Tag Archives: Renee Troughton

Episode 66: Agile Coaching with Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd

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Michael-Craig-LyssaAt YOW 2013 in Sydney, Craig, Renee and Jeremie Benazra catch up with Lyssa Adkins, author of “Coaching Agile Teams” and Michael Spayd, both Agile Coaches at the Agile Coaching Institute and chew the fat on:

  • What is Agile?
  • Lyssa’s “Coaching Agile Teams” book
  • The difficulties in being an Agile Coach
  • The XP Coach
  • Coaching as a more mature version of leadership
  • Where professional coaching fits into Agile Coaching
  • Why Agile Coaches are sought after whereas general organisational coaching is less prevalent
  • The training of managers and its impact on mindsets
  • Michael’s “Coaching the Agile Enterprise” book
  • Team coaches vs enterprise coaches – what is the difference
  • Scrum Mastering an enterprise transformation
  • ICAgile
  • How to teach a pig to sing
  • The coaching oath of non-allegiance
  • Certified Scrum Coach versus ICAgile Coach
  • The myriad of skill sets needed as an Agile Coach
  • Agile Management
  • Agile Coach as term and riding waves
  • Agile Coaching resources

The Agile Revolution-66 (47 minutes)

Episode 58: Don’t Drink and Podcast!

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Beer CheersCraig and Renee are in Sydney and dangerously podcast after Renee’s one (1) drink and Craig’s two (2) drinks. Along the way they fumble over the following topics:

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TheAgileRevolution-58 (55 minutes)

Episode 57: No, No, Noooo!

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NoTony, 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.

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TheAgileRevolution-57 (56 minutes)

Episode 56: Scrum Australia plus a Hint of Peas & Apples

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Scrum Australia 2013Craig and Renee rendezvous in Sydney for Scrum Australia and clear the backlog for a way overdue podcast. Whilst Craig battled a cold and Renee a fit of giggles, they discussed:

TheAgileRevolution-56 (59 minutes)

Episode 55: YOW! 2012 with Zach Holman

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Zach HolmanOur last YOW! 2012 interview, Craig and Renee have a talk to Zach Holman (@holman) from Github and chat about:

  • The open source model – what is it?
  • Meeting hate crimes
  • Scaling organisational size
  • Culture spreading outside of programming
  • Being agile without being Agile
  • Being enabled to make change
  • Hack houses
  • Working less makes better code
  • Internal value adding tools
  • Innovation and 20% time
  • The challenge of working in teams

Thankyou to the YOW! 2012 conference for inviting The Agile Revolution to record podcast interviews at the conference!

TheAgileRevolution-55 (30 minutes)

Episode 54: YOW 2012 DevOps with Ben Hogan and Peter Moran

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Ben Hogan & Peter MoranStill getting through some of the fantastic speakers at YOW! 2012, in today’s episode Renee speaks to Ben Hogan (@agileben) and Peter Moran (@petermoran) about all things DevOps including:

  • REA‘s DevOps journey for the home ideas team
  • Hooroo’s DevOps journey
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Advantages of co-locating the DevOps people into the teams
  • Distributed teams
  • Amazon and Engine Yard server farms
  • Callenges of DevOps – people or technological?
  • Innovation
  • Change to testing

Thankyou to the YOW! 2012 conference for inviting The Agile Revolution to record podcast interviews at the conference!

TheAgileRevolution-54 (27 minutes)

Episode 53: Merry Xmas Mumbles

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XmasIn this episode Tony, Craig and Renee once again meet in a dingy (and occasionally slightly noisy) cafe and discuss:

Quotes:

https://twitter.com/flowchainsensei/status/208489500735836160

https://twitter.com/CFOAmerica/status/151739448269344768

TheAgileRevolution-53 (34 minutes)

Episode 52: YOW! 2012 Retrospectives with Aino Vonge Corry

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Aino Vonge CorryIn this episode Craig and Renee talk to Aino Vonge Corry (@apaipi) at YOW! 2012 and discuss:

  • Retrospectives
  • Design patterns
  • Trojan retrospectives
  • Enterprise retrospective patterns
  • Retrospective facilitators – part of the team?
  • Distributed retrospectives (and a plug for Linoit)
  • The importance of acknowledging success and learning
  • Women in IT

Thankyou to the YOW! 2012 conference for inviting The Agile Revolution to record podcast interviews at the conference!

TheAgileRevolution-52 (36 minutes)

Episode 51: YOW! 2012 Programmer Anarchy with Fred George

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Fred GeorgeIn this episode Renee and Steve Dalton from the Six Degrees Podcast (formally Coding By Numbers) at YOW! 2012 talk to Fred George (fgeorge52) from Forward on:

  • What is Programmer Anarchy?
  • Old school development and cowboys
  • Risk and appropriateness of anarchy to culture
  • Lean startups and parrot cages

Thankyou to the YOW! 2012 conference for inviting The Agile Revolution to record podcast interviews at the conference!

TheAgileRevolution-51 (38 minutes)

Episode 50: YOW! 2012 Day 1 Wrap Up

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YOW! 2012Craig, Renee and Peter Sellars (from Auckland, New Zealand) talk about their first day at the YOW! 2012 Software Developer Conference, chatting about the speakers that they listened to and their thoughts on them including:

TheAgileRevolution-50 (39 minutes)