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 usability early, to find issues early and have time to fix it
• Laura Klein’s book “UX For Lean Startups” is a good book on lean
• issues with lean from a usability perspective is failure and disruption
• usability is a user advocate role
• cubicle test – draw a paper prototype and ask the person in the next cubicle to fill it out and observe the issues
• CX is basically UX owned by marketing!
• UX is design where usability is more about testing
• start by taking to customers then do regularly…

Renee, Tony snd 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 management at Envato, they have 4 main themes as a company and use self organising themes to meet those themes
• had to evolve from co-located teams as could not find local resources, they now have any person working in any team wherever they are and make that work, they try to keep teams in close timezones and use asynchronous communication tools, have a policy to work anywhere and additionally a policy to travel and work from anywhere in the world for 3 months
• the teams responsibility is to radiate program status, currently using…

Craig and Tony are roaming the conference floor again at Agile Australia in Melbourne talking to more interesting people in the Australian Agile community:

• Sarah Pollard (Super Retail Group) on the talk by Margarette Purvis on “Creating a kaizen culture proves transformative for Food Bank For New York City” and Richard Weissel talk on “The Heart of Agile is in your Local Primary School” and in our organisations understanding what we need to change
• Joanne Robertson (Tatts Group) on her first Agile conference, Luke Hohmann’s “Awesome Superproblems” keynote and Innovation Games book
• Cathy Tang (Westpac) and the journey from event management to Agile and the Jennfier Frahm talk on “Enterprise agility through OCM and Agile”
• Keynotes from Steve Krug and Luke Hohmann
• Stewart Gleadow (Bilue) and the balance of design thinking, feasibility and business value in mobile development, Kate Darling robotics keynote

Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Melbourne and do a lap of the convention centre floor:

• Keynotes from Peter Halacsy from Prezi, Jeff Smith from IBM and Kate Darling on robots and human interaction
• Daniel Fajerman and Anubhav Berry from Australia Post and how they have dealt with business disruption, Cameron Gough talk “Scaling as the Tide Turns”
• Daniel Ginn (Tatts Group), Daniel Pike and Brett Barber (LGIAsuper) on the digital transformation in their respective industries

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