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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September 08, 2015Episode 94: Agile 2015 Wrap Up
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 by Jessie Shternshus “Individuals, Interactions and Improvization”
Esther Derby and Mike Lowery talk “Coaching Flow: Moving Past Resistance”
Craig Larman and Bas Vodde talk “Introduction to Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)”
Dan Greening and Jeff Sutherland talk “Agile Leadership Patterns: The Agile Way of Doing”
Joint podcast with “This Agile Life” – our second favourite Agile podcast!
Skip Angel and Richard Watt talk “Outcome Driven Organizations (ODO): A new operating system for organizational change”
Day 5 keynote by James Tamm “Want Better Collaboration? Don’t be so Defensive!” and some shocking numbers around effectiveness
The conference hotel (biodome) – Gaylord National Harbor
Trends at the conference: lots of newcomers, scaling, leadership, improvisation, games, coaching and technical debt
Interesting discussions in the Open Jam, daily Lean Coffee and Agile Alliance Lounge and lots of vendors selling tools
The new planningpoker.com
"I have a question about story point velocity." to @ourfounder at #agile2015 #WaitForIt
— Adam Yuret Stands with the strikers. F U Pay Them (@AdamYuret) August 5, 2015
Reject superhero, doctor diamond #Agile2015 @TheImprovEffect pic.twitter.com/KD71BhWFfb
— Renee Troughton (@AgileRenee) August 5, 2015
Radical Collaboration with James Tamm #Agile2015 pic.twitter.com/4nNDLYNDZx
— Renee Troughton (@AgileRenee) August 7, 2015
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September 08, 2015 Episode 94: Agile 2015 Wrap Up
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 →
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August 29, 2015Episode 93: I Like Big Boards
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 the multi-team agile framework he has put in place at his organization with Natalie and Renee.
Abby Bangser and Jason Tice continue a discussion from Lean Coffee at Agile 2015 regarding the benefits of having a full lifecycle Kanban board (product envisioning thru development thru formal testing and acceptance by the customer).
While discussing the benefits of “Big Boards” the excellent session that Lisa Crispin and Emma Armstrong presented on User Interface testing came up
Next Jenny Tarwater gave props to John Krewson who did an awesome Improv workshop where attendees (including Jenny and Jason) acted out 3-4 minute Improv sketches of how waterfall could complicate simple activities in life like going to Starbucks, planning a trip to Disneyworld or dating and marriage (there are YouTube videos of these Improv sketches somewhere) but the session was AWESOME – thanks to John Krewson for allowing us to get our Improv on at Agile 2015
If you’ve ever played cards against humanity, Jenny Tarwater recommends “Cards for Agility” presented by Bob Payne and and Beth Miller at Agile2015
Several present on ThisAgileLife comment on Jeff Sutherland’s “Agile Leadership Patterns” presentation and how he made several comments regarding other members of the agile community during his presentation
Jason Tice proposes an experiment (to the organizers of Agile 2016 – Bob Sarni) whereby there would be a video interview with presentation submitters prior to acceptance to confirm that their presentation is focused around learning vs. a sales pitch for a product and/or training. BTW, the conference chair of Agile2016 is Bob Sarni – Jason mis-spoke in the recording regarding Bob Payne – there just happen to be quite a few Bob’s involved in the planning of agile conferences.
Serge Beaumont mentions a few of the activities that provide value in addition to the conference sessions, such as the Scrum Alliance Coaches clinic and Open Jam. He suggests that the conference conclude with some type of “Open Space” in future years.
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August 29, 2015 Episode 93: I Like Big Boards
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 →
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August 26, 2015Episode 92: Agile 2015 Day 1
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 given enough time will justify a total rewrite of the system”
Paul Goddard talk “Improvisssssing With Agile” – some good examples for team starters, new book “Improv-ing Agile Teams“
Will Evans talk “Learn Like A Scientist” – start with a problem, lots of good models and templates
Lots of different scaling solutions and related certifications being discussed at the conference
Larry Maccherone talk “Probalistic Forecasting for Math Mortals” – monte carlo forecasting is a useful tool for project planning (and superannuation!)
