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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July 26, 2017Episode 134: Unicorns, Distributed Teams and Agile User Groups with Mark Kilby
Craig is at Agile 2016 in Atlanta and catches up with Mark Kilby, an Agile Coach at Sonatype and co-founder of Agile Orlando and Agile Florida. Along the way they discuss:
“Extreme Programming Explained” by Kent Beck (the white book)
Memories of Jean Tabaka and her book “Collaboration Explained”
We should be collaborating with leaders rather than working for them
InfoQ interview “Mark Kilby, Stephanie Davis and Rick Regueira on Effective User Groups & Remote Agile“
“Can you be remotely Agile” Agile 2015 experience report
“Audacious Salon – Distributed Agile” session output from Agile 2016 conference
Virtual Team Talk group (started in Berlin, ironically at a conference)
“Communicating and Collaborating: How Distributed Agile Teams Can Thrive” Agile 2016 workshop with David Horowitz
Distribution tips: don’t force distributed teams, it needs to be a choice; it’s a culture shift so it is not for all organisations, take small steps; set a template for the team and expectations
Value connection over face to face communication
Spotify Engineering Culture videos and paper
You can survive without video on distributed teams, you need to learn the signs
Agile Open Florida
Experience Report on Agile Florida “User group dying? Time to build a state-wide learning network!” with Stephanie Davis and Alex Kanaan
Agile Alliance Community Group Support initiative, user group leaders are welcome to join the Slack group
OnAgile 2016 conference
Agile Alliance Initiatives are there to support the community
See remotelyagile.info for distributed agile resources
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July 26, 2017 Episode 134: Unicorns, Distributed Teams and Agile User Groups with Mark Kilby
Craig is at Agile 2016 in Atlanta and catches up with Mark Kilby, an Agile Coach at Sonatype and co-founder of Agile Orlando and Agile Florida. Along the way they discuss: “Extreme Programming Explained” by Kent Beck (the white book) Memories of Jean Tabaka and her book “Collaboration Explained” We should be collaborating with leaders … Continue reading →
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July 07, 2017Episode 133: Rules Are For Pussies!
Craig and Renee are both in Sydney and catch up around the kitchen table to discuss a bunch of things happening in the Agile universe:
Renee is watching “The Leftovers” while Craig has been binge watching “Mad Men” and they talk about TV show podcasts such as “The West Wing Weekly“
ANZ (one of Australia’s big four banks) is diving into Agile (everywhere but bank branches)
Silicon Valley Agile (Scrum) reference (NSFW!)
UK is wasting 37 million pounds per year on failed Agile projects (but the devil is in the detail not the headline)
IBM calling remote workers back to the office – is it about trust, staff reductions or something else?
The Thomas Allen Curve
17 Essential Hacks Every Scrum Master Should Know
"SAFe doesn't require your management to change in any meaningful way" says @jboogie at #CraftConf
— Daniel Terhorst-North is mostly @[email protected] (@tastapod) April 27, 2017
Boomerang retrospectives (when your action goes up and comes back and whacks you in the head)
Dave Snowden blog post on “SAFe: the infantilism of management” – “is PRINCE2 camouflaged in Agile language”
Renee is reading “The Originals” by Adam Grant and her conclusion is that “we continue to be a community of agilists who attack each other”
Agile Alliance and its belief in the “big tent” view of Agile
As agilists we need to adopt the improve approach of “yes and” more often
The Oath of Non-Allegiance
“Culture May Eat Agile For Breakfast” – can an organisation double in size and become Agile at the same time?
Renee’s “Scaling Agile Tricks Series: Mitosis”
Craig is reading “lego4scrum 3.0” and Renee is reading “Immunity To Change“
Renee is now a Certified Holacracy Practitioner and she sat the Holacracy Practitioner Training course in Philadelphia
Brian Robertson “Holacracy” Talks At Google video and the “Holacracy” book
Frederic Laloux “Reinventing Organizations“
Craig is now a Certified AgilityHealth Facilitator and sat the AgilityHealth Facilitation course in Atlanta
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July 07, 2017 Episode 133: Rules Are For Pussies!
Craig and Renee are both in Sydney and catch up around the kitchen table to discuss a bunch of things happening in the Agile universe: Renee is watching “The Leftovers” while Craig has been binge watching “Mad Men” and they talk about TV show podcasts such as “The West Wing Weekly“ ANZ (one of Australia’s … Continue reading →
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June 27, 2017Episode 132: Usability Made Easy with Steve Krug
Tony, Craig and Renee are at Agile Australia and catch up with Steve Krug and talk usability and along the way try to figure out whether Tony is lean, agile or just old…
“Don’t Make Me Think” book, now in 3rd edition
Agile Australia keynote “You’re not doing usability testing? Are you…nuts?“
need to start doing usability early, to find issues early and have time to fix it
Laura Klein’s book “UX For Lean Startups” is a good book on lean
issues with lean from a usability perspective is failure and disruption
usability is a user advocate role
cubicle test – draw a paper prototype and ask the person in the next cubicle to fill it out and observe the issues
