Episode 169: A Slice of Agile Pi with Betsy Kauffman and Oscar Rodriquez

September 3, 2019 by The Agile Revolution

Craig is in Charlotte, North Carolina and catches up with Betsy Kauffman from Agile Pi and Oscar Rodriquez and they chat about:

40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes at Charlotte Agile Network meetup
The role and the state of Agile coaching
Agile Practice Guide
ICAgile, the ICAgile Certified Expert In Agile Coaching (ICE-AC) and non-framework Agility
Agile and crossing the chasm
The state of Agile in Charlotte and the compliance conundrum
The PMI-ACP is starting to more and more be a job requirement and one benefit is it’s ensuring a wider knowledge of Agile practices exist
The state of Scrum Masters
Meet the organisation (and people) where they are at
OnAgile 2017 Roman Pichler talk “Building a Product Users Want” then straight after Colleen Johnson talk “Death of the Product Roadmap“
It’s a messy complicated world!

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Episode 168: Agile 2019 (Un)bagging

August 9, 2019 by The Agile Revolution

Craig and Renee are in Washington, DC at Agile 2019 and ahead of day one have some fun and decide to open up the swag bag after collecting their badges and see what is inside:

Air Force One Experience next to the conference hotel in National Harbor
Women In Agile 2019 conference tshirt
Octo Consulting and Lockheed Martin webcam covers and/or popsocket
ICAgile pen
Express Scripts blue tape
Freddie Mac gum (because great teams stick together)
Excella bottle opener
Scrum Inc mobile phone credit card holder
Scrum @ Scale metal straw (which Renee thought looked like a recorder case)
Scaled Agile wooden phone holder
PMI metal straw (which Renee thought was a pen)
Paperwork from Planview (giving away a Yeti Hopper), Lockheed Martin, Insight, Nisum, LitheSpeed (and the theagilevmo.com), Cprime, Esther Derby and her new book “7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change“, Adventures with Agile, Nureva, Express Scripts, The Braintrust Consulting Group, Synerzip (#DontGoChasingWaterfalls), ICAgile (Craig is Certifiably Awesome), Rally, Scaled Agile, Scrum Alliance, PMI, AgilityHealth, CollabNet VersionOne, ServiceNow (and the Ring video doorbell), Fans of LeSS, Deloitte Government Trends 2020, BP, Coveros (and TechWell), Comparative Agility, Scrum.org, CertiProf, UST Global, IIBA (Agile Extension to the BABOK), Netmind, Atlassian, Easy Agile
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Apollo 11
The ScrumStudy Guide
Clean Language and Judy Rees “Clean Language” book (Renee wants to start the foul language movement)

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Episode 84: Retrospectives in Middle Earth with Rachael Tempest Wood

December 18, 2014 by The Agile Revolution

Rachael Tempest Wood from Nomad8 in Wellington joins Tony and Craig in the Brisbane Queen Street Mall over lunch with a bonus busker on saxophone and they discuss:

PMI and Agile are completely different mindsets, PMI Project Managers are “the CIOs of their projects”
AgileWelly – strength through the struggle of doing Agile in government
Wellington Agile community led by TradeMe, Snapper, BNZ
Gojko Adzic – Specification by Example and Impact Mapping
Agile NZ conference
Retrospective design – creativity in facilitation is a gap
Esther Derby’s model for restrospectives
Paper Airplane game – using an abstract process to apply learnings to the real process

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Episode 65: Becoming Agile… with Greg Smith

November 9, 2013 by The Agile Revolution

At Agile 2013 in Nashville, TN, Craig catches up with his old friend Greg Smith (no relation), co-author of “Becoming Agile… In An Imperfect World” and Agile Coach at GS Solutions Group. Greg regularly assists Fortune 500 with their adoption of Agile and the quote of the podcast has to be “discipline or good software practices are proportionally inverse to how much money you make!”. Some of the topics of conversation were:

Fire the client!
The state of Agile in the United States
Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
The traditional practices are still important
“Becoming Agile… In An Imperfect World” and what would be added if it were written in 2013
PMI and Agile – should be used together
Scaling Agile and Essential Scrum by Kenny Rubin
Beyond Budgeting
Collaboration Culture and Teams track at Agile 2013
Story Mapping
Lean UX by Jeff Gothelf
Diversified – Business Analyst Times and Project Times
IIBA Agile Extension

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Episode 44: Typhoid Tony

August 30, 2012 by The Agile Revolution

Craig, Renee and a little bit of Tony continue on their Agile journey covering…

Sponsume’s Agile in a Can (Jim Benson)
Is Publishing ready for Agile (Gabe Habash at Publisher’s Weekly)
Sh*t Bad Scrum Masters Say (Adam Weisbart)
Why Software Development Methodologies Suck (Jez Humble on DZone)
Renee’s Gamification and Agile presentation at LAST Conference Melbourne
PMI’s Pulse of the Profession 2012 Survey
Capability growing in core skills – is that the responsibility of Agile?

Quotes:

One of the first thing an #Agile coach shld be explaining to mgmnt – we will not be tracking things in a tool, we'll be too busy doing stuff

— Neil Killick (@neil_killick) July 15, 2012

could we all just agree that "code freeze" is a lousy metaphor and move on? maybe call it the "increasingly terrified of change" phase.

— Kent Beck (@KentBeck) July 26, 2012