The Agile Revolution

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 →

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 →

One of the strengths of the agile approach to delivery is flexibility in responding to changing circumstances, and there is no better example of this than the current lockdown. I’m sure you have heard the political adage: “Don’t waste a good crisis.” which allows us to reflect on how ways of working are currently being … Continue reading →

Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and (despite a bin rolling by) sit down with Barry O’Reilly, co-author of “Lean Enterprise” and author of “Unlearn” and they talk about: Reminiscing about Barry’s resume that includes CitySearch (and its competitor Zip2 owned by Elon Musk), Snake, Wireless Pets on Nokia and Lilo & … Continue reading →

Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and have a rockstar moment and catchup with Kent Beck, the creator of Extreme Programming, the pioneer of xUnit and author of numerous books including “Extreme Programming Explained” and “Test Driven Development“: Extreme Programming (XP) was born at Chrysler by letting go of conventional wisdom and … Continue reading →

Renee and Craig are at Agile 2019 in Washington, DC and talk to Gil Broza, Agile Mindset and Leadership Coach / Trainer at 3P Vantage and author of “The Agile Mind-Set“, “The Human Side of Agile” and “Agile for Non-Software Teams” and they talk about: Agile 2019 talk – “How to Help your Non-Software Colleagues … Continue reading →

Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and chat with Sandy Mamoli, Agile Advisor and Coach at Nomad8 and co-author of “Creating Great Teams” and they chat about: Nomad8 is a managerless agile coaching collective in New Zealand, based on the Crisp model The lost podcast Kanbanfor1 (and Jim Benson – Personal Kanban) … Continue reading →

Craig catches up with Sally Elatta, president of Agile Transformation and the founder of Agility Health Radar and they chat about: Companies struggle to get the metrics to know if their agile transformations are making a difference, hence the creation of Agility Health Radar Business Agility pillars – customer seat at the table, lean portfolio … Continue reading →

Craig is at Agile 2017 in Orlando, Florida and speaks with David Bernstein, author of “Beyond Legacy Code“, and they chat about agile technical practices: Agile does have something to with software development Agile 2017 talk “Create Software Quality The real value of Agile is in the technical practices so we can build iteratively, but … Continue reading →

Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Melbourne and with guest revolutionist Toby Thompson (who was sitting at the table and initially didn’t want to speak on the podcast but then we couldn’t keep him quiet!) catch up with Jessie Shternshus, CEO at The Improv Effect and author of “CTRLShift“: Agile 2015 keynote “Individuals, … Continue reading →

Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and catch up with Esther Derby, co-author of numerous agile books including Agile Retrospectives and Behind Closed Doors. We also ask the question whether Tony is cool or not…. Agile Australia keynote “Leaders At All Levels“ Leadership is the ability to adapt the environment so that … Continue reading →

Craig is at YOW! Singapore and catches up with Stanly Lau, organiser of the Agile Singapore conference and the Agile Singapore meetup: Bas Vodde was one of the early advocates for Agile in Singapore The state of Agile in Singapore has progressed from “doing a standup” in 2010 to now many companies thinking about how … Continue reading →

Craig is at YOW! Hong Kong and has a chat with John Sullivan, the CEO at Elabor8, and they talk about his Agile journey in Australia from ThoughtWorks to Sensis to Qantas to MYOB and the challenges and learnings along the way The Agile Revolution episode 159 “What Colour Agile Would You Like Today with … Continue reading →

Craig is at YOW! West in Perth and sits down with Dr. Anita Sengupta, a rocket scientist and aerospace engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (and since this interview was recorded now a Senior Vice President at Hyperloop One). They geek out talking about space exploration as well as the important topic of diversity: YOW! West … Continue reading →

Craig, Tony and honorary Revolutionist Pete Sellars are at YOW! Conference and sit down with Dave Farley, co-author of “Continuous Delivery” and they chat about the following There are anti-patterns with doing XP at scale, continuous delivery was born from the learnings from that Continuous delivery is just extending continuous integration to more of the software development … Continue reading →

Craig is in Atlanta at Agile 2016 and catches up with Michael Feathers, author of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” and they talk about the following: Working Effectively with Legacy Code originally started as a book about Test First Programming but morphed into a book about the techniques for refactoring code in legacy systems The … Continue reading →

Craig sits down with Zubin Irani, the CEO of cPrime, at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta and chats about: CPrime is the largest Atlassian implementer and platinum partner Need to make sure that ALM products work with your process and support and enable it One of the big gaps in the Coaching world is … Continue reading →

