The Agile Revolution

By 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 rev... more

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June 30, 2016Episode 111: M&Mailbag
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 chasm to Agile, but too many are still just doing and not being Agile
inimal viable product (MVP) is still the trend word, the next stage is Minimal Viable Experience and then Minimal Viable Robustness to Minimal Marketable Product and finally Continuously Evolving Product
Enterprise Transformation Meta Model
Agile is a true north concept, not sure that you will ever get there
Suggested reading list on where to start with Agile:
General Books: Scrum Guide, Extreme Programming Explained
Developers: The Pragmatic Programmer
Scrum Master: The Human Side of Agile
Kanban: Personal Kanban, Kanban In Action
Portfolio: Essential Scrum
Product Owner: Agile Product Management with Scrum, User Story Mapping
Business Analysis: User Stories Applied, Writing Effective Use Cases, Specification By Example, UML Distilled, Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide
Testing: Agile Testing, More Agile Testing
see the Top 100 Agile Books list, unfortunately the world is still too complex
What certification should a new Scrum Master get:
passing through the corporate filter, you probably need some key certification to get a look in
CSM / PSM is valuable if you have a good quality trainer
Kanban resources include the Kanban Yahoo! Group, Kanban and Kanban and Scrum: Making The Most of Both
Craig’s 2010 talk “Kaizen with GreenHopper: Visualising Agile & Kanban Storywalls“
one of the various scaled certifications (versus building your own)
ICAgile pathway is good as it is allows you to be skillset specific
Agile Coaching Institute (starts at ICAgile skill set)
learning is 70:20:10
just get your hands dirty!
leadership needs to support as Agile well: The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management, Creating Great Teams, Management 3.0
community events like meetups and conferences
get a mentor!
Building your own scaled framework
Holacracy and Reinventing Organizations
need to answer questions around ensuring quality, growing capability, benefits realisation, etc…
at what level do the questions need to be answered
Minimal Viable Organisations
scale on the operational cadence of the problems of the organisation, not following a framework
how often do we check that our approach is meeting our needs
Visualising business analysis in a Scrum team
3 Amigos approach
call it what it is if you’re sprint length is longer than it is
focus more on Kanban flow
Reading List
Renee is reading about climate change (and how that applies to Agile) including “This Changes Everything” by Naomi Klein
Craig is reading “CTRL-SHIFT” by Jessie Shternshus and Mike Bonifer
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June 30, 2016 Episode 111: M&Mailbag
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 →
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June 15, 2016Episode 110: Every Voice Engaged via Games with Luke Hohmann
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 of the “Beyond Software Architecture” book
how to sell games to your boss, the goal is not the game but the outcome
great resource for learning games is Tasty Cupcakes
with serious games, we don’t use the word “fun”, we use the word “engagement”
epic scale games with the City of San Jose to solve prioritisation problems, this resulted in the formation of Every Voice Engaged
our roots are “agilists” not “methodologists”, as a result we have capacity to solve larger problems
“you can’t read a bike”, so we need simulations to help understand Agile
engagement trumps the communication mechanism, especially video
play two games to change the world, because the world needs us!
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June 15, 2016 Episode 110: Every Voice Engaged via Games with Luke Hohmann
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 →
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June 01, 2016Episode 109 – The Art of Agile Fluency with James Shore
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 Agile method!), learnt a valuable lesson to pay attention to the financials and, no matter how much you talk to your customer, seeing is not enough (they need to use it)
“Extreme Programming Explained“, both editions are the same problem but coming from different experiences with the benefit of seven years of experience
the bulk of the “Art of Agile Development” book, particularly section 2, is mostly online, the major thing that probably needs to be updated is the section on customer testing
Agile Australia keynote “The Reward”
language hunting – there are multiple levels of language proficiency and you can be fluent at any one of them – proficiency is good, but to be really good you need fluency
Agile Fluency whitepaper
the agile fluency model is not a maturity model, it is about finding the right bus stop
Marick’s Missing Manifesto (the things missing from the manifesto) – skill, discipline, ease and joy
