The Agile Revolution

Episode 134: Unicorns, Distributed Teams and Agile User Groups with Mark Kilby

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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 rather than working for them
  • InfoQ interview “Mark Kilby, Stephanie Davis and Rick Regueira on Effective User Groups & Remote Agile“
  • “Can you be remotely Agile” Agile 2015 experience report
  • “Audacious Salon – Distributed Agile”  session output from Agile 2016 conference
  • Virtual Team Talk group (started in Berlin, ironically at a conference)
  • “Communicating and Collaborating: How Distributed Agile Teams Can Thrive” Agile 2016 workshop with David Horowitz
  • Distribution tips: don’t force distributed teams, it needs to be a choice; it’s a culture shift so it is not for all organisations, take small steps; set a template for the team and expectations
  • Value connection over face to face communication
  • Spotify Engineering Culture videos and paper
  • You can survive without video on distributed teams, you need to learn the signs
  • Agile Open Florida
  • Experience Report on Agile Florida “User group dying? Time to build a state-wide learning network!” with Stephanie Davis and Alex Kanaan
  • Agile Alliance Community Group Support initiative, user group leaders are welcome to join the Slack group
  • OnAgile 2016 conference
  • Agile Alliance Initiatives are there to support the community
  • See remotelyagile.info for distributed agile resources

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