Craig and Tony are once again roaming the halls at Agile Australia in Sydney and once again chat to some old friends from the Australian Agile community:

• Keynotes from Ali Walker and Marty Cagan
• Elabor8 (nice plug Tony)
• Sharon Robson from enterprising agility – enjoying the recognition that Agile adoption starts from the top down, agile at scale is about the thinking and thought processes being applied throughout the entire organisation, looking forward to Sandra Davey on “Upon retrospective: the board went Agile“
• Steve Lawrence – a member of the “11 club”, agile should be a mechanism to create greater value not reduce headcount, every small step you take is a step forward

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Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and run into some old friends:

• Cathy Tang – “stroke the ego and crack the whip”, making the leap from logistics to Scrum Master
• Rachel Slattery – Agile Australia Director and Director of Slatts Group, surprised by the large number of new attendees
• Keynotes by Emma Murray and Jez Humble
• Hayley Pepper from Sunsuper – enjoyed talk by Roger Almeida “Lessons from leading a “you build it, you run it” team” about platform teams
• Charlotte Hinton from Service Innovation Lab and organiser of AgileWelly – each year we hear similar problems and are we making traction, enjoyed talk by Sarah Taraporewalla “Complex is easy, it’s simple that’s hard“

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Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and after many years of chasing him around finally get to speak to Jez Humble, co-author of many fine books including “Continuous Delivery“, “Lean Enterprise“, “The DevOps Handbook” and “Accelerate” and they discuss:

• Accelerate is based on a research program where practices are validated on the impact they had on various organisations
• Agile Australia keynote “The Key to High Performing Tech Organizations“
• There is enormous scope to extend the Accelerate-type research to the rest of the value stream
• “Thinking Fast and Slow” – Daniel Kahneman shows that you can measure psychological and behavioural science
• Project Aristotle by Google – were able to replicate results around culture
• State of DevOps Report
• Jeff Smith at Suncorp
• We all want to ensure that people and data are safe – need to…

Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and after many years of chasing him around finally get to speak to Jez Humble, co-author of many fine books including “Continuous Delivery“, “Lean Enterprise“, “The DevOps Handbook” and “Accelerate” and they discuss:

• Accelerate is based on a research program where practices are validated on the impact they had on various organisations
• Agile Australia keynote “The Key to High Performing Tech Organizations“
• There is enormous scope to extend the Accelerate-type research to the rest of the value stream
• “Thinking Fast and Slow” – Daniel Kahneman shows that you can measure psychological and behavioural science
• Project Aristotle by Google – were able to replicate results around culture
• State of DevOps Report
• Jeff Smith at Suncorp
• We all want to ensure that people and data are safe – need to…

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…