Craig catches up with Dave West, product owner and CEO at Scrum.org, at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta. They talk all things Agile and Scrum including:

• Water-Scrum-Fall came about because Scrum is often delivered in the context of a organisational waterfall lifecycle
• Scrum implies a magical Product Owner that is empowered and understands the market to effectively create a backlog and manage it and the Scrum Guide provides very litte guidance around this
• Nexus is a way of getting multiple teams working from the same backlog and provides an exoskeleton to Scrum
• “Scrum 21 Years and The Future” talk at Agile 2016
• People don’t get Scrum, it is always surprising how few people have read the Scrum Guide
• The Scrum Guide is in audiobook form (but not yet in Klingon)
• The Sprint Review is not a phase gate, it is the opportunity to inspect and…

Despite not feeling well, a sick Renee, a very sick Tony and a trying not to get sick Craig, get the band back together to discuss all the latest in the Agile world, including:

• New Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his drive to be Agile, our thoughts on the National Broadband Network (NBN), Australia’s Data Retention laws and the importance of Emotional Intelligence
• The Project
• Five years, building a culture, and handing it off – the thoughts of outgoing Etsy CTO Kellan Elliott-McCrea
• The Nexus Guide (and no, it’s not a new Google phone or a car but yet another scaling framework) and its associated Scaled Professional Scrum Assessment
• The Oath of Non-Allegiance
• Sanjiv Augustine new book Scaling Agile: A Lean Jumpstart
• The Story Behind How Pocket Hit 20 Million Users with 20 People
• New CIOs: How to succeed in the first 120 days (and Renee’s quiz…