• 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…

Renee, Craig and Tony are together to chat with Serge Beaumont, Principal Agile Coach at Xebia, live from his man cave and despite showing their lack of mathematical skills in relation to dice they chat about:

• In relation to culture, if the human connections are there you can handle just about anything
• A foundational cultural aspect at Xebia is that they implemented Xebia Knowledge Exchange (XKE) – every second Tuesday the team has dinner and then has a mini-conference of about 20 streams
• Xebia were at the foundation of the ING Agile transformation
• Gloomhaven
• Rode PodMic
• You need leadership that truly believes in culture as a powerful thing
• Renee does story maps like trees and Serge prefers to ensure that he finds his epic on the horizontal slice rather than using the activities on the vertical backbone, building towards an MVP
• All backlogs should be tree structures
• An…

Tony, Renee and Craig speak to Alistair Cockburn and Soledad Pinter about the newly launched Heart of Agile Academy:

• The Heart of Agile Academy is the opportunity to reset Agile learning with a clean sheet of paper
• The core design decisions were to remove the classes being tied to a title and to be better at the specialities that make up the Heart of Agile
• Heart of Agile is just four words or focus areas: Collaborate, Deliver, Reflect and Improve
• Alistair and Ahmed Sidky tried to solve this problem in 2010 when they launched ICAgile
• There are over 3,000 different certification programs for Agile
• The Academy has courses at different levels that are taught by Agile experts from around the world (and in multiple languages)
• There is an accreditation ladder and process for bringing on new courses and trainers
• Designed to be a marketplace for Agile classes and open…

Craig, Renee and Tony catch up with old friend and “irregular” guest Adam Weisbart about Agile Virtual Summit, Recess retrospectives, Build Your Own Scrum and making your own pizza.

• Renee realised Washington state is nowhere near Washington, DC
• Agile Virtual Summit 1-5 June 2020 – a collection of great speakers and registration is free!
• Distributed retrospectives – important that people give a voice-over to the items that they add
• Tips for Remote Agile ceremonies – recreate being in the same room with technology as much as possible, avoid the asynchronous Slack bots, actually standup,
• At Slack, you are not allowed to hold a meeting via Slack!
• Recess – retrospectives in a box!
• Making virtual retrospectives fun – change them up, craft retrospectives into a story (Recess does this), remember the future (where would you be if you had the most awesome sprint ever)
• The next thing in Agile just…

One of the strengths of the agile approach to delivery is flexibility in responding to changing circumstances, and there is no better example of this than the current lockdown. I’m sure you have heard the political adage: “Don’t waste a good crisis.” which allows us to reflect on how ways of working are currently being impacted. The Agile Brisbane community joined Tony, Craig and Renee for this online fireside chat to explore concepts around the state of agile now, and what we can carry over to the post-COVID world.

Thanks to John Stathakis, Dave Pryce, Andy van der Gugten, Michael Hunyh, Patrick Fernando, Wei Yin, Lawrence Noun, Gautami Shetty and everybody else who joined the conversation.

• A lot of organisations are shifting their strategy and looking to digital in a stronger way than they did before
• Remote amplifies everything you do when you interact with…