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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May 15, 2015 Episode 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 … Continue reading →
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April 14, 2015 Episode 88: Scrum Australia Anticast
Adam Weisbart turns the tables hosting an anti-podcast where he interviews Craig, Renee & Tony at Scrum Australia 2014 in Sydney on their highlights from the conference. The conversation included:
* Adam Weisbart’s “Agile Antipatterns” talk and his awesome Agile Antipatterns cards
* Craig Smith’s “40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes” talk (and the methods on the cutting room floor)
* Agile movements are just as important as methods
* Tony mentions the original Winston W. Royce “Managing the Development of Large Software Systems” waterfall paper – why??
* Henrik Kniberg’s “Scaling Agile @ Spotify” keynote
* Matthew Hodgson’s “Backlogs, Story Mapping and Star Wars” talk
* Knowing one of the organisers like Star Wars helps!
* Renee Troughton’s “Darth Vaderless Daily Scrums” talk
* Important to know the expectations that everyone else should be having on each other to have a good Daily Scrum
* Emparting to a new team how to do an effective daily scrum
* Renee and her obsession with origami cranes
* Own the silence…
* David Bale’s “Build Your Own Scaled Scrum” talk (built on Adam’s Build Your Own Scrum)
* Drop Bears
* Australia has lots of blending, more common to break stories smaller as opposed to tasks, we make proper tea
* Adam’s new project: Agile Adlibs
* Making retrospectives fun…
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28min
April 14, 2015 Episode 88: Scrum Australia Anticast
Adam Weisbart turns the tables hosting an anti-podcast where he interviews Craig, Renee & Tony at Scrum Australia 2014 in Sydney on their highlights from the conference. The conversation included: * Adam Weisbart’s “Agile Antipatterns” talk and his awesome Agile Antipatterns cards * Craig Smith’s “40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes” talk (and the methods … Continue reading →
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28min
March 15, 2015Episode 87: Coffee From The Trenches with Henrik Kniberg
Renee and Craig catch up with Henrik Kniberg at Scrum Australia 2014 where he tries coffee for the first time in ten years at the Paramount Coffee Project (the best coffee in Sydney according to Renee). Apart from getting his verdict on the brew, they also talk about:
First time back in Australia in a long time to keynote at Scrum Australia 2014
Craig’s interview “Henrik Kniberg on Lean From The Trenches, Translating the Agile Manifesto and Living Agile” from Agile 2012 in Dallas on InfoQ
“Scrum and XP From The Trenches” and how the book was written in 3 days
Ivory Tower Syndrome – you can get good at describing crap in a believable way if you don’t have connections to reality
“Kanban and Scrum: Making The Most of Both“
Spotify – 25 coaches with 25 pet approaches, the culture and the fundamentals in each cross functional team is the same, the purpose of organisations is not make life easy for the manager, it is to make it possible to deliver and learn fast
Tradeoffs – consistency vs flexibility in tools such as version control at Spotify
Spotify culture – started with Scrum, was fundamentally healthy, created by the mindset of the founders and the first few people
Spotify succeeded because the people who work there are passionate about making a great product – making a product where they also the customer – the new problem is keeping empathy for new users
Renee still buys CDs apparently!
Spotify is focussed on growth not profit – optimise for users loving the product – there will ultimately be one big player
“Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds” paper and “Spotify Engineering Culture Part 1” and Spotify Engineering Culture Part 2” videos
Scaling Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches – gradual ramp up since 2010, each coach has 2-3 squads, coaches are culure workers (a good example of investing in coaches)
On coaches, Spotify has shown it is probably harder to multitask roles than teams
Crisp – balance of independence versus freedom, runtime environment for consultants
Oath of Non Allegience – come to companies with toolboxes – how they work and which one is appropriate for the environment
Need some relation to the craft of the team as a coach – need to be open to blindspots
Henrik’s verdict on the the coffee… no spoilers, you will need to listen!
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40min
March 15, 2015 Episode 87: Coffee From The Trenches with Henrik Kniberg
Renee and Craig catch up with Henrik Kniberg at Scrum Australia 2014 where he tries coffee for the first time in ten years at the Paramount Coffee Project (the best coffee in Sydney according to Renee). Apart from getting his verdict on the brew, they also talk about: First time back in Australia in a long … Continue reading →
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40min
February 23, 2015Episode 86: Sticky Notes and Agile Stuff
Renee sets the tone for the Podcast, talking sticky notes and a great new app Post it plus by 3m and tests them live on the podcast .
This week the team talk about :
Are performance reviews a waste of time ? Review from the Business insider
@agilescout Remove your constraints article piques Tony’s interest and then ends up with a debate around star treks relevance
Renee interrupts to provide the results of her tests with the sticky notes app
We discuss the new update to the LeSS (large scale scrum) framework by @less_works
Craig asks questions of Renee and Tony from an Agile Coaching course
Tony proves it’s live as he runs off to sooth his daughter, Craig and Renee take the opportunity to have some fun in his absence
Books The Revolutionists are Reading: Impact Mapping (Gojko Adzic), Lean Startup (Eric Ries), Bridging the Communication Gap (Gojko Adzic)
https://twitter.com/neil_killick/status/537150511107940353 https://twitter.com/drunkcod/status/519030634162167809
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57min
February 23, 2015 Episode 86: Sticky Notes and Agile Stuff
Renee sets the tone for the Podcast, talking sticky notes and a great new app Post it plus by 3m and tests them live on the podcast . This week the team talk about : Are performance reviews a waste of time ? Review from the Business insider @agilescout Remove your constraints article piques Tony’s interest and then … Continue reading →
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57min
January 31, 2015Episode 85: Scrum Australia 2014 Vox Pop
Tony and a sometimes over-modulated Craig (with Renee popping up from time to time) roam the floor at lunchtime at Scrum Australia in Sydney and talk to some interesting Scrum folks along the way about their thoughts on the conference and the Scrum community in general:
Shane Sendall (Suncorp) – end to end delivery and design patterns for teams, minimum loveable products, looking at flow efficiency
Justin Urbanski (Rally) – Scrum Alliance Coaching Clinic, minimum viable bureacracy, scaling
Ben Hogan (Tabar) and Martyn Frank (CBA) – teams overcommitting, Scrum in 60 seconds, visual facilitation inspired by Lynne Cazaly, kanban in curriculum development in universities
Neil Killick (MYOB) – spoke with Craig Brown running the #noestimates Puzzle Game, 40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes, Tony suggests #lotsofestimates, Neil’s posts on #noestimates
Jason Yip (ThoughtWorks) and Sunish Chabba – learning to design problems, Spotify model is a good example because it considers scaling and distribution
Craig Brown (Tabar) – Dare Festival in Melbourne
Venky Krishnamurthy (Suncorp) – talk at conference “Building products that customers love by strengthening Scrum with Design Thinking and Lean Startup methods”, article “Building Products That Customers Love: Strengthen Scrum with Design Thinking and Lean Startup“, Who Is Agile Australia & New Zealand, dispelling some of the myths around Agile
Pete Tansey – RBA talk, agile in government organisations, starting Agile projects
Michael Rembach (Transport for NSW) and John Ferguson Smart (Wakaleo) – collaborative work practices, BDD In Action, Thucydides, “The Three Amigos – going to the heart of BDD” workshop
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41min
January 31, 2015 Episode 85: Scrum Australia 2014 Vox Pop
Tony and a sometimes over-modulated Craig (with Renee popping up from time to time) roam the floor at lunchtime at Scrum Australia in Sydney and talk to some interesting Scrum folks along the way about their thoughts on the conference and the Scrum community in general: Shane Sendall (Suncorp) – end to end delivery and design … Continue reading →
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41min
December 18, 2014Episode 84: Retrospectives in Middle Earth with Rachael Tempest Wood
Rachael Tempest Wood from Nomad8 in Wellington joins Tony and Craig in the Brisbane Queen Street Mall over lunch with a bonus busker on saxophone and they discuss:
PMI and Agile are completely different mindsets, PMI Project Managers are “the CIOs of their projects”
AgileWelly – strength through the struggle of doing Agile in government
Wellington Agile community led by TradeMe, Snapper, BNZ
Gojko Adzic – Specification by Example and Impact Mapping
Agile NZ conference
Retrospective design – creativity in facilitation is a gap
Esther Derby’s model for restrospectives
Paper Airplane game – using an abstract process to apply learnings to the real process
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26min

FAQs about The Agile Revolution:

How many episodes does The Agile Revolution have?

The podcast currently has 259 episodes available.