Craig and Renee are in Washington, DC at Agile 2019 and ahead of day one have some fun and decide to open up the swag bag after collecting the badges and see what is inside:

• Air Force One Experience next to the conference hotel in National Harbor
• Women In Agile 2019 conference tshirt
• Octo Consulting and Lockheed Martin webcam covers and/or popsocket
• ICAgile pen
• Express Scripts blue tape
• Freddie Mac gum (because great teams stick together)
• Excella bottle opener
• Scrum Inc mobile phone credit card holder
• Scrum @ Scale metal straw (which Renee thought looked like a recorder case)
• Scaled Agile wooden phone holder
• PMI metal straw (which Renee thought was a pen)
• Paperwork from Planview (giving away a Yeti Hopper), Lockheed Martin, Insight, Nisum, LitheSpeed (and the theagilevmo.com), Cprime, Esther Derby and her new book “7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change“, Adventures…

Craig sits down with Sally Elatta, Founder and President of Agile Transformation and AgilityHealth at the Agile 2016 Conference in Atlanta and they talk about:

• First things first, the AgilityHealth discs are not a frisbee!
• The AgilityHealth vision is to help Agile teams have a consistent way to measure their health and performance and see the results in a visual way and secondly for leadership to understand the cause and effect – the radar opens up a conversation
• AgilityHealth radars
• The team radar has five dimensions – leadership, performance, clarify, foundation and culture – a healthy team should have these
• It is not a survey tool, it is a facilitated retrospective to promote healthy conversation and create an action plan
• We should be doing tactical retrospectives every sprint, but the missing component is strategic retrospectives once every quarter
• Business agility relies on having healthy teams
• Many other radars including…

Craig and Renee are both in Sydney and catch up around the kitchen table to discuss a bunch of things happening in the Agile universe:

• Renee is watching “The Leftovers” while Craig has been binge watching “Mad Men” and they talk about TV show podcasts such as “The West Wing Weekly“
• ANZ (one of Australia’s big four banks) is diving into Agile (everywhere but bank branches)
• Silicon Valley Agile (Scrum) reference (NSFW!)
• UK is wasting 37 million pounds per year on failed Agile projects (but the devil is in the detail not the headline)
• IBM calling remote workers back to the office – is it about trust, staff reductions or something else?
• The Thomas Allen Curve
• 17 Essential Hacks Every Scrum Master Should Know