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)
• “Creating Great Teams” book with David Mole – based on the journey at Trade Me, if people can organise themselves for a Ship It day it should work for everyday work
• You do not need to change reporting structures to make self selection work nor does the size of the organisation matter
• Original paper on Self Selection
• Larger companies should probably split to tribes of no larger than 150-200 people
• Heidi Helfand – “Dynamic Reteaming” book and podcast
• Should do self selections again every 6-9 months
• Team structures…

Craig and Tony are once again roaming the halls at Agile Australia in Sydney and finding random folks to talk to at the conference:

• Sarah Romeyn from WorkCover Queensland – enjoyed Pete Steel talk “Developing an Experimentation Culture” and Sherif Monsour talk “The art of building a roadmap“
• Rachel Slattery from Slatterys (organiser of Agile Australia) – 1,200 attendees (a sellout) at the conference, such a good level of goodwill in the Agile community, half of the conference are new people and 60% hear about it through word of mouth, all flavours of ice cream (even coconut apparently…), AgileAus hub for all things Agile in Australia
• Melissa Perri keynote “The Build Trap“, teal organisations tend to form like that at inception, other organisations have the people but the process to get there is still hard
• Adam Boas and Andy Kelk from Marketplacer – enjoying…

Tony and Craig are at Agile Australia 2017 in Sydney and wander the very busy hallways catching up with attendees and with old friends:

• Sieger de Vries – enjoyed Matt Pancino talk “The future of Agile in the enterprise: has the war been lost?”, distributed Agile and use of partnering is here to stay
• Mia Horrigan from Zen Ex Machina and Joseph Gard from Australian Taxation Office – lots of Agile interest in Canberra around scaling Agile and leading the change in government, enjoyed Barry O’Reilly keynote “Lessons deploying Lean Enterprise“
• Venky Krishnamurthy from The Empirical Coach – LeSS is purely based on evidence from experiments that was created into a framework, enjoyed Jez Humble workshop and keynote “Continuous Delivery Sounds Great But It Won’t Work Here“
• Steve Scotson from 4impact – enjoyed the high standard and breadth of subject matter around innovation and organisation change

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 everyone is empowered to contribute creatively to solving the problem
• Need to develop the people we are leading as well as the environment
• Need a bigger overlap of the knowledge in organisations so that we can make better decisions
• Systemic failure that we assume because you are good at something (like software development) you will be good at management / leadership – they are very different skills
• Three C’s – clarity (people know what to work on and how it fits into the big picture), conditions (the means to do the…