Episode 11: Dr. Smith is in the Pod!

August 27, 2011 by The Agile Revolution

Today’s podcast with Tony, Renee and Dr Adrian Smith as our guest whilst Craig is on holidays in America dodging hurricanes and earthquakes.

Alistair Cockburns blog : Why he became a CST and Why he’s now stopped
Aaron Erickson blogged: Everybody’s doing agile why can’t we?
Adrian’s take on Agile 2011 in Salt Lake City with a small plug for his company Ennova
Limiting work in progress

Quotes:

“Amateurs work until they get it right. Professionals work until they don’t get it wrong.”

https://twitter.com/ThePMCoach/status/104104080670068736

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Episode 10: Day 5 at Agile 2011 Salt Lake City

August 13, 2011 by The Agile Revolution

The last day of the Agile 2011 Salt Lake City conference where Craig talks about Kevlin Henney’s presentation of Functionality being an asset and code is a liability and Linda Rising’s presentation of The Agile mindset.

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Episode 9: Day 4 at Agile 2011 Salt Lake City

August 12, 2011 by The Agile Revolution

Craig spent the day milling around a number of presentations today and talks about how technologies link together, delighting customers, visualisations, ATTD for start-ups, Jeff Patton’s User Story Mapping and flirting with your customer.

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Episode 8: Day 3 at Agile 2011 Salt Lake City

August 12, 2011 by The Agile Revolution

Craig covers his daily highlights of the third day at the Salt Lake City Agile 2011 conference:

Dean Leffingwell’s Agile Software Requirements and Portfolio Management
Carl Nettleton’s Removing Impediments and the back of the napkin
Our very own Craig Smith’s presentation with Greg Smith on roadkill and how it relates to Agile (or maybe more like what is Agile 2.0 and raccoons)
Patrick Kua’s Effective Feedback

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Episode 7: PMOs and Insert Fibonacci Sequence Here

August 12, 2011 by The Agile Revolution

Today’s podcast with Tony, Renee and Charles as our guest whilst Craig is furiously doing podcasts direct from Agile 2011, cover the following topics:

Using Flow Kaizen to capture metrics from your visual board
Silent Grouping when estimating stories
9 reasons Why Failure is Not Fatal
PMOs – Some call them Project Management Offices; some Program or even Portfolio Management Offices. No matter what you call them do PMOs have a place in an Agile IT Organisation? What should a PMO not do? What should PMOs be focussed on? What does a truely Agile PMO behave like. This is such a complicated issue this might end up taking another look in the future but it is a great start of some of the common concerns.

Quotes:

“I’m a snowflake” – Charles Randles

“DFWTWTITOW – Dont F* With This We Tried It The Other Way” – Alistair Cockburn

“I see dead code”

“Everyone wants to be Agile and too few people want to do it”

“Stop trying to standardize, there is no ‘one true way’ of developing software”

“For Scrum to work you don’t just need management buy-in, but management leading”

“Kent Beck originally called stories stories because they were meant to be heard”

“You don’t solve problems with design documentation you solve them with elegant solutions”

“Agile is also about moving from a problem oriented culture to a solution oriented organisation”

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Episode 6: Day 2 at Agile 2011 Salt Lake City

August 10, 2011 by The Agile Revolution

Craig Smith has been partying hard and gives us Day 2 of his quick daily update direct from the Agile 2011 Conference at Salt Lake City.

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Episode 5: Day 1 at Agile 2011 Salt Lake City

August 9, 2011 by The Agile Revolution

Continuing his daily podcasting triumph Craig Smith gives us his quick daily update direct from the Agile 2011 Conference at Salt Lake City.

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Episode 4: Day 0 at Agile 2011 Salt Lake City

August 9, 2011 by The Agile Revolution

Craig Smith is fighting the hard war on Agile Software Development Frameworks and despite jet lag worked hard to bring us his first of a series of daily takes from the 2011 Agile Conference at Salt Lake City.

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Episode 3: Where is Craig’s Facepalm Moment?

August 9, 2011 by The Agile Revolution

With Craig MIA, today’s podcast with Tony and Renee covers the following topics:

Why Kanban works for us
Can playgrounds be too safe?
12 tips to be a better coach
Leankit
Should IT work (for example Iteration 0 items) be treated as stories?
Facepalm Moments: Ever had one of those moments when coaching or scrum mastering a team? Those moment when you just couldn’t believe someone made that comment and wanted to cringe and slap your head in dis-belief. These are just some of those moments.

Quotes:

“I promise not to exclude from consideration any idea based on its source, but to consider ideas across schools and heritages in order to find the ones that best suit the current situation.” – Alistair Cockburn’s Oath of Non-Allegiance