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 and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and catch up with Esther Derby, co-author of numerous agile books including Agile Retrospectives and Behind Closed Doors. We also ask the question whether Tony is cool or not….

• Agile Australia keynote “Leaders At All Levels“
• Leadership is the ability to adapt the environment so that everyone is empowered to contribute creatively to solving the problem
• Need to develop the people we are leading as well as the environment
• Need a bigger overlap of the knowledge in organisations so that we can make better decisions
• Systemic failure that we assume because you are good at something (like software development) you will be good at management / leadership – they are very different skills
• Three C’s – clarity (people know what to work on and how it fits into the big picture), conditions (the means to do the…