Craig 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!
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One of the insights from Alistair…How can a group of people become more agile? Some try to change the existing culture. Others insist on hiring more carefully from the beginning of a project. In a skunkworks situation, one takes a subset of the population and puts them in a special place. In such situations, the more appropriate people are pre-selected to contribute to a specific project in a supportive environment. A skunkworks context may fast track what some may call ???culture.???
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