Craig and a late-arriving and quietly spoken Renee talk to Christopher Avery, author of “Teamwork is an Individual Skill” and the visionary behind The Leadership Gift and the Responsibility Process, at Agile 2015 in Washington, DC:

• Management science says that the problem of business performing highly and being profitable and people having a life at work are highly at odds with each other, Agile has challenged that
• Organisational Agility and self organising teams have been around since the late 80’s / early 90’s
• Keynoted the first combined XP / Agile Universe Conference in Calgary 2004
• Responsibility Process is now in 26 languages, including Klingon
• Responsibility Process is a naturally occurring pattern that occurs in our mind that shows how we respond to upset or frustration in ways that we either cope with it or take responsibility to learn and grow
• Correlation between The Responsibility Process and…

Craig and Renee, sitting on the banks of the Potomac River on a sunny but slightly windy day at Agile 2015, they catchup with JC Huet, creator of GreenHopper (renamed to JIRA Agile and post-podcast now JIRA Software) and Tempo Folio:

• Craig was apparently the first client of GreenHopper that was built in a basement, now JIRA Agile is the most popular JIRA add-on with over 500,000 users, used by more than 80% of JIRA users
• the idea was to have a tool that brought bugs into software management
• the name GreenHopper represented the Green company branding at the time, and Hopper was for cards hopping between columns
• a shout out to our friend Nick Muldoon (who is now writing Atlassian plugins at Arijea)
• Tempo Folio plugin is about supporting cost management, including time sheeting, estimation, forecasting and allocation
• time and dedication and about three months is…

Craig joins guest co-host Shane Hastie to talk with Luke Hohmann, author of “Innovation Games”, founder and CEO of Conteneo, Inc. and co-founder of Every Voice Engaged at the Agile 2015 conference after his inspirational opening keynote and they chat about:

• Luke’s opening keynote “Awesome Superproblems“
• Innovation Games – the book, the training, the games
• also author of the “Beyond Software Architecture” book
• how to sell games to your boss, the goal is not the game but the outcome
• great resource for learning games is Tasty Cupcakes
• with serious games, we don’t use the word “fun”, we use the word “engagement”
• epic scale games with the City of San Jose to solve prioritisation problems, this resulted in the formation of Every Voice Engaged
• our roots are “agilists” not “methodologists”, as a result we have capacity to solve larger problems
• “you can’t read a bike”…