussman. Craig and Tony were privileged to speak to him in one of his last interviews at YOW! Conference in Brisbane. David Hussman’s YOW! 2017 talk “Learning in Product: How Wrong are You Ready to Be?” “Extreme Programming Explained” is … Continue reading →
Craig sits down with Zubin Irani, the CEO of cPrime, at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta and chats about: CPrime is the largest Atlassian implementer and platinum partner Need to make sure that ALM products work with your process and support and enable it One of the big gaps in the Coaching world is … Continue reading →
Craig is sitting by the pool at the Agile 2016 conference and chats to Martin Alaimo who is an Agile Coach from Kleer in Buenos Aires and they discuss: South America has a number of language, cultural, economic and business differences between Brazil and the Spanish speaking countries, Agile is starting to go mainstream across many … Continue reading →
Craig sits down with Sally Elatta, Founder and President of Agile Transformation and AgilityHealth at the Agile 2016 Conference in Atlanta and they talk about: First things first, the AgilityHealth discs are not a frisbee! The AgilityHealth vision is to help Agile teams have a consistent way to measure their health and performance and see … Continue reading →
Craig chats with Steve Elliott, the founder and CEO of Agile Craft and they discuss: Dependencies are the number one thing that kills agility Scaling agility across a large organisation is a 5 – 10 year journey Scrum is often disconnected from the portfolio planning layer, the scaling methods are making the program level agile … Continue reading →
In this episode of the Agile Revolution, Renee Troughton and Peter Lightbody join Christopher Avery again as entertains and educates Australia on The Responsibility Process and The Leadership Gift. Whilst we looked at The Responsibility Process in Episode 114 of The Agile Revolution, this episode does a deeper dive and looks at: Christopher’s talk at … Continue reading →
Craig sits down with Jake Brereton from Atlassian who is the Senior Product Marketing Manager of JIRA while roaming the product halls at Agile 2016 in Atlanta. JIRA is no longer just JIRA, now people outside of software are using it – now JIRA Software (that includes JIRA Agile), JIRA Core (lightweight version of JIRA) … Continue reading →
Craig catches up with Dave West, product owner and CEO at Scrum.org, at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta. They talk all things Agile and Scrum including: Water-Scrum-Fall came about because Scrum is often delivered in the context of a organisational waterfall lifecycle Scrum implies a magical Product Owner that is empowered and understands the … Continue reading →
Craig speaks to Anders Wallgren from Electric Cloud about Continuous Delivery and DevOps at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta. The topic of conversation included: “Release It!” by Michael Nygard We can’t declare victory on Agile, but it is the winning methodology We are now plumbing the last mile of deployment and we also need … Continue reading →
Craig is at Agile 2016 in Atlanta and catches up with Mark Kilby, an Agile Coach at Sonatype and co-founder of Agile Orlando and Agile Florida. Along the way they discuss: “Extreme Programming Explained” by Kent Beck (the white book) Memories of Jean Tabaka and her book “Collaboration Explained” We should be collaborating with leaders … Continue reading →
Craig and Renee are both in Sydney and catch up around the kitchen table to discuss a bunch of things happening in the Agile universe: Renee is watching “The Leftovers” while Craig has been binge watching “Mad Men” and they talk about TV show podcasts such as “The West Wing Weekly“ ANZ (one of Australia’s … Continue reading →
Tony, Craig and Renee are at Agile Australia and catch up with Steve Krug and talk usability and along the way try to figure out whether Tony is lean, agile or just old… “Don’t Make Me Think” book, now in 3rd edition Agile Australia keynote “You’re not doing usability testing? Are you…nuts?“ need to start doing … Continue reading →
Renee, Tony and Craig are at Agile Australia and sit down with Adrian Fittolani from Envato and discuss program management and monte carlo simulations. Renee also makes an estimate that is super accurate! Envato – a marketplace for creative assets Lisa Frazier talk at Agile Australia “Leadership in the Digital World“ utilise bottom up program … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are roaming the conference floor again at Agile Australia in Melbourne talking to more interesting people in the Australian Agile community: Sarah Pollard (Super Retail Group) on the talk by Margarette Purvis on “Creating a kaizen culture proves transformative for Food Bank For New York City” and Richard Weissel talk on “The Heart … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Melbourne and do a lap of the convention centre floor: Keynotes from Peter Halacsy from Prezi, Jeff Smith from IBM and Kate Darling on robots and human interaction Daniel Fajerman and Anubhav Berry from Australia Post and how they have dealt with business disruption, Cameron Gough talk “Scaling as … Continue reading →
