Episode 156: LAST 2018 Brisbane Vox Pop

January 16, 2019 by The Agile Revolution

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

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Episode 150: FailAgility – Live from LAST Brisbane 2018

December 21, 2018 by The Agile Revolution

Craig and Tony were privileged to be asked to be the keynote speakers at LAST Brisbane 2018. This is the audio from the keynote with introductions from long time listener Dave Pryce. You can follow along with the slides below:

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Episode 147: YOW! Speaker Vox Pop with Woody Zuill, Paul Rayner, Laura Bell, John Lamping and Andrea Burbank

November 27, 2018 by The Agile Revolution

Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and wander around the hallways talking to different speakers and some attendees and volunteers:

Woody Zuill and Paul Rayner – Beer Driven Development (the other BDD), Woody’s talk “Mob Programming, A Whole Team Approach” talk and Paul’s “EventStorming – Collaborative Learning for Complex Domains” talk, the reaction from the Australian audience and how Woody gets the audience to tell him why mob programming might be a good idea to change people’s thinking
Tony enjoyed “Uncle” Bob Martins “The Scribe’s Oath” keynote and “Effective Estimation (or: How not to Lie)” talk as well as Woody’s talk
Laura Bell – her “Simplicity, Complexity and Security” talk, and Agile Application Security at SafeStack
John Lamping – his “The One Weird Trick for Analyzing Big Data … Eyeball it Early and Often!” talk, we need to look at our data to see if it is broken or learn something new
Andrea Burbank – her “Data Science as Software at Pinterest” talk, implementing AB testing is really easy, we can use data to look at things in a different way such as spam filtering
Rob, Declan, Daya, Braiden and Homad all enjoyed Dr. Brian Little’s “Personalities at Work” keynote, Andrea Burbank’s fast paced talk and the benefits of volunteering at a big tech conference

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Episode 96: YOW! 2014 Brisbane Vox Pop

September 30, 2015 by The Agile Revolution

Clearing out the backlog, Craig and Tony roam the corridors at YOW! 2014 in Brisbane and talk to attendees and old friends and colleagues. Despite Tony’s fetish with pineapples and the fact it took 96 episodes to get a mention of ISO-9126 they talk to: