Tag Archives: Tony Ponton

Episode 68: Together Again Like Peas & Carrots

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peascarrotsCan you believe it ! Yes it’s a real Forest Gump moment, the revolutionists are finally back together again just like peas and carrots . They are back to their best discussing :

The Agile Revolution-68 (53 minutes)

Episode 67: A Boys Night Out

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boysnightoutCraig and Tony take the opportunity in Renee’s absence to talk about the year that was , conferences and workshops attended and generally cover all things Agile: 

Twitter Quotes: @RonJeffries, @WendyAppell, @drunkcod

The Agile Revolution-67 (60 minutes)

Episode 59: #NOestimates with Neil Killick

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@neilkillickTony and Kim Ballestrin have a chat with Neil Killick whilst at Agile Australia 2013 in Sydney and talk about:

  • The origins of the #NOestimates hashtag
  • Agile with a small ‘a’ – going for agility and not a process
  • Neil’s journey into Agile
  • The link between health and the values & principles of Agile
  • The manifesto
  • Embracing change
  • Safe to fail
  • How changing our language can change our culture
  • Expectations management through range provisioning
  • Understanding real constraints

TheAgileRevolution-59 (33 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.

Quotes:

TheAgileRevolution-57 (56 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 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 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 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)