Craig chats with Ryan McKergow, a Business Analyst and Agile Consultant at Elabor8, at the YOW! West conference in Perth about being an Agile BA: Business Analysts work with business people to understand the problem they want to solve and then work with developers to take those expectations and help them build the system Writing … Continue reading →
Craig chats with Paul Rayner, a BDD and DDD expert who helps people bridge the gap of collaborative design between developers and business representatives, at YOW! West in Perth, and two old friends talk about the following: * Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tool workshop (2011 in Salt Lake City) * “Domain Driven Design” (Eric Evans) and “Working … Continue reading →
Renee has been busy being sick (and Tony and Craig are sick of being busy) and thus it has been a long time between cough syrup for our Revolutionists… The Scrum Guide was updated in July 2016 to add some value(s) Renee has a copy of the Scrum Body of Knowledge (for $#!^$ and giggles) The need … Continue reading →
After many failed attempts to get him on the podcast, Craig finally catches up with Dan North at YOW! Conference on his way out the door to the airport and in a quick chat they cover: BDD – developing an application by looking at its behaviour from the perspective of its stakeholders (people who’s live … Continue reading →
Craig is at YOW! Conference and catches up with Anne-Marie Charrett who is well known in the testing community as a trainer, coach and consultant but also for her support of the community: Don Reinertsen talk “Thriving in a Stochastic World“ Context-Driven Testing Testing is a verb – it’s a doing thing and not an … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference and are privileged to spend some time with Don Reinertsen, who is considered one of the leading thinkers in the field of lean product development and author of numerous books including “Principles of Product Development Flow” “Principles of Product Development Flow” book and why there is a waterfall … Continue reading →
Craig is at YOW! Conference and catches up with Aino Vonge Corry who is one of our very few repeat guests on the Agile Revolution. She describes herself as someone who puts speakers on stage, makes developers communicate and messes with the heads of students! Part of the YOW! conference organising committee Important to find examples … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony sit down for a conversation at YOW! Conference with Betty Enyonam Kumahor (stands for good for me, on the way there) who is a technology leader in Africa: Tony and Enyo are mutual members of the Alistair Cockburn fan club YOW! Conference talk “Frugal Innovation and Scaffolding Software“ Software engineering uptake in Africa … Continue reading →
Craig is at YOW! Conference and has a conversation with James Lewis, best known for his work around microservices at ThoughtWorks. They discuss: “Microservices: a definition of this new architectural term” article with Martin Fowler Huge cycle of hype around the term “microservices” You have to run so fast to keep up with the great people … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference and get the opportunity to sit down with Dave Thomas, signatory to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and have a great discussion about: Dave’s talk “Agile is Dead (Long Live Agility)“ Agile as a word has become meaningless, don’t follow the off-the-shelf processes, apply small corrections to move … Continue reading →
Craig and Tony are once again roaming the lunch hall at YOW! 2015 in Brisbane, where they catch up with a number of people including: Dave Thomas – founder of YOW! Conference discusses the success of YOW! Conference in Australia and how he didn’t go to Snowbird for the signing of the Agile Manifesto Peter Sellars … Continue reading →
Craig is at the YOW! Connected conference and talks to Mark Pedersen, the CTO at KJR, and they talk all things quality and testing: the changing role of a tester in an Agile environment, it clarifies the role rather than making it blurrier in an Agile environment it does not make sense to have a … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
At the YOW! Connected conference, Craig sits down with Chris van Raay and Tom Brodhurst-Hill and talks about bridging the gaps between developers and designers: Chris van Raay talk “Bridging the Designer – Developer Divide“ Tom Brodhurst-Hill talk “Design Driven Mobile Development“ Typically most organisations have separated development and design teams which results in a very … Continue reading →
Craig and a late-arriving and quietly spoken Renee talk to Christopher Avery, author of “Teamwork is an Individual Skill” and the visionary behind The Leadership Gift and The Responsibility Process, at Agile 2015 in Washington, DC: Management science says that the problem of business performing highly and being profitable and people having a life at work … Continue reading →
