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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December 18, 2014 Episode 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 … Continue reading →
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26min
November 30, 2014Episode 83: Making Impacts with Gojko Adzic
Gojko Adzic “does computers” which means he helps people deliver software and he caught up with Craig on a recent YOW! DepthFirst tour of Australia. Gojko is the author of numerous books including “Bridging The Communication Gap“, “Specification by Example“, “Impact Mapping” and “50 Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories“.
XP – started with “Extreme Programming Explained” which was really about developers ruling the world – XP is not dead, it won!
TDD has crossed the chasm to mainstream
Sturgeons Law – 90% of anything is going to be crap
Continuous integration and automation has opened up a world of possibilities
“Bridging the Communication Gap” – about finding ways to break dysfunctional processes in organisations
“Agile Testing” by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory
The most valuable companies in the world are software companies
It’s more about the right people being involved rather than narrowly defined roles
“Specification by Example” – a collaborative way of coming up with good requirements and tests involving a cross functional team
Pschologically people perceive that tests come after development – in that case you have already failed
BDD – no canonical definition, would love BDD and SBE to be the same thing
“Impact Mapping” – based on a Swedish interaction design process – about setting goals and strageies
Impact Mapping uptake outside of IT – Marcus Hammarberg on Doctors in Indonesia and Ahmad Fahmy on helping orphanges in Egypt
“50 Quick Ideas To Improve Your User Stories” – a lot more to good user stories than just a template
Hamburger Slicing – last resort technique for technical story breakdown to think about options for value
Product Management is the big missing piece – teams could benefit from doing this better
As an industry we produce too much software – need to change the percentage of software that can achieve something big
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November 25, 2014Episode 82: The Heckle Revolution
Craig joins Darren Rogan, Ben Morgan and Leigh Appel in a special cross over episode with the Hack && Heckle Podcast to talk Agile and preview the upcoming YOW! conference that will be covered by both podcasts.
This episode has been released simulatenously as 088 The Heckle Revolution by Hack && Heckle.
Discussion points included:
Hack && Heckle interview with Scott Hanselman from YOW! 2013
Hack && Heckle intervoew with Ed Kmett from YOW! Lambda Jam 2014
Hack && Heckle Tech Project Tools Overview including Sprintly, Trello, JIRA and Pivotal Tracker
Half Arsed Agile Manifesto
40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes – The Lean Startup, Scaling Agile, Holacracy, Spotify Tribes and Agile Marketing
Not marketers, growth hackers!
50 in 50 keynote from YOW! 2010
YOW! 2014 preview, discount code is HECKLEREVOLUTION
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November 25, 2014 Episode 82: The Heckle Revolution
Craig joins Darren Rogan, Ben Morgan and Leigh Appel in a special cross over episode with the Hack && Heckle Podcast to talk Agile and preview the upcoming YOW! conference that will be covered by both podcasts. This episode has been released simulatenously as 088 The Heckle Revolution by Hack && Heckle. Discussion points included: … Continue reading →
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40min
November 05, 2014Episode 81: Resetting Agile & Devops with Justin Hennessy
Sitting in a sometimes noisy coffee shop on a unusually cold Brisbane day, Craig sits down for a chat with Justin Hennessy, a Scrum Master, Devops and System Administrator all rolled into one!
“An Agile Team Reset” article on the Scrum Alliance
The High Performance Tree by Lyssa Adkins
resetting awesome
early Agile experience shaped by “User Stories Applied” by Mike Cohn
“Coaching Agile Teams” by Lyssa Adkins reshapes the way of thinking about about teams
Agile in Adelaide versus Agile in Brisbane
Coaching Circles with Lyssa Adkins
Devops is more of a culture than a title
being a Scrum Master on a single team is hard and the full-time role debate
infrastructure has become a form of coding in itself
infrastructure resource as part of a core Agile team
better management and testing of configuration artefacts, unit testing and CI frameworks
infrastructure deployment tools are often just another thing to maintain
our job as Agile people is to help organisations evolve and change
resetting the expectations of good enough
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November 05, 2014 Episode 81: Resetting Agile & Devops with Justin Hennessy
