Employee Engagement | The Agile Revolution Podcast

Tony, Renee and Craig meet in sunny suburban Sandgate and have an intense debate about the world of Agile while dealing with the 4:01 to Shorncliffe and beeping out Tony’s references to seagulls and respect.

Agile coaching is more about building the capacity of people and high performing teams rather than processes, the Situational Leadership Model, Shu Ha Ri and pragmatic coaching
No estimates – Purpose Of Estimation by Martin Fowler, The NoEstimates Movement by Ron Jeffries, numerous posts and an Agile Business Analysts Meetup by Neil Killick and numerous posts by Woody Zuill
Inspirational speaker Peter Williams from Deloitte
No prioritisation and no product owner movements
The Costs of Ignoring Employee Engagement
2012 Version One State of Agile Survey as well as Renee’s blog and Craig’s InfoQ post on the survey
Al Shalloway – Why I am No Longer With Lean-Kanban University
No videos from LKNA
Australian startup We Are Hunted purchased by Twitter
Renee has been reading The Principles of Product Development Flow, Tony is re-reading Good To Great and Craig is reading Solr In Action and Devops For Developers

Quotes:

Unstructor (n): someone who, by attempting to teach a topic, leaves the student more ill-informed than when they started.

— Daniel Terhorst-North (@tastapod) April 20, 2013

Mondays are fine.
It's just your job you hate.

— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) April 29, 2013

TheAgileRevolution-57 (56 minutes)

With Tony on assignment on an island, Craig and Renee talk about motivation, Renee makes a ballsy prediction about fun and we talk about dead walls, tools for walls and everything in between:

Quotes:

Definition of Done should define minimum for checked-in code (beyond compilation): no dead code, commented-out code or TO DOs (done, right?)

— Kevlin Henney (@KevlinHenney) October 30, 2011