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…

Tony, Renee and Craig speak to Alistair Cockburn and Soledad Pinter about the newly launched Heart of Agile Academy:

• The Heart of Agile Academy is the opportunity to reset Agile learning with a clean sheet of paper
• The core design decisions were to remove the classes being tied to a title and to be better at the specialities that make up the Heart of Agile
• Heart of Agile is just four words or focus areas: Collaborate, Deliver, Reflect and Improve
• Alistair and Ahmed Sidky tried to solve this problem in 2010 when they launched ICAgile
• There are over 3,000 different certification programs for Agile
• The Academy has courses at different levels that are taught by Agile experts from around the world (and in multiple languages)
• There is an accreditation ladder and process for bringing on new courses and trainers
• Designed to be a marketplace for Agile classes and open…

Craig and Tony sit down for a personal chat with the microphone turned on for the first time in 2 years (that is not an interview) (wow, time files…), unfortunately without Renee who was out sick:

• State of the nation is a lot of dark / fake Agile and lack of collaborative connective tissues
• Fail Agility – Craig and Tony’s keynote talk (Episode 150)
• The word Agile is done, we are trying to harness agility
• Heart of Agile – a reflective improvement framework that helps you find your way forward
• The Agile Manifesto tells you the what, the Heart of Agile tells you the how
• The Agile Revolution Podcast with Alistair Cockburn (Epsiode 49)
• 40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes diagram
• Collision 2019 Toronto – Justin Trudeau, Capital One, BMO, Ev Williams, Timbaland, KFC
• Stability in leadership and the stake in organisational success is important for…