CX is basically UX owned by marketing!
UX is design where usability is more about testing
start by taking to customers then do regularly scheduled usability testing
you only need about 3 people to get a good idea of usability
Janice Redish “Letting Go Of The Words“
Jakob Nielsen articles on ROI
“Rocket Surgery Made Easy” companion book, scripts and other resources are on the website for the book
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June 20, 2017Episode 131: Program Management Envato Style with Adrian Fittolani
Renee, Tony and Craig are at Agile Australia and sit down with Adrian Fittolani from Envato and discuss program management and monte carlo simulations. Renee also makes an estimate that is super accurate!
Envato – a marketplace for creative assets
Lisa Frazier talk at Agile Australia “Leadership in the Digital World“
utilise bottom up program management at Envato, they have 4 main themes as a company and use self organising themes to meet those themes
had to evolve from co-located teams as could not find local resources, they now have any person working in any team wherever they are and make that work, they try to keep teams in close timezones and use asynchronous communication tools, have a policy to work anywhere and additionally a policy to travel and work from anywhere in the world for 3 months
the teams responsibility is to radiate program status, currently using a short document with a timeline view
launch wall for important items kicking off in the next 2 weeks – helps eliminate surprises
project is where more than one team is involved, form a circle around the project (like holacracy)
Renee and Craig’s talk at Agile Australia “Coaching Nightmares: Insights We Can Learn from Gordon Ramsay“
Adrian’s talk at Agile Australia “Better Project Forecasts without Estimates – The Monte Carlo“
monte carlo simulation- replace subjective estimation techniques that most projects use and rather use a lean approach of takt time to model a project teams delivery
takt time – the drumbeat, the time it takes for a process to deliver to another process (e.g. how often a car comes off the production line or how often a story is delivered)
value of monte carlo is that it is non-subjective as well as allowing you to decide on the spread of risk you are prepared to take
Adrian’s article “Agile Project Forecasting – The Monte Carlo Method” and the associated link to the Takt Time Project Simulation spreadsheet
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May 30, 2017Episode 130: Agile Australia 2016 Vox Pop #2
Craig and Tony are roaming the conference floor again at Agile Australia in Melbourne talking to more interesting people in the Australian Agile community:
Sarah Pollard (Super Retail Group) on the talk by Margarette Purvis on “Creating a kaizen culture proves transformative for Food Bank For New York City” and Richard Weissel talk on “The Heart of Agile is in your Local Primary School” and in our organisations understanding what we need to change
Joanne Robertson (Tatts Group) on her first Agile conference, Luke Hohmann’s “Awesome Superproblems” keynote and Innovation Games book
Cathy Tang (Westpac) and the journey from event management to Agile and the Jennfier Frahm talk on “Enterprise agility through OCM and Agile”
Keynotes from Steve Krug and Luke Hohmann
Stewart Gleadow (Bilue) and the balance of design thinking, feasibility and business value in mobile development, Kate Darling robotics keynote and how mobile development has grown up in an Agile environment and his talk on “Apps and APIs: best friends forever“
Craig Brown (Aconex) and Katrina Kolt (AGL) on LAST Conference and learning from Agile leaders
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May 30, 2017Episode 129 – Agile Australia 2016 Vox Pop #1
Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Melbourne and do a lap of the convention centre floor:
Keynotes from Peter Halacsy from Prezi, Jeff Smith from IBM and Kate Darling on robots and human interaction
Daniel Fajerman and Anubhav Berry from Australia Post and how they have dealt with business disruption, Cameron Gough talk “Scaling as the Tide Turns”
Daniel Ginn (Tatts Group), Daniel Pike and Brett Barber (LGIAsuper) on the digital transformation in their respective industries
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May 30, 2017 Episode 129 – Agile Australia 2016 Vox Pop #1
Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Melbourne and do a lap of the convention centre floor: Keynotes from Peter Halacsy from Prezi, Jeff Smith from IBM and Kate Darling on robots and human interaction Daniel Fajerman and Anubhav Berry from Australia Post and how they have dealt with business disruption, Cameron Gough talk “Scaling as … Continue reading →
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14min
May 30, 2017 Episode 130: Agile Australia 2016 Vox Pop #2
Craig and Tony are roaming the conference floor again at Agile Australia in Melbourne talking to more interesting people in the Australian Agile community: Sarah Pollard (Super Retail Group) on the talk by Margarette Purvis on “Creating a kaizen culture proves transformative for Food Bank For New York City” and Richard Weissel talk on “The Heart … Continue reading →
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16min

FAQs about The Agile Revolution:

How many episodes does The Agile Revolution have?

The podcast currently has 259 episodes available.