Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and run into some old friends:

• Cathy Tang – “stroke the ego and crack the whip”, making the leap from logistics to Scrum Master
• Rachel Slattery – Agile Australia Director and Director of Slatts Group, surprised by the large number of new attendees
• Keynotes by Emma Murray and Jez Humble
• Hayley Pepper from Sunsuper – enjoyed talk by Roger Almeida “Lessons from leading a “you build it, you run it” team” about platform teams
• Charlotte Hinton from Service Innovation Lab and organiser of AgileWelly – each year we hear similar problems and are we making traction, enjoyed talk by Sarah Taraporewalla “Complex is easy, it’s simple that’s hard“

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Craig and Tony are once again roaming the halls at Agile Australia in Sydney and finding random folks to talk to at the conference:

• Sarah Romeyn from WorkCover Queensland – enjoyed Pete Steel talk “Developing an Experimentation Culture” and Sherif Monsour talk “The art of building a roadmap“
• Rachel Slattery from Slatterys (organiser of Agile Australia) – 1,200 attendees (a sellout) at the conference, such a good level of goodwill in the Agile community, half of the conference are new people and 60% hear about it through word of mouth, all flavours of ice cream (even coconut apparently…), AgileAus hub for all things Agile in Australia
• Melissa Perri keynote “The Build Trap“, teal organisations tend to form like that at inception, other organisations have the people but the process to get there is still hard
• Adam Boas and Andy Kelk from Marketplacer – enjoying…

Craig and Tony are once again roaming the floor, this time at the Agile Australia conference in Sydney, looking for interesting people in the Australian Agile community. While walking around the floor they run into:

• Rachel Slattery (SlatteryIT) – organiser of Agile Australia talks about the record crowd, selection of speakers and the number of first timers new to Agile
• Kim Ballestrin – organiser of Cynefin Melbourne Meetup Group discusses what’s new in the Cynefin world and enjoyed the talk learning about the model used by Flow Perth
• Ben Melbourne and Jean D’Amore (ThoughtWorks) – discussed applying Agile techniques to reality television (and podcasts), Ben’s workshop on “Using Design Thinking to Drive Agile Planning” and Jean’s talk on “Delivering with microservices or how to iterate towards sophistication”
• Daniel Luschwitz (SoftEd) – talked about the strengths of ICAgile over other approaches and the Agile…

Craig and Tony are once again roaming the floor, this time at the Agile Australia conference in Sydney, looking for interesting people in the Australian Agile community. While walking around the floor they run into:

• Rachel Slattery (SlatteryIT) – organiser of Agile Australia talks about the record crowd, selection of speakers and the number of first timers new to Agile
• Kim Ballestrin – organiser of Cynefin Melbourne Meetup Group discusses what’s new in the Cynefin world and enjoyed the talk learning about the model used by Flow Perth
• Ben Melbourne and Jean D’Amore (ThoughtWorks) – discussed applying Agile techniques to reality television (and podcasts), Ben’s workshop on “Using Design Thinking to Drive Agile Planning” and Jean’s talk on “Delivering with microservices or how to iterate towards sophistication”
• Daniel Luschwitz (SoftEd) – talked about the strengths of ICAgile over other approaches and the Agile…