Craig is in Charlotte, North Carolina and catches up with Betsy Kauffman from Agile Pi and Oscar Rodriquez and they chat about:

• 40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes at Charlotte Agile Network meetup
• The role and the state of Agile coaching
• Agile Practice Guide
• ICAgile, the ICAgile Certified Expert In Agile Coaching (ICE-AC) and non-framework Agility
• Agile and crossing the chasm
• The state of Agile in Charlotte and the compliance conundrum
• The PMI-ACP is starting to more and more be a job requirement and one benefit is it’s ensuring a wider knowledge of Agile practices exist
• The state of Scrum Masters
• Meet the organisation (and people) where they are at
• OnAgile 2017Roman Pichler talk “Building a Product Users Want” then straight after Colleen Johnson talk “Death of the Product Roadmap“
• It’s a messy complicated world!

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Craig sits down with Zubin Irani, the CEO of cPrime, at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta and chats about:

• CPrime is the largest Atlassian implementer and platinum partner
• Need to make sure that ALM products work with your process and support and enable it
• One of the big gaps in the Coaching world is coaches are staying away from technology – we have to leverage technology
• SSLM (Software Service Lifeycle Management) – Agile, DevOps and ALM initiatives are fragmented, they need to interact and have dependencies on each other
• 5 big trends – Agile beyond development, DevOps is taking centre stage, every company is a software company, digital transformation and the talent crunch
• Agile Hardware – how do you build hardware in a more iterative way, how do we think about hardware and software being built together, how do we think about different about hardware design to…

Marcus Hammarberg, co-author of “Kanban in Action” talks with Craig at YOW! West in Perth in a sometimes noisy coffee shop at the Parmelia Hilton Perth:

• Craig’s quote on the book! “No mucking around … gets to the heart of kanban from the first page. A must-read!”
• originally from Sweden, now working for The Salvation Army in Indonesia helping them become more effective
• bitten by the Agile bug by demonstrating something embarrassingly small at the end of a sprint and yet he found the stakeholders were overjoyed at just seeing movement
• Agile has changed many things that used to manual to be automated, such as testing and deployment, to fit in short cycles
• Fred George’s talk “Agile Roots: Use JIT to Go Faster” at YOW! West (slides / video)
• Marcus’ talks at YOW! West “Kanban in Action – A Practical Whirlwind Tour of Kanban” (slides