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 being open to an experience you aren’t controlling
• Certified Agile Leadership
• Agile is always going to hurt, need to prepare for pain and enjoy it
• Australia 2030: Prosperity through Innovation – need to understand the environmental factors that are forcing Agility into organisations
• Knowledge of customers is more superior than ever before – due to education and social intelligence (Target inappropriate clothing for children)
• VUCA is here to stay – accept that you need to listen
• Australia Post is a good agile example organisation – reinvented themselves through identity services, travel…

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, Interactions and Improvisation“
• CTRLShift – 50 games for different types of days you might be happening
• Agile Australia keynote “Unlearning: The Challenge of Change“
• When you are facilitating you need to know your audience and believe in what you are doing – to get people involved, do things in small groups in partners so nobody has the attention on them initially and then build them up to group activities
• Make people safe and get them to laugh – then you have them for the ride
• Tony imitates a…

Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Melbourne and talk to their former leader Jeff Smith, EVP and COO at World Fuel Services and former CEO of Suncorp Business Services:

• Australian Agile journey took him from Telstra, to a small startup and then to Suncorp, and later IBM and World Fuel Services
• Scale of thought is more important than scale of people
• The Suncorp Agile Academy was born out of the fact that learning matters, but the idea was for other companies to create content that could be shared in the Agile community which did not happen
• Suncorp Building Quality In program
• It all comes down to great people and working through problem
• It’s hard for companies to build great leaders that are interested in building great teams
• Jeff Smith keynote “Leading an Agile Company“
• Availability is not a skillset
• Thinking from a team point…