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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January 15, 2016Episode 101: The Lean Mindset with Mary and Tom Poppendieck
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 Agile Toolkit
Agile is not lean in software development, Agile is lean in a delivery organisation
How long does it take you to put a single line of code into Production?
The manifestation of lean really kicked off in 2010 with both the rise of DevOps and the Lean Startup
Delivery organisations versus engineering organisations and the journey of Agile
Agile has not well addressed delivering the right stuff, solving the right problem and the architecture of rapid deployment
Only two goals at ING: Deliver every two weeks and don’t crash production, resulted in rapid feedback loops
“The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest” by Yochai Benkler
Latest book: The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions
Create centres of good culture and let people find it, to survive in a competitive environment you need to do something different
Goal is to create an environment where people enjoy the challenge of developing software
The critical resource to be managed is not capital but the passion and energy of bright and creative people
People don’t resist change, they resist being changed
Build a change platform, not a change program
YOW! 2014 talk – The Scaling Dilemma
The military model – leaders have strategic awareness two levels down and situational awareness one level up and the concept of working leaders
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January 15, 2016 Episode 101: The Lean Mindset with Mary and Tom Poppendieck
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 →
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January 06, 2016 Episode 100: 100th Episode Spectacular
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 of our guests and to our loyal listener(s) for helping us reach 100 episodes!
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December 22, 2015Episode 99: 99, Not Out!
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 Data Retention laws and the importance of Emotional Intelligence
The Project
Five years, building a culture, and handing it off – the thoughts of outgoing Etsy CTO Kellan Elliott-McCrea
The Nexus Guide (and no, it’s not a new Google phone or a car but yet another scaling framework) and its associated Scaled Professional Scrum Assessment
The Oath of Non-Allegiance
Sanjiv Augustine new book Scaling Agile: A Lean Jumpstart
The Story Behind How Pocket Hit 20 Million Users with 20 People
New CIOs: How to succeed in the first 120 days (and Renee’s quiz to Tony and Craig)
Fire all your managers: ‘Supportive Leadership’ is management’s new role
Fast IT – (it’s a thing)
We are reading: Reinventing Organizations, The OpenSpace Agility Handbook, Start With Why, Talk Like TED, Turn The Ship Around and The Phoenix Project
100 episodes is our Don Bradman
This Agile Life beat us to 100 epsiodes (we are not bitter!)
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December 22, 2015 Episode 99: 99, Not Out!
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 →
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1h 6min
December 08, 2015Episode 98: The Heckle Revolution YOW! 2015 Edition
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 the YOW! Conference.
Discussion points included:
A discussion about our upcoming 100th episode
a discussion about behind the scenes of organising and schedulinf the YOW! 2015 conference
YOW! 2015 speakers and topics including: Adrian Cockroft, Troy Hunt, Aaron Bedra, microservices, Pragmatic Dave Thomas, Anita Sengupta, Dan North, Dean Wapler and Docker
Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development
YOW! 2014 videos
YOW! Bubs – childcare at a technical conference
The YOW! tour and Brisbane
Windows 10 upgrades
The pros and cons of Scala and FORTRAN versus Java
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November 05, 2015Episode 97: 3 Things, 3 Letters (Git, CTO, MBA) with Peter Bell
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“
Balance the appropriate batch size for communicating with your team the work you have completed versus the appropriate batch size for if you mess up you can easily go back – this is typically 2-10 lines of code to the local repository
Most teams just need a master branch that is always releasable and all work done on feature branches that are merged into master
training.github.com – training options and a number of great resources
Learning Git – not easy to learn on the job, balance of basic how to use Git versus a deeper understanding of how and why it works to avoid messing things up
CTO Summits run across the world – help people who lead engineering teams to build better software and build software better
CTO School started in New York but now runs around the world as a not-for-profit and has built a CTO network
CTO’s deal with the same high level decisions around technology that most of us do, but overlapping with how to build better product and how to build a better engineering team brand that the best technologists would want to to work for
Don Reinertsen wrote the best book on how Agile works “The Principles of Product Development Flow” – but it is not very accessible
Colombia University Graduate School of Business – teaching MBA and EMBA students how to learn about digital literacy and big data which is really how to hire and manage developers when you are not one which is the best nuggets from Agile and Lean that are accessible for a business audience
GitHub – create the repository and make your team collaborators – if you cannot understand the gist of the commit messages you have a problem
For the business, business leaders can learn a lot from basic Kanban, user stories, doing the riskiest thing first, using tools like SBE to create meaningful specifications
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September 30, 2015Episode 96: YOW! 2014 Brisbane Vox Pop
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 Hunt on “Hack Yourself First” and Peter Bell on “How to Undo Almost Anything with Git” and that listening to security talks is like watching horror movies, completely terrifying and entertaining at the same time!
Jason Royals and Carlo Simbag on cheesecake and great talks by Troy Hunt, Jez Humble, Gojko Adzic and Gabrielle Benefield
Andrew Newman on using Scala in the enterprise, keynotes from Martin Thompson and Todd Montgomery as well as Ed Kmett
Sharon Robson on using Agile at Tatts Group, her favourite standard ISO-9126, Boehm’s Quality Tree, getting rid of “THWADI”
Darren Cotterill on Optiver being the second best place to work in Australia, enjoyed Jon Eaves on Microservices
Aran Elkington on Agile at Youi, Jeff Patton and his cake wrecks and the underlying theme of microservices at the conference
Matt Callanan on DevOps Brisbane, DevOps Days Brisbane, “it’s all about Docker”
Michael Villis on Agile and Lean really being about doing the right things rather than just looking busy
Peter Oxenham on looking for outcomes and different ways to look at problems
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September 30, 2015 Episode 96: YOW! 2014 Brisbane Vox Pop
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 →
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September 15, 2015Episode 95: User Story Mapping (Something Something) with Jeff Patton
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 first edition was the better version!)
One of the secrets to success is having a great relationship with customers
Early Agile colleagues included Eric Evans (“Domain-Driven Design“), Joshua Kerievsky (“Refactoring to Patterns” and Industrial Logic), Rob Mee (Pivotal Labs)
The product decisions on what to build matter most
YOW! Talk “User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story“
Story Mapping addressed the problem of losing sight of the big picture when building very small things
Larry Constantine and Lucy Lockwood “Software For Use” – task modelling was the inspiration for Story Mapping
Impact Mapping was inspired by Effect Mapping
There is no way to build a story map and not stand in the shoes of someone using your product
They were initially called “stories” not “user stories”, because of the way we use them – it’s not a change in the way we write documents, its a change in the way we work
As a… I want… So that… is just a conversation starter, and they need titles!
Dependencies in story mapping – the map helps you see in slices, using stories helps you build the thing you need now
Passionate Product Owner course
The hope of the User Story Mapping book is that people think differently about stories
Your job in software development is not to build more crap faster, your job is to change the world
Jez Humble “Lean Enterprise” – output and impact
What we do now builds on an Agile foundation – but it is more than Agile – we are missing an umbrella term for product centricity
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FAQs about The Agile Revolution:

How many episodes does The Agile Revolution have?

The podcast currently has 259 episodes available.