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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November 22, 2019Episode 174: Dynamic Reteaming with Heidi Helfand
Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and talk to Heidi Helfand, Director of Engineering Excellence at Procore Technologies and author of Dynamic Reteaming and they talk about:
YOW! 2017 talk “Dynamic Reteaming: The Art & Wisdom of Changing Teams“
The general belief is the best teams are the ones that are stable and don’t change, but the opposite is often reality
Dynamic Reteaming is inevitable, you might as well get good at it
Tuckman added adjourning later, as an acknowledgment that things don’t stay the same
Teams by percentage gives dynamic reteaming a bad name – this is an antipattern
Good agile practices tend to help the ability to dynamically reteam
Ties nicely into Modern Agile, particularly experiment and learn rapidly as well as make people awesome
Dr. Spok – the “single point of knowledge”, may he live long and prosper!
Shared experiences and fun are great ways to break down the barriers and build community
Drexler/Sibbet model
GTKY – Getting to Know You Lunch – budget to encourage people to get to know each other, especially in companies that are growing fast
Innovation by Isolation Pattern – GoToMyPC was created this way
Dan Pink – “Drive“
Sandy Mamoli – “Creating Great Teams” – “what would you if you weren’t afraid?”
Dan Mezick – “show a new idea and invite people to try it”
Craig Larman – “you need to own ideas and not rent them”
Episode 106: Turning the Agile Ship Around with David Marquet and intent based leadership
What is the sweet spot for freedom where the things I want to to do match with the goals of the company and freedom for learning
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November 12, 2019Episode 173: Modern Agile (Is Not A Framework) with Joshua Kerievsky
Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and catch up with Joshua Kerievsky, CEO of Industrial Logic and founder of Modern Agile and they talk about:
Episode 20: Lean Start-ups with Joshua Kerievsky
Industrial Logic and the Extreme Programming Playing Cards
If you are a consulting company and don’t have your hands dirty building a product, you are missing out – try it out on yourselves before you try it out on your customers
Episode 116: The Heart of Modern Agile
Modern Agile recognises that there are other people who are not building software who also want to be agile and want to leverage the agile and lean concepts
Modern Agile principles – Make People Awesome, Make Safety a Prerequisite, Experiment and Learn Rapidly and Deliver Value Continuously
Lightweight methods movement came out of minimalism, but now we are in the Agile Industrial Complex – Agile has lost its simplicity and lightweight qualities
People need recipes to get started but we often get stuck on these
Forrest Gumping – stupid is as stupid does!
A lot of methodologists don’t pay attend to economics – be too idealistic and you won’t make money
We are in the business of helping individuals be agile, not organisations
Make people awesome is about being obsessed with our customers and making each other awesome in our organisations
Kathy Sierra – “Badass: Making Users Awesome” – focus on making the user awesome, not the product
Make safety a prerequisite – anzeneering – you can’t make anyone awesome if you can’t protect them
Project Aristotle – psychological safety is important for high performance
Modern Agile Meeting Agreements Poster
“Modern Agile is not a framework” – sing along!
* “The leftovers” – we value the things on the left over…
Modern Agile activities catalogue
Modern Agile Show
YOW! 2017 talk “Modern Agile“
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October 17, 2019Episode 172: Business Agility & DevOps Health Radars with Sally Elatta
Craig catches up with Sally Elatta, president of Agile Transformation and the founder of Agility Health Radar and they chat about:
Companies struggle to get the metrics to know if their agile transformations are making a difference, hence the creation of Agility Health Radar
Business Agility pillars – customer seat at the table, lean portfolio management, organisation structure and design, agile framework, leadership and culture, make it stick, technology agility and agility metrics
DevOps pillars – faster value delivery, higher quality, culture of improvement and building the right product
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October 07, 2019Episode 171 – Beyond Legacy Code with David Bernstein
Craig is at Agile 2017 in Orlando, Florida and speaks with David Bernstein, author of “Beyond Legacy Code“, and they chat about agile technical practices:
Agile does have something to with software development
Agile 2017 talk “Create Software Quality
The real value of Agile is in the technical practices so we can build iteratively, but still very few people practice them
The future is already here, but it is not very well evenly distributed – the same applies to Agile
Companies are being consumed by their technical debt and they don’t even recognise it
What is always cheaper in the virtual domain is building quality
Continuous Integration makes the most painful thing in software development (integration) our greatest asset – this in turn gives us feedback
We don’t necessarily know there is a better way to do things – but there is a better way to do things
