Tag Archives: Renee Troughton

Episode 49: Merry Manifesto Madness with Alistair Cockburn

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AlistairCockburnCraig and Renee lob around to Tony’ abode to interview his house guest, Alistair Cockburn. Alistair spends time:

  • denying a K Stew affair
  • answering what brings him to Australia
  • plugging his fantastic Advanced Agile Course
  • presenting his thoughts on where Agile is going
  • answering how the Agile Manifesto has shifted and whether the last line should be shifted earlier
  • talking about the simplicity principle
  • explaining the difficulty of Agile Organisational transformations
  • answering whether transformation that succeed better can be big-bang or have to evolve
  • discussing the sticky middle management layer where transformations become hard
  • ponderings on what is happening in the ICAgile space
  • generally taking the p*ss out of Renee, Tony and Craig

You can contact Alistair Cockburn for any work opportunities or Advanced Agile Training on totheralistair@gmail.com or totheralistair@aol.com.

You can contact Renee for any work opportunities or Agile 101 Training at renee@theagilerevolution.com.

Special thanks to Tony’s wattle bird in the background!

TheAgileRevolution-49 (48 minutes)

Episode 44: Typhoid Tony

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

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TheAgileRevolution-44 (41  minutes)

Episode 37: Sensational Sydney

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Jeremie BenazraCraig and Renee take a revolutionary tour of Sydney and speak to Jeremie Benazra and Dominic Franco about the Agile work that they are doing in Australia’s big city including Kanban, cultural differences, safety and edgy Agile.

TheAgileRevolution-37 (26 minutes)

Episode 36: Revolution World Tour

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World TourCraig, Renee and Tony talk about Fed… no, Ship It! days, recent changes to Yammer and LinkedIn and the 10 agile bloggers you should know about. We also review Tony’s recent excursion to BA World and Renee’s journey to KLRAT and ponder just why Tony has such an obsession with pants…

Quotes:

https://twitter.com/flowchainsensei/status/216858661962780672

TheAgileRevolution-36 (49 minutes)

Episode 35: Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners

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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.

TheAgileRevolution-35 (33 minutes)

Episode 34: Agile Australia 2012 Wrapup

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

Episode 33: Cynefin

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Kim BallestrinRenee and Kim Ballestrin (organiser of Cynefin Melbourne) talk at Agile Australia about Dave Snowden’s* Cynefin.

For more details on Cynefin take a look at Dave’s XP 2012 Keynote.

Also if you are in Melbourne you can join the Melbourne Cynefin Meetup group here.

*Sorry Dave for the name error, if it is any concillation I know a Dean Snowden at work and got mixed up 🙂

TheAgileRevolution-33 (20 minutes)

Episode 32: Agile Australia 2012 Kickoff

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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.

TheAgileRevolution-32 (9 minutes)

Episode 31: An Apple A Day

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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

TheAgileRevolution-31 (43 minutes)

Episode 30: Eleven Dictums

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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.

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“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

TheAgileRevolution-30 (50 minutes)