Craig and Renee, sitting on the banks of the Potomac River on a sunny but slightly windy day at Agile 2015, they catchup with JC Huet, creator of GreenHopper (renamed to JIRA Agile and post-podcast now JIRA Software) and Tempo Folio: Craig was apparently the first client of GreenHopper that was built in a basement, now … Continue reading →
Renee and Craig are at the Agile Australia conference and talk to Anders Ivarsson, an organisational coach at Spotify, and learn some of approaches that make Spotify tick: Agile Australia talk “Autonomy and Leadership at Spotify” and workshop “Organisational Improvement: Design-inspired Problem Solving” Agile Coaches spend time with squads versus a new role of organisational … Continue reading →
Craig and Renee, sitting in a shoe-box sized hotel room in Sydney eating peanut M&Ms, decided to rustle through the mailbag and answer a bunch of outstanding questions. Note: this episode is not sponsored or endorsed by M&Ms but we certainly enjoy their product! Crossing The Chasm more and more organisations seem to be crossing the … Continue reading →
Craig joins guest co-host Shane Hastie to talk with Luke Hohmann, author of “Innovation Games”, founder and CEO of Conteneo, Inc. and co-founder of Every Voice Engaged at the Agile 2015 conference after his inspirational opening keynote and they chat about: Luke’s opening keynote “Awesome Superproblems“ Innovation Games – the book, the training, the games also author … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Marcus Hammarberg, co-author of “Kanban in Action” talks with Craig at YOW! West in Perth in a sometimes noisy coffee shop at the Parmelia Hilton Perth: Craig’s quote on the book! “No mucking around … gets to the heart of kanban from the first page. A must-read!” originally from Sweden, now working for The Salvation … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Renee flies solo on this one and takes the opportunity to delve into the intersection of Agile and politics and interview the founders of voteflux.org, Max Kaye and Nathan Spataro and finds out: Whar exactly Flux is – Technology , Political Party , Crowd source solution? The outstanding vision and purpose for Flux as well as … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Craig catches up with two luminaries in the Agile and Lean space, Mary and Tom Poppendieck at YOW! Conference to talk about agile, lean, rapid feedback, culture and leadership. The discussion points include: Making the link between lean and software development and discovering that waterfall makes no sense The origins of the first book: Lean Software Development: An … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Craig joins Darren Rogan, Ben Morgan and Leigh Appel in another special cross over episode with the Hack && Heckle Podcast to talk software development, Agile and preview the upcoming YOW! conference that will be covered by both podcasts. This episode has been released simulatenously as H&&H 131 – Hack and Heckle / Agile Revolution Discuss … Continue reading →
At YOW! Conference, Craig has a chat with Peter Bell, a contract member of the GitHub training team, co-founder of CTO School and the founder of the Startup CTO Summit series and they talk about approaches to learning Git, building better CTO’s and digital literacy for MBA’s. YOW! 2014 talk “How To Undo Almost Anything with Git“ … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
After chasing him across the east coast of Australia, Craig sits down with Jeff Patton at YOW! Conference in Sydney. Along the way they fail to remember the subtitle of Jeff’s “User Story Mapping” book and talk about: Art school dropout to software developer to early Extreme Programming “Extreme Programming Explained” by Kent Beck (and we agree the … Continue reading →
Craig and Renee catch up after the last session at Agile 2015 in Washington, DC and talk about the highlights of the conference. Sitting in the atrium near a waterfall, they discuss: Renee’s talk “Agile Passionfruits: Growing Agile Champion capability through a Learning Culture” received rave reviews Stalwart sessions at Agile 2015 Day 3 keynote … Continue reading →
Craig and Renee are at Agile 2015 in Washington, DC and in the open jam area team up with Jason Tice and Natalie Simonsen from the “This Agile Life” podcast for a crossover episode. Joining in the roundtable conversation are Stephen Vance, Troy Tuttle, Jenny Tarwater, Abby Bangser and Serge Beaumont. Stephen Vance shares highlights from … Continue reading →
Craig and Renee visit Washington, DC for the Agile 2015 conference and debrief in the Agile Alliance Lounge after day 1: Luke Hohmann keynote “Awesome Superproblems” – Innovation Games and book, Every Voice Engaged – challenge to play 2 games in the next year that will change the world Lundy’s Law – “any team of programmers if … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Craig and Renee catch up late in the evening to chat about recent Agile articles and events including: Havard Business Review article “Time Management Training Doesn’t Work“ turn off Microsoft Outlook notifications (do as we say not as we do) “Disruption and Recovery of Computing Tasks: Field Study, Analysis & Directions” – if you have … Continue reading →