We traditionally think of software as a write once event, but it is write many – users want it changed
We think procedurally so object oriented code often ends up being procedural with a class statement wrapped around it
Test First Development – very few developers know how to write a good test because they haven’t been taught, it was intended to assist with refactoring
Studies show about 10% of people follow the Agile technical practices like XP, and only 10% of those are doing it correctly
The mindset of testing is different to the mindset of coding and they are mutually exclusive (in the same way we need editors when writing a book)
Refactoring is at two levels because we learn in chunks – we need to do while doing test first as well as in the large
“The Art of Agile Development” – spend 10% of your time refactoring
Communication – say what, why and for whom before how – we think in implementation
CLEAN code – cohesive, loosely coupled, encapsulated, assertiveness and non-redundant
Need to understand what quality means in software
Troy Magennis talk “I love the smell of DATA in the morning (Getting started with Agile Data Science)“
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September 15, 2019Episode 170: Agile Our Way at Flinders University with Kerrie Campbell
Craig is as LAST Conference in Canberra and with guest co-host (and co-founder of LAST) Craig Brown they talk to Kerrie Campbell, the CIO at Flinders University in Adelaide and they talk (amongst some unscheduled cup stacking) about:
LAST Keynote talk “Flinders University Transformation“
Leadership through seeding rather than driving by changing language, building mindset and removing impediments
Open the kimono and leaders do Agile by example and muddle through it publicly
Story telling to move through the change
Eliminating the PMO – don’t need a middle man to get in between the IT and business to slow you down and sort out the projects if the team is cross skilled and cross facilitating
Disrupted finance through asking for a five year envelope of money and working and modelling the work that is ready to be done
Heart of Agile takes the complexity out of Agile – deliver, trust, reflect and improve
The CIO needs to fix the chaos of systems and make them more simple so we can get closer to the customer and work on their innovations
State of Agile in Adelaide (and a shout out to the Agile Brisbane and the Melbourne Agile and Scrum meetups)
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September 03, 2019Episode 169: A Slice of Agile Pi with Betsy Kauffman and Oscar Rodriquez
Craig is in Charlotte, North Carolina and catches up with Betsy Kauffman from Agile Pi and Oscar Rodriquez and they chat about:
40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes at Charlotte Agile Network meetup
The role and the state of Agile coaching
Agile Practice Guide
ICAgile, the ICAgile Certified Expert In Agile Coaching (ICE-AC) and non-framework Agility
Agile and crossing the chasm
The state of Agile in Charlotte and the compliance conundrum
The PMI-ACP is starting to more and more be a job requirement and one benefit is it’s ensuring a wider knowledge of Agile practices exist
The state of Scrum Masters
Meet the organisation (and people) where they are at
OnAgile 2017 Roman Pichler talk “Building a Product Users Want” then straight after Colleen Johnson talk “Death of the Product Roadmap“
It’s a messy complicated world!
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August 09, 2019Episode 168: Agile 2019 (Un)bagging
Craig and Renee are in Washington, DC at Agile 2019 and ahead of day one have some fun and decide to open up the swag bag after collecting their badges and see what is inside:
Air Force One Experience next to the conference hotel in National Harbor
Women In Agile 2019 conference tshirt
Octo Consulting and Lockheed Martin webcam covers and/or popsocket
ICAgile pen
Express Scripts blue tape
Freddie Mac gum (because great teams stick together)
Excella bottle opener
Scrum Inc mobile phone credit card holder
Scrum @ Scale metal straw (which Renee thought looked like a recorder case)
Scaled Agile wooden phone holder
PMI metal straw (which Renee thought was a pen)
Paperwork from Planview (giving away a Yeti Hopper), Lockheed Martin, Insight, Nisum, LitheSpeed (and the theagilevmo.com), Cprime, Esther Derby and her new book “7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change“, Adventures with Agile, Nureva, Express Scripts, The Braintrust Consulting Group, Synerzip (#DontGoChasingWaterfalls), ICAgile (Craig is Certifiably Awesome), Rally, Scaled Agile, Scrum Alliance, PMI, AgilityHealth, CollabNet VersionOne, ServiceNow (and the Ring video doorbell), Fans of LeSS, Deloitte Government Trends 2020, BP, Coveros (and TechWell), Comparative Agility, Scrum.org, CertiProf, UST Global, IIBA (Agile Extension to the BABOK), Netmind, Atlassian, Easy Agile
This podcast brought to you by Unbound DNA
Apollo 11
The ScrumStudy Guide
Clean Language and Judy Rees “Clean Language” book (Renee wants to start the foul language movement)
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July 07, 2019Episode 167: Unlearning and the Improv Effect with Jessie Shternshus
Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Melbourne and with guest revolutionist Toby Thompson (who was sitting at the table and initially didn’t want to speak on the podcast but then we couldn’t keep him quiet!) catch up with Jessie Shternshus, CEO at The Improv Effect and author of “CTRLShift“:
