Episode 86: Sticky Notes and Agile Stuff

February 23, 2015 by The Agile Revolution

Renee sets the tone for the Podcast, talking sticky notes and a great new app Post it plus by 3m and tests them live on the podcast .

This week the team talk about :

Are performance reviews a waste of time ? Review from the Business insider
@agilescout Remove your constraints article piques Tony’s interest and then ends up with a debate around star treks relevance
Renee interrupts to provide the results of her tests with the sticky notes app

We discuss the new update to the LeSS (large scale scrum) framework by @less_works
Craig asks questions of Renee and Tony from an Agile Coaching course
Tony proves it’s live as he runs off to sooth his daughter, Craig and Renee take the opportunity to have some fun in his absence
Books The Revolutionists are Reading: Impact Mapping (Gojko Adzic), Lean Startup (Eric Ries), Bridging the Communication Gap (Gojko Adzic)

https://twitter.com/neil_killick/status/537150511107940353 https://twitter.com/drunkcod/status/519030634162167809

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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

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Episode 78: Renee-Renee-Renee

September 20, 2014 by The Agile Revolution

Yes they’re at it again ! The revolutionists bring forth their innermost thoughts on the life the universe and most importantly Agile . Oh yeah and Craig and Tony ask the question repeatedly ….Renee,Renee……Renee

Wall street hands the whip back to their staff …Less deaths and sustainable pace
Via @jboogie : The Lean Product Management Manifesto
Lean Startup Website and the Principles of Lean Startup
Slicing Heuristic Concept Explained : Via @neil_killick :
Task based collaboration with Asana
JIRA Service Desk application
The new names for Distributed Agile and CoLocated Agile : Via Alistair Cockburn: @TotherAlistair
State of Agile Survey – Version One

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Episode 77: Agile Australia 2014 Vox Pop #2

September 2, 2014 by The Agile Revolution

At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne, Craig and Renee grab the microphone again and wander the conference foyer in one of the breaks looking for interesting people in the Australian Agile community to ask them about what they are working on and their views of the conference.

The people they harassed include:

Tyson Nutt – believes giving teams empowerment is part of the core of strong Agile teams, Rachel Botsman on disruption was a highlight
Stephanie BySouth – enjoyed seeing new speakers and attendees and that we are taking agile outside of IT, looking to bring collaborative innovation into the space, co-organiser of Agile Coaching Circles Melbourne
Dipesh Pala – IBM is realising we don’t do Agile to our clients, we do Agile with our clients, spoke on how leaders can recognise the humans in our teams
Chris Chan – holocracy and the concept of no managers is pushing the boundaries, co-organiser of Agile Coaching Circles Melbourne, stream chair of Agile Australia 2014
Neil Killick, Simon Bristow and Alexandre Barreto – Red Bubble is building their Agile development shop in Melbourne, MYOB are a large Agile shop in Melbourne, good lean startup feel running through the conference, #noestimates the book may come sometime soon (or not)