• Craig’s InfoQ interview with Sanjiv
• “Leadership is about managing change while management is about managing complexity… you need to be both”
• Lithespeed = flexible speed
• “Reinventing Organisations” by Frederick Laloux and the Morningstar model
• The Agile community is excited about the benefits of the teal level but not the responsibility
• Business Agility Sparks – need to shift left from IT to the business and shift right to DevOps and shift up into leadership
• What makes you successful at the executive level is working with others
• Agile Value Management Office (VMO) is a cross functional leadership team that manages the flow of work from end to end
• PMO is more oriented towards best practices process, whereas…

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…