Episode 35: Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners

Ilan GoldsteinRenee, Craig and Ilan Goldstein talk at Agile Australia 2012 about Scrum Masters, conferences, writing a book and the state of Agile amongst other things.

Ilan is the Director at AxisAgile, and he is the author of the Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners blog. He is currently writing a new book with the working title “Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners” for Addison Wesley as part of the Mike Cohn Signature Series.

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Episode 34: Agile Australia 2012 Wrapup

Agile Australia 2012Craig and Renee returned from the Agile Australia 2012 conference in Melbourne and share their highlights including:

Episode 32: Agile Australia 2012 Kickoff

Agile Australia 2012Craig and Renee are at the Agile Australia 2012 conference speaker breakfast where they discuss the workshop day, the upcoming conference and their respective talks and a Lean Startup story about monkeys and bananas.

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Episode 31: An Apple A Day

AppleCraig, Tony and Renee talk about Apple, RFID story cards and ponder who is agile?

Quotes:

“The aim for any company is for everybody to gain – shareholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment – over the long term” – Deming

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Episode 30: Eleven Dictums

Count Craig, Tony and Renee get cynical about Agile, assist the search for 100 voices, talk about some recent posts by Steve Denning on management and Agile and lose count of the dictums.

Quotes:

“I guess the reason that I don’t think the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto don’t own Agile is that I was doing Agile in the 90’s” – Alan Shalloway

“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it” – Upton Sinclair

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Episode 29: Offshoring at IBM

IBMCraig, Tony and Renee talk about the news Scrum Inc style, discuss the coolness of Lego for reporting, chat about Net-Map and discuss the state of IBM.

Quotes:

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new” – Albert Einstein

“The greatest waste is failure to use the abilities of people. Learn their frustrations and contributions they’re eager to make” – Deming

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Episode 28: Lean Starts Us Up and The Agile Top 20

Lean StartupCraig, Tony and Renee go all Lean Start Up and look at who made the Agile charts.

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Episode 27: Retrospective Cookies

FortuneCraig, Tony and Renee sample some mmm… retrospective cookies:

Quotes:

“Value might flow. New products might flow. But does the learning your organisation makes flow from project to project?” – Michael Kennedy

“The more you create separate roots (value streams) the more you damage capacity” – John Seddon

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Episode 25: Cultural transformations with Agile

YoghurtCraig, Tony and Renee debate the role of an Agile Coach and how cultural transformations fit in.

Quotes:

“Management does not know what a system is” – Deming

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one” – Mark Twain

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Episode 24: Ghost In The Room

GhostbustersCraig and Renee stand idly by while Tony has a rare rant on Agile versus KANBAN versus the world and they cover Stoos in depth.

Quotes:

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