Episode 49: Merry Manifesto Madness with Alistair Cockburn

AlistairCockburnCraig and Renee lob around to Tony’ abode to interview his house guest, Alistair Cockburn. Alistair spends time:

  • denying a K Stew affair
  • answering what brings him to Australia
  • plugging his fantastic Advanced Agile Course
  • presenting his thoughts on where Agile is going
  • answering how the Agile Manifesto has shifted and whether the last line should be shifted earlier
  • talking about the simplicity principle
  • explaining the difficulty of Agile Organisational transformations
  • answering whether transformation that succeed better can be big-bang or have to evolve
  • discussing the sticky middle management layer where transformations become hard
  • ponderings on what is happening in the ICAgile space
  • generally taking the p*ss out of Renee, Tony and Craig

You can contact Alistair Cockburn for any work opportunities or Advanced Agile Training on totheralistair@gmail.com or totheralistair@aol.com.

You can contact Renee for any work opportunities or Agile 101 Training at renee@theagilerevolution.com.

Special thanks to Tony’s wattle bird in the background!

TheAgileRevolution-49 (48 minutes)

Episode 48: Declan (Not Dexter)

Declan WhelanAt Agile 2012 in Dallas, Texas, Craig chats with Declan Whelan, a Canadian Agile Coach at LeanIntuit, the CTO and co-founder of a new startup called Printchomp and a newly elected member of the Agile Alliance board. Amongst other things we talk about pair coaching, running a Lean Startup, the direction of the Agile Alliance and the future of Agile.

His talk at Agile 2012 (with Alistair McKinnell) was entitled “Simple Design Applied: Spend More Time Creating Valuable Code“. Look out for a longer video interview with Declan on InfoQ.

TheAgileRevolution-48 (25 minutes)