Ellen Grove talk “Games for Talking about Conflict Resolution” – lots of games you can play with a team to talk about conflict
Lots of ability at this conference to network and meet new people in sessions and at breaks
Lots of good discussions happening in the Open Space area
Sponsors (vendors) are mostly tools (and tools for tools) and the Agile bookstore
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August 26, 2015 Episode 92: Agile 2015 Day 1
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 →
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July 19, 2015Episode 91: Coding The Architecture with Simon Brown
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 opposed to big upfront documentation
Tony is an old BA apparently… Explains a lot
If you can’t sketch out your architecture, you don’t understand it
C4 model was created after observations many archtecture drawings don’t make sense
Tony shows his age again by referencing Mr. Squiggle (video)
A tiny percentage of architects understand UML – do you teach them UML or teach them something simple?
Structurizr replaces drawing boxes in Visio or OmniGraffle, creates the C4 model from Java code and keeps it up to date, other implementations for C# have also been created
Suggest updating the diagrams at the end of every storycard
C4 starts at system context level, opens up to containers, zooms down to components inside containers and then down to the class level
Use the model to understand your microservices strategy versus monoliths (article by Rob Annett)
C4 is a drill down per system, does not have much to offer enterprise architects – can add an extra enterprise architecture layer if you wish
ArchiMate allows Enterprise Architects to model processes
We need Enterprise Architects but architects need to be involved in the day to day architecture including code (REA have a delivery engineering team that they spoke about at YOW!)
Roy Osherove’s Elastic Leadership – starting point is one architect but then get more people involved
Ask your team what an Architect does and you will probably get conflicting answers, it is a not well defined role
System Architect and Tech Lead are essentially the same thing
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July 03, 2015Episode 90: Step Away From The Book
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 read this, tell us about it!
Harvard Business Review article – “How to Help Someone Develop Emotional Intelligence” – find the dream!
Ron Jeffries want his XP back!
“Modern Extreme Programming” by Benji Weber – it’s not dead, just evolved
The 9th Annual State of Agile Survey – summary and thoughts
“Let’s Acknowledge SAFe for What It Is and Move On” by Mike Cottmeyer
Reactive Manifesto and how it applies to programming as well as human reactions
Our reading list includes,”No Estimates” beta book by Vasco Duarte, “BDD In Action” by John Smart and “Turn The Ship Around” by David Marquet
Be willing to #learn is the key of #success #SGPHX #Icouldbewrong with @mikewcohn pic.twitter.com/36APDrZX9j
— Gustavo Bonalde (@gbonalde) May 4, 2015
Estimates in classic comedy…#NoEstimates pic.twitter.com/TnoP2fFkww
— Nezumi Ronin (@NezumiRonin) April 26, 2015
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July 03, 2015 Episode 90: Step Away From The Book
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 →
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May 15, 2015Episode 89: Intersecting Service Management, People Development & Agile
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 in Australia – focus on disruptive service management, Agile, Lean, DevOps, Continuous Delivery
Challenges with virtual teams – not everybody is suited to working this way, need to take time up front on shared values and getting to know each other (and this can be done virtually if need be)
Measuring good teams – satisfaction surveys, team results, engagement levels
Agile Virtual ITSM Teams workshop
Opportunity for convergence between Agile and people development areas
Issue is how to translate Agile to Service Management – learn by continuous improvement and experimentation
Leading ITSM from Scrum to Kanban talk
Olanned work (continuous service improvement and BAU) and unplanned work (major incidents) and how to write story cards for service management teams
Moving from Scrum to Kanban moved the team from being reactive to proactive but they missed the cadence and planning and did not respect WIP limits, so went back to Scrum
Tracked number of points which represents delivered service improvement
Showcases are a challenge outside of an IT management team – who should come?
Problem Management Analysts use a Kanban wall to track incidents and impacts
Buy in increasing in IT Service Management community, but slow uptake
ITIL – when implemented well, it provides real benefits to the customer
DevOps Days Brisbane – Why You’re Destroying DevOps – many correlations to what DevOps is experiencing now to what ITIL experienced 10 years ago
ITIL has nothing about culture, rather it is just focussed on process unlike Agile and Lean, it is also often pushed from above and has a compliance way of thinking due to certifications
Nigel Dalton keynote – The Cloud: It’s Not About The Money
Need to continue to support and coach the ITSM community and collaborate
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FAQs about The Agile Revolution:

How many episodes does The Agile Revolution have?

The podcast currently has 259 episodes available.