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 are at YOW! conference in Brisbane and chat with Jutta Eckstein, author of “Agile Software Development in the Large“, “Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams“, “Retrospectives for Organisational Change” “Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in Your Project Portfolio” with Johanna Rothman and “Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy: Survive & Thrive on Disruption” with John Buck

• Smalltalk and pattern languages was where a lot of the early work and a lot of the early players converged
• Scrum had great marketing and certification over Extreme Programming
• Agile Software Development in the Large came out in 2004 and was probably way before its time
• Craig Larman and Bas Vodde book “Scaling Lean & Agile Development“
• IBM book “A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum“
• A framework is not…

Renee and Craig are at Agile 2019 in Washington, DC and talk to Gil Broza, Agile Mindset and Leadership Coach / Trainer at 3P Vantage and author of “The Agile Mind-Set“, “The Human Side of Agile” and “Agile for Non-Software Teams” and they talk about:

• Agile 2019 talk – “How to Help your Non-Software Colleagues Adopt Agile“
• Outside of software, they notice Agile and want what they have – a different team experience and doing things better
• Focus on a principle based transformation rather than practices – have conversations early and often on how we want to be and how we want to operate
• The Agile Manifesto principles are partial and software heavy, the values and beliefs are the root and leadership should keep these alive
• 26 principles in “The Agile Mind-Set” book and includes transparency (which is harder in areas…

Craig is as LAST Conference in Canberra and with guest co-host (and co-founder of LAST) Craig Brown they talk to Kerrie Campbell, the CIO at Flinders University in Adelaide and they talk (amongst some unscheduled cup stacking) about:

• LAST Keynote talk “Flinders University Transformation“
• Leadership through seeding rather than driving by changing language, building mindset and removing impediments
• Open the kimono and leaders do Agile by example and muddle through it publicly
• Story telling to move through the change
• Eliminating the PMO – don’t need a middle man to get in between the IT and business to slow you down and sort out the projects if the team is cross skilled and cross facilitating
• Disrupted finance through asking for a five year envelope of money and working and modelling the work that is ready to be done
• Heart of Agile takes the complexity out of Agile –…

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…