The Agile Revolution

Episode 133: Rules Are For Pussies!

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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 big four banks) is diving into Agile (everywhere but bank branches)
  • Silicon Valley Agile (Scrum) reference (NSFW!)
  • UK is wasting 37 million pounds per year on failed Agile projects (but the devil is in the detail not the headline)
  • IBM calling remote workers back to the office – is it about trust, staff reductions or something else?
  • The Thomas Allen Curve
  • 17 Essential Hacks Every Scrum Master Should Know

    • "SAFe doesn't require your management to change in any meaningful way" says @jboogie at #CraftConf

    — Daniel Terhorst-North is mostly @[email protected] (@tastapod) April 27, 2017

    • Boomerang retrospectives (when your action goes up and comes back and whacks you in the head)
    • Dave Snowden blog post on “SAFe: the infantilism of management” –  “is PRINCE2 camouflaged in Agile language”
    • Renee is reading “The Originals” by Adam Grant and her conclusion is that “we continue to be a community of agilists who attack each other”
    • Agile Alliance and its belief in the “big tent” view of Agile
    • As agilists we need to adopt the improve approach of “yes and” more often
    • The Oath of Non-Allegiance
    • “Culture May Eat Agile For Breakfast” – can an organisation double in size and become Agile at the same time?
    • Renee’s “Scaling Agile Tricks Series: Mitosis”
    • Craig is reading “lego4scrum 3.0” and Renee is reading “Immunity To Change“
    • Renee is now a Certified Holacracy Practitioner and she sat the Holacracy Practitioner Training course in Philadelphia
    • Brian Robertson “Holacracy” Talks At Google video and the “Holacracy” book
    • Frederic Laloux “Reinventing Organizations“
    • Craig is now a Certified AgilityHealth Facilitator and sat the AgilityHealth Facilitation course in Atlanta

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