Craig gatecrashed the Australian ITSMF / ITIL conference, LEADit in Melbourne and in the hallway chats to Korrine Jones (an Organisational Development Consultant and running late for a plane) and Ian Jones (an IT Service Management expert) about how People Development and Service Management are intersecting with Agile and each other: LEADit is the biggest service management conference … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Renee and Craig catch up with Henrik Kniberg at Scrum Australia 2014 where he tries coffee for the first time in ten years at the Paramount Coffee Project (the best coffee in Sydney according to Renee). Apart from getting his verdict on the brew, they also talk about: First time back in Australia in a long … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Tony and a 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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Gojko Adzic “does computers” which means he helps people deliver software and he caught up with Craig on a recent YOW! DepthFirst tour of Australia. Gojko is the author of numerous books including “Bridging The Communication Gap“, “Specification by Example“, “Impact Mapping” and “50 Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories“. XP – started with “Extreme Programming … Continue reading →
Craig joins Darren Rogan, Ben Morgan and Leigh Appel in a special cross over episode with the Hack && Heckle Podcast to talk Agile and preview the upcoming YOW! conference that will be covered by both podcasts. This episode has been released simulatenously as 088 The Heckle Revolution by Hack && Heckle. Discussion points included: … Continue reading →
Sitting in a sometimes noisy coffee shop on a unusually cold Brisbane day, Craig sits down for a chat with Justin Hennessy, a Scrum Master, Devops and System Administrator all rolled into one! “An Agile Team Reset” article on the Scrum Alliance The High Performance Tree by Lyssa Adkins resetting awesome early Agile experience shaped by … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne, Craig and Renee grab the microphone again and wander 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: Tyson Nutt – believes giving teams empowerment is … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
At Agile 2013 in Nashville on a park bench, in a garden, near a waterfall that is ever present, Craig catches up with Alan Bustamante to talk about his Agile expedition. Along the way they chat about: the enormity of the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville and the average weather outside the use case approach in the Rational … Continue reading →
Live at Agile Australia 2014, Craig and Renee talk all things visual with one of Australia’s top visual facilitators, Lynne Cazaly: What is Visual Facilitation and Graphic Recording You can use visuals even if you can’t draw Lynne’s story into Visual Facilitation How to anchor emphasized words The benefit of a chisel tip The girl … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
From YOW! 2013, Craig and Renee talk to Joel Pobar, currently working at Facebook as an Engineering Lead and talk about: Joel’s journey to Facebook Common Language Runtime (CLR) Building and shipping fast The value of a developers time and their critical paths A day in the life of a Facebook manager Who is the … Continue reading →
At Agile 2013 in Nashville, TN, Craig catches up with Kenny Rubin, author of “Essential Scrum” and Scrum trainer and coach at Innolution. While sitting in the corridor, they talk about: Essential Scrum – the success and background of the book Visual AGILExicon® – free image library to describe Scrum and Agile in a visual way … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
At YOW 2013 in Sydney, Craig and Renee catch up with Michael Nygard and discuss the world of DevOps including: Michael’s book “Release it!: Design and Deploy Production Ready Software“ What DevOps really is The values of DevOps and its relationship to the Agile Manifesto Could DevOps have occurred without Agile? How much of Release it is still holding … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
At YOW 2013 in Sydney, Craig, Renee and Jeremie Benazra catch up with Lyssa Adkins, author of “Coaching Agile Teams” and Michael Spayd, both Agile Coaches at the Agile Coaching Institute and chew the fat on: What is Agile? Lyssa’s “Coaching Agile Teams” book The difficulties in being an Agile Coach The XP Coach Coaching as a more mature … Continue reading →
At Agile 2013 in Nashville, TN, Craig catches up with his old friend Greg Smith (no relation), co-author of “Becoming Agile… In An Imperfect World” and Agile Coach at GS Solutions Group. Greg regularly assists Fortune 500 with their adoption of Agile and the quote of the podcast has to be “discipline or good software … Continue reading →