Agile 2015 keynote “Individuals, Interactions and Improvisation“
CTRLShift – 50 games for different types of days you might be happening
Agile Australia keynote “Unlearning: The Challenge of Change“
When you are facilitating you need to know your audience and believe in what you are doing – to get people involved, do things in small groups in partners so nobody has the attention on them initially and then build them up to group activities
Make people safe and get them to laugh – then you have them for the ride
Tony imitates a dinosaur (which we keep telling him doesn’t work on a podcast)
Introduction Tiebacks – introduce yourself as the facilitator and then when it comes to your turn tie your introduction back to the person who came before you
Game ideas come from twists on old games or from things people say
Last Letter Conversation – use the last letter from what someone just said to be the first letter of what you say
Improv Encyclopedia and a bunch of books are good resources but are usually made for actors (so you need to amend for the workplace)
“Improvisation For The Spirit” and “Improv Wisdom” are books more geared towards people and everyday life
Agile Australia keynote from Martin Fowler “Agile in 2018” around faux agile
Our brains have a hard job letting go, need to help people figure out what’s in it for them (the haveta versus the wanna)
The Backwards Brain Bicycle
Helping people change comes back to listening and empathy
Walkshop – 4 day hike for leaders to help them unlearn and connect
Unlearning – need to find experiential learning that helps people unlearn – backwards number game or name things around the room differently
Mayor of Weirdsville – dealing with pushback, pretend you are the mayor, make a proclamation and then the rest of the town has to poke holes in your idea
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July 04, 2019Episode 166: A Trip Down Agile Memory Lane with Jeff Smith
Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Melbourne and talk to their former leader Jeff Smith, EVP and COO at World Fuel Services and former CEO of Suncorp Business Services:
Australian Agile journey took him from Telstra, to a small startup and then to Suncorp, and later IBM and World Fuel Services
Scale of thought is more important than scale of people
The Suncorp Agile Academy was born out of the fact that learning matters, but the idea was for other companies to create content that could be shared in the Agile community which did not happen
Suncorp Building Quality In program
It all comes down to great people and working through problem
It’s hard for companies to build great leaders that are interested in building great teams
Jeff Smith keynote “Leading an Agile Company“
Availability is not a skillset
Thinking from a team point of view is important – at World Fuel for example, the MTR dropped 80% due to this approach
Don’t waste time on people who don’t want to follow what you want to do
Most companies surround themselves with the companies being disrupted, not the disruptors – need to work with people and companies who want to change the game
You learn a lot from being around better people
For ANZ, the key to their Agile journey has been that CEO Shayne Elliott was willing to spend time outside the organisation and learn
You need to be structured to support end to end cross functional teams formed around the work – the structure of the team matters
The next disruption is the physical versus virtual world, in particular what happens to things like networking appliances
It’s easy when something is new to find ways to shut it down, its harder to keep it going
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June 22, 2019Episode 165: Two Years and Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad
Craig and Tony sit down for a personal chat with the microphone turned on for the first time in 2 years (that is not an interview) (wow, time files…), unfortunately without Renee who was out sick:
State of the nation is a lot of dark / fake Agile and lack of collaborative connective tissues
Fail Agility – Craig and Tony’s keynote talk (Episode 150)
The word Agile is done, we are trying to harness agility
Heart of Agile – a reflective improvement framework that helps you find your way forward
The Agile Manifesto tells you the what, the Heart of Agile tells you the how
The Agile Revolution Podcast with Alistair Cockburn (Epsiode 49)
40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes diagram
Collision 2019 Toronto – Justin Trudeau, Capital One, BMO, Ev Williams, Timbaland, KFC
Stability in leadership and the stake in organisational success is important for success in agile transformation
1982 Up In Lights
Masterclass
Agile Australia 2019 Sydney
XP 2019 Montreal
Craig is reading “Joy Inc.” by Rich Sheridan after a recent visit to Menlo Innovations in Ann Arbor, MI.
Tony is reading “The Responsibility Process” by Christopher Avery and is considering sitting through The Leadership Gift Program
The Agile Revolution podcast with Christopher Avery (Episode 114 and Episode 138)
Brightline Initiative – connecting leadership to strategy, “Strategy@Work” book
OKRs – Tony suggests “Measure What Matters” by John Doerr and Craig suggests “Radical Focus” by Christina Wodtke
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