COVID-19 | The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig, Renee and Tony catch up with old friend and “irregular” guest Adam Weisbart about Agile Virtual Summit, Recess retrospectives, Build Your Own Scrum and making your own pizza.

Renee realised Washington state is nowhere near Washington, DC
Agile Virtual Summit 1-5 June 2020 – a collection of great speakers and registration is free!
Distributed retrospectives – important that people give a voice-over to the items that they add
Tips for Remote Agile ceremonies – recreate being in the same room with technology as much as possible, avoid the asynchronous Slack bots, actually standup,
At Slack, you are not allowed to hold a meeting via Slack!
Recess – retrospectives in a box!
Making virtual retrospectives fun – change them up, craft retrospectives into a story (Recess does this), remember the future (where would you be if you had the most awesome sprint ever)
The next thing in Agile just sounds like Agility!
No apologies meeting rule for children, dogs or ringing the bell…
Build Your Own Scrum in a virtual world works well on Miro and Mural (and the exercise started as an accidental panic!)
Build Your Own LeSS
Bad Scrum Master Video
pizzamaking.com is the nicest place on the entire internet
‘Zoom fatigue’ is taxing the brain. Here’s why that happens

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One of the strengths of the agile approach to delivery is flexibility in responding to changing circumstances, and there is no better example of this than the current lockdown. I’m sure you have heard the political adage: “Don’t waste a good crisis.” which allows us to reflect on how ways of working are currently being impacted. The Agile Brisbane community joined Tony, Craig and Renee for this online fireside chat to explore concepts around the state of agile now, and what we can carry over to the post-COVID world.

Thanks to John Stathakis, Dave Pryce, Andy van der Gugten, Michael Hunyh, Patrick Fernando, Wei Yin, Lawrence Noun, Gautami Shetty and everybody else who joined the conversation.

A lot of organisations are shifting their strategy and looking to digital in a stronger way than they did before
Remote amplifies everything you do when you interact with people
Once upon it was agile teams, now all teams are agile – they just struggle to operate in an agile mode
Conversations are more asynchronous now and single disruptions amplify a level of discomfort – we are not seeing the right level of tools
Need to think about the social styles of the people you are dealing with
You can work efficiently but not effectively
Working from home now is not the same as it was before – you are working AT home
“We need to be able to do the same with less”
This is the opportunity to look at the waste and focus on the value
This has allowed us to get access to people and places we had not been able to do this before
People put pressure on themselves to work harder as we lack the ability to sense the need that our teammates need help, but we have solved the amount of distractions we get during the day
The heart of agile is people, and if we can’t help people what are we doing?
This crisis is sending us a message to slow down and focus on what matters – as businesses and human beings
Reinventing Organizations and the fact some organisations have been forced to move up a level out of necessity
Are organisations responsible for providing a good workspace that meets workplace health and safety when we work from home?
With disruption comes opportunity – look for the collaboration, lean, tooling and continuous improvement opportunities