Sitting in a sometimes noisy coffee shop on a unusually cold Brisbane day, Craig sits down for a chat with Justin Hennessy, a Scrum Master, Devops and System Administrator all rolled into one! “An Agile Team Reset” article on the Scrum Alliance The High Performance Tree by Lyssa Adkins resetting awesome early Agile experience shaped by … Continue reading →
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43min
November 01, 2014Episode 80: Context Matters in SAFe with Em Campbell-Pretty
At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne; Craig, Renee and Tony catch up with Em Campbell-Pretty to talk about the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as well as Impact Mapping and a variety of other topics:
Em’s Agile journey and how she came to Agile from the business side and discovered SAFe before it was SAFe
Australia’s first Agile release train and the SAFe Telstra Enterprise Data Warehouse Case Study
Pretty Agile blog – Adventures in Scaling Agile
Scaling Software Agility and Agile Software Requirements books by Dean Leffingwell
did SAFe without PSI Planning – doing textbook SAFe you will most likely fail – apply it to your context
SAFe is designed for big enterprise and is just where you start
Leading SAFe training – focus on lean principles and leadership
Epic – Feature – Story – why?
if your wall isn’t changing then your process is probably not changing (inspect and adapt)
key metrics – cycle time, employee net promotor score and customer net promotor score – recommended book “The Ultimate Question 2.0“
Context Matters – consulting, training and coaching with Mark Richards
people take comfort from the fact there is a process (and a certification)
SAFe 3.0 – cleaned up some of issues and imagery, lean leadership, etc…
the book is still a reasonable resource but the website is the most up-to-date source
Impact Mapping – good way to get alignment around business objectives on a project – “Impact Mapping: Making an Impact over Shipping Software” presentation at Agile Australia 2014
Impact Mapping is good for mapping opportunities and assumption testing – why, who is impacted, how do we want behaviours to change and what can we do to support the impacts, Story Mapping is further down the line
Impact Mapping book and website are both good resources, Em’s blog post “How I Fell in Love with Impact Mapping“
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November 01, 2014 Episode 80: Context Matters in SAFe with Em Campbell-Pretty
At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne; Craig, Renee and Tony catch up with Em Campbell-Pretty to talk about the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as well as Impact Mapping and a variety of other topics: Em’s Agile journey and how she came to Agile from the business side and discovered SAFe before it was SAFe Australia’s first … Continue reading →
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36min
October 08, 2014Episode 79: Vomit Value with Jim Benson
At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne, Jim Benson of Personal Kanban fame takes some time to talk with Craig, Renee, Tony and (a very silent) Kim Ballestrin and along the way they talk about:
early work implementing David J. Anderson’s Agile Management which resulted in Jim focussing on the person (Personal Kanban) and David focussing on the organisation (Kanban method) – two different viewpoints on the same solution set
XP, Scrum, Kanban method and Personal Kanban exemplify the people who created them
The Oath of Non Allegiance
Scrum vs Kanban
Why Limit WIP and Why Plans Fail books out now and working on an upcoming book about meetings
Individuals and interactions is redundant – relevant in 2001 to shake people out of complacency
Agile is anti-manager
Agile in knowledge work
WIP limits and avoiding “death flow”
Vomit Value – user stories with spurious and arbitrary value in a 2 week sprint
standardisation of humans and collaboration
Toyota change of culture – “what’s good for your life is good for Toyota”
Product Owners (#nopo) – should be the stewards of the value stream
https://twitter.com/Playin_w_nomes/status/479031669517582337
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46min
October 08, 2014 Episode 79: Vomit Value with Jim Benson
At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne, Jim Benson of Personal Kanban fame takes some time to talk with Craig, Renee, Tony and (a very silent) Kim Ballestrin and along the way they talk about: early work implementing David J. Anderson’s Agile Management which resulted in Jim focussing on the person (Personal Kanban) and David focussing on … Continue reading →
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46min

FAQs about The Agile Revolution:

How many episodes does The Agile Revolution have?

The podcast currently has 259 episodes available.