Episode 80: Context Matters in SAFe with Em Campbell-Pretty

November 2, 2014 by The Agile Revolution

At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne; Craig, Renee and Tony catch up with Em Campbell-Pretty to talk about the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as well as Impact Mapping and a variety of other topics:

Em’s Agile journey and how she came to Agile from the business side and discovered SAFe before it was SAFe
Australia’s first Agile release train and the SAFe Telstra Enterprise Data Warehouse Case Study
Pretty Agile blog – Adventures in Scaling Agile
Scaling Software Agility and Agile Software Requirements books by Dean Leffingwell
did SAFe without PSI Planning – doing textbook SAFe you will most likely fail – apply it to your context
SAFe is designed for big enterprise and is just where you start
Leading SAFe training – focus on lean principles and leadership
Epic – Feature – Story – why?
if your wall isn’t changing then your process is probably not changing (inspect and adapt)
key metrics – cycle time, employee net promotor score and customer net promotor score – recommended book “The Ultimate Question 2.0“
Context Matters – consulting, training and coaching with Mark Richards
people take comfort from the fact there is a process (and a certification)
SAFe 3.0 – cleaned up some of issues and imagery, lean leadership, etc…
the book is still a reasonable resource but the website is the most up-to-date source
Impact Mapping – good way to get alignment around business objectives on a project – “Impact Mapping: Making an Impact over Shipping Software” presentation at Agile Australia 2014
Impact Mapping is good for mapping opportunities and assumption testing – why, who is impacted, how do we want behaviours to change and what can we do to support the impacts, Story Mapping is further down the line
Impact Mapping book and website are both good resources, Em’s blog post “How I Fell in Love with Impact Mapping“

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Episode 77: Agile Australia 2014 Vox Pop #2

September 2, 2014 by The Agile Revolution

At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne, Craig and Renee grab the microphone again and wander the conference foyer in one of the breaks looking for interesting people in the Australian Agile community to ask them about what they are working on and their views of the conference.

The people they harassed include:

Tyson Nutt – believes giving teams empowerment is part of the core of strong Agile teams, Rachel Botsman on disruption was a highlight
Stephanie BySouth – enjoyed seeing new speakers and attendees and that we are taking agile outside of IT, looking to bring collaborative innovation into the space, co-organiser of Agile Coaching Circles Melbourne
Dipesh Pala – IBM is realising we don’t do Agile to our clients, we do Agile with our clients, spoke on how leaders can recognise the humans in our teams
Chris Chan – holocracy and the concept of no managers is pushing the boundaries, co-organiser of Agile Coaching Circles Melbourne, stream chair of Agile Australia 2014
Neil Killick, Simon Bristow and Alexandre Barreto – Red Bubble is building their Agile development shop in Melbourne, MYOB are a large Agile shop in Melbourne, good lean startup feel running through the conference, #noestimates the book may come sometime soon (or not)

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Episode 76: Agile Australia 2014 Vox Pop #1

August 22, 2014 by The Agile Revolution

At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne, Craig and Tony grabbed the microphone and scoured the conference foyer in one of the breaks looking for interesting people in the Australian Agile community to ask them about what they are working on and their views of the conference.

The people they harassed include:

Maxime Groenewoud – Project Manager, enjoyed hearing about new practices including microservices architecture
Nigel Dalton – CXO at REA Group, Agile Australia advisor, highlight of the conference was an Ellen DeGeneres moment getting a selfie with Brant Cooper, excited to hear about holocracy at Zappos, at REA have been disrupting through bringing virtual reality to real estate, “there is one innovative startup in real estate in Australia each week!”
Steve Lawrence – Agile Coach and Agile Australia stream chair – has been watching the scaled agile debate and the learnings allowing us to take the message into the business
Paul Detheridge – Executive Coach at Shibusa – need to set the ecosystem up well at the executive level, huge opportunity outside of software
Tom Sulston – Thoughtworker and Agile Australia stream chair – enjoyed Adel Smee talk on Nice Pairing and Martin Fowler keynote on ethics of software development
Nish Mahanty – Program Manager at RMIT University – interested in gaining new insights and reconnecting with the community
Michael Stange – Agile Coach at IOOF – always enjoys the discussions in the hallway
David Brough-Smyth – Agile Coach – enojoyed Jim Benson keynote on lean thinking and visualisation and adapting the good parts of the toolkit
Renee Troughton – Agile Revolutioner and needs no introduction!