Tony, Craig and Renee are at Agile Australia and catch up with Steve Krug and talk usability and along the way try to figure out whether Tony is lean, agile or just old… “Don’t Make Me Think” book, now in 3rd edition Agile Australia keynote “You’re not doing usability testing? Are you…nuts?“ need to start doing … Continue reading →

Renee, Tony and Craig are at Agile Australia and sit down with Adrian Fittolani from Envato and discuss program management and monte carlo simulations. Renee also makes an estimate that is super accurate! Envato – a marketplace for creative assets Lisa Frazier talk at Agile Australia “Leadership in the Digital World“ utilise bottom up program … Continue reading →

Renee has been busy being sick (and Tony and Craig are sick of being busy) and thus it has been a long time between cough syrup for our Revolutionists… The Scrum Guide was updated in July 2016 to add some value(s) Renee has a copy of the Scrum Body of Knowledge (for $#!^$ and giggles) The need … Continue reading →

After many failed attempts to get him on the podcast, Craig finally catches up with Dan North at YOW! Conference on his way out the door to the airport and in a quick chat they cover: BDD – developing an application by looking at its behaviour from the perspective of its stakeholders (people who’s live … Continue reading →

Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference and get the opportunity to sit down with Dave Thomas, signatory to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and have a great discussion about: Dave’s talk “Agile is Dead (Long Live Agility)“ Agile as a word has become meaningless, don’t follow the off-the-shelf processes, apply small corrections to move … Continue reading →

Craig is at the YOW! Connected conference and talks to Mark Pedersen, the CTO at KJR, and they talk all things quality and testing: the changing role of a tester in an Agile environment, it clarifies the role rather than making it blurrier in an Agile environment it does not make sense to have a … Continue reading →

Craig, Renee and Tony come together to celebrate 100 episodes of The Agile Revolution, and review the journey of both the podcast and Agile in general over the last 4 and a half years and surprise themselves on how many things have changed but how many things have remained the same. Thank you to all … Continue reading →

Craig joins Darren Rogan, Ben Morgan and Leigh Appel in another special cross over episode with the Hack && Heckle Podcast to talk software development, Agile and preview the upcoming YOW! conference that will be covered by both podcasts. This episode has been released simulatenously as H&&H 131 – Hack and Heckle / Agile Revolution Discuss … Continue reading →

At YOW! Conference, Craig has a chat with Peter Bell, a contract member of the GitHub training team, co-founder of CTO School and the founder of the Startup CTO Summit series and they talk about approaches to learning Git, building better CTO’s and digital literacy for MBA’s. YOW! 2014 talk “How To Undo Almost Anything with Git“ … Continue reading →

After chasing him across the east coast of Australia, Craig sits down with Jeff Patton at YOW! Conference in Sydney. Along the way they fail to remember the subtitle of Jeff’s “User Story Mapping” book and talk about: Art school dropout to software developer to early Extreme Programming “Extreme Programming Explained” by Kent Beck (and we agree the … Continue reading →

Craig and Tony talk to Simon Brown at the YOW! 2014 conference in Brisbane. SImon is the author of “Software Architecture for Developers”, creator of the C4 software architecture model and Structurizr. We tracked him down after his talk to talk about: YOW! 2014 talk “Agility and the Essence of Software Architecture“ Create a software guidebook as … Continue reading →

Gojko Adzic “does computers” which means he helps people deliver software and he caught up with Craig on a recent YOW! DepthFirst tour of Australia. Gojko is the author of numerous books including “Bridging The Communication Gap“, “Specification by Example“, “Impact Mapping” and “50 Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories“. XP – started with “Extreme Programming … Continue reading →

Tony asks a philisophical question , whilst Renee harnesses her nineties pop star – Ice Ice Baby and Craig marvels at Tony’s cool intro – probably the coolest intro he’s done since the eighties. Craig entices us to save the environment by using Octopads instead of sticky notes – with Luke Stephenson Renee get us … Continue reading →

At YOW 2013 in Sydney, Craig and Renee catch up with Michael Nygard and discuss the world of DevOps including: Michael’s book “Release it!: Design and Deploy Production Ready Software“ What DevOps really is The values of DevOps and its relationship to the Agile Manifesto Could DevOps have occurred without Agile? How much of Release it is still holding … Continue reading →

Can 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 : What is Agile 2014 ? Inspired by The Dark Side of Scrum – Thomas Schranz – @__tosh Renee gets agile academic : Understanding Post-Adoptive … Continue reading →

At 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 … Continue reading →