Renee and Craig are at Agile2019 in Washington, DC and catch up with Sanjiv Augustine, author of “Managing Agile Projects” and “Scaling Agile” and founder and CEO of Lithespeed: Craig’s InfoQ interview with Sanjiv “Leadership is about managing change while management is about managing complexity… you need to be both” Lithespeed = flexible speed “Reinventing … Continue reading →

Craig and Tony are once again roaming the halls at Agile Australia in Sydney and once again chat to some old friends from the Australian Agile community: Keynotes from Ali Walker and Marty Cagan Elabor8 (nice plug Tony) Sharon Robson from enterprising agility – enjoying the recognition that Agile adoption starts from the top down, … Continue reading →

Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and run into some old friends: Cathy Tang – “stroke the ego and crack the whip”, making the leap from logistics to Scrum Master Rachel Slattery – Agile Australia Director and Director of Slatts Group, surprised by the large number of new attendees Keynotes by Emma … Continue reading →

Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and after many years of chasing him around finally get to speak to Jez Humble, co-author of many fine books including “Continuous Delivery“, “Lean Enterprise“, “The DevOps Handbook” and “Accelerate” and they discuss: Accelerate is based on a research program where practices are validated on the … Continue reading →

Renee, Craig and Tony are together to chat with Serge Beaumont, Principal Agile Coach at Xebia, live from his man cave and despite showing their lack of mathematical skills in relation to dice they chat about: In relation to culture, if the human connections are there you can handle just about anything A foundational cultural … Continue reading →

Tony and Craig are at Agile Australia in Melbourne and they (finally) catch up with Martin Kearns, the Chief Digital Officer at Innodev and co-organiser of Scrum Australia, and they chat about: Alistair Cockburn gets mentioned at around the 2:30 minute mark, and Martin was responsible for first bringing him to Australia Being coached is … Continue reading →

Tony and Craig catch up with Tony Christensen and Steve Berez, co-author of “Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos” as well as from Bain & Company and they chat about: Saw a lot of companies doing agile wrong and a lot of pain suffering and probably worse off than when they started – book is … Continue reading →

  Tony and Craig are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and chat to Jessica Kerr, software developer, consultant and symmathecist (look it up or listen to the podcast) and apart from our first live podcast sneeze they talk about:   YOW! 2018 keynote “The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming“ YOW! 2018 talk … Continue reading →

Craig fires some questions at Ron Lichty, co-author of “Managing the Unmanageable” and the “Study of Product Team Performance“: Author of machine Language programming books “Programming the Apple IIGS in Assembly Language” and “Programming the 65816“ Managing the Finder team at Apple – hired for stellar C++ coding ability and customer empathy Software development is … Continue reading →

Tony, Renee and Craig speak to Alistair Cockburn and Soledad Pinter about the newly launched Heart of Agile Academy: The Heart of Agile Academy is the opportunity to reset Agile learning with a clean sheet of paper The core design decisions were to remove the classes being tied to a title and to be better … Continue reading →

Craig, Renee and Tony catch up with old friend and “irregular” guest Adam Weisbart about Agile Virtual Summit, Recess retrospectives, Build Your Own Scrum and making your own pizza. Renee realised Washington state is nowhere near Washington, DC Agile Virtual Summit 1-5 June 2020 – a collection of great speakers and registration is free! Distributed … Continue reading →