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 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 sits down with Jake Brereton from Atlassian who is the Senior Product Marketing Manager of JIRA while roaming the product halls at Agile 2016 in Atlanta.

• JIRA is no longer just JIRA, now people outside of software are using it – now JIRA Software (that includes JIRA Agile), JIRA Core (lightweight version of JIRA) and JIRA Service Desk
• Over 70% of users were using JIRA Agile
• JIRA has over 1,000 addons in the Atlassian Marketplace, some exciting work being done around analytics and data
• Many organisations are starting to question whether they need to adhere to all of the practices and overheads – find the way that is most efficient and productive that works for you
• The double-edged sword of how configurable and customisable JIRA is – improved onoboarding experience, test instance with demo data and an active online presence
• Acquisition of Status Page
• Launched JIRA Software Mobile and…

Craig and Renee, sitting on the banks of the Potomac River on a sunny but slightly windy day at Agile 2015, they catchup with JC Huet, creator of GreenHopper (renamed to JIRA Agile and post-podcast now JIRA Software) and Tempo Folio:

• Craig was apparently the first client of GreenHopper that was built in a basement, now JIRA Agile is the most popular JIRA add-on with over 500,000 users, used by more than 80% of JIRA users
• the idea was to have a tool that brought bugs into software management
• the name GreenHopper represented the Green company branding at the time, and Hopper was for cards hopping between columns
• a shout out to our friend Nick Muldoon (who is now writing Atlassian plugins at Arijea)
• Tempo Folio plugin is about supporting cost management, including time sheeting, estimation, forecasting and allocation
• time and dedication and about three months is…