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

TheAgileRevolution-134 (30 minutes)