On a road trip to Agile 2013 from Dallas to Nashville, Craig chats to Nick Muldoon while cruising in a Chevy Equinox eastbound on Interstate 40 between Memphis and Nashville. Nick is an Agile Coach at Twitter and formerly the Product manager for GreenHopper at Atlassian and whilst doing 65 miles an hour they chat … Continue reading →
At Agile 2013 in Nashville, TN, Craig talks to Al Shalloway from Net Objectives in the open space area (ironically in front of a waterfall) about his current areas of interest in the Lean Agile community. Al has been a leading voice in the Agile community for many years, is the author of many software … Continue reading →
Craig continues his daily reports from Agile 2013 in Nashville with some observations on the sessions he attended on days 3, 4 and 5. More in-depth notes will be available on Craig’s blog soon. TheAgileRevolution-62 (13 minutes)
Craig continues his daily reports from Agile 2013 in Nashville with some observations on the sessions he attended on day 2. More in-depth notes will be available on Craig’s blog soon. TheAgileRevolution-61 (17 minutes)
Craig is in Nashville, Tennessee in the USA for the Agile 2013 conference,, and recaps the opening keynote as well as the day 1 sessions he attended. More in-depth notes will be available on Craig’s blog soon. TheAgileRevolution-60 (15 minutes)
Tony and Kim Ballestrin have a chat with Neil Killick whilst at Agile Australia 2013 in Sydney and talk about: The origins of the #NOestimates hashtag Agile with a small ‘a’ – going for agility and not a process Neil’s journey into Agile The link between health and the values & principles of Agile The manifesto Embracing … Continue reading →
Craig and Renee are in Sydney and dangerously podcast after Renee’s one (1) drink and Craig’s two (2) drinks. Along the way they fumble over the following topics: Agile Sydney meetup – Agile 101 Build Your Own Manifesto and Adam Weisbart’s Build Your Own Manifesto (and my Interview with Adam Weisbart at Agile 2012 in case you missed … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Craig and Renee rendezvous in Sydney for Scrum Australia and clear the backlog for a way overdue podcast. Whilst Craig battled a cold and Renee a fit of giggles, they discussed: Highlights from the inaugural Scrum Australia in Sydney LAST Conference 2013 in Melbourne is now accepting submissions Kenny Rubin’s presentations at Scrum Australia, his book … Continue reading →
Our last YOW 2012 interview, Craig and Renee have a talk to Zach Holman (@holman) from Githuband chat about: The open source model - what is it? Meeting hate crimes Scaling organisational size Culture spreading outside of programming Being agile w... Continue reading →
Still getting through some of the fantastic speakers at YOW 2012 in today's episode Renee speaks to Ben Hogan (@agileben) and Peter Moran (@petermoran) about all things DevOps including: REA's DevOps journey for the home ideas team Hooroo's DevOps... Continue reading →
In this episode of the Agile Revolution Tony, Craig and Renee once again meet in a dingy (and occassionally slightly noisy) cafe and discuss: The Agile Alphabet by Koti Reddy Bhavanam The Agile Pocket Guide is released by Peter Saddington (@agileS... Continue reading →
In this episode Craig and Renee talk to Aino Vonge Corry at the YOW 2012 Software Developers Conference and discuss: Retrospectives Design patterns Trojan retrospectives Enterprise Retrospective Patterns Retrospective Facilitators - part of the te... Continue reading →
In this episode Renee and Steve from the Six Degrees Podcast (formally Coding By Numbers) talk to Fred George from Forward on: What is Programmer Anarchy? Old school development and cowboys Risk and appropriateness of anarchy to culture Lean start... Continue reading →
In this episode Craig, Renee and Peter Sellers (from Auckland NZ) talk about their first day at the YOW 2012 Software Developers Conference, chatting about the speakers that we listened to and our thoughts on them including: Don Reinersten's "The ... Continue reading →
In this episode of The Agile Revolution we have a special 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 ... Continue reading →
At Agile 2012 in Dallas, Texas, Craig chats with Declan Whelan, a Canadian Agile Coach at LeanIntuit, the CTO and co-founder of a new startup called Printchomp and a newly elected member of the Agile Alliance board. Amongst other things we talk ab... Continue reading →
Craig chats with Adam Weisbart as he tries to enjoy his breakfast at Agile 2012 in Dallas, Texas. When not eating toast, he is creating awesome stuff for the Agile community at his website, teaching Scrum courses or coaching teams at CollabNet. Hi... Continue reading →
Craig chats with Peter Saddington (an Agile Coach and Consultant who is probably best known as the face behind Agile Scout) at Agile 2012 in Dallas, Texas about Agile in the US Military, the top lists on Agile Scout, his newly rewritten book "The ... Continue reading →
Craig chats with Joe Justice from Wikispeed at the Agile 2012 conference about extreme manufacturing and using Agile for social good to create a 100 mile per gallon car. Joe is the founder, CEO and team leader at Wikispeed (by night) and an Agile ... Continue reading →