fluency comes more from the organisational investment than the team, so if you are not seeing fluency look at the organisation first
one star is doing Scrum well – with dedicated effort in 2-6 weeks, two stars with mentorship in 3-9 months, three stars takes a lot longer
the model is aspirational, so the barriers are high
Gamasutra Games Outcomes Project
next steps for the model is to share the diagnostics with organisations to help teams compare, contrast and grow
“Bloody Stupid Johnson Teaches Agile” with Arlo Belshee
the model will work regardless of the method used, its a way of looking at where you are at and not how you do it
we should take anybody who fits into the values of the Agile Manifesto
“Let’s Code JavaScript” started as a Kickstarter, now 300+ episodes
Quixote project allows you to test drive CSS and refactor it
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June 01, 2016 Episode 109 – The Art of Agile Fluency with James Shore
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 →
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44min
May 17, 2016Episode 108 – SAFe from the Source with Dean Leffingwell
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 building the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ride and infusion pumps and generally a mission to make quality better
epiphony around Agile was the step change around how teams perform and how they like their work when they perform better
not everything that is old is stupid, “we are discovering new ways of developing software” and we need to ask ourselves are we still discovering
Scrum is the only method that defines what a software team is (roles and size)
SAFe is not a war it is a mission to improve outcomes
need to provide leadership to agile learning, SAFe is a body of knowledge and a set of patterns that helps simplify learning
the differing viewpoints on SAFe are because the stakes have gotten higher, Agile is a big business and hence other approaches need to defend their turf because we are in a competitive market
they don’t defend SAFe – we publish case studies, talk about it and implement it, we have to take the pragmatic approach to help people succeed
SAFe is versioned because we record the best knowledge we have at the time and Dean is an author, but it has also allowed change management
SAFe will always support two versions in the market, including courseware and the big picture, the blog is kept fully up-to-date
SAFe LSE was a fork for SAFe for Lean, Software and Systems Engineering and allows for innovation, most of it has been collapsed back to the main framework
the framework is free (and will remain so)
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May 17, 2016 Episode 108 – SAFe from the Source with Dean Leffingwell
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 →
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May 09, 2016Episode 107 – Kanban in Action with Marcus Hammarberg
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 Army in Indonesia helping them become more effective
bitten by the Agile bug by demonstrating something embarrassingly small at the end of a sprint and yet he found the stakeholders were overjoyed at just seeing movement
Agile has changed many things that used to manual to be automated, such as testing and deployment, to fit in short cycles
Fred George’s talk “Agile Roots: Use JIT to Go Faster” at YOW! West (slides / video)
Marcus’ talks at YOW! West “Kanban in Action – A Practical Whirlwind Tour of Kanban” (slides / video) and “Impact Mapping: Drawing is Not the Point” (slides)
other books on Kanban include Henrik Kniberg’s “Kanban and Scrum – Making the Most of Both“, and David J. Anderson’s “Kanban” and “Lessons in Agile Management“
Kanban slides on SlideShare led to writing the book with Manning
recommend “The Goal” by Eli Goldratt, the content is boring but the intriguing story keeps you reading
Kanban is trustworthy due to its principles: start where you are, limit the work in process, manage flow from idea to production
sprint is a crazy word, when running a physical marathon you should keep a pace that allows you to continue a conversation
slack will always occur, so plan for it, idle people is OK, we sell ideas not keystrokes per minute
“you can’t be more productive than not delivering a feature” – John Smart
recommended books include “Turn The Ship Around” by David Marquet (also see the TED talk) and “Reinventing Organizations” by Frederic Laloux
lessons we can learn from IT – simple visualisations, data that makes sense (you can’t improve what you can’t measure), be transparent on what is being worked on and meeting every day
not an Agile Coach but a Social Worker
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May 09, 2016 Episode 107 – Kanban in Action with Marcus Hammarberg
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 →
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42min

FAQs about The Agile Revolution:

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The podcast currently has 259 episodes available.