Episode 170: Agile Our Way at Flinders University with Kerrie Campbell

September 15, 2019 by The Agile Revolution

Craig is as LAST Conference in Canberra and with guest co-host (and co-founder of LAST) Craig Brown they talk to Kerrie Campbell, the CIO at Flinders University in Adelaide and they talk (amongst some unscheduled cup stacking) about:

LAST Keynote talk “Flinders University Transformation“
Leadership through seeding rather than driving by changing language, building mindset and removing impediments
Open the kimono and leaders do Agile by example and muddle through it publicly
Story telling to move through the change
Eliminating the PMO – don’t need a middle man to get in between the IT and business to slow you down and sort out the projects if the team is cross skilled and cross facilitating
Disrupted finance through asking for a five year envelope of money and working and modelling the work that is ready to be done
Heart of Agile takes the complexity out of Agile – deliver, trust, reflect and improve
The CIO needs to fix the chaos of systems and make them more simple so we can get closer to the customer and work on their innovations
State of Agile in Adelaide (and a shout out to the Agile Brisbane and the Melbourne Agile and Scrum meetups)

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Episode 130: Agile Australia 2016 Vox Pop #2

May 31, 2017 by The Agile Revolution

Craig and Tony are roaming the conference floor again at Agile Australia in Melbourne talking to more interesting people in the Australian Agile community:

Sarah Pollard (Super Retail Group) on the talk by Margarette Purvis on “Creating a kaizen culture proves transformative for Food Bank For New York City” and Richard Weissel talk on “The Heart of Agile is in your Local Primary School” and in our organisations understanding what we need to change
Joanne Robertson (Tatts Group) on her first Agile conference, Luke Hohmann’s “Awesome Superproblems” keynote and Innovation Games book
Cathy Tang (Westpac) and the journey from event management to Agile and the Jennfier Frahm talk on “Enterprise agility through OCM and Agile”
Keynotes from Steve Krug and Luke Hohmann
Stewart Gleadow (Bilue) and the balance of design thinking, feasibility and business value in mobile development, Kate Darling robotics keynote and how mobile development has grown up in an Agile environment and his talk on “Apps and APIs: best friends forever“
Craig Brown (Aconex) and Katrina Kolt (AGL) on LAST Conference and learning from Agile leaders

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Episode 85: Scrum Australia 2014 Vox Pop

January 31, 2015 by The Agile Revolution

Tony and a sometimes over-modulated Craig (with Renee popping up from time to time) roam the floor at lunchtime at Scrum Australia in Sydney and talk to some interesting Scrum folks along the way about their thoughts on the conference and the Scrum community in general:

Shane Sendall (Suncorp) – end to end delivery and design patterns for teams, minimum loveable products, looking at flow efficiency
Justin Urbanski (Rally) – Scrum Alliance Coaching Clinic, minimum viable bureacracy, scaling
Ben Hogan (Tabar) and Martyn Frank (CBA) – teams overcommitting, Scrum in 60 seconds, visual facilitation inspired by Lynne Cazaly, kanban in curriculum development in universities
Neil Killick (MYOB) – spoke with Craig Brown running the #noestimates Puzzle Game, 40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes, Tony suggests #lotsofestimates, Neil’s posts on #noestimates
Jason Yip (ThoughtWorks) and Sunish Chabba – learning to design problems, Spotify model is a good example because it considers scaling and distribution
Craig Brown (Tabar) – Dare Festival in Melbourne
Venky Krishnamurthy (Suncorp) – talk at conference “Building products that customers love by strengthening Scrum with Design Thinking and Lean Startup methods”, article “Building Products That Customers Love: Strengthen Scrum with Design Thinking and Lean Startup“, Who Is Agile Australia & New Zealand, dispelling some of the myths around Agile
Pete Tansey – RBA talk, agile in government organisations, starting Agile projects
Michael Rembach (Transport for NSW) and John Ferguson Smart (Wakaleo) – collaborative work practices, BDD In Action, Thucydides, “The Three Amigos – going to the heart of BDD” workshop