Tony and Craig are at Agile Australia in Melbourne and they (finally) catch up with Martin Kearns, the Chief Digital Officer at Innodev and co-organiser of Scrum Australia, and they chat about:

• Alistair Cockburn gets mentioned at around the 2:30 minute mark, and Martin was responsible for first bringing him to Australia
• Being coached is being open to an experience you aren’t controlling
• Certified Agile Leadership
• Agile is always going to hurt, need to prepare for pain and enjoy it
• Australia 2030: Prosperity through Innovation – need to understand the environmental factors that are forcing Agility into organisations
• Knowledge of customers is more superior than ever before – due to education and social intelligence (Target inappropriate clothing for children)
• VUCA is here to stay – accept that you need to listen
• Australia Post is a good agile example organisation – reinvented themselves through identity services, travel…

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…