Episode 156: LAST 2018 Brisbane Vox Pop

Craig and Tony are at LAST Brisbane 2018 in their home town of Brisbane and wander the lunch hall speaking with members from the local Agile community:

Craig and Tony’s keynote
Frank Valks, Paul Thornton and Felix Kiefer from AginicDS – the state of Agile in Brisbane versus the UK, James Hayes and Shannon Russell talk “Agile in Education: How agile is empowering teachers and principles in the Northern Territory“, there is no one recipe for Agility (start with a framework and adjust) and Agile BI
Ed Wong, co-founder of LAST Conference – the inspiration behind LAST Conference and the 10th anniversary of the Melbourne Agile and Scrum User Group and the challenge of getting more people to talk about Agility
Shannon Russell from the Department of Education Northern Territory – the state of the Northern Territory Agile community is small and growing, mainly around government initiatives, conference talk with James Hayes, Craig’s talk in Darwin “40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes“
Sarah Pollard from Tabcorp – Rytan Gribble’s talk “Levelling up from 1P to Co-op mode!“, Agile HR and Gantt charts!
Mervin Chiang from Procensol and Sharon Loder from Crime and Corruption Commission Queensland – Craig’s In Conversations interview with Mervin, the challenges of educating Agile upwards, their LAST talk “Business Agility – How do we bridge the gap when business wants to “go agile”“
Hayley Pepper and the crew from Sunsuper – trying new ideas and being open to failure, fixing the faux agile and agile in superannuation
Renae Craven from Innodev – the challenges of getting executives to understand Agile and change their behaviour, Renae’s LAST talk “10 ways to end up in the Agile Transformation Doghouse“
Being thrown into the deep end of Product Ownership and Agile, Nhia Chang’s talk “Practice what you preach“
Bernadette Greenock from Integral Technology Solutions and Priya Chander from Suncorp – good to know that people in the community experience similar issues