At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne, Craig and Tony grabbed the microphone and scoured the conference foyer in one of the breaks looking for interesting people in the Australian Agile community to ask them about what they are working on and their views of the conference.

The people they harassed include:

• Maxime Groenewoud – Project Manager, enjoyed hearing about new practices including microservices architecture
• Nigel Dalton – CXO at REA Group, Agile Australia advisor, highlight of the conference was an Ellen DeGeneres moment getting a selfie with Brant Cooper, excited to hear about holocracy at Zappos, at REA have been disrupting through bringing virtual reality to real estate, “there is one innovative startup in real estate in Australia each week!”
• Steve Lawrence – Agile Coach and Agile Australia stream chair – has been watching the scaled agile debate and the learnings allowing us to take the message into the business
• Paul Detheridge –…

At Agile 2013 in Nashville on a park bench, in a garden, near a waterfall that is ever present, Craig catches up with Alan Bustamante to talk about his Agile expedition. Along the way they chat about:

• the enormity of the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville and the average weather outside
• the use case approach in the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and how it set the scene for Scrum and Agile
• bringing architects along for the Agile journey
• an initial lure for Agile – “the pressure of letting the team down is greater than staying resistant”
• Agile Cincinnati and the take up in Cincinatti and Colombus
• the need to “get back to making work fun and building relationships”
• Alan’s work at Seapine Software and “The Agile Expedition” book
• Alan’s conference tip: make it a goal to meet at least one person and get to know them
• Advice: “there are bigger…

Live at Agile Australia 2014, Craig and Renee talk all things visual with one of Australia’s top visual facilitators, Lynne Cazaly:

• What is Visual Facilitation and Graphic Recording
• You can use visuals even if you can’t draw
• Lynne’s story into Visual Facilitation
• How to anchor emphasized words
• The benefit of a chisel tip
• The girl who played with paper presentation at Agile Australia 2014
• Tools that are useful – the good ol’ finger, brushes, procreate, sketches, inkflow, sketchclub
• The benefit of bringing people up to speed with visual stories
• To split or not to split – facilitation and the visual scribe
• Turning your back on the room – a no go or a load of tripe?
• Preparation – to spend time upfront or not, using templates
• Facilitation through lean coffee wall (gather, sort, do)
• Using visuals to engage and distill information for future visibility
• Lynne’s next course in Melbourne…

Tony asks a philisophical question , whilst Renee harnesses her nineties pop star – Ice Ice Baby and Craig marvels at Tony’s  cool intro – probably the coolest intro he’s done since the eighties.

• Craig entices us to save the environment by using Octopads instead of sticky notes – with Luke Stephenson
• Renee get us game playing with the Lean Startup game”Snowflake” from TastyCupcakes.com
• Carrying on the game theme ,Devops-against humanity
• Tony asks ….What Made You An Agile Coach?
• I didn’t sign up for all this people Sh**t  from @flowchainsensei
• TDD is dead .Long live Testing from @dhh
• Ship It Day! with Renee
• The “Safe Segment” – discussing Safe Training blog from Steve Barrett

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From YOW! 2013, Craig and Renee talk to Joel Pobar, currently working at Facebook as an Engineering Lead and talk about:

• Joel’s journey to Facebook
• Common Language Runtime (CLR)
• Building and shipping fast
• The value of a developers time and their critical paths
• A day in the life of a Facebook manager
• Who is the Product Owner in an infrastructural team?
• A/B (experimentation) testing in New Zealand
• Stabalisation and release process
• Recruiting the right people
• Pulling out the sharpies when pivoting on PHP
• Striving for infrastructural efficiency and how to empower the team to this goal
• Owning the stack from the bottom to the top and its impact on agility
• Checkout HHVM, the Facebook Engineering Blog & Open Compute

You can contact Joel at facebook or on twitter at @joelpob.

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At Agile 2013 in Nashville, TN, Craig catches up with Kenny Rubin, author of “Essential Scrum” and Scrum trainer and coach at Innolution. While sitting in the corridor, they talk about:

• Essential Scrum – the success and background of the book
• Visual AGILExicon® – free image library to describe Scrum and Agile in a visual way
• The lack of Agile (and technical) audio books
• Strategies for Agile Portfolio Management and Scaling with Feature vs Component Teams talk at Agile 2013
• The size of the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville
• Contact Kenny to speak at your user group / meetup if he is passing through your town!

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Craig, Renee and Tony catch up again and discuss the wonderfully diverse world of Agile :

• Tony starts the SAFe conversation again via @RonJeffries blog post SAFe – Good not Good Enough
• I want Agile back , you ? via Tim Ottinger
• Craig brings the Raccoon back whilst discussing  ” Reports of Agile’s death”  from @jbrains, “Agile is Dead (Long Live Agility) ” from @pragdave
• What is ScrumStudy and the “Scrum Master Certified” ? via @sdunnrocket9
• We’ll ask for estimates @jonelf
• Renee gets in a shameless plug for the “Who Is Agile in Australia and New Zealand ?”  Book
• Siemens success story ” Kanban at Scale” via InfoQ
• “Kanban in Action” book review  via authors @marcusoftnet and @joakimsunden
• “The Human Side of Agile ” book review @gilbroza

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