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…

Craig chats with Steve Elliott, the founder and CEO of Agile Craft and they discuss:

• Dependencies are the number one thing that kills agility
• Scaling agility across a large organisation is a 5 – 10 year journey
• Scrum is often disconnected from the portfolio planning layer, the scaling methods are making the program level agile and predictable
• If you want business agility you have to hinge the technology into the business
• Sometimes it takes a few attempts for agile transformations, like tipping over a Coke machine (and unlike tipping a cow), you need to lead with results and then work on cultural change to be successful
• If the leader of an Agile transformation left the organisation, would they go back to the old way or is Agile part of their DNA – if they would go back they have not been transformed
• The scaling Agile frameworks are relatively new…