Shane Sendall | The Agile Revolution Podcast

Craig and Tony wander the lunchtime floor on day 2 of Agile Australia conference in Sydney, looking for more interesting people in the Australian Agile community. They chatted to the ones who couldn’t quite run fast enough away from the microphone including:

NZ Ben Gracewood (Vend) and Anders Ivarsson (Spotify) – overview of Ben’s talk “What if there were no rules?“, Tony learning a new word (connaissance) and the motto of not being a “duck” is his talk and Anders about his talk “Autonomy and Leadership at Spotify” and that we shouldn’t call Spotify a model!
Chris Chan and Dylan Verheijden – the (Agile) Australian tradition of the Tim Tam Slam, Linda Rising’s keynote and her myth on smart people not being rational, James Shore’s keynote and inspirations around the Agile Fluency Model
Bernd Schiffer and Poppy Schiffer (#agilebaby) – Bernd’s talk “Concrete experimentation in Agile environments” and the example of getting pregnant as a complex environment, David Marquet’s keynote which is also an example of a complex environment
Erwin Van der Koogh (Elabor8) – talk on “7 Habits of Highly Effective Organisations” and how Agile hasn’t really helped us and how we need to think beyond our current thinking
Robert Loomans and Shane Sendall (Suncorp) – David Marquet’s keynoyte on making change in a regulated space, James Shore’s keynote on mapping Agile to fluency and not maturity and being aware of the cargo cult plus the issues with DevOps
Mirco Hering (Accenture) – Mirco’s talk “Adopting DevOps practices for systems of record – An experience report” and how to take packaged products and apply DevOps techniques

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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