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 Adopt Agile“
• Outside of software, they notice Agile and want what they have – a different team experience and doing things better
• Focus on a principle based transformation rather than practices – have conversations early and often on how we want to be and how we want to operate
• The Agile Manifesto principles are partial and software heavy, the values and beliefs are the root and leadership should keep these alive
• 26 principles in “The Agile Mind-Set” book and includes transparency (which is harder in areas…

Craig and Renee are in Washington, DC at Agile 2019 and ahead of day one have some fun and decide to open up the swag bag after collecting the badges and see what is inside:

• Air Force One Experience next to the conference hotel in National Harbor
• Women In Agile 2019 conference tshirt
• Octo Consulting and Lockheed Martin webcam covers and/or popsocket
• ICAgile pen
• Express Scripts blue tape
• Freddie Mac gum (because great teams stick together)
• Excella bottle opener
• Scrum Inc mobile phone credit card holder
• Scrum @ Scale metal straw (which Renee thought looked like a recorder case)
• Scaled Agile wooden phone holder
• PMI metal straw (which Renee thought was a pen)
• Paperwork from Planview (giving away a Yeti Hopper), Lockheed Martin, Insight, Nisum, LitheSpeed (and the theagilevmo.com), Cprime, Esther Derby and her new book “7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change“, Adventures…