Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and run into some old friends:

• Cathy Tang – “stroke the ego and crack the whip”, making the leap from logistics to Scrum Master
• Rachel Slattery – Agile Australia Director and Director of Slatts Group, surprised by the large number of new attendees
• Keynotes by Emma Murray and Jez Humble
• Hayley Pepper from Sunsuper – enjoyed talk by Roger Almeida “Lessons from leading a “you build it, you run it” team” about platform teams
• Charlotte Hinton from Service Innovation Lab and organiser of AgileWelly – each year we hear similar problems and are we making traction, enjoyed talk by Sarah Taraporewalla “Complex is easy, it’s simple that’s hard“

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Craig and Tony are at LAST Brisbane 2018 in their home town of Brisbane and wander the lunch hall speaking with members from the local Agile community:

• Craig and Tony’s keynote
• Frank Valks, Paul Thornton and Felix Kiefer from AginicDS – the state of Agile in Brisbane versus the UK, James Hayes and Shannon Russell talk “Agile in Education: How agile is empowering teachers and principles in the Northern Territory“, there is no one recipe for Agility (start with a framework and adjust) and Agile BI
• Ed Wong, co-founder of LAST Conference – the inspiration behind LAST Conference and the 10th anniversary of the Melbourne Agile and Scrum User Group and the challenge of getting more people to talk about Agility
• Shannon Russell from the Department of Education Northern Territory – the state of the Northern Territory Agile community is small and growing, mainly around government…