Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and chat with Sandy Mamoli, Agile Advisor and Coach at Nomad8 and co-author of “Creating Great Teams” and they chat about:

• Nomad8 is a managerless agile coaching collective in New Zealand, based on the Crisp model
• The lost podcast
• Kanbanfor1 (and Jim Benson – Personal Kanban)
• “Creating Great Teams” book with David Mole – based on the journey at Trade Me, if people can organise themselves for a Ship It day it should work for everyday work
• You do not need to change reporting structures to make self selection work nor does the size of the organisation matter
• Original paper on Self Selection
• Larger companies should probably split to tribes of no larger than 150-200 people
• Heidi Helfand – “Dynamic Reteaming” book and podcast
• Should do self selections again every 6-9 months
• Team structures…

Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and catch up with Joshua Kerievsky, CEO of Industrial Logic and founder of Modern Agile and they talk about:

• Episode 20: Lean Start-ups with Joshua Kerievsky
• Industrial Logic and the Extreme Programming Playing Cards
• If you are a consulting company and don’t have your hands dirty building a product, you are missing out – try it out on yourselves before you try it out on your customers
• Episode 116: The Heart of Modern Agile
• Modern Agile recognises that there are other people who are not building software who also want to be agile and want to leverage the agile and lean concepts
• Modern Agile principles – Make People Awesome, Make Safety a Prerequisite, Experiment and Learn Rapidly and Deliver Value Continuously
• Lightweight methods movement came out of minimalism, but now we are in the Agile Industrial Complex – Agile has…

Craig is at YOW! Lambda Jam in Sydney and speaks with Naresh Jain, co-founder of the Agile Software Community of India (organising body of Agile India), conference organiser of many other software conferences in India and creator of ConfEngine and they chat about:

• The original Test Infected article
• Cruise Control started as an idea to write a cron job to check out code, compile and run tests
• Without good processes and tools the individuals and interactions become much harder
• Agile India conference – running since 2005, one of the earliest Agile conferences
• Agile is a given way to do things, but we are still not seeing the benefits – need to build capability in user first / product thinking, need autonomy to deliver end-to-end customer value (startups within a startup), need to build a learning culture and expert people / craftsmanship and need to focus on continuous delivery

Craig speaks to Anders Wallgren from Electric Cloud about Continuous Delivery and DevOps at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta. The topic of conversation included:

• “Release It!” by Michael Nygard
• We can’t declare victory on Agile, but it is the winning methodology
• We are now plumbing the last mile of deployment and we also need to move it left
• Joshua Kerievsky Agile 2016 keynote on “Modern Agile“
• Software process is like human DNA, we are different but essentially the same
• Gene Gotimer Agile 2016 talk “Experiences Bringing Continuous Delivery to a DoD Project“
• You will fail if you don’t pay attention to the cultural aspects of Agile and DevOps
• State of DevOps Report
• Critical to automate everything to eliminate manual process errors and loss of valuable data
• DevOps is starting to push into complex and regulated environments like finance, health and aerospace with an…

Renee has been busy being sick (and Tony and Craig are sick of being busy) and thus it has been a long time between cough syrup for our Revolutionists…

• The Scrum Guide was updated in July 2016 to add some value(s)
• Renee has a copy of the Scrum Body of Knowledge (for $#!^$ and giggles)
• The need for an Agile Manifesto 2.0, will it go away?
• Ghostbusters, Splash and Top Gun
• Modern Agile – “Agile is old, we need to make it modern” or Craig’s article “Agile 2016 Keynote: Modern Agile” on InfoQ as well as the original article “Modern Agile“
• Tony and Craig already spoke about Modern Agile in “Episode 116: The Heart of Modern Agile“
• Mike Cohn blog on “The Dangers of a Definition of Ready“, is it essential to teams and the crossover with the definition of…